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Forbes India 13th Anniversary: Rewind of Key Milestones of India's Corporates and Startups

A rewind of the key milestones in India's corporates and startups, through the lens of 13 years of Forbes India

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Industry Movements of the Fortnight

What Flipkart's Funds Mean for its Rivals

No Easy Road for Ashok Leyland

A Quick-and-easy Way to Desalinate Seawater

Parliament's Monsoon Session could be Stormy

State of the Economy: Stagflation

When CEO's Get a Pay Cut

90-year-olds are Getting Smarter

Phone Apps Get Privacy-conscious

The National Steel Policy could be a Non-Starter

Growing Faith in Indian Engineers

Raingear Rates

How much are you spending on rain protection this year?

Why India Needs More Banks

The business of banking is really sticky and the sector clearly needs competition

Look for Bargain Stocks

Look for bargains in the current market situation, not ‘safe’ stocks

George Gilder Is Back with a New Book

The Wealth and Poverty writer is back with his new book on information theory

Mao Promoted Perpetual Struggle; Deng Saved China from Chaos

Mao’s successor drew lessons from Singapore’s economic development

Vertu Signature Zirconium

The first phone to be assembled by a single craftsman

Armando Montelongo: The Home-Flipping Huckster

Need a strong indicator that a real estate bubble is storming back? Armando Montelongo will make $50 million this year leading borrow-and-buy seminars

Why GE's Myanmar Venture Has not been Easy

The industrial giant is trying to do business in just-opened Myanmar, where they badly need the stuff it makes and sells. So why is this storied multinational struggling?

How India has Punctured its Gas Balloon

Even as gas takes off in the US as a cleaner and cheaper fuel, India is heading in the opposite direction with policy flip-flops and failed promises strewn along the way

Eureka Forbes Purifies Water for Rural India

Inconsistencies in impurities pose a challenge but Eureka Forbes is using data and local communities to get a foothold in the rural water market

Uttarakhand Disaster is a Wake-Up Call: RK Pachauri

Climate change expert RK Pachauri tells Forbes India that the Himalayan states need afforestation and strict building norms

Book Review | Reva EV: IndiaÂ’'s Green Gift to the World

A story that needs to be told better

SaveLife Wants Citizens to Help Accident Victims

Personal tragedy propelled Piyush Tewari to his mission: Provide rapid trauma care to accident victims and save their lives

There's More to Egypt than Protests and Pyramids

One of the most ancient civilisations of the world is a popular sporting nation and an important trading destination

The TRP Trap: What's at Stake for Advertisers and Broadcasters

Television broadcasters are facing off with advertisers and both in turn are fighting with ratings agency TAM. Where’s the industry headed?

The Potato Farming Success of Gujarat's Banaskantha District

Contrary to NGO stories of exploited farmers and middlemen running riot, Gujarat’s potato farmers have scripted an entrepreneurial success story by teaming up with multinationals and other buyers of their produce

Quotes on Banking

Borrowing money, round-the-clock banking, financial collapses and more

IPE Global Looks to Reduce Bottlenecks in Policy Implementation

Policies in India are high on intent but low on implementation. Ashwajit Singh’s advisory firm set out to correct that

Japan's Abe-nomics is Desperate like its Kamikaze Strategy in WWII

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ‘three arrows’ policy is prone to missing the target as it doesn’t take the country’s biggest issues into account

Why India's Corporate Bigwigs Want to be Bankers

From Tata, Birla and Ambani to ambitious financial services entrepreneurs, everyone sees money in a banking licence. But cut to the core, and what you find is a clear play on the India growth story, and not much else

Financial Inclusion is an Opportunity: BR Shetty

The chairman of the UAE Exchange wants to improve financial literacy among those in the bottom of the economic pyramid

We Can Start a Bank in 12 Months: VS Radhakrishnan

The managing director & CEO of Janalakshmi Financial Services says 80 percent of the key components to start a bank are already in place for them

We Will Focus on Smart Mobile Banking: Preeti Malhotra

Spice Global (BK Modi Group) group executive director wants to further the government objective of rural penetration

HDFC Bank's Secret to Consistent Success

Forbes India to HDFC Bank’s Executive Director Paresh Sukhthankar on the secret mantras behind the bank’s extraordinary success. Here’s what he said

A Licence to Print Money in Underbanked India

While banking is an oligopoly in the private sector, the public sector is huge, but inefficient. Little wonder there is a rush for new licences in a country as underbanked as India

How the Numbers Stack Up in Global E-Publishing

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Apollo Munich: Healthy profits from Unhealthy people

Apollo Munich has managed to break into the black by shifting focus from group insurance to retail, and from health care financing to health management

Marico's Unique Paras Strategy

Marico learns to juggle old and new businesses after acquiring Paras’s personal care brands

The Food Route to China

Zac O’Yeah follows his nose around Shanghai to discover the country’s alter ego, and its ancient links to India

Keep Your Virtual Life Away from Prying Governments

Governments around the world have put in place systems to spy on their citizens’ online activity. Keep your content as private as possible

Fortis Has a Renewed Focus on India

By selling global assets, Fortis is cutting losses but does that justify the method in its acquisition madness?

How Tata Housing Reinvented Itself

Real estate slowdown? Brotin Banerjee hasn’t heard about it, having grown Tata Housing 100 percent every year since 2006. He has transformed a defunct company into a serious player

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