While it is everybody’s case that big, bold infrastructure creation is an imperative for the India of our dreams, the action on the ground continues to stop short of the mammoth requirements of a nation aspiring to grow in double digits. A new look at old problems, and some fresh solutions.

Corporations today are running thin on patience with CEOs. They’re booting them out for non-performance, often without the courtesy of a golden parachute, says John Grumbar, Executive Chairman, Egon Zehnder International, the largest non-US-based executive search firm with revenues of SF 700 million (Rs 2,730 crore).

As valuations take a beating, a number of companies, big and small, are being forced to tweak their fund-raising plans.

The inside story of how Ambani’s trusted lieutenant is attempting to make over a modest family business of plastics processing and textiles into an infrastructure Goliath.

Despite negative perceptions about law and order and poor infrastructure, two cities from Uttar Pradesh—Kanpur and Lucknow—rise buoyed by positive consumer and investor sentiment. Do they denote a glimmer of hope for the rest of UP?

A slew of big-ticket investments in Orissa is transforming its capital from a sleepy tourist town to a glitzy business destination.

India’s southern-most metro has been receiving lots of IT and auto industry investments.The big question: is the city capable of handling such explosive growth?

As a slowdown looms, it’s time to look at niche companies that are insulated from the downturn.

Our fifth annual survey of the companies who have managed to put a smile on their shareholders’ faces and delighted them the most.

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

Private services providers are finding gaps, plugging them and growing decent businesses in the process. Many of them aspire to be at least a billion-dollar big in the next few years. Flawless execution, however, will remain the key to realising these dreams.

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.

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.

A B-school stamp may fast-track the climb to the top rung of the corporate hierarchy but it certainly isn’t a short cut to the summit, as five top honchos point out.

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

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

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.

The inability of the Navratna PSU to meet delivery deadlines on power generation equipment is one of the primary reasons for the country's power defecit. However, K.R. Balasubramanyam tells us that BHEL may still prove the sceptics wrong.   BHEL bags Rs 18 bn contract from NTPCBHEL unit in Hyderabad registers profit

Africa is turning out to be a services market for India.