By 2015, the number of Indians who will borrow will cross 500 million, so we need a more efficient recovery mechanism.

Asuccession of finance ministers has industriously chipped away, for the last 20 years, on achieving a remarkable transformation of India’s tax system.

There is still scope for growth in stock prices, but don’t expect your portfolio to go ballistic in 2007.

The foreign institutions continue to remain bullish but the I ndi an funds are still bearish—or booking profits. A nnual results of companies will dictate market sentiments in the next few weeks.

Mumbai is the country's commercial capital, but for the city to become an international fulcrum for finance will take a lot of doing.

Subsidies on LPG and kerosene are not only desirable but can also be made viable, argues Kirit Parikh.

Piramal's domestic formulations business becomes the latest—and most expensive—acquisition of an Indian drug business by a global pharma major. As the stakes get higher, who's next?

The 3G auctions have swelled the government coffers by almost Rs 70,000 crore. BT asks a few economists to give their wishlists on how best the government can use this windfall without frittering it away on wasteful expenditure.

US reforms are likely to bring business to health care, insurance BPO firms.

With just two years left for the JNNURM to complete, BT's Puja Mehra and Manu Kaushik did a status check with M. Ramachandran, Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development.

India's largest urban infrastructure improvement programme has been a patchy success story because many states are still dragging their feet on the reforms tagged to the scheme.

Some 590 million will live in Indian cities by 2030— about three-fourths more than in 2008. Massive and urgent changes in governance, funding and planning are needed to ensure that they live a good life.

She was credited with turning around the North American operations of cosmetics major Avon in the '90s. Today, as President & CEO of Colorado-headquartered $5.3-billion Western Union, Christina A. Gold, 62, has her task cut out:

Sports: The Next Big Thing (BT cover, April 18) raises prospects of big investment in sports and creation of sports infrastructure in the country.

Asset management companies are sprucing up their websites to facilitate online transactions by not just tech-savvy investors but even lay ones.

Baroness Shriti Vadera, former minister in the Gordon Brown government, is adviser to the current Chair of G20, the Republic of Korea.

The entry of foreign universities will transform higher education in India and the country could emerge as a global education hub, argues Bakul Dholakia.

Dr Reddy's Labs has learnt plenty from a global acquisition that went spectacularly awry. Just one of those lessons: Build depth before breadth.

...And a number of foreign majors, domestic firms and private equity investors are keen to ensure that more and more of it can be used.

Rice production is going to be lower by 12 million tonnes and coarse cereals by six million tonnes in the current fiscal.