Has India decoupled from the US? A fair answer will have to be both yes and no.

India might be a growth haven for badly-bruised global banks.

It can be grim, as the recent credit turmoil in the West indicates. Back home, it’s not time to panic, but to take stock of sticky assets.

The Indian banking system will have to deal with mind-boggling paradigm shifts in a complex global environment in the years ahead.

Yaga Venugopal Reddy has always kept his calm in uneasy situations.

Two decades after testing Indian waters, the Hindujas are once again in investment mode in India. They’re planning to pump at least $50 billion into a number of sectors in the next five to seven years. That's not too little, but are they too late? Brian Carvalho tells us the inside story.

World Bank economist Andrew Burns, the lead author, and Hans Timmer, his coauthor, in their 200-page report, argue that it is the resilience in developing economies that is cushioning the current slowdown in the US.

Yes, the stock markets have been on a roll for four years now and the Sensex is at 20,000 plus. But a surging economy is expected to keep the FIIs interested in India this year.

Events that rocked the business world—or just made head honchos sit up and take notice.

Stereotypes are easy to form but notoriously hard to break. So, when one thinks of the typical Chennai man, the image that most comes to mind is of one dressed in veshti, vibhuti smeared across his forehead, extremely conservative in his outlook and, of course, partial to rice—with sambar, ideally.

More people are warming up to credit—for buying anything from a dream home to taking a Swiss holiday. The credit fever shows no signs of reducing.

Last year, only Unitech made it to the top 100 list. Several real estate companies have listed on the exchanges since then. Backed by apparently endless investor appetite, these companies gained sharply in the market capitalisation sweepstakes, but is this appreciation durable?

It couldn't have been a better day to have a panel discussion on the prospects for the Indian stock markets. The benchmark Sensex on the Bombay Stock Exchange has just shattered all records by recording its highest ever single-day gain of 789 points to hurtle past 18,000. Are we moving too fast?

Sitting in his Chennai office, Rafeeque Ahmad, Chairman, Farida Group, a leather shoe exporter, is a worried man. The appreciation of the rupee against the dollar has severely eroded the profit margins of his company, forcing him to contemplate drastic measures like reducing his workforce.

Indian bankers seem to be taking a cue from US Federal Reserve Governor Ben Bernanke who slashed the short-term US rate for the first time in four years by 50 basis points to 4.75 per cent in September.

It’s now raining inflows. Says Andrew Holland, Chief Administrative Officer, EVP DSP Merrill Lynch: “The Fed reduced interest rates and that has freed the credit market and also increased investors’ appetite towards risk marginally.”

Listings are horribly hard to put together. This one is more so. For one, how does one measure power? For another, when there are so many talented and successful women in Indian business, how does one zero in on the 25 most powerful? The first question is relatively easy to answer.

There are eight new names on this year's list of Power 25. Their stories are anything but typical.

In his new memoirs, Yashwant Sinha stakes claim as the Father of Reforms.

Rising interest rates have taken their toll. Sales in the first quarter are down 14.5 per cent, and every manufacturer is cutting back on production.