Airline companies can justifiably feel aggrieved that they are being made to pay for the massive subsidies that oil marketing companies are doling out at the petrol pump. In fact, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) points out that average ATF prices in India are 20 per cent higher than elsewhere in the world.

Better returns to workers is one reason why pension management in the country needs sweeping reforms. Inadequate coverage is another. A report.

Our cover story (Retail Wars) details the plans that the biggest players in the business have for that market and takes a look at what they've already put on the ground. As each of them vies for the largest share of the customer's wallet, get ready to witness India's imminent retail battles.

Key reforms are stuck with states because the onus of implementation lies with them, and not the central government. But the laggard states have to get moving if they want their share of the country’s economic bonanza. BT's Shalini S. Dagar reports.

The simultaneous rise of China, Japan and India is posing a geopolitical conundrum.

India is ranked 94th in the Global Hunger Index 2020

These are extraordinary times, not just for India but the whole world. At no time before in world history has inflation and economic downturn combined to create a “caught-between-ice-and-fire” situation. In India, rising inflation coupled with a moderating economy does signal a cyclical slowdown, but the country’s long-term growth story is still intact. An analysis by BT's Shalini S. Dagar.

Inspired solutions for some of the world’s most intractable problems.

Relieving rural penury may not be a pipe dream.

One of India’s best-known economic writers gathers his thoughts all over again.

Estimated revenues of value-added mobile services in India by 2009

Edward Neville Isdell, who is the 12th Chairman of Coca Cola, without doubt has the juices flowing once again at the beverages giant. Come end of June, Isdell, will be replaced by Muhtar Kent. Recently in India on a pleasure-cum-business trip, he took time out to speak with Business Today’s Sanjoy Narayan and R. Sridharan. Listen to the unabridged interview

Abhijit Banerjee on Indian democracy, economy and poverty

Some facts about Davos, the annual meet of the World Economic Forum

What Nobel winner Abhijit Banerjee has to say about India's economy

In presenting the budget for 2008-09, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram seems to have achieved the impossible. He did not give up any of the ongoing schemes or subsidies; in fact, allocations for most of them have been enhanced.

Here are world's 10 most generous billionaires

A genetically-enhanced chicken breed is egging on poor villagers in rural Uttarakhand to take up poultry farming, discovers Kapil Bajaj.

Paul Basil and his Rural Innovations Network are helping grassroot innovators bring their ideas to fruition—and the market.

The economy continued to roll in 2007. So, it was natural that the banking sector, which is an agglomerator and early barometer of economic trends, did reasonably well.