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Articles in October, 2007 issue of Business Today

• Women Power
• Divas On Dalal Street ; Business Today's list of India's Most Powerful Women in Business has honchos from the hurly-burly world of financial services all over it. Outside the list too, women are calling the shots, be it wealth management or equity researc
  by Krishna Gopalan
• Mission Accomplished
  by Rahul Sachitanand; Shalini S. Dagar; T.V. Mahalingam; Tejeesh N.S Behl; R. Sridharan
• The Rs 29,000-cr Surprise ; With a market value of Rs 29,000 crore and a net worth of Rs 8,000 crore, the eight-year-old Indiabulls group has sky-high ambitions. Property development and consumer finance are the current thrust areas. Retailing, insurance,
  by Mahesh Nayak
• TVS vs Bajaj: The Fight Gets Dirty ; Bajaj Auto has accused TVS Motors of stealing its technology, a charge it has denied. TVS, which is doing badly in bikes, is entering the three-wheeler market that is dominated by Bajaj. Which way is this battle headed
  by Rahul Sachitanand additional reporting by Kushan Mitra; T.V. Mahalingam
• A Seductive Idea ; Could China and India become the new IT partners? Two Gartner analysts seem to think so.
  by R. Sridharan
• Money News
  by Clifford Alvares; Krishna Gopalan; Nitya Varadarajan; Shalini S. Dagar; Aman Malik
• Poison Zones? ; Two Indian cities--Sukinda in Orissa and Vapi in Gujarat--make it to Blacksmith Institute's list of 10 "dirtiest places" in the world. BT visits the two sites to check out the veracity of the institute's report.
  by Ritwik Mukherjee; Anusha Subramanian
• Money News
  by Anusha Subramanian; Clifford Alvares; Mahesh Nayak; Shalini S. Dagar; Amit Mukherjee
• The Return of T-banking ; Well, actually, transaction banking never went anywhere. Only, banks are rediscovering its virtues now--steady income, absence of volatility and predictability.
  by Anand Adhikari
• Autos In Overdrive ; Interest rates are up, but passenger vehicle sales show no sign of slowing down.
  by Kushan Mitra
• Restructuring GMR ; Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao (GMR), Chairman of the eponymous group, has put in place an ambitious plan to parlay his Rs 1,700-crore group into a Rs 20,000-crore MNC. Here's a sneak peek into his plans.
  by Rahul Sachitanand
• Traversing Change, Laced With Growth, Help, Tarun!
  by Manu Kaushik; Tarun Sheth; BT-TeamLease Employment Outlook Survey
• Hell For Leather ; Old Agra's once-famed footwear makers seem to be caught in a time warp from which they are finding it difficult to escape.
  by Kapil Bajaj
• Beckoning Careers, Wanted: Researchers, Help, Tarun!
  by E. Kumar Sharma; Tarun Sheth; Anusha Subramanian
• New Merchants of Bacchus ; From contract farmers to corporate yuppies and even engineers, everyone is clambering on to the winewagon.
  by Tejeesh N.S. Behl
• A Spokesman for India Inc.
  by Amit Mukherjee
• Business News
  by Aman Malik; Amit Mukherjee; Anand Adhikari; Anusha Subramanian; Clifford Alvares; Kapil Bajaj; Krishna Hopalan; Kushan Mitra; Manu Kaushik; Rahul Sachitanand; Rishi Joshi; Shalini S. Dagar; Tejaswi Rathore; Balaji Chandramouli
• Holcim's India Strategy ; The Swiss giant has already emerged as the country's largest cement player. How does it plan to consolidate its lead?
  by Mahesh Nayak
• Drive, Printed Circuit, Treadmill
  by Manu Kaushik; Muscles Mani; Kushan Mitra
• India's Best Marketers ; Our fourth annual listing of marketers who know consumers the best.
  by Anand Adhikari; Anusha Subramanian; Nitya Varadarajan; Shamni Pande; T.V. Mahalingam; Krishna Gopalan
• A Spat Averted
  by Anumeha Chaturvedi; E. Kumar Sharma; Pallavi Srivastava; R. Sridharan; Amit Mukherjee
• Turnaround Man
  by Kushan Mitra
• The 25 Most Powerful Women In Indian Business
  by Anusha Subramanian; Deepti Khanna Bose; Krishna Gopalan; Kushan Mitra; Nitya Varadarajan; Shalini S. Dagar; Shamni Pande; T.V. Mahalingam; T.V. Mahalingam; Rahul Sachitanand
• Business News
  by Aman Malik; Amit Mukherjee; Anand Adhikari; Balaji Chandramouli; E. Kumar Sharma; Manu Kaushik; Pallavi Srivastava; Rahul Sachitanand; Rishi Joshi; Saumya Bhattacharya; Shalini S. Dagar; Shamni Pande; T.V. Mahalingam; Mahesh Nayak
• Indian IT's Perfect Storm ; An appreciating rupee, rising wage costs, and potential withdrawal of tax breaks (not to mention a slowdown in the US) are coming together to create the worst ever conditions for Indian IT. What is the industry to do?
  by E. Kumar Sharma; Nitya Varadarjan; T.V. Mahalingam; Rishi Joshi additional reporting by Rahul Sachitanand
• Drive, Printed Circuit, Treadmill
  by Manu Kaushik; Muscles Mani; Kushan Mitra
• In No Man's Land ; More and more women are displaying a flair for starting up on their own.
  by Pallavi Srivastava; Tejeesh N.S. Behl additional reporting by Ritwik Mukherjee
• Fabindia's Fabulous March ; Fabindia, which has popularised handwoven fabrics among Indians while supporting rural artisans, is expanding--at back-end and front- end.
  by Kapil Bajaj
• Memoirs of a Mandarin ; This book throws light on the evolution of SEBI and the Disinvestment Commission.
  by Arnab Mitra
• Daughters In The Sun ; They're young, full of beans and very restless. And they're either quietly moving into the family business, or starting up on their own.
  by Deepti Khanna Bose; E. Kumar Sharma; Mahesh Nayak; Nitya Varadarajan; Anusha Subramanian
• Games Corporates Play ; Top-shot executives pick up valuable business lessons during the Microsoft Corporate Challenge 2007.
  by Amit Mukherjee
• The Gregarious Web ; What are senior Indian execs doing hanging around at social networking site, Facebook.com? BT's young one, Pallavi Srivastava, finds out.
  by Pallavi Srivastava
• Current News
  by Anusha Subramanian; Balaji Chandramouli; Deepti Khanna Bose; Mahesh Nayak; Pallavi Srivastava; Rahul Sachitanand; Ritwik Mukherjee; Shalini S. Dagar; Shamni Pande; T.V. Mahalingam; Tejeesh N.S. Behl; Krishna Gopalan
• Internet's 10 Best Shop ; Online buying has come a long way. Virtual assistants and celebrity recos are just some of the cool new features. Pallavi Srivastava trawled the internet to shortlist the 10 best online stores.
  by Pallavi Srivastava
• The New Entrants ; There are eight new names on this year's list of Power 25. Their stories are anything but typical.
  by Anand Adhikari; Anusha Subramanian; Krishna Gopalan; Mahesh Nayak; Nitya Varadarajan; Rahul Sachitanand; Anand Adhikari
• Vodafone Dials In ; The British telecom giant gets ready to play the Indian telecom market on its own terms and under its own name.
  by Krishna Gopalan
• Future Cities? ; Billions of dollars are to be poured into setting up more than 200 integrated townships across the country. While these could be the answer to India's urban problems, there are several risks that developers and investors must negotiate. A
  by A BT-DTZ study
• Wi-Max Messiah ; Through a series of pilot projects across the country, Intel and its 74-year-old Chairman Craig R. Barrett want to take computing to the masses. Business Today's kushan mitra travelled with Barrett to see one such project.
  by Kushan Mitra
• Current News
  by Amit Mukherjee; Anusha Subramanian; Balaji Chandramouli; Brian Carvalho; E. Kumar Sharma; Kushan Mitra; Manu Kaushik; Pallavi Srivastava; Rishi Joshi; Shalini S. Dagar; Shamni Pande; T.V. Mahalingam; Krishna Gopalan
• Be Wary of the Sensex
• ICICI Pru vs Bajaj Allianz: Clash Of The Titans ; ICICI Prudential and Bajaj Allianz are the two largest private life insurers in India and both are expanding furiously. The former leads on some parameters and the latter on some others. For now, the race
  by Anand Adhikari