Cover Story
Analjit Singh trades Vodafone shares for profit and builds long-term business like insurance. What will he do with East India Hotels?
Magazine | Nov 28, 2009
BSNL
Unless the government calls in the changes, what’s happening to Air India today might well happen to BSNL—India’s second largest telecom company—tomorrow.
Magazine | Nov 28, 2009
Kindle
Cool as Amazon’s e-reader is, it won’t rack up numbers in India in its present form.
Magazine | Nov 14, 2009
Bharti needs to shrug off the disappointment of MTN and go hunting again. A la Vodafone.
Magazine | Oct 31, 2009
Per-second tariffs are great for the consumer. But hell for mobile service providers.
Magazine | Oct 31, 2009
NetBooks
It’s sleek, it’s light, it’s cheap. That’s why millions across the globe are buying the netbook.
Magazine | Oct 17, 2009
Auto-part M&As
Many global auto-part companies are waiting to be acquired. But Indian players don’t have the muscle to buy.
Magazine | Oct 03, 2009
Next year, Ford will launch its first-ever small car, in India. John Parker, Executive Vice-President (Asia-Pacific and Africa), knows India and Asia hold the key to the carmaker’s revival. He told Anurag Prasad why the small car will play a big part in that.
Magazine | Oct 03, 2009
Hot Seat
After a few hiccups, Norwegian firm Telenor is poised to roll out telecom services in India. The company is targeting a market share of 8% in the next three to five years. Sigve Brekke, Telenor’s Asia head, tells Anurag Prasad how it plans
to achieve that despite being a late starter.
Magazine | Sep 19, 2009
LG India
LG in India looks very different from LG worldwide. It is looking to change that and conform—but more out of necessity than choice.
Magazine | Sep 19, 2009
Drought
India is facing its worst drought in seven years. But some in India Inc haven’t pushed the panic button yet. With reason.
Magazine | Sep 19, 2009
first
Operators say the government has set stiff terms for 3G auctions. It’s just posturing—they’ll queue up.
Magazine | Sep 19, 2009
He wants to make Bihar the vegetable capital of India. And give all—farmers, vendors, consumers—a fair deal.
Magazine | Sep 05, 2009
A maths prodigy, he had to stop studying for want of money. But he now makes sure he gives 30 kids a great shot to enter IIT.
Magazine | Sep 05, 2009
Rural India is crying for services. And Ekgaon has several technologies to take those services to them.
Magazine | Sep 05, 2009
In a power-starved village in Bihar, Vivek Gupta is turning on the lights with his green plant.
Magazine | Sep 05, 2009
Bunker Roy believes solutions to rural problems lie within communities. Tilonia village is a testament to that belief.
Magazine | Sep 05, 2009
Grassroots follows a simple way to improve rural lives: organise a collective, empower it and nurture it to a point where it thrives by itself.
Magazine | Sep 05, 2009
How one man spawned 20 businesses, 4,618 self-help groups, 75 market committees, 19 cooperatives, two societies and one company.
Magazine | Sep 05, 2009
Magazine | Aug 22, 2009