Nandan Nilekani makes the move from the most prestigious position at India’s most prestigious company to bagging his most prestigious and challenging contract yet. Rahul Sachitanand tells more.

The first in a series profiling entrepreneurs that look beyond the metros, BT features Comat Technologies, which gives rural people quick access to digitised documents and also trains them for jobs.

What does one do after building one of the world’s most respected and admired companies? Try and fix the country, of course. That’s the agenda charted out by Infosys founder and ex-CEO N.R. Narayana Murthy in his debut book A Better India: A Better World.

The slowdown has forced Indian companies and international foundations to slash funding to NGOs in India, threatening the survival of some and endangering vital social programmes in the country.

Inefficiency in public spending is one of the biggest and most persistent problems plaguing governance in the country. Arvind Virmani offers a way out: creation of a numeric ID and a web-based database that can be accessed by all and hence easily verifiable.

Solar power goes megawatt, as promoters rush to tap government incentives.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The government finally extended the ban on futures trading in four commodities—soya oil, potato, rubber and chana.

The adventure tourism industry is booming for the new executive class in India. To find out why, BT More puts on its helmet and knee pads and heads out into the wild.

Bangalore’s image as India’s pub capital has taken a pounding, with confusing local laws and overzealous law enforcement acting as party poopers. And for the moment, it looks like Bangaloreans will have to mothball their dancing shoes. A report by BT's Rahul Sachitanand.