In the Business Today-KPMG study 2012, YES Bank has emerged the best midsized bank, edging out close rivals such as Kotak Mahindra Bank and DBS Bank as well as last year's winner, IndusInd Bank. Rana Kapoor has taken YES Bank to the top in its category. He now wants to rapidly grow the retail business.

A study by global HR consulting and outsourcing firm Aon Hewitt for Business Today on executive compensation for 2011/12 shows the median Indian CEO salary was $3.5 million (about Rs 18.5 crore), versus $7 million in the US, about $6 million in Europe.

In the 20 months he has been Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India, Upendra Kumar Sinha has taken several initiatives, but has also been involved in controversies. But the 60-year old IAS officer appeared unperturbed while speaking with Chaitanya Kalbag and Anand Adhikari in Mumbai.

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The 165.54 km long six lane concrete Expressway from Delhi's satellite town of Greater Noida to Agra was inaugurated by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on August 9.

Business Today investigation reveals there are many worms crawling out of the information technology industry's recruitment can that has been prised open by one scandal after another. To address the malaise, placement officers will need to do more along with structural changes.

State Bank of India (SBI), the country's largest bank, plans to hire 9,500 employees this financial year and its main thrust will be on retail banking in the coming years.

Using online marketplaces, exporters from India are expanding their wings across the world. Despite a tumultuous global economic scenario, e-commerce is growing rapidly.

Billionaire Vijay Mallya has pumped another Rs 156 crore into his Formula One team ahead of the start of the motor racing season in Australia next week even as his debt-ridden Kingfisher Airlines (KFA) is struggling to survive back home.

Kingfisher Airlines is battling on many fronts - huge debt, cancellations, and mounting weariness from the government and public.

If Kingfisher Airlines goes belly up, the government will hurt too, not just Vijay Mallya. Banks effectively own 75 per cent of the airline, and the impact on their books could be devastating. FULL COVERAGE

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has initiated an inquiry into the sudden cancellations even as the airline is working to arrest losses estimated to be around Rs 5 crore a day going by Q3 results.

Business Today, in its 11th listing of the best companies to work for in India, brings to you the results of an Indicus Analytics survey. Money and growth prospects continue to draw employees to an organisation, but work culture is the true glue that makes them stay.More for the coverage:TCS tops the list | The others  

Gujarat's power sector was in a shambles in 2001, when Narendra Modi became chief minister. A decade later it is in the forefront of states that have carried out sweeping power reforms, as a result of which it now has surplus power.

A.M. Naik of Larsen & Toubro, ranked second in the list of India's best CEOs, talks about his plans for the company.

If 2011 was full of signs of an economy decelerating - high inflation, a slowdown in manufacturing and rising inventory of unsold apartments - this year will hit Indians where it hurts the most: home finances.

The best banks, across categories and key parameters

IndusInd Bank's Romesh Sobti and his team transform a staid bank into a winner. In the BT-KPMG Best Bank Study 2011, the 17-year-old bank has emerged the overall winner in the mid-sized category of lenders with a balance sheet size of less than Rs 50,000 crore.

By pacing itself and keeping an eye on all aspects of its performance, Bank of Baroda has won the race.

Kumar Mangalam Birla likes to express himself in short andsimple sentences. He does not throw a lot of numbers at the interviewer and isoften happy to answer a question with a single sentence. He spent a lot of timespeaking to Business Today editor Chaitanya Kalbag, executive editor Suveen K Sinhaand senior editor Suman Layak overtwo sessions in Mumbai and Delhi.