Nilesh Khare, an accounts executive, till recently had little knowledge about the existence of bulls, bears and other creatures that prowl the Street. But last fortnight when the benchmark index on the Bombay Stock Exchange kissed the 17,000 mark, he decided it was time to step into the world of investing.

It’s 10 in the morning, and at the historic Azad Maidan, where The Mahatma used to address swelling crowds during the Civil Disobedience movement, another movement is slowly gathering steam.

The Saawariya promo is really no different from hundreds of other similar trailers. The only difference: the movie has a Hollywood producer. For the first time one of Hollywood’s Big 6 studios is co-producing a Hindi film. SPE Films India, the Indian arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment has co-produced Saawariya in partnership with Bollywood producer-director Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s film production house.

China is in the fast forward mode ahead of Beijing Olympics 2008 and Shanghai World Expo 2010.

For over a year now, the only significant buzz emanating from the House of Onida has been that of gnawing differences between the promoters, with at least two of them reportedly actively thinking of getting out of the company by selling their stakes.

On a tight two-day scheduled trip to India soon after he’s taken charge as Managing Director of the joint venture ESPN Star Sports (ESS) in Asia, Manu Sawhney’s in for a jolt.

BBC has been broadcasting news in India for decades but this is the first time that a Director-General of BBC is visiting India.

Relief is at hand for those advertisers who want to be part of cricket, but find participation difficult due to the stiff rates charged for live action.

What are senior Indian execs doing hanging around at social networking site, Facebook.com? BT finds out.

Home entertainment has come a long way from the days of Doordarshan to the age of satellite television (Cable TV) and now DTH (Direct-to-Home) and Internet Protocol TV (IPTV).

Consumers always hunt for bargains and switch brands faster than they hit store shelves. It is a brave task to stand apart. Our fourth annual listing of best marketers brings a list of marketers who know consmers the best.

The excitement and glamour of advertising is luring professionals from the unlikeliest of fields. Dumping their “safe” jobs and (often) better remunerations, doctors, IT consultants, hospitality industry professionals and rural marketers are all heading to the organised chaos of advertising.

More and more women are displaying a flair for starting up on their own.

They are young, full of beans and very restless. And they are either quietly moving into family business, or starting up their own.

It's an old problem-how do ad agencies break the clutter on television and reach out to their target audience?

Big Bazaar is going out of its way to make small-town consumers feel comfortable with the beast called modern retail, discovers.

Indian engineers are turning out to be Korean chaebol Samsung Electronics Co.'s secret weapon. They are leading global productivity benchmarks and are now pushing its agenda of innovation and helping develop some of the niftiest gizmos on earth.

Multiplayer gaming is the latest sport in town.

The consumer electronics giant aims for $1 billion by 2009.

Movie rentals could be worth Rs 2,000 crore by 2010.