With the financial services sector in a tailspin and the slowdown in the US market spreading to Europe, India's booming IT industry finds itself directly in the firing line. In fact, it is facing its toughest challenge in years. How will the industry cope? Rahul Sachitanand goes into the details.

Approved: By the board of approvals chaired by Commerce Secretary G.K. Pillai, 27 proposals for special economic zones (SEZs), including those by Larsen & Toubro, JSW Bengal Steel, Ansal Properties & Infrastructure and Bharat Forge. It also gave in-principle approvals to 10 tax-free zones.

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Indian IT firms have largely given products the miss. But now, a host of start-ups are aggressively launching innovative products that are finding a ready market. Can an Indian company one day launch an MS Word? Suman Layak finds out.

Call it the six-year-itch. Set up in 2002 by GVK scion G.V. Sanjay Reddy, GVK Biosciences is now talking leadership and on ways to get there quickly.

Education is a goldmine not just for entrepreneurs but also for the country. With the education industry set to grow, the next wave of entrepreneurial activity is going to be education centric.

Technology is transforming education across India from primary schools to technical universities. However, it’s early days yet.

After weeks of intense rumours that Citi Venture Capital International’s India team has been signed on by private equity biggie TPG (earlier it was called Texas Pacific Group), it now appears that it may simply be setting up its own shop.

Private pools, elevators that go straight to your living room, terrace gardens and jacuzzis: luxury apartments in India are getting a makeover like never before. BT More gives you an inside view of the most luxurious apartments that you can buy in the country today.

Rs 8,000 crore: Cost of the 27-storey skyscraper being built in Mumbai by Mukesh Ambani. Once completed, this will be the world’s largest and costliest privately-owned home, according to Forbes

India Inc is waking up to nanotechnology, and this promises to change the way you live—whether by arresting the biological ageing process or curing diseases, such as cancer, diabetes and HIV-AIDS, or even bringing out the best from shampoos and airconditioners. A report by Nitya Varadarajan.

Some of the latest timepieces on offer are also technological masterpieces.

The Lenovo X300 is the best ThinkPad to date.

The WiMax and HSPA systems are slugging it out in India. The goal: to become the wireless standard for data carriage. What are they? And what do they have for you?

Top CEOs whose exits were shrouded in controversy

The MacBook Air is the world’s thinnest laptop. It is 0.4 centimetres at its thinnest point, 1.9 centimetres at its thickest (or the width of your index finger), and weighs a mere 3 pounds.

Author Chris Zook on what it takes to achieve profitable growth and what lies beneath ‘the core’ of all companies.

HCL has launched a low-cost laptop, but it isn’t revolutionary.

9 companies that saw the biggest single-day dip in market-cap

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