Your cover story (BT, June 14, 2009) has done well to draw the right comparisons between the newly elected UPA government and its previous avatar.

Declining growth is forcing IT services majors to stop hiring freshers. Where do the wannabe techies go?

Actors and producers unite to press for a 50 per cent share of ticket sales at  multiplexes. Multiplexes say they are ready to strike a deal only on the ‘performance’ of a movie, and would rather shut shop than do a losing deal on revenues. Shamni Pande & Anusha Subramanian report.

He is known to take risks and strike big deals, but is in unwind mode at the moment. Kunal Dasgupta, 54, one of the longest serving CEOs of any media company, called it quits from MSM (formerly Sony Entertainment Television).

India Inc. faces an internal acid test, as bosses and managers try to help GenX graduate from fairy tales to real life. Anand Adhikari writes. Job loss: Are you next?5 Lakh to 50 LakhThere’s life after layoff...Time to talkCampus droughtUnited we standVeterans in the downturn

What’s new and what’s happening this month.

Grooming talent systematically is one of the critical factors that has helped the company emerge a leader in HR practices.

Industry observers say that India Inc. is in much worse shape than it currently appears. Bloated with debt and hobbled by a severe slowdown, Indian firms need rapid cash generation.

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.

The Mumbai terror attacks punctured business sentiment already deflated by a spreading slowdown. The economic stimulus now needed is not just of liquidity but of foolproof security and targeted expenditure.

The true cost of terror is impossible to comprehend or calculate. Yet, making an effort to understand it is important to prepare for the job of prevention and repair that lies ahead. This is exactly what we have attempted in our cover story. Our cover package goes beyond just cost assessment and evaluates our responses and remedies.

Vijay Mallya’s aviation business has landed in a sea of red. Mallya has a survival plan, but he may need to look at drastic options to stay afloat. K. R. Balasubramanyam and Kushan Mitra go into the details.

Export-dependent IT, biotech and pharma firms have their backs to the wall with the rupee gyrating and their overseas markets in turmoil. When will the markets look up again? T.V. Mahalingam goes into the details.

I would ask for an herbaceous New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, a good match for vegetarian preparations with my Spaghetti Alio Olio. It may make me look less posh, but at least I can tell myself I have made a sensible wine selection.

They span generations and are there in every field, from biscuits to banking, from HR to hospitals. Denied entry into a male bastion, they create another industry. They are the most powerful women in the corporate world.

Who were IPL’s most, and least, valuable players? A BT-Vertebrand study answers this vexed question for the first time.

Over the past fortnight, Business Today reached out to key industry leaders to learn from them how they are managing the slowdown-present or prospective, severe or slight. The lessons we learnt from them are interesting and instructive.

Women’s style is the index with which we judge trends in fashion.With fashions changing all the time, how do you dress stylishly without being a slave to fashion? Check out these six looks.

With the left no longer in the equation, the government, perhaps, thought it was an opportune moment to push ahead with state-owned telecom major BSNL’s proposed $10-billion (Rs 43,000-crore) IPO plans.

Even as the world waits expectantly for the Nano, farmers who sold their land for the project now want it back. Will the world’s cheapest car be late coming?