Managers are racking their brains for strategies to beat the slowdown. But hotshots remain hotshots. We present 5th listing of India's young and happening executives.

The small screen has been his home ground, first as an actor and then as a game show host. Shah Rukh Khan, 43, is now going a step further to rule television.

A host of small start-ups in India are eyeing ‘local’ search as the next big business opportunity on the Internet.

No black marks for taking off days, empowerment at all levels and open promotions make this hotel’s management and employees—oops, associates—one big happy family.

It emerges trumps amongst smaller banks. CEO Rana Kapoor has a game plan to take it into the big league.

PMO pointman  Pulok Chatterji, 57, is India’s next Executive Director to the World Bank. The Secretary to the Prime Minister will join the Bank in Washington D.C. for a three-year tenure in February, replacing Dhanendra Kumar.

Moser Baer’s aggressive marketing and technological edge have made it the market leader in the home video market.

America’s biggest studios are shaking and stirring the Indian market with exclusive releases and local co-productions.

In the midst of the Himalayas, South Asia’s last kingdom has withstood the test of time to preserve its stunning natural beauty. Supriya Newar discovers Bhutan.

PE activity in media and entertainment has picked up speed this year.

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.

On a short visit to India, Jonathan Spink, CEO, HBO Asia, is amazed at the rash of television channel launches that are taking place here. He met Business Today’s Shamni Pande to discuss HBO’s plans in India.

S.L. Rao, father of consumer market demographics in India, reviews the latest book on this subject.

It’s not just in aviation or automobiles that businessmen are seeking out low-cost solutions. From housing to gyms, from entertainment to banking, a clutch of canny entrepreneurs is seeing big opportunity at the lower rungs of the proverbial pyramid. T.V. Mahalingam reports.

As a raft of general entertainment channels hits TV, the scramble for eyeballs gets even more frantic. That’s throwing up some surprising winners and losers. Shamni Pande reports. Anil Ambani eyes big pie in the DTH spaceTinseltown in your living room

Drugs, diagnostics, real estate, private equity and glass may seem a motley bunch of businesses, but it doesn’t matter how diverse your portfolio is if you can emerge top dog. And it’s leadership that Ajay Piramal is aiming for, reports S. Layak.

Hindi news channel Aaj Tak, the TV Today Group's flagship news channel, underlined its status as India's most popular news channel by winning the Best Hindi News Channel Award at the NT Awards on August 14.

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.

Mobile banking is fast catching up as an alternative channel for banking services. Here’s what you should know about it.

A decade after Cisco came to India for low-cost talent, the networking giant now wants to make the country a hub of innovation and its second global headquarters. Will this novel initiative be successful? Business Today's Rahul Sachitanand finds out.