L&T CEO and Managing Director K. Venkataramanan  says the firm is looking at newer areas like sub-sea and deep-water projects. On the mergers and acquisitions front, the company has been a little conservative.

Hit hard by overseas rivals, solar panel manufacturers are changing strategies to stay on in the business.

There is a need to explore the application of breakthrough technologies and innovative business models across the four elements of the power value chain: demand management, transmission and distribution, generation and feedstock innovation.

Theexploding electronics market in Indiais catalysing the establishment of a range of diverse start-ups. According toestimates, there are some 1,000 companies now operating inthis market, scattered around the country.

It is a small start but Indian factories are revving to move into higher value manufacturing.

Some $10 billion worth of export deals were sealed during President Barack Obama's visit but, for Indian industry, there was a bigger takeaway: Those greenbacks were not - as one Indian head honcho put it - handouts, but from a hand outstretched. India Inc's CEOs spell out the gains.

Grassroot innovations that haven't taken place in the fancy laboratories of big corporations and research institutions are ready to change the life of people in India-and abroad.

The market for semiconductors in India will almost double to $5.49 billion by 2009, says a new Frost & Sullivan report. What does that mean for the local chip industry? BT brought together a panel of experts to get the answers.