An Adani spokesman says a decision on whether to build the $7 billion Carmichael mine would be based on the project's costs and not the poll result.

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.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi told nearly a dozen American chief executives on Monday that he is committed to liberalising the country's economy.

Nuclear-armed India and Australia have been working on a safeguards agreement since then to ensure any uranium exports from Australia are used purely for peaceful purposes.

Hunt said that the Environmental Group is casual, uninformed and its false and untrue. He commented that the mine's predecessor, the Alpha Mine, was approved by Labor state and federal governments and environmental groups were less critical then.

It is important that a few pressing issues in key sectors are addressed on a priority basis by the government, so that the investment and consumption sentiment in the country is boosted and economic growth can be revived.

With a new government set to take charge this month, we at Business Today, took the lead in opening up the big question - what should the new government focus on: growth or inflation? - to a group of corporate leaders at the Power Breakfast held at The Oberoi, New Delhi.

Both Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi have presented their broad economic vision, but neither has offered any pragmatic solutions to the most pressing problems facing the Indian economy.

Cairn India's ambitious exploration project may make its oil block in Barmer the country's biggest in three years. Cairn is already a success story, having drilled 201 wells in Barmer over the last 15 years.

Industrial production contracted by 2.1 per cent in November to record its worst performance in the last six months denting the government's hopes for an economic revival.

Satyajit Das, author of Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk, says India's poor public finances, weak international position, structurally flawed businesses, poor infrastructure, corruption and political atrophy threaten to overwhelm its future prospects.

Though exports rose 11.64 per cent in July over the same month last year, the current account deficit (CAD) showed no sign of shrinking.

India's current economic crisis - the current account deficit is at a historic 5 per cent of GDP - has catalysed the steps to reform the sector. A widening CAD has weakened the rupee, making fuel imports costlier.

While the Index of Industrial Production contracted by 1.6 per cent in May, exports declined 4.6 per cent in June. The retail inflation inched up to near double-digit in June due to rise in vegetable and fruit prices.

Hand in Hand is overcoming ideological hurdles to create entrepreneurs in war-torn Afghanistan.

The industrial production growth slipped on account of dismal performance of manufacturing, mining and power sectors coupled with lower output of capital goods. Manufacturing sector grew by meagre 2.8 per cent in April against a decline in the output by 1.8 per cent in the year-ago month.

The Supreme Court stalled Vedanta Group's bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri Hills of Odisha till gram sabhas of districts Rayagada and Kalahandi in the state give clearance to it.

A slippage in industrial growth to 0.6 per cent in February, coupled with marginal moderation in retail inflation, has raised expectations of a rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India next month to boost growth.

The industrial growth has slipped to 0.6 per cent in February this year mainly on account of contraction in power generation and mining output and poor performance of manufacturing sector.

The manufacturing sector, which constitutes over 75 per cent of the index, grew by 2.7 per cent in January, against 1.1 per cent in the same month of 2012.