House hunting in the NCR is akin to a picnic— take the day off and visit several properties and property dealers, haggle till your tongue drops off and then haggle some more. BT reporters go incognito across five cities to find out what’s the best deal your money can buy against a developer’s listed price.

India Inc.’s profits engine finally sputters into single-digit territory after 22 rip-roaring quarters of robust double-digit growth. Is this the end of the good times?

The picture isn’t totally dismal. A handful of promoters has been successful in acquiring land, largely by keeping the local population’s needs in mind.

If you’re preparing to go up-country in search of open spaces, here are a few pointers you could keep in mind.

Infrastructure majors like Larsen & Toubro and HCC have been at the forefront of evolving into leaders in the build-operate-transfer (BOT) space. But they aren’t the only ones that have shifted gears from engineering and construction.

Featuring Puravankara’s Jayakar Jerome, Motorola’s Sanjay Jha, Apollo Health’s Ratan Jalan, HCL’s Vineet Nayar, Satyam’s B. Ramalinga Raju and Economist C. Rangarajan.

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.

Despite negative perceptions about law and order and poor infrastructure, two cities from Uttar Pradesh—Kanpur and Lucknow—rise buoyed by positive consumer and investor sentiment. Do they denote a glimmer of hope for the rest of UP?

Its infrastructure may be creaking at the seams, but a slew of recent improvements have ensured that India’s ‘Silicon Valley’ is back among the top cities.

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

When it rains, it floods—and one is not just talking of India’s financial capital Mumbai, which has reserved one day of the calendar for a deluge. But that’s the least of the worries for the financial hub; it’s more concerned with the never-ending slide of the realty index on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

Private pools, elevators that go straight to your living room, terrace gardens and jacuzzis: luxury apartments in India are getting a makeover like never before. BT More gives you an inside view of the most luxurious apartments that you can buy in the country today.

Can information technology be transformational? Without doubt, yes. And here are 20 examples to prove it. Our annual listing of the most IT-savvy outfits in the country.

A bunch of Bangalore bravehearts helps city singles beat the housing blues.

Developers are fighting hard to hold their prices, while buyers are betting on a fall. Here's the thing: real estate prices will correct, but you can rule out a crash.

From a long list of names, we finally picked 10 that stood out for the uniqueness of their businesses or rapid growth. Our second annual listing of the most happening young ventures.

The 43-year-old school dropout, Gautam Adani, who was recently ranked #10 among Indian billionaires by Forbes, is thinking big—and ahead—for ways to expand his business empire. He already runs the Mundra Port in Gujarat. That’s only Act I in his plan of becoming India’s largest infrastructure player. A report by BT's Anand Adhikari.

Along with airports will come hotels, townships, theme parks.

The entry of new players is changing the rules of the game for construction industry workers.