By turning its weaknesses into virtues, Bharti changed the telecom industry paradigm. Result: In a booming industry, it’s still ahead of the pack.

India will spend between $25 billion (Rs 1 lakh crore) and $35 billion (Rs 1.4 lakh crore) by 2012 to buy several high tech and big ticket armaments for the defence forces. No wonder every arms merchant worth its trigger is pitching its wares at the Defence Expo being held in New Delhi from February 16. Here's a look at the shopping list.

Do you make use of futures and options in your strategy? Watch out; the turnaround is unpredictable.

Property prices are beginning to correct in some cities.

India Inc. is in the growth mode. The massive opportunity has, however, brought along excessive workload and unrealistic targets. Result: the workforce is falling prey to burnout.

The international long-distance (ILD) telephony market in India is set to swell further with another global giant, Verizon Business, a unit of US communications service provider Verizon Communications, declaring its intentions by applying for an entry licence.

Mobile phone sales have sky rocketed. The worldwide sales to end users in the third quarter of 2007 reached 289 million units, a 15 per cent increase over the figures for the corresponding period last year.

You could ascribe it to the lobbying power of industry or the evolving nature of government policy but SEZ norms are in for amendments.

Over the last one year, the problem was one of freeing air waves from the defence forces to improve civilian telecom services. Even as this problem is being resolved, there is a new one—that of allocation.

It may be irritating for many consumers, but even as many of us frown when we receive SMS ads on our phones, advertisers say there is great potential in this new medium. Mobile advertising or Mads is the new buzzword in the Indian marketing sphere.

According to Mercer’s Worldwide Individual Tax Comparator Report, Indians pay much higher taxes than their Asian counterparts.

More than two years after IT started scoping out the Indian market, French retail giant Carrefour has finally found a way to get started without hitting the foreign direct investment (FDI) hurdle.

What’s the surest way to ensure that India misses its telecom target of 500 million wireless connections by 2010? Just continue waffling about spectrum, infrastructure and rural connectivity as we currently are.

Spectrum delayed is growth denied—that may be exactly the thought running through the minds of some of the country’s biggest telecom czars, as well as the 46 promoters who have applied for new licences and spectrum.

Anil Agarwal has shot to fame over the past 15 years. Like all first-generation entrepreneurs, he started small and turned his metals trading business into a conglomerate of copper, zinc and aluminium assets. Sometime back, he raised $825 million (Rs 3,300 crore) by listing his Vedanta Resources on the London Stock Exchange.

Steel prices are rising again. Reacting to an over 40 per cent rise in freight and other input costs, public sector steel majors, Steel Authority of India (SAIL) and Rashtriya Ispat Nigam (RINL), have hiked prices for the third successive month.

MapmyIndia Navigator, a GPS-based real-time turn-by-turn navigation device with visual map guidance and voice instructions that can operate across India and help people to reach their destinations.

This could be another reason why global workers might just want to relocate to India.

A recent survey by US firm PayScale says Masters degree holders in pure science streams, engineers and even Science and Commerce graduates are fast closing the gap and, in some cases, even earning more than management grads.

Indian companies are in expansion mode and are mobilising money hand over fist to fund their ambitions.