After being bailed out by equity from ICICI Venture and loans from SBI, Medica has stabilised cash flows but needs to secure a small funding component.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh can harvest several low-hanging fruits in his second term— most of them in the first three months.

India Inc. is increasingly going rural. Is it geared up to face the talent challenges?

Keeping tabs on your investments regularly is the first step to intelligent investing. Online trackers make your task easy.

Your insurance agent will lose heavily if he sells you a policy that has a hefty first-year premium.

More of India’s high savings will find their way into the equity markets. Most analysts are vastly underestimating the effect of this mountain of savings entering the stock market.

As BPOs catch on to the domestic market’s potential, small towns look attractive locations.

Resolve, right men and revenue are the three Rs that can set the economy on fast track. Here's how fixing the three Rs can help the UPA redeem itself as an economic administrator of excellence. Puja Mehra writes.

The initial relief of electing a stable government rapidly converts into great expectations from the UPA government. Can the two—the market rally and big-bang reform—move in tandem in the days ahead?

Dalal Street is in celebratory mode, but it may be a bit early to pop the champagne.

More for sentiment than outcome, what the new government does in the first few weeks will be critical. Business Today spoke to a few experts to find out what these initiatives should be.

The new kid on the trading block that’s set to launch an equity and derivates platform is from Financial Technologies, which currently has in its stable India’s largest commodity futures exchange, the Multi-Commodity Exchange. It is giving competition to NSE, which is gearing up to deal with the commodities bourse major. Rachna M. Koppikar reports.

The sixth BT-cirrus study reveals which CEOs, companies and groups got the best press in 2008-2009.

The restructuring of Pantaloon Retail is being seen as a well-planned move to get FDI to fund expansion of its retail business.

In her 28 years at ICICI Group, Shikha Sharma has earned the reputation of the woman with the Midas touch, making a success of every division she has started.

It’s a demonstration of an institution’s bench strength that within days of two of their top honchos putting in their papers, their replacements were announced: Especially when the outgoers have nursed the businesses since inception. This is exactly what ICICI Group did recently.

P. Chidambaram—who during his various stints as finance minister has come to be seen as the champion of economic reforms in the country—communicates reforms to his people and, in fact, implements them. He is one politician who can sell good economics as good politics. N. Madhavan visits his constituency, Sivaganga, to test the hypothesis.

Slowdown is a time to refrain from the adventurous and return to the safe, tried and tested. Here’s a walk through what’s once again in flavour and what’s gone out the window.

While financial services giants have posted huge losses overseas, they are either making substantial profits or planning ambitious expansions in India.

The slowdown is fuelling the explosive growth of malware or malicious software and both India Inc. and Indian consumers are in the firing line.