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OCTOBER 21, 2007

COVER STORY


	The Rs 29,000- crore 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. Chairman Sameer Gehlaut (34) and Co-founder Rajiv Rattan (35) are in build-up mode, but are the foundations strong enough? BT SPECIAL India's Best Marketers Our fourth annual listing of marketers who know consumers the best. Those include, a dotcom and an engineering institution. Read More

FEATURE

New Merchants of Bacchus

From contract farmers to corporate yuppies and even engineers, everyone is clambering on to the winewagon. Read More

EVENT
A Stellar Act
India Inc's most powerful women gathered under one roof to step up and be recognised for their achievements. A report.
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	FEATURES


	Future Cities Billions of dollars are to be poured into setting up more than 200 integrated townships across the country. But here are several risks that developers and investors must negotiate. A BT-DTZ study. more...		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 is too close to call. more...



	Fabindia's Fabulous March Fabindia, which has popularised hand-woven fabrics among Indians while supporting rural artisans, is expanding—at back-end and front-end. more...		Indian IT's Perfect Storm An appreciating rupee, rising wage costs, and potential withdrawal of tax breaks are coming together to create the worst ever conditions for Indian IT. What is the industry to do? more...




	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. more...		Vodafone Dials In The British telecom giant gets ready to play the Indian telecom market on its own terms and under its own name. more...




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Vanishing Workers Temporary workers hired by companies on a six- to nine-month projects, are now quitting even before completing their contracts. The average tenure of a temp has shrunk from one year to just over 3 months.

Pouring Cash From NRIs Non-resident Indians (NRIs) are remitting more money back home. Individual remittances from Indians working abroad have surged 50 per cent at $8.6 billion in the first quarter of 2007-08, against $5.9 billion in the year-ago period. Healthy NRI remittances have partially helped offset the rising current account deficit of $4.7 billion during the first quarter ended June this year.

Securing Returns Banks are now going for more secured forms of lending in the money market. Volumes in the collateralised borrowing and lending obligations (CBLO) market have risen more than the trades in the call money market.

Festival Bonanza The festival season is around the corner and companies are coming out with innovative promotional schemes to cash in on this. To cite one example, for Ganesh Chaturthi, one of the biggest festivals in Maharashtra, various telecom companies had tied up with key Ganesh Mandals to launch Ganesh-related content. A look at how companies bet on the festival season, and what's in store this year.





	MONEY		JOBS TODAY


	10 Down-but-not-out Stocks A handful of fundamentally sound companies has not made much headway in this bull market. But all is not over for them. more...		Charting a Corrective Course The flurry of hiring activity is in for a temporary halt, reveals the fifth quarterly BT-TeamLease Employment Outlook Survey . more...

	BOOKEND		BACK OF THE BOOK


	Memoirs of a Mandarin This book throws light on the evolution of SEBI and the Disinvestment Commission. more...		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. more...
	PEOPLE		COLUMNS


	People Starring Brian Tempest of Ranbaxy; Finance Minister P. Chidambaram; Former US Fed Chief Alan Greenspan; Former SEBI Chief G.N. Bajpai; Bakul Dholakia, Director, IIM-A; and Air Deccan's G.R. Gopinath. more...		Leadership Spotlight Rahul Bajaj Chairman, Bajaj Auto


	TRENDS		CURRENT


	In Bubble Zone The boom on the bourses isn't backed by economic fundamentals. more... Instan Tip The fortnight's burning question. more... Q&A: Judith Wilcox more... Cricket Comes Roaring Back more... More Women Join the Workforce more... Small-town India is Paying More Taxes more... Q&A: Ludger Arnoldussen more... It's Still Not Very Easy to Do Business in India more... New Products to Spice up Capital Markets more... Governance Improving in India Inc. more... Everyone is Buying a PC more... IT Companies go HR Hunting in Small Towns more... Tech Giants are now Vetting Colleges more... Banks Looking to RBI for Cues on Rates more... Mid-size Firms Join the Great M&A Rush more... Top of Mind more... Economy Watch more... Policy Watch A bird's eye view of what's hot and what's not on the government's policy radar. more... P-Watch Column The why, what and how-to of policy making.. more... Newsmaker This fortnight's star is Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Captain of T20 and ODIs. more... Numbers of Note more... NOTED more... PSUs Lead in Advance Tax Payments more... Core Sector SPV Proposed more...		The Bellwether Hustle The Reliance stocks are fuelling the Sensex's heady ride. more... Checking Out PE firms make some high-profile exits. more... Land of Plenty Cash-rich property developers eye the telecom sector.. more... No Kidding A German apparel label hits domestic shelves. more... Straightening Indirect FDI Coming soon: new guidelines on indirect foreign investment. more... Ale And Hearty Iconic beer brands go against the global grain. more... Crocodile Wants to Bite Lacoste thinks big in India-finally. more... Gas Pricing Demystified Simple answers to confounding questions about gas pricing. more... Tangled Tug of War The fight over Haldia Petrochem takes another turn. more... A Budget That Balances Zero revenue deficit by 2008-09? It's possible. more... The ESOP Uncertainty FBT on ESOPs may blunt this retention tool. more... Education Gets Red Hot As India upskills, education becomes an investment haven. more... Shaken, But Not Stirred How does one measure radio listnership? Not easily. more... Bizarre Banishment Why Reliance Retail will be back in Uttar Pradesh. more... Crime Busters A UK firm focussing on corporate fraud enters India. more... Raja of Re-invention Sapient's interactive media business is an unlikely hero. more... Sector-based Standards The ICAI mulls industry-specific accounting norms. more... Chasing The Dragon India could still make it in manufacturing offshoring. more... Finite Possibilities Infinite Computer may be on the radar of MNCs at the gate. more... The Rupee Will Reign RBI's attempt to free capital outflows may not be enough. more... Switching to Big League Tier-I software firms find a way to stay competitive. more...


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