India Means Business for CNN International

Televisionpoint.com Correspondent | Mumbai
With the world mired in an ongoing financial crisis, attention is turning more than ever towards India's robust economic growth. CNN International has brought its viewers a week of in-depth live programming, India Means Business, that puts the country's economic fortunes firmly in the spotlight.

The series examines how the world's largest democracy is coming of age as a business power house. The news channel goes inside the lives and businesses of India's brightest entrepreneurs to find out and examine what is driving their success and failures.

The series is hosted by World Business Today anchor Andrew Stevens live from Mumbai. CNN is using its India-based team of correspondents to bring reports from around the country; Sara Sidner in Delhi, Mallika Kapur in Mumbai, Liz Neisloss in Chennai, with the network's Asia Business editor Eunice Yoon reporting from Kolkata.

Phillip Turner, bureau chief, CNN - New Delhi, said, "The title of our week, India Means Business, says it all. We are using our three news gathering centres in India, live programming from around Mumbai and extensive international resources to reveal what drives this unique and diverse economy. The week is perfectly timed to focus on India's position amidst global economic turmoil as well as spotlight India's unique business culture."

India Means Business covers a wide rage of topics including the retail boom; how the highs and lows of the property market impacts the country's economy; the fast-paced media industry, the rise of entrepreneurs and how cricket has become a money spinner.

The vagaries of the stock exchange and the impetus on infrastructure will also be discussed and analyzed. The week further takes a close look at Indian government's initiatives to upgrade the country's famously creaky infrastructure and political system to help keep up the pace of growth in an economy second only to China in its dynamism.