It is a case that will make business houses far more vigilant about intellectual property rights issues: one man, armed with a patent of a supposed new technology, is preventing large consumer electronic firms from importing dual-SIM technology mobile phones into India.

Renault’s first employee in the country is going it alone after learning most of the tricks of the trade.

Satyam has plenty of suitors, but none ready for the first date, let alone the walk up the aisle.

Over the last decade, Dutch giant Philips has been making a marked shift away from its heritage of incandescent bulbs, radios and televisions. Gerard J. Kleisterlee, President and CEO, tells BT’s Rahul Sachitanand why the re-invention was necessary and what the firm’s new plans are.

BT asks the who’s who of India’s corporate world—as well as some professionals and leaders from other fields for good measure—to jog their memory and recall the best advice they ever got. What the advice was, who gave it to them and when, and how it helped them.

Institutions with a lower appetite for risk are better able to face the global financial storm. The KPMG annual Best Banks Survey is a check-point on the performance of the banking system.

It has been a great 12 months for Sun Pharmaceutical Industries and an even better first half for 2008-09. The company has reported a 76 per cent year-on-year growth in sales and a 134 per cent growth in net profits for the quarter ended on September 30, 2008. Suman Layak says that it stays ahead of the pack with a clear focus on consistency, profitability and some clever moves in its main market, the US.

This is a one-shot Keynesian intervention for a Black Swan event. It is not the beginning of another era of fiscal profligacy in the name of Keynes.

The current economic slowdown is a stern reminder that India is no longer insulated from the rest of the world. (BT cover, Managing the Slowdown, October 5). Reading your in-depth analysis brought about a clearer understanding of how leading Indian companies are pursuing new growth engines in times of stress.

Liquidity had been tight since the beginning of this fiscal. In India the liquidity crunch is less about undercapitalised banks or bad assets. The deficit is more of trust. Puja Mehra reports. The global financial crisisPanic grips Dalal StreetIs something wrong with ICICI Bank?When bad loans are sown in good timesThe Rs 60,000-crore time bombWhen exotic turns toxicEconomy in eclipseWall street woes, India’s opportunity

The job market has taken the biggest downturn in the past eight quarters.

Shortage of talent and demand for new skills is driving people to switch jobs across sectors.

Railways, ship-building, power?L&T has enough irons in the fire to keep the growth embers burning.

Drugs, diagnostics, real estate, private equity and glass may seem a motley bunch of businesses, but it doesn’t matter how diverse your portfolio is if you can emerge top dog. And it’s leadership that Ajay Piramal is aiming for, reports S. Layak.

After Daiichi Sankyo’s purchase of Ranbaxy Labs, Teva Pharma, the world’s largest generics company, acquired Barr Pharma, the US’ fourth largest generics firm. There are two questions on pharma analysts’ lips these days: Who’s next? Are Indian generics players targets for pharma MNCs?

The bone of contention between India and the US turned out to be an emergency measure known as Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM)—that will come into play in the eventuality of a surge in farm imports. The two sides could not agree on the numbers.

As inflation figures rage, marketers have a huge challenge on their hands—to keep the price-value equation just right for consumers. BT's Rachna Monga & A. Subramanian report.

The sheer amount of manufacturing activity taking place in small towns of India is mindboggling. Shops are being set up at breakneck speed and there is massive expansion. Where are these clusters located, and can they really deliver on their promise? Here is what Business Today discovered.

Business Today presents an annual listing of India Inc.'s fastest growing large, mid-size and small companies based on their revenues.

Sriperumbudur is humming with change as scores of telecom and electronics majors are employing increased number of women—who constitute over 40 per cent of the workforce. They, in turn, have become dream weavers for their families, thanks to their work. Business Today's Nitya Varadarajan reports.