Even as FIIs pull money put of the country, private equity investors continue to see value in Indian businesses and are funnelling money into a range of businesses.

IT and ITES companies will step up recruitments, while financial services and telecom firms will hire less.

It's impossible to ignore Nikhil Gandhi and his grand game plan of sinking $20 billion into a clutch of big-ticket infrastructure projects. BT’s Virendra Verma deconstructs the man.

Some facts about other management schools in India.

After being run by a string of bureaucrats who weren’t exactly in sync with the stock markets and its devices, regulator SEBI finally has a chief who’s no stranger to the bulls and bears. Can he make a difference?

Mercer India’s Padma Ravichander; Keshav Sanghi, former Head of Equities, Deutsche Bank in India; Pratap Bose, COO, Mudra; Rajat Gupta, Vice Chairman, International Chamber of Commerce; Amul’s Parthibhai Bhatol; and Aegis Media Group’s Ashish Bhasin.

Entries to the TiE-Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge have closed, and the jury has picked eight interesting start-ups for the final round.Take a look.

Unlike most other private equity investors, Actis, Baring and India Value Fund like to acquire majority stakes in the firms they invest in. Why? In a business where more investments go bust than succeed, it is their way of managing risk and, hence, the returns. Shamni Pande finds out.

The Internet and the mobile phone have opened up new ways for marketers to reach out to consumers. Several large companies, selling everything from manufactured goods to consumer products and services, are crafting innovative strategies around these. BT's Kushan Mitra reports. Internet advertising is all set to explode in IndiaMobile ads are coming of age

Lawyers ride an M&A tailwind.

With increasing pressure on the Indian government to open up the legal services sector, a heated debate is on about the virtues of liberalising the market. The general feeling seems to be that India is not yet ready for international competition.

Companies with revenues between Rs 1,000 crore and Rs 2,000 crore that grew the fastest in 2007.

Drug firms are doing what it takes to differentiate them.

Over the past 3-4 years, a number of domestic firms have bid for South African companies. Why is India Inc. headed to South Africa?

The Indian Premier League (IPL) is now in the \"middle overs\", and, by all accounts, is already a massive hit. If there was a question mark, it was over how the eight franchise owners-among them such big names of India Inc. as Mukesh Ambani, Vijay Mallya, Ness Wadia and others-and Sony Entertainment Television (SET), the official broadcaster, would recover their investments.

While India Inc. had managed to avert a sharp deceleration in its topline and bottomline growth in the first three quarters of fiscal 2008, it’s the last quarter that perhaps gives a clear picture of where they are headed. Hit by higher input prices and interest rates, corporate earnings growth was down sharply in the last quarter of 2007-08. Now with derivatives losses growing, India Inc. faces anxious times ahead.

Organised food retailing is going to be huge, but it will be nothing without a back end, and a backbone. That’s where the logistics sector comes into play—right from state-of-the-art warehouses to the entire gamut of cold chain infrastructure. BT's Anand Adhikari says that companies in India and abroad have shown a keen interest to invest in this sector.

Gazing into the crystal ball is, more often than not, a hazardous preoccupation. But when such forecasts are based on information given by the very firms involved in research on gadgets of the future, it’s definitely worth a read.

A bunch of Bangalore bravehearts helps city singles beat the housing blues.

India is emerging as one of the most favoured destinations for private equity investments in the world. In the first quarter of the calendar year 2008, it attracted $4 billion (Rs 16,000 crore) in PE investments, almost double the amount received in the corresponding period of the previous year.