You don't have to give up all the good things in life just because the economy is down. All you need to do is make small, but long-term, changes. Where to cut costs? Buying concerns

Insuring your home and its valuables is as essential as buying cover for your life. However, go only for the sections that meet your specific requirements.

If you are not brand conscious, switching from big names to in-house brands is a good way to boost your budget, says Priya Kapoor.

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Apart from the M&A activity, which saw the birth of JetLite and Kingfisher Red, many carriers are signing agreements with regional players, like the GoAir-MDLR Airlines pact.

The extent to which the rise in the price of a product or service affects your family budget depends on two things—the level of price rise and the share of that product or service in the family’s consumption basket.

You can’t ignore (FII) money that owns 27% of the Sensex. This (and not your Indian money) will also get a free ‘carry-ride’ as the rupee appreciates, and will decide what will happen to your portfolio.

The smile on Indians planning a foreign holiday this summer has just grown slightly broader.

I N S I D ESafe HandsMani BhaiTrend SpottingCount all the worries you have as an investor. Stock market may slow its unprecedented journey of wealth creation. The real estate boom may lose steam, if not bust. Value of your precious metals may not rise as fast as it has in recent years. Interest rates on small savings or deposits may fall

Naqvi and Sharma saw an opportunity in kitchen business and built a thriving enterprise.

They say they touch more consumers than any other Indian company — and it's not just with soaps, locks and cupboards.

Most of them started from the bottom, and today under the eagle supervision of senior family members, a whole host of inheritors is pulling out all stops to earn their spurs.

Rising power of private labels will lead to a striking shift of the balance of power first to the consumer, and then to the retail channel away from brands and marketers.

When this trader turned into a manufacturer of galvanised steel, he had to run around to buy the raw material. Today, Rajinder Miglani has got ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steelmaker, as a stakeholder, co-promoter—and supplier. For ArcelorMittal’s L.N. Mittal, it is the first footprint in India.

Dipen Sheth tries to guess which companies and sectors will make it to the Top 20 slots 10 years from now.

At a time when the economy was hit by a global slowdown, there are some who have clambered up on top of the game: As the country’s best marketers. What challenges did they have to overcome? And what was the outcome of their strategies?

The Indian rich not only emits much more CO2 than the poor, he is a more ineffi cient consumer of energy than the rich in developed countires, fi nds a Greenpeace survey. Here is how worrisome the situation has become and what to do about it.

Over the last decade, Dutch giant Philips has been making a marked shift away from its heritage of incandescent bulbs, radios and televisions. Gerard J. Kleisterlee, President and CEO, tells BT’s Rahul Sachitanand why the re-invention was necessary and what the firm’s new plans are.

Whirlpool, written off as a has-been till as recently as five years ago, has scripted a remarkable comeback.

There are two ways to tame the oil monster: One is to become more energy efficient and the other is to develop new energy sources.