The company he promoted has stayed ahead of the curve by cultivating a culture of thinking differently.

Newsmaker: Narendra Murkumbi

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The veteran politician&rsquo;s career has been plagued with numerous scandals overshadowing his administrative abilities.

Newsmaker: Narayan Datt Tiwari

&ldquo;Your value is decided by the percentages you score in school and college. That is what the education system does to us and that&rsquo;s what we wanted to show in the film,&rdquo; says Rajkumar Hirani, the director of 3 Idiots , the biggest blockbuster made by an Indian.

Newsmaker: Rajkumar Hirani

As he looks at the challenges, Kapoor will be comforted by the fact that he has been there, done that.

Newsmaker: Sanjay Kapoor

The consensus in the intelligence community is that there will never be another National Security Adviser like Narayanan.

Newsmaker: M K Narayanan

David Smith, 49, is unlikely to remember January 25 fondly. It was the day he stepped down as CEO of Tata Motors&rsquo; owned Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and surprised anyone following the Midland-based car maker&rsquo;s progress through its most difficult times in recent history.

Newsmaker: David Smith

Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, or the chairman of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Parliamentary Party, LK Advani? This is the choice that BJP leaders have been grappling with in private, especially after party leader S S Ahluwalia called on the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) managers with what they call an astounding proposal that the chairpersons of the ruling (and opposition) parliamentary parties be given the rank of cabinet ministers.

Newsmaker: Sushma Swaraj

The newest CEO in the Tata group brings an aggressive pace and style to India&rsquo;s largest IT consultancy firm.

Newsmaker: Natarajan Chandrasekaran

In November 2004, when Vinod Kumar Sibal took over as Director General of Hydrocarbons (DGH), he welcomed the media in his Rajiv Chowk office, promising regular press conferences to provide updates on oil and gas exploration in India.

Newsmaker: Vinod Kumar Sibal

Assocham's first lady chief talks of the need to unleash new ideas and wonders why, when India has such politically powerful women, they're hardly to be seen in business.

Tea with BS: Swati Piramal

With his East India Hotels investment, Singh is able to fulfil an ambition to be associated with service excellence.

Newsmaker: Analjit Singh

L&amp;T Power&rsquo;s head is concentrating on growing the business just as he did at ABB India, and refuses to entertain gossip that he could be L&amp;T&rsquo;s group chief in the future.

Lunch with BS: Ravi Uppal

The younger Miglani sibling&rsquo;s Wall Street experience helped him understand the financials of a deal that gave ArcelorMittal its first firm foothold in India.

Newsmaker: Ankit Miglani

Ajit Gulabchand is not fond of the arclights, but he shed his reluctance for once &mdash; just like a proud father would do in the company of his famous child. So Gulabchand was happily posing for the cameras in blue jeans and black blazer, but only after making sure that the photographers had the two central towers of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link in focus.

Newsmaker: Ajit Gulabchand

With some help from her children, The Lalit's new chief presides over a shopping spree - for hotels - of the type the group has never seen before.

Lunch with BS: Jyotsna Suri

As he uses the Ranbaxy money to expand his other businesses, in India and abroad, this young scion is clear about one thing - he's not going to fight battles he can't win.

Lunch with BS: Malvinder Mohan Singh

Bharati Shipyard&rsquo;s chief finds himself fighting for a company he didn&rsquo;t intend to acquire.

Newsmaker: P C Kapoor

The head of India's largest realtor is known as a businessman who likes to cut his losses.

Newsmaker: Rajiv Singh

The man behind one of the biggest M&amp;A deals in India&rsquo;s information technology space isn&rsquo;t a conventional techie. In fact, he started his software career pretty late in life &mdash; at an age most of India&rsquo;s IT gurus consider suitable only for writing memoirs or mentoring.

Newsmaker: Vineet Nayyar

Shikha Sharma's contentious appointment as CEO of Axis Bank doesn&rsquo;t detract from her sound reputation in the financial world.

NewsMaker: Shikha Sharma

Few would expect a doctor to become a police officer, let alone handle investigations related to stock market manipulation. But that&rsquo;s precisely what Pradnya Saravade, an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the 1989 batch, has done &mdash; she joined Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) last year, as an officer on special duty after Sebi decided to separate its investigation and adjudication departments.

Backstage: Chipping away at the pyramid

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