It has been a rapid rise for Tanishq's Head of Retail Gaurav Bhuwan since he was picked from the IIM Lucknow campus by watch and jewellery maker Titan in 1999.

Apart from seed-funding, he also guides the teams at his chosen start-ups, though he does not sit on any of their boards.

The 65-year-old food industry veteran built MTR Foods into a giant, and sold it seven years ago. Now his Maiyas brand is challenging the empire he founded.

Jewellers are also tweaking contemporary designs to lend them a vintage touch. Kundan jewellery from Rajasthan with a unique style and a rich legacy is an example.

Little Eye Labs founders call themselves 'ions', short for 'eye-ons'. They are a motley group of entrepreneurs who got together while working at Rational Software/IBM long before they set up Little Eye Labs with seed funding from GSF India and VenturEast.

Big investors are getting into home health care, using technology and the cloud, and trying to set benchmarks. Their success depends on getting the combination of service charges, delivery efficiency and market response right.

Commuters hope Gurgaon's Rapid Metro will revolutionise transportation the way Delhi Metro has done in the capital.

The court has taken a stern view of the fact that UBHL, until recently the holding company of the grounded Kingfisher Airlines, has reneged on the corporate guarantees it provided to creditors in favour of the airline.

The Rs 2000-crore agarbathi industry is dependent predominantly on rural India. Many industries can use this untapped resource and connect with the rural families providing both livelihood and rural empowerment.

Volvo India head Akash Passey says governments must act faster to improve urban transport.

San Francisco Mayor Edwin M. Lee is on a five-day visit to Bangalore to share and learn from India's tech capital. He has shared a vision with his counterpart, B.S.Sathyanarayana: Move towards zero-waste as they are doing in San Franciso, with a goal to reach there in 20 years.

A portable warmer developed by two Indian students and their classmates at Stanford University is helping premature babies survive. With the help of venture capitalists, they have turned their classroom concept into a commercial product, sold under the brand name Embrace Nest.

Authorities are hoping to revive private-sector interest with two new so-called ultra mega power projects (UMPPs) in Orissa and Tamil Nadu that are part of the government's aim to provide cheaper power through economies of scale.

Ilmenite, zircon, rutile, garnet and sillimanite are heavy minerals found on the beach sand in parts of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa.

Mining has faced multiple problems in recent years. There have been problems in acquiring land for new mines and delays in government approvals. Increased judicial scrutiny following corruption scandals in the allotment of mining blocks and environmental degradation caused by illegal mining have made matters worse.

Parts of Darjeeling good enough for growing beans, says a survey.

For the BJP as well as Modi, Karnataka is very important. It is in this state that the party formed its first and only government in the South.

Snapshots of winners in different categories of Best Banks listing. Some grew despite the slowing economy, some prospered by keeping tight control on the quality of assets.

Finance Minister P Chidambaram's strong-arm measures against bullion imports have paid off handsomely with demand falling 32 per cent to 148 tonnes in the July-September quarter compared with the same period last year.

Private power project developers in the country appear to be losing interest in solar energy projects, as they are finding it difficult to compete with companies that have taken a plunge into the sector only to avail tax incentives.