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	Dial D For Diversification Ten years into the mobile-telephony era, India's most successful telecom entrepreneur, Sunil Mittal is looking at ambitious plays in insurance, agriculture and airport infrastructure. Messrs Telecom In 10 years, India has seen its share of telecom entrepreneurs come, win, and in some cases, go. Read More BT SPECIAL Cool Companies Business Today's second annual listing of companies that are not just successful, but hip and happening. Purely from a business point of view, that is. Read More Almost Famous Firms that just missed out the listing. Read More Are They Still Cool? Business Today discovers that last year's listers still have it. Read More

REPORTER'S DIARY

Sizing Up
Indian Retail

Business Today tags along
with McKinsey's retail guru
Peter Child and a few
partners as they take
stock of Indian retail at
a Gurgaon mall.
Read More

COUNTRY REPORT
Winning With Wales
A winning combination of competitive set-up costs,
a highly skilled and
innovative workforce,
advanced communications
and gateway to global
markets makes Wales the premier choice for
investments. Can India
Inc. afford to miss out
this great opportunity?
Read More





	Chasing Crooked Shadows Freakish spurts in stock prices prior to a company making a transaction announcement have become increasingly common. Is rampant insider trading Indian markets' dirty little secret? more...		Purnendu's Fall From Grace Till recently, Purnendu Chatterjee was West Bengal's blue-eyed boy. But now he's fighting a bitter battle with the state government for control of the jointly-owned Haldia Petrochemicals. What went wrong? more...



	Can Somebody Fix That Gas Pedal? As car sales-actually sales of pretty much anything on wheels and with an engine-screech into slowdown mode after two years of heady growth, manufacturers are asking themselves: For how long, why, and why now? more...		IT's Tier II Blues Even as the big Indian IT companies get bigger, there are dozens of smaller companies that are struggling to grow. So what happens to them? more...


	Strategies For The BPO Industry Despite growing price competition in the offshoring business, BPO managers can still enhance, sustain and capture value. more...		60 Minutes Ed Zander, Chairman and CEO of Motorola, speaks to BT on his vision for the company. more...


			MONEY


	India Inc.'s Wish List The next WTO talks will be crucial for Indian industry. more...		The Next Infosys We've identified four. But who knows? There could be others as well. more...










The Foreign Hand Huge spikes and corrections in the BSE Sensex have lately come to be associated with the infusion and withdrawal of capital from foreign institutional investors (FIIs). Are India's stock markets becoming over dependent on FIIs? More Web Exclusives More Net Specials

Changing Equation Mid-rung Indian pharmaceutical companies such as Lupin, Torrent, Strides Arcolab and others are looking at global acquisitions to bolster their product portfolios and growth prospects. Will the strategy pay off?

State Of Apathy Lesson from Mumbai: India's cities are dangerously ill-prepared to tackle nature's fury. Here's what India's CEOs think of her urban hell-holes.

Monsoon Business The economic agenda for Parliament this session. And what it could mean for India Inc. if the Government actually manages to get some work done.








	Big But Vulnerable A lucid and compelling take on why America's global dominance is under threat, and what it needs to do about it. more...		Inc Plots A decade and half after the onset of economic reforms, India gets a taste of commercial fiction with Piece of Cake, a book set in a thinly disguised Nestle India. more...




	People Starring Pravin Anand of Anand & Anand, R.S. Lodha, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, steel czar Lakshmi Mittal, GCMMF's Verghese Kurien and former Urban Development Minister Ananth Kumar. more...		Leadership Spotlight by Noel Tata





	Delhi's Enron The state's disastrous experiment with privatising power distribution showcases everything that is wrong with the sector. more... Baring's Plan B With the MphasiS sale called off, investor Baring wants to push growth at the firm. more... Top Of Mind Three creative ads, what's cooking with MTR's J. Suresh and TV's laughter bonanza. more... Current Truck major Escorts revamps board and gives Nikhil Nanda the COO's job. Plus: M&M's Romanian moves, ICICI's Nick Leesons and Subir Raha's face-off. more...		The Job Pill Big Pharma's outsourcing of drug testing to India is creating thousands of jobs. Help, Tarun! The Lure Of IT Lives On The Google Of Indian Job Sites more...


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