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Contentsutra has an interesting package on the salary cuts at Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd (BCCL), India’s richest media company that publishes The Times of India and The Economic Times.…

Business Today has a cover story profiling publicly-listed companies that are doing fine despite the economic recession. The listing includes some large cap companies like Bharti Airtel, Hero Honda and…

Businessworld has an article on a new crop of drug discovery companies – most of whom are Private Equity-backed – that are promising to represent the version 2.0 of the…

MediaNama has an interview with B2B Internet firm IndiaMart’s CEO Dinesh Agarwal. I think the latter part of the upturn affected us more than the downturn. We were highly cashflow…

In his column for the Economic Times, Ruchir Sharma argues why it would take a long time for the commodities ‘super cycle’ to revive. Expectations of ever rising oil prices…

Businessworld has an article on the economics of independent tower companies. Tower companies are now discovering that higher valuations, lower rentals and poor tenancy ratios could stretch payback periods up…

Businessworld has a cover story on the corporate battle that resulted in Kunal Dasgupta, the CEO of Multi Screen Media (formerly Sony Entertainment Television), quitting just a few months before…

It was interesting to see the Reserve Bank of India’s tripping up on interest rates featuring in this video of a lecture by Harvard Economics Professor Martin Feldstein on the…

Here’s what a venture capitalist at one of the firms that invested $35 million recently in non-revenue generating Internet & mobile app firm Twitter told The Deal. “Most people don’t…

Business Today has an article on how the recession in the West is taking a toll on the Indian floriculture industry. But for the Indian floriculture exporters, the party was…