Oberoi wants to be in London and New York, possibly Paris, and would also like to have a presence in Thailand, Singapore and Hong Kong.

In 2014, metals - both precious and base - fell after the US Fed ended its quantitative easing programme, reducing liquidity. Slowdown in China added to the woes.

This is Business Today's third ranking of India's Best CEOs. In 2012, we published our first ranking, in partnership with INSEAD and HBR.

With share prices shooting up, companies like DLF, JSW Steel and Videocon Industries can now raise funds from the market to repair the damage done to their books by months of slowdown.

Asia's third-largest economy grew 4.7 percent in 2013/14, slower than an official estimate of 4.9 percent and higher than 4.5 percent growth a year earlier. It marks the second straight year of sub-5 percent growth - the worst slowdown in more than a quarter of a century.

Companies have been listed on the basis of market capitalisation, but for a better understanding, they have also been ranked separately on other parameters.

Trying hard to adjust to a changing environment, Philips got some things right and some things wrong.

Indian companies have a vast amount of money locked in disputed taxes, going by the numbers in the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) database.

What a fortnight it has been. We have plumbed new depths in animus and acrimony. Not a day goes by without a shrieking melee, either at a press conference or on the streets, writes Business Today Editor Chaitanya Kalbag.

As in 2011, private and public sector companies have been clubbed to produce a single, comprehensive ranking.

The BSE benchmark Sensex extended its gains for the third consecutive week by surging another 133 points during the truncated week.

The sharp fall in the Indian rupee since February is expected to push headline inflation to 7.3 per cent, reducing chances of a rate cut, the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy has said.

If Bundelkhand has to rise above its poverty, its agricultural woes need to be addressed first.

Despite the Index of Industrial Production growth rate falling to 0.1 per cent in April, CMIE said it expects manufacturing to grow at 5 per cent in 2012-13.

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Citigroup revises its 2011-12 growth forecast for the Indian economy downward to 7.1 per cent from the earlier estimate of 7.6 per cent on account of the global slowdown and domestic factors like a tight monetary policy.

What is it that keeps old companies going, richly and successfully, for a century or longer? This fortnight we look at a number of Indian companies that have been around for one hundred years or longer, and not just survived but in most instances, thrived.

Bimal Jalan, who chaired the committee on market infrastructure institutions (MIIs), talks to Sarbajeet K. Sen on what the panel's report means for investors.

Sebi has begun the process of finalising norms on the way bourses are owned and do business, based on the feedback received on recommendations made by the Bimal Jalan Committee.

The rapid income expansion in small towns and villages is pushing retailers to tap opportunities away from the big cities.