Fortune in Farms Betting on Farms (BT cover, August 8) points to the shift in agriculture.

Mumbai is the country's commercial capital, but for the city to become an international fulcrum for finance will take a lot of doing.

While margins of 20-30 per cent in low income housing may not seem attractive to traditional real estate developers, they make inherent business sense for corporates used to tighter margins.

It may not have the glamour of mobile phones or airlines but no-frills housing is beginning to get off the blocks and promises to be a big, big business.

Powerpuff girls on the walls, innovative dishes on the table. Delhi's Mamagoto seems to have cracked the magic formula of getting diners back again and again.

SEBI is readying the framework for more currency derivative products, beginning with options. What are they and how do they differ from currency futures?

The eurozone crisis has sent stocks across the globe into a tailspin on fears of a double-dip recession. But though markets may remain jittery awhile, another global meltdown is unlikely.

Some of India Inc.'s biggest corporate houses-including the Tatas, Kumar Mangalam Birla and Anil Ambani-are sniffing for attractive businesses to invest in and in the process competing with global venture capital and private equity majors like Blackstone and Warburg Pincus.

The Maoist movement's inroads into some 223 districts in 20 states — at last count—have the potential to not just stall big-ticket investments but also derail the great Indian growth story.

Suasion by one man has helped the engineering and construction giant build a sturdy financial business. Does it harbour banking ambitions?

The path is clear cut as more and more finance heads move beyond number-crunching to dictating strategy and becoming the point person for dealing with key stakeholders. Pics

Cricket-largely thanks to the IPL-is where the action is. But the big money sloshing around could go a long way in the creation of a broader sports ecosystem.

Business Today's sixth listing of the young trailblazers who are setting the benchmarks for success in India Inc. See them in Pictures

New highways and consumer preference for comfort are powering demand for these new buses. But will prohibitive pricing and a stronger railway network crimp growth?

In a move that could increase transparency and efficiency in loan pricing, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has proposed that all loans be priced off a base rate as against the current practice of linking them to the so-called benchmark prime lending rate (BPLR).

A water purifier manufacturer forms an NGO to supply clean drinking water at 17 paise a litre in 55 Andhra Pradesh villages. This is just the beginning.

After iodine, iron is set to be the next big additive in table salt.

The 15-year-old BT-Honda Pro-Am Championship ushers in a new decade as it tees off in the financial capital.

Eight years after Tata Finance came apart, the Tata Group is ready with the first phase of its second wind in financial services with a former group company CFO at the helm.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...so wrote Dickens ages ago but his words hit home even today.