The leadership lesson I remember bestDon't go crazy during the good times, and neither become despondent during a downturn.

The teaser advertisements with the huge X that have come up across India have whetted popular curiosity about the identity of the advertiser.

Though still small in numbers, buyers are back in the property market convinced that prices and interest rates have stopped falling.

His pony-tail with the famed yellow butterfly bow may have gone, but not his chutzpah. Patanjali ‘Patu’ Keswani, 50, Chairman & Managing Director, Lemon Tree Hotel Company, refuses to let his age temper his radical thinking.

Call drops aren’t restricted to any single operator. Poor connectivity is one of the biggest irritants for subscribers. So, what’s the way out?

New residential projects are being launched by real estate developers across the country even as existing ones are some distance from their scheduled completion.

Vinayak Chatterjee has blended varied management styles to transform Feedback Venturesto a top infra advisory firm.

Small in size, but big in ambition, Anupam Industries is ramping up to be among the top shots of India Inc. in half a decade.

Take SMEs out of the equation and India Inc. will suddenly appear to be on wobbly legs. For, while the big boys may make the big picture, the big picture itself is composed of thousands of minutiae.

Changing work culture, transformed lifestyles and rise of the services industry make ‘life after work’ as important as ‘life at work’. Chronicling this trend for the first time, BT’s ranking of best cities shows some big changes.

However, it scores a distant 11th in the ‘Life after Work’ index — not because of a lack of malls, restaurants or movie theatres of which it has plenty — but because of its shoddy roads and inconsistent power supply.

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy,  the newly appointed CEO-in-Residence, Accel Partners, laughs when queried on how she would adjust from working in a maverick organisation like Google to a perceptibly more sober VC firm like Accel Partners.

While affordability is the new mantra, some developers are going even lower— houses at less than a million bucks. Apart from the small ticket sizes of the apartments, developers are resorting to several innovations to cut down on costs and, thus, keep a check on the final price tag. Tejeesh N.S. Behl & Anusha Subramanian report.

Real estate developers are offering homes within reach of the middle class wallet. But buyers may still feel shortchanged as home sizes get smaller and locations leave a lot to be desired.

Aggressive posturing by Bharat Hotels and its top honcho is seeing it go places– both in India and overseas.

A clutch of new players is marking its presence in the crowded telecom space. Although, they all are aware of of the gigantic size of the established players and know that just innovation may not work when the big players fight back, they are dreaming of getting blockbuster user bases. Tejeesh N.S. Behl and Anusha Subramanian report.

Top quality Italian cheese is being produced in rural Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. Tejeesh N.S. Behl feeds on mozzarella, scamorza and other varieties to unravel the secret of this success.

Urban infrastructure is a multi-billion dollar opportunity, but just who’s coming to the party?

Hit by the slowdown and a credit crunch, once high-flying real estate projects across the country have come to an abrupt halt. If the recession gets worse, real estate could be in the pits for some time to come.Tejeesh N.S. Behl and Anusha Subramanian bring a report from the Ground Zero.

Stagnant urban demand, collapse of export markets and relative rural prosperity are drawing companies to the countryside. Which means that the slowdown has not impacted the rural markets as much as their urban counterparts, reports Tejeesh N.S. Behl.Reform to Re-farmOn the farm trailColour of money