The Lockheed SR-71, also known as the Blackbird, was the fastest manned aircraft in the world before it was retired by the US Air Force in 1998.

The report by the Comptroller Auditor General, assessing the 2G spectrum scam and the telecom minister's involvement in it, will be tabled in the winter session of Parliament.

Singh said he's \"confident that strong fundamentals of the Indian economy will enable us to achieve our objective of double digit (growth) in the coming years\".

The panel formed by the Ministry of Environment and Forests and led by former union environment secretary Meena Gupta, was earlier to submit its report in August.

Is the controversy that has reared its head ahead of an IPO by India's first private-led hill station project genuine or just greenmail? Suman Layak reports from the ground.

The buzz on the street is not caused by market experts alone talking about signs of revival in the economy. It’s also created by all of us—consumers, investors, employees and employers.

Wealth Zoom has taken a hit because of the rally in the equity markets, but Dipen Sheth is convinced it’s a temporary phase and continues to short-sell.

After lying low for most part of the decade, Manoj Tirodkar is back with a bang with two big deals in 2010.

The proposal for an international airport in Navi Mumbai has been shuttling government offices of Maharashtra and Centre for almost two decades now.

\"India would be held back by the inadequacy of its basic education. It could be held back by inefficiencies in its bureaucracy, in the way it’s administered\"— Niall A. Ferguson, Professor of History, Harvard University, in NDTV’s Walk The Talk show

In recent years, the govt had to impoverish itself to make the economy prosper. The 13th Finance Commission suggests ways to keep both the government and the people prosperous-forever.

The UK-India Joint Economic and Trade Committee (JETCO) was set up in pursuance of the UK-India Joint Declaration made at London by the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom and India on September 20, 2004.

They may not be running businesses or owning them, but this clutch of women in government influences the course that India Inc. takes.

Even as India’s Bhilai Steel Plant planned to get rights to mine a big iron ore reserve, China increased its steel production manyfold. Somnath Dasgupta tells more.

P. Chidambaram—who during his various stints as finance minister has come to be seen as the champion of economic reforms in the country—communicates reforms to his people and, in fact, implements them. He is one politician who can sell good economics as good politics. N. Madhavan visits his constituency, Sivaganga, to test the hypothesis.

There is much by way of investments in the railway sector that are waiting to happen.

The eighth India Today Conclave provided a fertile setting for cross-pollination of ideas and thoughts.

In businesses, big or small, ranging from manufacturing to music, the fight for intellectual property is getting intense. Neglect it and you could be out of business.

Satyam’s auditors and independent directors failed to catch on to Raju’s scam. Auditors Pavan Kumar Vijay and R. Ramakrishnan, working with BT, show how dodgy numbers were ignored all along. Puja Mehra reports.  'There is some connivance in Satyam fraud' Satyam fraud shameful: Prem Chand Gupta  The great Satyam robberyHow funds are siphonedThe maze that is MaytasLiving on the (pl)edgeConfessions of auditorsAudit: Elusive independence'With XBRL, you can’t hide'When your boss does you inStruck by scams, stuck with stockFooling the shareholdersRipple effect

BT asks the who’s who of India’s corporate world—as well as some professionals and leaders from other fields for good measure—to jog their memory and recall the best advice they ever got. What the advice was, who gave it to them and when, and how it helped them.