It is not just cricket. The Indian Premier League (IPL) is a business cutting across various sectors. It extends from the companies that bid for the team or telecast rights (DLF, Reliance, GMR, Deccan Chronicle, India Cement, UB group, Sony Entertainment) to the advertisers, to glamorous new cricket team owners (Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta and Jeh Wadia) to the 24X7 television channels...

This fortnight seemed to be eventful with markets losing over 800 points in the first week and recovering almost 700 points in the next week. In the previous issue, we had identified 82 companies for our momentum list of which 38 companies ended positive even though the Sensex was down by 100 points. 

Gainers
Heading the list of top performers was India Glycols, which was up 21% while Lupin...

Mitali Patel writes about WOTR which empowers rural people by helping solve their water problems

The reality of ‘world water scarcity’ is often lost on people living in cities, but the water dispersal gap between urban and rural India is another area of inequality that is impeding rural progress. Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) was founded by two far-sighted individuals - Father Bacher...