Rising crude prices could derail India’s growth story and cause massive pain all around.

Can information technology be transformational? Without doubt, yes. And here are 20 examples to prove it. Our annual listing of the most IT-savvy outfits in the country.

A lot of rise has happened in the oil sector during the first four months of 2008. It is booming because of rising crude prices, but not all oil and gas stocks make good investment.

Business Today’s league of extraordinary managers—25 young guns, aged 40 or under, who are blazing a trail up the corporate ladder.

The government is in a generous mood. Close on the heels of the Rs 60,000-crore farm loan waiver package announced in the 2008-09 Union Budget comes the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission, which are likely to be accepted.

Rs 52,000 crore: The amount spent every year by about 450,000 Indian students on higher education abroad

Hindustan Unilever is on a roll again. That HUL has been finally able to stoke up the growth embers, improve profitability, regain market shares, and grow fledgling markets in the past three years, are significant indicators of its business success. But that doesn't make new CEO Nitin Paranjpe's mandate—to pump up HUL's mojo in highly competitive markets—any easier. Business Today's Brian Carvalho reports.

Nearly two years after it acquired Aircel from C. Sivasankaran, Malaysia’s Maxis Group wants to become a pan-India player, with $4 billion in investment over the next two years.

A marketing guru on why the rise of China and India will help every other economy in the world.

A rundown on jobs that will be in demand this year.

The fifth BT-Cirrus survey reveals which CEOs, companies and groups got the best press in 2007. Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Group emerges as the leading newsmaker. 

Events that rocked the business world—or just made head honchos sit up and take notice.

Amar Babu seems to relish the heat and dust of the fast-growing Indian market. Just months after moving to the US as MD, South Asia (Sales and Marketing Group), Intel, Babu finds himself back home.

It’s called the elixir of life. Not without reason: Farmers are getting a new lease of life cultivating tulsi the organic way. 

India is on the threshold of a retail revolution. In fact, it has, in some segments, already traversed some way down that path.

The Godrejs’ property business has the potential to propel the group—so far best known as a maker of soap—into the elite league of India’s most valued businesses.

The government plans to quickly open up the services segment of the aviation business. As part of the FDI policy review, it plans to allow 100 per cent FDI in the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) business, where companies like Boeing and Airbus have shown keen interest.

The excitement and glamour of advertising is luring professionals from the unlikeliest of fields. Dumping their “safe” jobs and (often) better remunerations, doctors, IT consultants, hospitality industry professionals and rural marketers are all heading to the organised chaos of advertising.

RBI’S preoccupation with combating inflation is well known, and so, it was only natural for RBI Deputy Governor Rakesh Mohan to compliment his organisation in a recent conference in Mumbai, when inflation fell to a low of under 4 per cent on September 1.

It is crossover time for many brands into the world of direct selling. In an attempt to find more consumers, sales heads of an increasing number of companies are seeking to piggy-back on the strength of 4.5 lakh distributors of Amway in India.