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.

Starring:Ola Kallenius, Sophie Vandebroek, Kumar Raghu, Hisao Tanaka, Gurmit Singh

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.

One of the major factors tilting the scales in favour of manufacturing in India is favourable movements in the foreign-exchange market. The yuan has climbed 7.2 per cent against the US dollar in the past three years and 35.3 per cent in the past decade, making China's exports costlier.

Featuring: The Smiley Company's Nicolas Loufrani, Author Daniel Yergin, Punj Lloyd's J.P. Chalasani, Foodhall's Avni Biyani, Polaris' Ross Clifford and InvestHK's Simon Galpin.

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.

AAP's economic thinking is influenced by both left-wing and centre-right ideology, among other schools of thought. The heart of AAP's economic policy will lie in vesting crucial decision making in to the hands of the common man.

Starring: Sir Paul Nurse, Ashish Singh, Raj Jain, Capt. G.R. Gopinath, V. Balakrishnan, Meera Sanyal, K.P. Nanjundi, Priti Paul and N.P. Singh

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.

The Centre will rework the terms of concession relating to national highway projects that have run into trouble and get them moving again, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Oscar Fernandes told Business Today's K.R. Balasubramanyam.

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.