State run refineries stand to gain as govt raised the FDI limit to 49 per cent from 26 per cent.
To be modelled on the Carnegie Mellon University.
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have a 2008 budget wishlist. They want the government to grant them more funds to support their infrastructure expansions and research initiatives.
Webel's digital tool enables people with cerebral palsy to communicate.
Foreign B-schools are finding great potential in India's growing economy and are therefore coming up with executive education programmes and centres here.
The US-based Chartered Financial Analyst Institute has decided to approach the All India Council for Technical Education to seek approval for its India operations.
India is likely to see the addition of at least 400 restaurants, fast food outlets and coffee joints in 2008. Food chains such as Yum Brands, McDonald's, Domino's and Caf Coffee Day have earmarked an estimated investment of over Rs 300-400 crore (Rs 3 to 4 billion) this year in expanding their retail presence across the country.
Oil India chief reveals plans of the upcoming IPO and future investment strategies.
The largest such refiner -- Indian Oil Corporation -- has earmarked over Rs 13,500 crore (Rs 135 billion) to meet these specifications (essentially lower sulphur and aromatic hydrocarbons) in petrol and diesel at its seven refineries.
Reliance ADAG's Big Music and Home Entertainment is looking at garnering close to 40 per cent market share of home and music entertainment business in India.
According to Gibson G Vedamani, CEO of RAI, "We have urged Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee to allow shops to stay open till at least 11.30 at night, if not overnight. In Mumbai and Delhi, a few retailers had approached the government individually and got permission to keep their shops open till late." At present, all retail outlets in West Bengal have to shut by 8.30 pm, making it difficult for people who work late hours to manage their shopping during the week.
Indian small and medium enterprises are expected to emerge as major buyers of the information technology products by 2008. According to Joydeep Datta Gupta, executive director of Deloitte & Touche Consulting, any IT-led SME business transformation project could succeed only if the project was sustained.
Consequently, the thousands of first- and second-level students (comparable to first year and second year) will now have to go abroad to pursue the CFA course if they still wish to do so. This would mean an additional expense of thousands of dollars besides heartburn and anxiety.
After Harvard Business School and Tuck School of Business, India's developing corporate scenario has now attracted France-based ESCP-EAP European School of Management to hold executive education programmes for corporates in India.
In a first of its kind initiative and available only in Kolkata, mobile services provider Vodafone Essar, has launched the 'Sambhav' prepaid card, targeted at customers with hearing and speech disability.Available at Rs 151, the prepaid Sambhav card will enable the hearing impaired to communicate effectively using a cellphone. The card enables customers with hearing and speech disability to use mobile phones primarily for sending SMSes.
Anil Kumble would be raking in around Rs 60-75 lakh a year for endorsing Manipal Education. Viswanathan Anand would be getting anywhere between Rs 75 lakh to Rs 1 crore. Universities are choosing sports icons as brand endorsers as they not only want to portray themselves as excellent in academics, but extra-curricular performances too.
Industry bigwigs and corporate heavyweights have been scurrying to get the best students for themselves. Naturally, salaries are headed north.
Lack of uniform parameters while ranking them is what irks B-schools. At last count, there were at least seven different rankings in print.
Saswat Chakraborti, head of G S Sanyal School of Telecommunications at IIT-KGP says: "We offered three short-term courses so far in 2007, and would introduce one more this December. We are planning several new courses targeted at B-tech graduates, industry professionals, as well as teachers from engineering institutes."
Consider this. India's best paying B-school -- Indian School of Business, Hyderabad -- made offers to five international faculty members in the past three years. All of them chose to join management institutes in Singapore because of the fat pay packets. ISB pays its professors salaries that are five times more than an Indian Institute of Management professor. This means if an IIM professor's monthly salary is Rs 54,000, his counterpart at ISB would draw Rs 2,70,000 a month.
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