A chemistry student who started in advertising and then moved to IT, Sandeep Menon prefers to take the road less travelled, both at work and play.

Avoid the tourist trail in Mussoorie and this land of rain, mist and stunning peaks continues to exert its magic.

Want to make your wedding an event, that’s truly an affair to remember? Preston Bailey, Hollywood’s favourite wedding designer, tells you how.

Kumarakom, a dream destination situated on the eastern coast of the Vembanad Lake in Kerala, hit a rough patch a couple of years ago as the locals were losing stake in the tourism boom. It was Kerala Tourism's \"Responsible Tourism\" programme that re-linked them to the stakes from tourism. A report by N. Madhavan.

There’s a new trend in oriental salads, but the best stuff is off the menu.

A spate of new, emerging opportunities is enticing private sector players into infrastructure investments.

A slew of big-ticket investments in Orissa is transforming its capital from a sleepy tourist town to a glitzy business destination.

The television distribution business is no longer a tangled mess like the cable wires criss-crossing cities. Investments are flowing in, and big operators are gobbling up last mile players in a bid to consolidate.

Starring: Rupert Murdoch, Chairman, News Corp; DMRC’s E. Sreedharan; Mohan Sekar, President and COO, Collabera; Unilever’s Vindi Banga; HUL’s Harish Manwani; NDTV’s Rohini Nilekani; and Commerce Minister Kamal Nath.

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

When the stock market was booming, dozens of Indian companies issued foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs) to raise cheap capital. But with stock prices crashing and conversion coming up, they are in a soup.

IDG Ventures seeks to find its niche in a crowded VC market.

Telecom operators, banks and a clutch of service providers are jostling for what is likely to become a massive market in mobile payment. The question is: can it do to banking what mobile phones did to communications? Kushan Mitra finds out.

World Music has always been about compelling music that connects the common joys, fears and hopes of men everywhere. Here’s a look at the genre and some of its biggest stars.

Being pampered in five-star comfort in ‘Asia’s best resort’ in the Ranthambhore National Park is sheer bliss. Chasing the Royal Bengal Tiger on a safari just adds to the fun.

Turkey’s wines remain undiscovered, even though it is the world’s fourth-largest producer of grapes with 6,100 square kilometres under vines and has 60 indigenous wine grape varieties to dip into.

By selling out to Daiichi Sankyo, the CEO& MD of Ranbaxy hasn’t just netted a Rs 9,576-crore windfall, but brightened the company's future sans him in the global generics' marketplace. A report by Business Today's Shalini S. Dagar. Ranbaxy will continue acquisition, says CEORanbaxy to sell stake to Japan's Daiichi

There’s a tech wave sweeping across China, but can it really overtake the US?

IIM Shillong begins its first academic session this month. But can it match up to the standards of its eponymous forebears? BT's J. Bhattacharjee draws a comparison. Slideshows : India's ten best B-Schools IIM-A - An epitome of excellenceISB - One-year wonderFrom BT archives 2007: IIM-A once again retains top perch2006: There are plenty of gainers & losers2005: Emergence of 15 B-school brands2004: To B or not to B?2003: What makes IIM-A dominate?More from the latest edition

All the ingredients in Carlsberg beer are imported from Denmark.