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MARCH 11,2007

COVER STORY


	The Race to $100 Billion In terms of market value, Indian companies are still puny compared with their international counterparts. Not for long though. Here are six reasons why the emergence of the Indian mega-corp is only a matter of time. In Need of Care With just 1.1 beds for every 1,000 people, India has one of the most under served healthcare markets in the world. Read More Public Health, Private Opportunity Private sector investment will drive the sector's transformation. Read More The Promise of Telemedicine Quietly, telemedicine is putting state-of-the-art healthcare within the reach of the poor. Read More Come, Heal Thyself Medical tourism could be a Rs 7,000-crore business by 2012. Read More

BUDGET 2007

COVER STORY
Wanted: Doctors
and Nurses
The healthcare industry's
biggest challenge is
manpower.
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REPORTER'S DIARY
Changing Colours
At Bangalore's Aero India show, Rahul Sachitanand found commercial and fighter jet manufacturers falling over each other to snag a piece of India's defence and civilian markets.
more...


	FEATURES


	Birla's Global Gambit Hindalco gets an international footprint with Novelis, but Chairman K.M. Birla's greater challenge begins now. more...		Dialling Into India Vodafone's Arun Sarin must prove that he can take Hutch-Essar from #4 to #1. more...



	What's in Chidambaram's Bag? The FM will have to walk the tightrope between good economics and good politics. more...		Satyam's Moment of Truth It's still India's #4 IT company, but the gap between Satyam and the other Tier-I players such as TCS, Infosys and Wipro is growing. Why has Satyam lost pace and what is its founder-Chairman Ramalinga Raju doing to accelerate growth? more...




	The Education Jigsaw Archaic laws deprive the sector of the autonomy and the private funding it so badly needs. more...		The Academic System is not Market Responsive A BT-NASSCOM panel ponders on a looming qualitative talent crunch, and looks for longer-term solutions. plus: A first of its kind NASSCOM-Business Today-Perot Systems survey conducted amongst visitors to NASSCOM ../2007 throws up some interesting results. more...











FDI And FII The centre is looking at removing the distinction between FDI and FII investments. This will impact sectors like asset reconstruction, real estate and aviation, where separate ceilings apply to FDI and FII investment. However, allowing FDI through the FII route in the realty sector could result in prices shooting through the roof. The Asian financial crisis of the '90s is still fresh in mind, and a method should be devised to moderate possible volatility in key sectors. More Net Specials

S&P And After For the first time in 14 years, international credit rating agency, Standard and Poor's (S&P), has raised India's credit rating to investment grade. S&P is the last of the three major international rating agencies to do so. Moody's Investors Service did it in January ../2004 and Fitch Ratings in August ../2006. The upgrade is likely to spur the flow of foreign investment into power, steel and other industries, which receive less than a tenth of the funds going China's way.

Trading with ASEAN In the recent Indo-ASEAN summit, ASEAN was, for the first time, on the defensive. India has agreed to bring down its negative list of imports to 490 items in the free trade agreement with the 10 ASEAN nations. But India’s step towards free trade was not matched by the ASEAN nations, as more than 1,000 items still figure in the negative list of the ASEAN. In ../2005-06, India’s total trade with ASEAN was at $22 billion (Rs 99,000 crore), against just $7 billion (Rs 31,500 crore) in ../2000-01.

Exchange Deal Indian markets are on a roll. Global stock exchanges and financial institutions’ interest in the Indian stock exchanges goes to show the long-term growth potential of India Inc. The year has started on a positive note. The NYSE and three global financial institutions have each picked up a 5 per cent stake in the NSE. The deal will open exciting vistas in global co-operation for the NSE, and at the same time could improve the fortune of smaller exchanges in the country.





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	BOOKEND		BACK OF THE BOOK


	The Paranoid Mind A Harvard Business School professor decodes the DNA of one of Silicon Valley's living legends. more...		Wings For The Hotshot Shivangi Misra goes for a joyride over Delhi in a Raytheon Hawker 850 corporate jet. This is her first person account of the experience. more...
	PEOPLE		COLUMNS


	People Holcim's Thomas Schmidheiny; Essar's Shashi and Ravi Ruia; KTwo Technology Solutions' Anant Koppar; Publicis Asia's Partha Sinha; HPCL's Arun Balakrishnan; and IBM's Rajesh Nambiar. more...		Leadership Spotlight P. Chidambaram Finance Minister, Government of India.


	TRENDS		CURRENT


	The Great Indian Divide Growth must be more inclusive; the alternative is social unrest. more... Gmail is Now Open to Everyone Users of Google's web-based e-mail service Gmail will swear by it. Despite its invitation-only status, it became a de facto standard for private e-mail addresses across the world. more... Top Of Mind Focus on helicopters on EMI; and Windows Vista. more... Newsmaker This fortnight's hero is B.V.R. Subbu, who has tied up with M. Lokeshwar Rao of the Hyderabad-based Lokesh Machines to build a small car. more...		India Inc. Gets Dirty Corporate espionage isn't that unusual any more. more... Not What The Doctor Ordered Is Ranbaxy in trouble with the US FDA? more... Organic Growth, Inorganically L'Oreal is scouting around for an ayurveda buyout. more... Taking Stock of Exchanges Which bourse is more valuable? The BSE or the NSE? more... Mercator Eyes Oil Sector The shipping company is diversifying into other sectors. more... Tripped Again Power capacity addition once again falls short of target. more... Breaking Up Bajaj Will Sanjiv keep the books, and Rajiv the bikes? more... Digestion Blues Why MTR had little choice but to sell to Orkla. more... First Lap of Luxury BMW thinks Indian market is ready for its premium cars. more... Trucking With Fiat Tata Motors prefers Fiat to Daewoo for Europe. more... Joining The Race Are cheap made-in-China bikes a threat to the big boys? more... Go Home, Doctor New immigration rules spook sub-continental physicians. more... Outsourcing's Day Out A maturing BPO sector is attracting private equity. more... The Next Big Thingy Engineering services outsourcing it is. more... Build or Design? Should SemIndia be making chips at all? more... Radio Ga-Ga? Maybe In a cluttered world, FM may be a breath of fresh air. more... Knock on Sandalwood It's early stage, and focussed on the internet, energy and tech. more... From Russia With Love India gets a titanium project; chance to clear rouble debt. more... IT's In The Picture Media will attract $300 million of IT spending by 2010. more... One Resource to Another Why are finance heads being shunted to human resources? more... Harmonic Change Saregama beefs up on the creative and technical fronts. more...


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