When Anil Ambani, the billionaire businessman, launched the initial public offering of his company, Reliance Power, this week, he received enough orders to cover the $3bn listing within one minute of its opening.
As Manmohan Singh, India's prime minister, wound up his three-day trip to China on Tuesday, the growing trade imbalance between the two countries in favour of Beijing has proved to be one of the most contentious issues.
Orient-Express has rejected repeated approaches from Tata's Indian Hotels Company, with the issue turning into a public spat in December when the US group said it believed such an alliance would damage the value of its brands.
He added that Suzuki could not build a car for the same price as the Nano without sacrificing quality and standards.
As the economies of emerging markets boom and their biggest conglomerates grow into multinationals, more and more of the new corporate giants in countries ranging from India to China, Russia and Brazil are looking to wring greater profits out of their respective industries.
Flaws in the Asian agricultural sector risk reducing productivity and fuelling inflation.
Indian infrastructure companies are embarking on a fund-raising spree that will give investors access to what is expected to become one of the biggest sectors on the country's stock market over the next few years.
International investors are preparing to make an unprecedented onslaught on Bollywood this year, with several Hollywood studios and a group of London-listed funds looking to take a share of the world's most prolific movie-making market.
Multinationals continue to view the country as one of the most viable outsourcing destinations, but competitive pressures are making other countries look attractive.
Despite coming to market last year amid a barrage of publicity, many of the Aim funds are still trading at a discount to their net asset values and some are still trading below their initial public offering prices even as their peers that listed in India are enjoying the good times.
What in a few years will be India's largest shopping mall today is a kilometre-long, three-storey deep hole in the earth marked with a billboard the size of a tennis court.
England's soccer league teams are following the lead of multinationals and beginning to look to emerging markets for growth, with Premier League leader Arsenal FC on Tuesday announcing an initiative aimed at giving it a foothold in India.
Japan's main market for emerging technology companies is in talks with the Bombay Stock Exchange for an alliance that could lead to Indian companies listing on its board in Tokyo.
Global food prices will come under further pressure on Monday as benchmark prices for cereals at much higher levels come into operation, making it almost inevitable that a second wave of food price inflation will hit the world's leading economies.
The Mumbai traffic police, in a move that runs against the very culture of driving in this city of 18m, have begun cracking down on noisy motorists.
Reliance Capital Asset Management, controlled by Anil Ambani, has sold a 5 per cent stake to Eton Park Capital Management in a deal that for the first time puts a value on India's largest mutual fund.
India's mutual fund industry is one of the brightest spots in an already fast-growing domestic financial sector.
Romesh Sobti, ABN country head for India, will move to IndusInd Bank, a domestic private-sector institution controlled by the Hinduja family.
People close to Indian carmakers Tata Motors and Mahindra & Mahindra, and the buy-out group One Equity Partners, said on Tuesday that they expected Ford to respond imminently to their revised offers made last week.
"We are looking at how we can bring back skill sets developed by Indians overseas," Rajiv Singh, vice-chairman of DLF, said in an interview with the Financial Times. "Our desire is to have a very highly motivated and trained labour force come back and work for us."
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