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	The Great Gambler In 10 days, Chairman Venugopal Dhoot has transformed Videocon from a Rs 7,../200 crore Indian company to aRs 17,500 crore global one without spending a rupee. That was the easy part. BT SPECIAL Time To Step On The Gas The government seems to have a clear view of the bigger picture. But India's economic future will depend on what it puts in the fine print. Read More "There Is No US Pressure On India" Union Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas, Mani Shankar Aiyar, speaks to BT on a wide range of issues concerning his ministry. Read More Media-savvy But... Mani Shankar Aiyar has made oil diplomacy fashionable. But is it really yielding results? Read More

BT SPECIAL

Why Is
Everyone
Talking About Gas?

Mani Shankar Aiyar has
made oil diplomacy
fashionable. But is it really yielding results?
Read More

The Search Within
The significant gas finds in
the KG Basin have rekindled foreign interest in India's
oil and gas reserves.
Read More

The Worldwide
Search
As India's energy needs
multiply, domestic oil
majors are looking
beyond borders for oil
and gas equity.
Read More





	Azim Premji, CEO, Wipro The exit of Vivek Paul, Vice Chairman, Wipro and CEO, Wipro Technologies, makes it evident that Premji, who owns 84 per cent of the company, wants things run his own way. more...		How Rajeev Chandrasekhar Got His Groove Back P.S: But only after he decided to let go BPL Communications. Now for that messy fight with his father-in-law. more...



	Superman: The Real Story It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's actually Anil Ambani on a string of acquisitions and new projects. more...		The Raging Bulls In just five years, three young IITians have created India's most valuable retail brokerage firm, with a market cap of Rs 2,000 crore. How? more...


	Bottlenecked India's creaking ports could undermine its export target of $150 billion by ../2008-09. more...		The eJobs Dust-up Even as they fight each other, online recruitment biggies Naukri and MonsterIndia are going after their print rivals. At stake: A market that could be worth over Rs 1,000 crore by ../2008. more...





	Life After 7,000 There is still money to be made from the stockmarket. Here's how. more...		../2005: A BPO Odyssey Indian call centres have responded to security concerns by swinging towards totalitarianism. more...









Redefining Consumer Finance Jurg von Känel, a researcher at IBM's J. Watson Research Centre, and his colleagues are working on analytical software that would simplify consumer finance and make it more secure as well. An oxymoron? Känel doesn't think so. More Web Exclusives More Net Specials

Security Check First, it was Mphasis. Then, the Karan Bahree sting operation by UK tabloid, The Sun. The bogey of data security appears to be rearing its ugly head in right earnest. How can the Indian call-centre industry address this challenge?

Bike Wars The battle for dominance of India's bike market intensifies with Bajaj Auto's launch of the 180-cc cruiser Avenger at a competitive Rs 60,000. Its rivals, though, aren't sitting idle, and promise a virtual bonanza for the consumer.

Fly Cheap, But... Low-cost is the way to go for India's booming airline industry. But is airport infrastructure ready for the coming flood?








	A Billion Voices A Nobel laureate on India's dialectic culture, an economist on trade risks, and two accountants on corporate governance. more...		Portal Of Hope In the six years since it was set up, Dr Reddy's Foundations' Livelihood Advancement Business School has helped prepare some 35,000 underprivileged youngsters for entry-level jobs. more...




	People Starring Centurion Bank's Rana Talwar, RBI's Rakesh Mohan, Unilever's Patrick Cescau, Gitanjali Kirloskar of the Indo-Japan Initiative, and Dilip Shah of Vision Consulting. more...		Leadership Secrets by Sunny John





	Kidnapped! Snatching goes mainstream as Crime Inc. discovers that there is money to be made in stock, stock options, and, of course, salaries. more... Coked Out The real story behind Sanjiv Gupta's impending exit from Coca-Cola India, the fifth CEO to leave in 13 years. more... Experimental Retailer Kishore Biyani's new Home Town concept isn't out of any retail book. more... Taxing The Taxed Unable to widen the tax net, the government consoles itself by focussing on the already-taxed. more...		Blackboards, Not Boardrooms Hordes of graduates from IITs and IIMs are joining engineering and management-entrance coaching institutes as teachers. Surprised? Help, Tarun! Headhunting The Headhunter Bank(ing) On Relationships more...


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