The Indian banking system did well to survive the carnage of the global meltdown that brought marquee institutions down to their knees. But there are challenges which, if not tackled, could derail India’s ambition of higher economic growth.

Like most people, you may think you don’t but you could be wrong. BT kicks off a three-part series on sound financial planning. In the first, we begin by emphasising the need for a professional planner.

As the global and domestic economies recover, debt funds, which were popular during the downturn, might begin to lose their sheen.

How much you gain from the recovery will depend on two things—the strength and shape of the revival and your company’s deeds during the downturn.

India has too many illiterates but too few entrepreneurs entering into the field of education. Why is this so? The answer is simple: the country is hostile territory for educational entrepreneurship.

Unlike in the developed world, where expansion of fiscal deficit has been used to bail out banking system, in Asia, government spending has had more bang for the buck.

Nobert Walter, Chief Economist, Deutsche Bank Group, believes not many understand the recession, and speaks to Shalini S. Dagar on the crisis.

If there is no growth then a smaller fiscal deficit or low inflation or long-term rates are of little use.

Given the Budget’s silence on a number of key issues, Finance Secretary Ashok Chawla has had to spend most of his time after July 6 explaining the unstated details of the Budget strategy. In a candid interview with Puja Mehra, Chawla elaborates on the Budget’s growth gamble.

Short-term debt funds have emerged as an attractive investment option for investors.

Business Today catches up with four pilgrims who made the long trip to Omaha to hear the Oracle speak at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual general meeting.

Reddy, the 67-year-old bureaucrat-turned-banker, is credited with making carefully calibrated moves to save the Indian banking system in the face of the global meltdown and ensure that it remained unscathed.

Mid-sized fast-moving consumer goods companies, riding on rural volumes, have stolen a march on the big guns.

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy,  the newly appointed CEO-in-Residence, Accel Partners, laughs when queried on how she would adjust from working in a maverick organisation like Google to a perceptibly more sober VC firm like Accel Partners.

The fortnight’s burning question. Will we see a further slashing of interest rates by the RBI in the short term?

From shortage to surplus—bordering on glut—government actions and policies yet again play havoc with India’s food grain economy.

A government economist and a regulator eschew optimism to give more reasonable growth estimates.

Dr Rakesh Mohan’s Monetary Policy in a Globalized Economy combines a policymaker’s know-how with a scholar’s precision.

Employees as well as employers are struggling in this financial downturn—the employees to find jobs in a market where very few companies want to hire and employers to carry out layoffs as gently and painlessly as possible, and failing miserably. Saumya Bhattacharya reports.  5 Lakh to 50 LakhThere’s life after layoff...Campus droughtTime to talkDealing with your first slowdownUnited we standVeterans in the downturn

Falling inflation is good, but not when it comes with falling investment, income and jobs.