Reticent and low-profile are not the usual personality traits of a CEO in a high-profile business like aviation. But Aditya Ghosh, 37, has defied convention in many ways. His regular office wear is T-shirt with jeans, he doesn&rsquo;t have a B-school degree and before joining IndiGo, he was a lawyer at J Sagar.

IndiGo sticks to the basics

Business Standard

Indian banks&rsquo; rush for overseas dollar denominated bonds that saw over $3.5 billion (Rs 19,440 crore) being raised in about a month may come as a relief for corporates which are looking for refinancing $2.5 billion foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs) maturing this year.

FCCB refinancing: Banks rush for dollar bonds

Citigroup Global Markets veteran Rajiv Nayar is cautiously optimistic as he sees bouts of risk-on and risk-off sentiments affecting capital raising by Indian companies. In his first free-wheeling interview after taking charge as the head of Capital Markets Origination in India, he talks about triggers for equity markets revival and the trend of investors shifting towards debt capital.

Much of the bad news is probably behind us: Rajiv Nayar

Srinivasa Addepalli, chief strategy officer at Tata Communications has been a vital part of the team that in the last ten years transformed the erstwhile Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd into a vibrant global player providing new-age telecom solutions from a company known for domestic monopoly in international calls.

Tata Communications bets big on managed services

K Venkataramanan, 65, has been a passionate engineer since he graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, 43 years ago and joined Larsen &amp; Toubro (L&amp;T). A triple blue at IIT-Delhi in tennis, table tennis and basketball, he says sports taught him how to bounce back. Today, with the domestic economy slowing and India&rsquo;s largest engineering and construction conglomerate up against a range of challenges, Venkataramanan refuses to shed his positive outlook.

It's tension time, but I pray that it's short term: K Venkataramanan

For last ten years, Indian companies have been scouting for coal and iron-ore mines across the globe to feed a ravenous appetite for these raw materials back home. While initial searches were focused more on Australia, South Africa and Indonesia, the rising valuation of these assets has forced Indian companies to switch to looking for these in African and Latin American countries. Others have simply gone abroad, prospecting for new business opportunities.

Learning about political risk

The past four years were tough for AIG in India. The US financial conglomerate set up its insurance business in partnership with the Tata Group in 2001 and then built several businesses, including software development, private equity and asset management. Following the subprime crisis in 2008 that hit the company and led to a $182.5-billion bailout by the US government, AIG&rsquo;s India unit divested many businesses as part of a global restructuring exercise.

India has to make its systems more contemporary: Sunil Mehta

Rose Princess of Chandigarh at the age of 3 and show-stopper at a Mumbai fashion show in her later years. It would have been easy to believe that the glamorous persona behind many signature mergers and acquisition deals in India harboured aspirations to make it big in the fashion world.

Lunch with BS: Manisha Girotra

Despite a bleak operating environment, Jet Airways and SpiceJet have flown into the black. The turnaround may have more to do with their embattled rivals than anything else.

Jet, SpiceJet soar on misfortunes of rivals

Indian banks have raised $3.55 billion via overseas bond issues in less than a month, after a lull of three to four months. In an interview with Parnika Sokhi and Abhineet Kumar, the managing director (debt capital markets), Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, D Saradhi Rajan, says the fall in Treasury yields and fresh investor interest from around the world helped revive the bond market for Indian issuers.

Asia bond market has started growing: D Saradhi Rajan

Amid increasing demand for commodities and delayed approvals for mining projects back home, India&rsquo;s resource-hungry corporations are going aggressive to acquire natural resource assets overseas.

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IndiGo sticks to the basics

FCCB refinancing: Banks rush for dollar bonds

Much of the bad news is probably behind us: Rajiv Nayar

Tata Communications bets big on managed services

It's tension time, but I pray that it's short term: K Venkataramanan

Learning about political risk

India has to make its systems more contemporary: Sunil Mehta

Lunch with BS: Manisha Girotra

Jet, SpiceJet soar on misfortunes of rivals

IndiGo sticks to the basics

Asia bond market has started growing: D Saradhi Rajan

Aditya Birla Group, Jindal go after foreign mining assets