This is Business Today's sixth ranking of Best CEOs in India.

The rise of Jio and sustained growth in refining and petrochemicals have fuelled the growth of Reliance Industries.

With an over 50 per cent rise in share price, Maruti Suzuki enters the Top 10. The auto major is set to be in the big league over the long run.Top 10auto major

Business Today's fifth annual ranking of India's best CEOs.

Private banks are consistently beating the public sector banks in terms of the market cap growth. And the difference is only widening.

Many major pharma stocks, seen as safe bets in the worst of times, have seen their market caps slip in the past year. Is pharma losing its sheen on the bourses?

When we decided to tweak the methodology of the BT500 this year, it was only the third time in our flagship listing's 24-year history.

Seven changes in Top 10 and 19 in Top 25 mark the latest edition of BT500 rankings as markets punished the reckless. After a difficult year, India Inc can expect a sunnier 2016/17.

While the company met the street's (low) expectation, the guidance of 0.5-2.5 per cent growth was disappointing.

Idea said in a regulatory filing that its total revenue rose to Rs 8,689.06 crore for the reported period, as compared to Rs 7,569.92 crore a year ago.

Discernible trends from an analysis of BT500 data

Highlighting the key insights, Dun & Bradstreet India President & MD Kaushal Sampat said there is a remarkable increase in optimism about India and its economic prospects over the last 12-18 months.

RIL slips in the BT 500 ranking on lower gas output and falling oil prices but it could benefit from a likely gas price hike and earnings from new ventures such as retail.

Manufacturing's share in the country's GDP has fallen in recent years and it will take more than a marketing campaign to turn India into a manufacturing powerhouse.

With consistent growth behind it, as well as the merger with Mahindra Satyam in June, Tech Mahindra is trying to enter the top league of Indian IT companies.

Infosys, a company that grew from a seven man start-up in 1981 to the 155,629 person, $7 billion enterprise it is today, has time and again been called India's most admired and respected company. But its halo has dimmed.

Indian companies have come a long way since 1959, when industrialist Basant Kumar Birla set up the first major venture by an Indian company in a foreign country - a textile mill in Ethiopia.

Tata Chemicals Magadi is now gearing up to boost its production capacity of soda ash - a key material in glass-making - to 1 million metric tonnes over the next three years.