Recent developments in the US financial markets have had a direct impact on other sectors and countries across the world. Economies like India’s are slightly more insulated than others owing to the tight regulatory environment.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) deserves much credit for elevating the public’s interest in space research to a level comparable to that in cricket and the economy.

Even before Chandrayaan's launch, while India and the world were worrying over the global financial meltdown, ISRO subsidiary Antrix had crossed a milestone unnoticed and unheralded. It delivered a communications satellite, the W2M, to the Paris-based Eutelstat, a leading telecom operator. Can India beat its cryogenic blues to get into big launches? K.R. Balasubramanyam and N. Madhavan probe the answer.

WiMAX promises to be the next big thing in driving broadband penetration in India.

Fugu is a poisonous blowfish that can kill the consumer within hours if cooked wrongly. it is banned in the eu and in Thailand. but in India, it has just arrived on the menu. bt more pays a visit to the first and only licensed fugu chef in the country.

Indian banks may not be prepared to deal with the non-performing assets that are slowly but surely piling up. Is Indian banking’s own subprime crisis in the works? As of now, the good news is that banks still have time to clean up their acts and their balance sheets. Anand Adhikari goes into the details.The global financial crisisSo, where is the money?Panic grips Dalal StreetIs something wrong with ICICI Bank?Economy in eclipseWhen exotic turns toxicWall Street woes, India’s opportunityThe Rs 60,000-crore time bomb

Or should that be Women of Power? It doesn’t matter: at BT’s annual event to honour the most powerful women in Indian business, both were on ample display.

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.

Economist Sanjeev Sanyal’s book should serve to sell the reforms agenda well, says Bibek Debroy, but the author ought to write another on ‘India Whining’.

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.

Bewildered by the sheer number of gift options this festival season? Don’t be. Our gift guide has the answers you’re looking for.

After enduring a tough couple of years, hardware giant Dell India is set to become both the fastest geography within the company and fastest tech MNC in the country to cross $1 billion in revenues. Can it make the good times last? Rahul Sachitanand tells us how the company re-invented itself in India.

With the stock markets going nowhere, ULIP schemes are struggling. ULIP corpus has taken a hit, but don’t get out of it in a hurry. We tell you why and how to stay up for the long-term.

$286 billion: India’s current foreign exchange reserves, which are much above optimal levels. Forex accumulation has reduced external vulnerabilities and decreased the risk of financial contagion, according to a recent IMF study

Integrity can take you places as India Inc. lowers its tolerance on ‘unethical’ behaviour by employees.

Abhinav Bindra merely touched the tip of the iceberg when he clinched the gold in the Men’s 10-metre air rifle event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. But please note that his success did not come

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?