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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

How Just Dial's VSS Mani Pre-Empted Competition

VSS Mani and his Just Dial adapted to changing market conditions and, most importantly, made smart profits in the process

The Reopening of Mumbai's Nariman House

India Inc Hits Brakes on Travel Spend

India is one of the major drivers of business travel growth in the Asia-Pacific region, which accounts for $38 of every $100 spent globally towards such travel

The World's Top-Earning DJs

Are we in the midst of a dance-music bubble? Perhaps, but the only thing popping is these DJs' earnings. The top 10 racked up $268 million this year, up 11 percent from a year ago

Online Antique Seller Phantom Hands Receives Angel Funding to Expand

The startup has a unique proposition of selling antiques and vintage products. It will add two products per day and also get into newer categories

How the Numbers Stack Up in Prime-Time's Biggest Shows

Alan Auerbach: Puma Biotech's Overnight Billionaire

NGOs can Now Sign Up for .ngo Domains

Two new domains to illustrate an NGO's authenticity

Forbes Makeover for Lakshmi Mittal

Our fashion experts give India's man of steel a super new look

America's Top-Earning Musicians

Greenwich Village Town House Gets a New Owner

One of the most notorious addresses in New York City, 18 West 11th Street, has changed hands yet again. The 19th-century Greenwich Village town house was most famously the site of a Weather Underground bomb explosion in 1970, but it had a fascinating history beyond that tragedy-one that includes Washington Irving, James Merrill, Dustin Hoffman and Paddington Bear

How Jignesh Shah lost the plot & his empire

FTIL exits MCX completely, Shah is free and has time to reflect on the path ahead

Thoughts on Prohibition

'Clients Now are Willing to Pay for Investment Advice'

Rajesh Krishnamoorthy, MD, iFast Financial India, says a fee-based model for selling mutual funds puts both the client and the advisor on an equal footing

Jet's 180-degree Turn

With the backing of the deep-pocketed Etihad, Naresh Goyal is returning the airline to its full service model to reclaim its place in Indian skies

America's Car Capital Will Soon Be… Mexico

More bad news for Detroit. Wise free trade policies south of the border have quickly created the global auto industry's factory floor. Washington, are you listening?

The Man Who Knows Too Much

CloudFlare makes itself a juicy target by standing in the way of attacks on popular (and unsavoury) websites

What Gave Zippo Its Best Year Ever

Americans don't smoke much anymore, but that hasn't stopped the iconic cigarette lighter maker from having its best year ever

The Greatest Deal of all Time

Billionaire financier Len Blavatnik's bet on LyondellBasell has netted him a personal profit of nearly $8 billion. He says there's more to come

The Suzuki V Strom is hefty, but sporty

It's a large bike, but stress-free and practical

Mumbai's real estate is unbelievably cheap: Donald Trump

Donald Trump means business in India. It is a massive and under-priced market, says the American realty tycoon who was in the country for the launch of his Mumbai project

Campaign Symbols

Initiatives to spread awareness about social causes have often adopted symbolism to spread the word. The Ice Bucket Challenge is one of the many that have gained mass following

Cast Away: Living on an Island

Travel is a wonderful thing. But sometimes, just staying still can broaden the mind just as much

The Making of $5,000 Bourbon

Kentucky's Buffalo Trace Distillery has found the right ingredients for making some of the world's finest whiskeys. A jigger of mystery helps, too. Particularly when selling storied spirits like Pappy Van Winkle

Just Dial: New World, New Game for VSS Mani

Just Dial promoter VSS Mani's vision is far more ambitious than the voice search service his company has become synonymous with. Not only does he want to become an ecommerce player, he also wants to build a global 'local search' e-engine and is willing to take the risks attached to such goals

A Second Chance for Ratul Puri at Hindustan Powerprojects

With the initial success of his energy generation company, Hindustan Powerprojects, the 42-year-old entrepreneur hopes the world will forget his not-so-stellar stint at Moser Baer

Validated domains for do-gooders: A registry and a community for NGOs

We asked Brian Cute, CEO of Public Interest Registry [PIR], the company with control over the new .ngo and .gno top-level domains, a few questions

Malaysia's IHH Healthcare Treats the Good Life

Rising incomes means healthy results for Malaysia's IHH, which leads a pack of private hospital operators offering a growing middle class more choices

Asia's Fab 50 Companies

Asia-Pacific's best publicly traded companies

Stylish Picks

A pick of the best, the latest, the greenest, the quirkiest, the most luxurious... that money can buy

Shalimar Paints shifts focus to the Decoratives Business

New chief executive Sameer Nagpal aims to focus India's oldest paint company in the decorative paints market, where margins are significantly higher than in the industrial segment

India Inc's Fund-Finding Mission

A brightened market sentiment and the need to deleverage are driving corporates to use tools such as QIPs to raise funds; this buoyancy is also beginning to show in the slow but sure revival of IPOs