Can information technology be transformational? Without doubt, yes. And here are 20 examples to prove it. Our annual listing of the most IT-savvy outfits in the country.

Steel and cement prices have appreciated over the last six months and led to runaway inflation. The government has alleged that companies in these sectors have formed cartels to keep prices high. How justified is the government angst? Or rather, is it a combination of factors that have conspired to push up prices? BT’s Arnab Mitra and N. Madhavan find out.

P. Chidambaram considers himself a lucky Finance Minister—that is, one who brings luck. And lucky he has been over the last four years as India’s Chief Financial Officer, but not so much because of his government’s policy making as the economic boom across the world.

Some CEOs liked it, some didn’t, but few could afford to ignore Chidambaram’s 2008-09 budgetary bouquet.

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India's highest paid promoter CEOs

The Hindujas have never really demonstrated their bullishness about India by actually investing here in a big way. Better late than never, say the brothers. 

He has drawn up an ambitious programme to expand his footprint in his core steel business and also diversify into the power, cement aluminium and infrastructure sectors. Is Jindal taking on too much? Anand Adhikari tells us why the steel-focussed group is getting into apparently unrelated areas.

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Steel prices are rising again. Reacting to an over 40 per cent rise in freight and other input costs, public sector steel majors, Steel Authority of India (SAIL) and Rashtriya Ispat Nigam (RINL), have hiked prices for the third successive month.

Arcelor-Mittal and POSCO may have chosen its neighbouring states (Orissa and Jharkhand, respectively), but West Bengal has managed to become the #3 state for steel investment in the country.

It’s raining steel plants, OR, at least, MoUs to set them up, in Jharkhand, Orissa and Chhattisgarh.  At last count, the states had signed MoUs worth Rs 5.4 lakh crore

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India is where the action is in steel, write Manu Kaushik and Ritwik Mukherjee.

Returning from the brink of defeat to clinch the crown is a phenomenon common in sport. But last week, it was played out in business. Anil Ambani's Reliance Power Ltd (RPL) bagged the Rs 16,000-crore, 4,000 mw Sasan ultra-mega power project.

Three new states, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, are attracting big-ticket investment proposals and latent demand is fuelling a boom in these states, but problems remain.

Our fourth annual survey of companies that have delighted their shareholders the most. They aren't the biggest by revenue, profits, or market cap. But they are the biggest by consistency of returns, reporting and respect for their investors.