Like precious metals, base metals too can give good returns if the timing is right.

Our stock markets are stumbling, and profit margins are being squeezed by inflation and rising interest rates. You don't hear the word overheating much in India, but that is precisely what is happening. In this season of mangoes, the aam admi is getting clobbered.

Mundra Port and Special Economic Zone Ltd (MPSEZL) on Tuesday announced the $2 billion acquisition of Abbot Point Port in Queensland, Australia, on a 99-year lease.

The company plans of hiring about 5,000 from campuses and the rest are from lateral hiring or recruitment of experienced hands during this fiscal.

Former chief Justice of India M.N. Venkatachaliah says till we don't strengthen the institutional safeguards of Constitutional democracy, no amount of curative institutions such as Lokpal, Ombudsmen and the like, will be of much use.

If you do not strengthen the institutional protection and safeguards of constitutional democracy no amount of curative institutions such as Lok Pal, Ombudsmen and the like will be of much use.

Renny Thomas decided to join a consultancy rather than an investment bank or multinational after passing out from a B-school.

More and more of them, especially multinationals resuming expansion plans that had been put on hold during the economic slowdown of 2008/09, are looking to hire Indians and post them across continents.

Like precious metals, base metals too can give good returns to investors if the timing is right.

Backed by good monsoon, India is tipped to harvest a record 84.27 million tonnes of wheat in 2011, according to the Agriculture Ministry's third estimates.

James Bond fans in India can now own the very car which the secret agent drove in many Ian Fleming flicks with Aston Martin announcing its entry here with prices going up to Rs 20 crore, arguably the costliest car to ever launched in the country.

Leading mining companies, such as Anglo American giant Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton are pushing for monthly prices for coking coal contracts instead of the quarterly system.

Despite regulatory risks, the education space is seeing corporate-style business models emerge as private players pour in funds for big returns.

Sir Martin Sorrell is the chief executive officer of the WPP Group, one of the largest advertising firms in the world. He talks to BT's Anumeha Chaturvedi and Somnath Dasgupta.

The infrastructure corporate had in November last year announced an agreement to divest its shareholding interest to China Huaneng Group, the largest power generation firm in China.

The private jets market in India takes off, buoyed by the growing number of billionaires and their expanding business interests. India has the maximum number of private jets in Asia.

Continuing with our series on India's New Business Dynasties, we feature Adani Group's Gautam Adani. The 48-year-old chairman is building an integrated operation in power, oil and gas, and agriculture.

Jagdish Saxena, who never wanted to get into business, now heads a pharmaceutical empire.

Short profiles of some of the biggest and most innovative entrepreneurs.

Bids will close on March 31 and a decision on awarding the tender will be taken on the same day. The offered pulses have been sourced from Canada/Australia.