In 10 years, demand for power will touch three times its existing capacity. That poses a challenge for policymakers and an opportunity for investors.

Urban infrastructure is a multi-billion dollar opportunity, but just who’s coming to the party?

Getting the highways sector back on track can be the surest way of beating the slowdown.

Despite the appalling gaps in the delivery mechanics—cold chains, warehousing, processing centres and logistics—there is enough today to make entrepreneurs tackle specific projects in the farm-to-the table value chain. Entrepreneurs and investors are making most of the business opportunities that abound in the farm-to-fork value chain. Shamni Pande reports.

Opto Circuits has benefited from operating in the almost recession-proof area of medical devices.

This is Business Today’s Third Annual Listing of hottest start-ups and, pretty much like the two previous lists in 2007 and 2008, this listing is also completely subjective.

For the first time in India, the economic interests of employers and employees are at loggerheads on such a large scale. Though not deliberately, companies are securing their future by making the future of their employees insecure. The hunt is on to root out \"excess\" staff from the payrolls and emerge leaner and meaner to take on the challenges of the economic meltdown.

Even as the slowdown affects most industries, some enterprising farmers in the districts of Uttara Kannada and Shimoga in Karnataka are smiling all the way to the bank by farming orchids.

Nilekani’s book is wonderfully anecdotal but falls a trifle short on analysis, says Srivatsa Krishna.

Karnataka Bank is innovating in product delivery in rural and semi-rural areas.

Vijay Mallya’s aviation business has landed in a sea of red. Mallya has a survival plan, but he may need to look at drastic options to stay afloat. K. R. Balasubramanyam and Kushan Mitra go into the details.

The Indian microfinance sector is growing by leaps and bounds but concerns remain over high costs and the direction in which it is headed.

Her techno-savvy credentials are what endeared Sonal Shah, 40, to US President-elect Barack Hussein Obama, who roped in the Director, Global Development, Google.org, to be a member of his Transition Advisory Board.

Your cover story on India’s best marketers (BT, November 16) could not have been more poignant, especially in the light of the financial crisis that threatens to derail the best of strategies.

Where Tata’s small car project is headed is still unclear, but what looks certain is that it won’t start rolling out until 2009.

$5 billion (Rs 23,000 crore): Amount of money Warren Buffett’s company Berkshire Hathaway will invest in Goldman Sachs

The Business Today-DuPont Sustainability Forum brainstorms some of the key issues and challenges involved in efforts to steer farming away from unsustainable practices and its consequences.

Just as Chinese silk invaded the Indian market in the 1990s, China's power equipment manufacturers, leveraging their lower costs and shorter delivery periods, have begun hitting Indian majors where it hurts most—and are walking away with orders worth thousands of crores of rupees. K.R. Balasubramanyam says that they are making hay while the sun shines.

Bangalore’s spanking new international airport would have been, in many ways, an important milestone. Only, the project now finds itself in the midst of a simmering controversy.