The 25 most powerful women had better watch out—they have some serious competition snapping at their heels. The Rising Stars range from the CEO of a foreign bank to legal eagles and marketing whiz-kids.

The US financial services sector may have been brought down to its knees, but back home, there’s a mad scramble by a host of players to get a piece of the action in high-growth segments that range from mutual funds to private equity.

They span generations and are there in every field, from biscuits to banking, from HR to hospitals. Denied entry into a male bastion, they create another industry. They are the most powerful women in the corporate world.

High gold prices might be a dampener for festive season shoppers, but for gold investors, it brings plenty of cheer. As investors hedge against the greenback, the outlook for gold is good.

Every month, we bring you a listing of the biggest deals struck by Indian companies in India and abroad. Our partner: global professional services firm Ernst & Young. Here are the deals that were struck in August 2008.

The buzzword at the country’s second-largest bank, which became famous for its scorching growth rates, is ‘measured growth’, a euphemism for losing steam. Here’s what prompted ICICI Bank’s strategic shift. Anand Adhikari reports.

The inside story of how Ambani’s trusted lieutenant is attempting to make over a modest family business of plastics processing and textiles into an infrastructure Goliath.

Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School (HBS) suggested that the growth of entrepreneurship in India and China could actually “help both countries get out of the mess they are in and solve problems that governments have failed to over the last 40 years

ICICI Prudential AMC has been raking it in. With assets of Rs 54,237 crore as on June 30, ICICI Prudential AMC is the second largest mutual fund in the country. The AMC is also an advisor to $2 billion worth of offshore funds of Prudential Plc.

Our fifth annual survey of the companies who have managed to put a smile on their shareholders’ faces and delighted them the most.

Crude at $200 a barrel? Perhaps it’s that prospect that has convinced a clutch of Indian businessmen that exploring and producing this commodity that’s getting scarcer by the minute is a lucrative venture. But how many of them will hit pay dirt? Anand Adhikari finds out. Oil: A ticking time bomb

Handicraft retailer Fabindia is turning thousands of its supplier-artisans into shareholders in a unique experiment that seeks to empower and enrich some of India’s poorest people. \"Supplier-region companies\" set up across India by the Rs 260-crore retailer are part of this ambitious programme. Kapil Bajaj reports.

With investments of a little over Rs 44,000 crore in 2007-08—up from a meagre Rs 5,400 crore two years ago—the Life Insurance Corporation is easily the single-biggest shopper in Indian stocks. Rachna Monga tells us how the largest and the only public sector life insurance company has been re-inventing itself.

GMR has also undertaken half-a-dozen road projects, of which two in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are ready. But power is something Rao never lost sight of. Indeed, till December 2007, power accounted for two-thirds of the GMR group’s revenues.

IT and ITES companies will step up recruitments, while financial services and telecom firms will hire less.

SEBI is now wooing FIIs all over again. A notification in the last week of May allows for non-resident Indians, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), universities, societies and trusts to invest in India as FIIs. FIIs have been net sellers in the Indian equity market.

The market is going through a rough phase as it navigates cross-currents. What should investors do?

Chairman and Managing Director Sanjay Shrenik Lalbhai has chalked out an aggressive growth plan for brands and retail, which is expected to change the face of his company over the next two-three years. BT's Anand Adhikari finds out whether he is on the right track.

Rising crude prices could derail India’s growth story and cause massive pain all around.

India will see a dramatic rise in the number of wealthy households by 2017.