Business Today’s league of extraordinary managers—25 young guns, aged 40 or under, who are blazing a trail up the corporate ladder.

Every potential leader needs a mentor who has been there, done that and knows the pressures that come with the job. This is particularly important for young leaders who should consciously have two or three mentors for gaining wisdom, experience and a wider perspective. BT’s Pallavi Srivastava tells us about some young guns and their gurus and strategists. 

Hindustan Unilever is on a roll again. That HUL has been finally able to stoke up the growth embers, improve profitability, regain market shares, and grow fledgling markets in the past three years, are significant indicators of its business success. But that doesn't make new CEO Nitin Paranjpe's mandate—to pump up HUL's mojo in highly competitive markets—any easier. Business Today's Brian Carvalho reports.

Reliance Energy, as Reliance Infrastructure, to better reflect its business portfolio. The change is subject to receiving approval from shareholders. Anil Ambani’s REL is constructing India’s tallest ‘100-storey’ corporate park in Hyderabad and has plans for SEZs in Noida and Mumbai.

In times of surplus career opportunities, here’s how to make the most of it.

Led by a CEO who joined the company as a junior engineer 43 years ago, L&T is set to become India’s first professionally-managed Indian multinational.

The best managed companies are also very successful companies, but the opposite is not always true. A Business Today and Ernst & Young study identifies what leading practices India's best companies adopt to outperform industry and competitors.

Tata Steel practically invented CSR much before the term became fashionable around the world.

Agriculture may be the buzzword, but sweeping duty cuts impact other sectors, too. Easily the sectors that benefitted most from Budget were auto, lifesciences, and media.

21 for 21 was compiled well and includes leaders and entrepreneurs from non-conventional sectors as well.

The Business Today-Aditya Birla Group Acumen 2007 finals saw the best B-school talent quiz and debate about women, mile-high clubs and breaking the glass ceiling, among other things.

Leaders don’t hesitate to take on seemingly impossible goals and then inspire everyone else around them to help achieve goals.

When it came to choosing a theme for Business Today's 16th anniversary issue, it seemed appropriate to focus on leadership, specifically young leaders.

If the year gone by was a belter, 2008 promises to be another party. While the immediate prospects don’t look promising, the year ahead should eventually turn out well, if not better, for everyone.21 young leaders for India's 21st centuryCheck out the young leaders in slide show Slide show: The biggest newsmakers of 2007Slide show: Best of BT 2007Slide show: Best of BT More 2007

He is the flagbearer of the Birla name, and also a commodities czar on the rise.

Vineet Jain is coming into his own. He’s taking the Old Lady of Boribunder to places she’s never seen before.

Jignesh Shah is using technology to deliver the benefits of globalisation to the masses.

In India after independence, science and technology (S&T) saw a two-phased progress on the back of the momentum created in the 1930s by six great scientists of international repute.

Six months of survey and analysis, 94 final participants, and hundreds of days of reporting is what it took to bring you stories of India's best employers. Best companies in pictures

BBC has been broadcasting news in India for decades but this is the first time that a Director-General of BBC is visiting India.