M. Thiagarajan is a contrarian who is expanding his fleet and adding destinations as bigger rivals do the reverse. Has Paramount Airways’ growth reached its limit?

The private airline gambles with a second no-frills brand to pull itself out of the woods and win back its lost market share.

Our fifth annual listing of companies that are hip and happening. This listing is not an “objective” one made by researchers poring over data.

Infrastructure is one sector where opportunities missed aren’t opportunities lost—not at least for the investors. BT presents a snapshot of prospects across a few key sectors.

A huge funding gap threatens to stall India’s biggest airport project. What are the funding options before DIAL that has a March 2010 deadline to meet?

BT takes a close look at sectors across the economy, noting the big events and placing on record the expectations for 2009.

Can the ‘King of Good Times’ survive the turbulence in the current aviation downturn? In an exclusive interview that started well past midnight and continued for over two hours at his residence on Delhi’s tony Sardar Patel Marg, Mallya shed light on what has been dragging Kingfisher down and how he will get the airline flying high again.

When most domestic airlines in India were counting their losses in 2007-08, this was one airline that posted a profit. Today, when others are cutting back on routes and frequency of flights, he has (since September) expanded Paramount’s operations into western India.

Today, with airline ticket prices and the BSE Sensex having switched roles, yesterday's bitter rivals Kingfisher Airlines and Jet Airways have struck a grand alliance that could also draw in Indigo and Paramount. Will it work? Or work against consumers? Kushan Mitra says that even as the airlines fight off one demon, they are faced with another: a weaker global economy.

Bangalore’s spanking new international airport would have been, in many ways, an important milestone. Only, the project now finds itself in the midst of a simmering controversy.

The engineering sector is bursting with order flows, notwithstanding the economic crunch. Time to add them to your portfolio.

While it is everybody’s case that big, bold infrastructure creation is an imperative for the India of our dreams, the action on the ground continues to stop short of the mammoth requirements of a nation aspiring to grow in double digits. A new look at old problems, and some fresh solutions.

$40 billion (Rs 1.72 lakh crore): Estimated annual loss to India Inc. due to corporate frauds by company insiders, according to a survey conducted by India Forensic Research

Airline companies can justifiably feel aggrieved that they are being made to pay for the massive subsidies that oil marketing companies are doling out at the petrol pump. In fact, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) points out that average ATF prices in India are 20 per cent higher than elsewhere in the world.

The civil aviation industry in India is neck-deep in trouble. India’s airlines lost Rs 4,000 crore last year and may lose more this year. A couple of airlines may even go under. How did fortunes suddenly turn in an industry that was witnessing 20 per cent passenger growth till as recently as six months ago? Kushan Mitra finds out. Tax cuts may give respite to aviation sector: PatelPricing tickets below costs should stop: Goyal

After weeks of suspense and drama, Bangalore’s new international airport at Devanahalli, 33 km from the city, has come to life, but the old airport has not ended its life as yet; it has been put on a ventilator for the next three months.

Air passenger traffic down 82% in FY21

Some in Bangalore want the old airport to stay open.

From wind turbines to X-ray machines to new-age locomotives, innovations are hardly new to GE’s John F. Welch Technology Centre in Bangalore. In its decade-long existence, JFWTC’s engineers have been at the forefront of introducing new ideas and methods for GE’s business units. Rahul Sachitanand finds out how the centre has shaped up over the years.