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- Amuleek Singh Bijral started Chai Point in Bangalore in April 2010 to serve tea in clean and congenial surroundings. The single outlet has grown to nine.
- Attero Recycling processes over 300 tonnes of e-waste every month at its two-acre recycling facility in Roorkee, Uttarakhand.
- Valeric Rozycki teamed up with Sanjay Swamy, and Amiya Pathak to launch ZipDial Mobile Solutions in mid 2010, which uses missed calls as a marketing tool.
- While working at his family-run Royal Orchid chain of luxury hotels, Arjun Baljee, realised there were hardly any budget hotels in the country that would appeal to young people. He decided to launch his own chain to fill the gap.
- StaffOnContract is just what its name signifies - the first job portal in the country devoted exclusively to those who want to work - or hire - on contract.
- Within a year of its start, over 25,000 individuals had filed their returns through Taxspanner. The number has been doubling every year since then and currently stands at 250,000.
- Abhishek and Abhinav Sinha's EKO India Financial Services enables its 150,000 customers to save and transfer money through their mobiles.
- IHO offers health services packages at premiums much lower than the mainstream insurance firms - and still manages to make a healthy profit.
- With venture capitalists lining up outside the offices of anyone with what seems a good, bankable idea or product for a start-up, here is the fifth annual list of new companies most likely to shine in the coming years.
- Most start-ups from earlier BT listings have done well. Here are five gems we spotted and five calls we made wrong.
- Incipient, promising start-ups to keep an eye out for.
- Global Talent Track, run by Uma Ganesh and Ganesh Natarajan. has tied up with over 800 colleges across the country from which it draws candidates and trains them.
- It did not have a single customer for a year after it started in 2007. But today Druva has around 650 customers, including HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank in India, and NASA in the US.
In Pics: 100-year-old Indian companies
Two World Wars, the Great Depression, India's independence struggle, the Hindu rate of growth, the licence-permit raj, controls on foreign exchange and expansion, and the reforms of the 1990s: a handful of Indian companies have seen it all, and adapted along the way to do well. How we arrived at Lipper Mutual Fund Awards 2011 winners
To arrive at the Lipper Mutual Fund Awards 2011 winners, Thomson Reuters used several criteria.Lipper Awards 2011: The best fund houses
Here are the fund houses that have emerged winners for being good at what they do - delivering returns.Winner fund managers prove money can be made in long term
In the long term we are all dead, said John Maynard Keynes. But winner fund managers prove that money can be made in the long term.Winners of the Lipper Awards 2011
The boom-bust-boom cycle of the last three years has been an acid test for fund managers. Winners of the Lipper Awards 2011 reveal what they did, or did not do, or did differently, to emerge victorious.Fund managers who steered through debt crises
The boom-bust-boom cycle of the last three years has been an acid test for fund managers. BT and Thomson Reuters fete fund managers who steered through tsunamis and debt crises with aplomb.Escorts Mutual Fund guarantees high return
With a mix of the right strategies and calculated risks, Delhi-based Escorts Mutual Fund, or EMF, has turned in a performance that enabled it to bag the Best Bond Fund House Award this year.Fidelity Mutual Funds follows investment philosophy
Ashu Suyash, Managing Director and Country Head, Fidelity International, which won the award for Best Equity Fund House, says the group's achievements are the result of its investment philosophy.
IPOs that hit the markets between 2007 and 2009 are trading below
The tide has gone out of the Indian stock markets, leaving several listed companies thoroughly exposed. More than half the IPOs that hit the markets between 2007 and 2009 are trading under water.International hotel chains betting big on Indian hospitality industry
Favourable government policies, improved roads and airport infrastructure are attracting international hotel chains to set up base in India. Eschewing five-star indulgences and deluxe amenities, these mid-market hotels - a notch above budget or economy hotels - are fast rising on the popularity charts in the country.Non-performing assets to blame for SBI Q4 net falling 99%
India's largest lender registered its worst-ever performance in the fourth quarter of 2010-11 - the net profit plunged 99 per cent to Rs 20.88 crore from Rs 1,867 crore last year. SBI took the body blow by not provisioning for non-performing assets in time.100 companies in trouble as FCCBs date nears maturity
About 100 Indian companies which took the FCCB route aggressively during the 2006/2008 bull run to raise funds, now find it is payback time - bonds worth Rs 31,500 crore are coming up for redemption within the next 24 months. Stock prices of many of the issuers are far below their conversion prices.Private airlines lose fliers to Air India
The state-owned carrier's aggressive pricing policy has dented profits of private carriers who are now looking at their international operations to recover.Dharavi redevelopment may affect a host of thriving small industries
The Maharashtra government's decision to redevelop Dharavi, Asia's biggest slum in north central Mumbai, will shatter a host of thriving small industries.Arch rivals Zee, STAR JV on TV distribution could be a game changer
The Zee-STAR deal could be a game changer.Delays in allotment of coal blocks casts shadow on power situation
Coal shortages and power cuts return despite new policies and penalty-backed agreements.Small and medium enterprises revive engineering exports
Small and medium enterprises lead the remarkable revival in engineering exports.
Which Mutual funds are good bets for the risk-averse
Mutual Funds that adopt a guarded approach towards investing in equities show low volatility and are good bets for the risk-averse.Index funds lends stability to portfolio
Index funds do not promise benchmark-beating returns, but their low-cost, low-risk fund management lends stability to your portfolio.
The rise of online library to suit changed lifestyles
As visitors decline, both traditional libraries and start-ups put catalogues online and begin delivering books at home, says Saranya Kapur.
MIT alumnus Salman Khan free education site for all
This MIT alumnus's free website is transforming online education. Book challenges the so-called specialists
Bonner challenges the so-called specialists who gamble with our future, says Somnath Dasgupta.
Medical devices industry drawing workers from different quarters
The medical devices industry is drawing workers from different quarters, says Shamni Pande. How to defend ideas at work and get your listeners buy into them.
People who made news in the business world
Newsmakers: Ashok Chawla, Girish S. Paranjpe, Jerome Favie, Manu Sawhney, Nallicheri Vaidyanathan Tyagaraja, Attilio Capuano
How different things work
Google Maps allows viewers to zoom right down to the level of the street and view it in 360 degrees.India's and world's most talked-about CEOs in May
Sanjay Chandra of Unitech was the most-discussed CEO in May, albeit for all the wrong reasons.Inflation will peak in the next three months: Jonathan Garner
Jonathan Garner, MD and Chief Asian and Emerging Market Strategist at Morgan Stanley, shared his views on problems afflicting emerging economies such as high inflation, rising interest rates and elevated oil prices.Total PC sales in the country has seen a big growth
According to IDC India, total PC sales in the country in 2010 stood at 9.89 million units, a growth of 30 per cent over 2009. It was the highest growth in the last four years.The long road to number portability
The long road to number portabilitySuper rich in India are brand conscious
Today's ultra high net worth individuals flash their wealth, are highly brand conscious, and consult family on big-ticket purchases, reveals a new study by Kotak Wealth and CRISIL Research.best quotes of the business and politcal leaders
I have basically become a vegetarian since the only meat I am eating is from animals I have killed myself. Mark ZuckerbergDoes the change of government in West Bengal augur well for business?
Does the change of government in West Bengal augur well for business?A feature-rich prosumer camera and the new King of Android Hill
A feature-rich prosumer camera and the new King of Android HillIndian consumers are shopping online with a vengeance
Indian consumers are shopping online with a vengeanceSebi sticks to ban on entry load for mutual funds
The market regulator sticks to the ban on entry load for mutual funds while looking into ways to incentivise distributors.Govt takes first towards labour law reforms
The government takes the first step on the long and tortuous road to labour law reforms.Rate of GDP growth will slow down further to 8 per cent
The rate of GDP growth will slow down further to eight per cent in the current financial year, says Sonal Varma. 'HUL is no different'
Every company goes through ups and downs and Hindustan Unilever is no different.
Chairman & CEO of PepsiCo India Manu Anand admires Steve Jobs
The chairman and CEO of PepsiCo India Manu Anand talks about his leadership style.
Diesel subsidy skewing the Indian car market
Buyers who can afford extra payment on a diesel car tend to be the ones who are better off. The reluctance of the government to increase the price of diesel has led to a strange situation - the demand for petrol cars is declining sharply. 
