$9 trillion (Rs 387 lakh crore): Oil revenues Gulf countries will earn by 2020 if the prices remain at $100 per barrel

Crude at $200 a barrel? Perhaps it’s that prospect that has convinced a clutch of Indian businessmen that exploring and producing this commodity that’s getting scarcer by the minute is a lucrative venture. But how many of them will hit pay dirt? Anand Adhikari finds out. Oil: A ticking time bomb

Just when you think the advantage is with one of them, a few thrusts and parries later, it swings to the other. As equations change at the Centre, the battle between Anil Ambani and Mukesh Ambani gets shriller—and more desperate. BT's Suman Layak reports. Chronology of war between the Ambani brothersMukesh Ambani meets Manmohan on windfall taxIs it advantage Anil at Dalal Street?Ambani rivalry compared to Archer's potboilerAmbani brothers: The battle to be No. 1 is on

There’s a tentative sense of relief on Dalal Street. The April-June quarter results of several companies are in, and the good news is that there are no nasty surprises.

$40 billion (Rs 1.72 lakh crore): Estimated annual loss to India Inc. due to corporate frauds by company insiders, according to a survey conducted by India Forensic Research

Solar industry, though in its infancy, offers some bright job options.

If you are one of India’s middle class consumers, chances are you are beginning to tighten your pursestrings. After all, we’ve gone from ‘India Unstoppable’ to ‘India Plummeting’ in just a few months.

With inflation at 11.63 per cent (at the time of writing) and rising, it is hardly surprising that the Indian middle class consumer is pinching her pennies. With sharply rising interest rates on loans to finance everything-from homes and cars to two-wheelers, personal computers and holidays-it's no wonder that the credit culture embraced by consumers in a happier, low-interest rate regime not so long ago is now finding few or no takers.

The stock market’s massive fall has been swift, sharp and painful. Experts believe there’s going to be more pain before it settles down. Yet, predicting its bottom is like catching a falling knife.

Fortunes are made or lost on Dalal Street every day. So, who are the analysts fund managers swear by? BT presents its fifth annual survey of India’s Best Equity Analysts.

The fortnight’s burning question. Will the BSE Sensex drop to 10,000 this year?

The Manmohan Singh government’s performance can, at best, be labelled ‘middling’. With general elections due within the next 6-8 months, we take a look at the UPA's report card.

Once touted as India’s counterpart to France’s Grasse region, Kannauj’s perfumery industry doesn’t smell so sweet anymore. Business Today's Tejeesh Behl reports.

IT and ITES companies will step up recruitments, while financial services and telecom firms will hire less.

It's impossible to ignore Nikhil Gandhi and his grand game plan of sinking $20 billion into a clutch of big-ticket infrastructure projects. BT’s Virendra Verma deconstructs the man.

Away from the arclights, Wipro’s Consumer Care & Lighting division is expanding its market share and challenging the established players in the business. K.R. Balasubramanyam reports.

Hedge funds are groaning under the weight of high risk. Along with the big global banks, hedge funds too have been at the epicentre of the global financial markets crisis that was triggered by the subprime problems in the US.

The sixth Business Today-Nielsen Survey of India’s Best B-schools shows that IIM-A is still the best, but five others, IIM-B, IIM-C, Symbiosis, IIM-L and XLRI, are catching up fast. Then, one-year MBA programmes, of the type offered by Hyderabad-based ISB, are becoming popular. Slideshows : India's ten best B-Schools IIM-A - An epitome of excellenceISB - One-year wonderFrom BT archives 2007: IIM-A once again retains top perch2006: There are plenty of gainers & losers2005: Emergence of 15 B-school brands2004: To B or not to B?2003: What makes IIM-A dominate?More from the latest edition

Will they be able to ramp up revenues five-fold to $50 billion by 2012? BT-Nasscom round table finds the answer.