Kalpana Pathak And M Saraswathy

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ISB placements kick off with Rs 40-lakh offer

ISB placements kick off with Rs 40-lakh offer

Rediff.com   18 Jan 2010

Hyderabad-based Indian School of Business (ISB) is off to a flying start this season. Citi Group has offered an analyst investment banker's position with so far the highest offer of Rs 40 lakh per annum, followed by a Rs 33-lakh offer by Parthenon Group, a consulting firm.

Day Zero: B'lore, Calcutta break ranks with IIM-A

Day Zero: B'lore, Calcutta break ranks with IIM-A

Rediff.com   18 Jan 2010

The IIMs will begin final placements in March 2010.

Vencap success rate comparable to US: Study

Vencap success rate comparable to US: Study

Rediff.com   15 Jan 2010

The 'First Status Report on Technology Business Incubation' in India also stated that 20 to 30 per cent of incubated companies make it big.

Yale, Harvard, MIT buy Sibal's plan

Yale, Harvard, MIT buy Sibal's plan

Rediff.com   4 Jan 2010

These universities are a part of the ministry's 'brain gain' policy to attract talent from all over the world. Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal had last August announced that 14 Innovation Universities will be set up in the country under the 11th Five-year Plan (2007-12).

Greener fuels to cost more

Greener fuels to cost more

Rediff.com   30 Dec 2009

People will have to pay 50p-Re 1 more per litre of petrol and diesel when 11 cities in India move to the Euro IV emission norm, and the rest of the country to Euro III, in April 2010.

Corporate India warms up to adoption of ITIs

Corporate India warms up to adoption of ITIs

Rediff.com   28 Dec 2009

Last year, over 200 companies adopted 300 ITIs in the country and the involvement is gaining pace.

Soon, IIMs may scrap Day Zero for placement

Soon, IIMs may scrap Day Zero for placement

Rediff.com   23 Dec 2009

Day Zero was created when demand for IIM graduates had peaked and the institutes had to resort to creative mathematics to accommodate big recruiters without offending the existing ones. Falling job market has forced the B-schools to review the strategy, including placement fee revision.

CAT 2009 results may get delayed

CAT 2009 results may get delayed

Rediff.com   16 Dec 2009

Results of the Common Admission Test could get delayed with Indian Institutes of Management and Prometric, which conducted the online test, still to decide a new date for conducting the exam for students who could not give their exam due to technical glitches.

Indian professors clear outsourcing test

Indian professors clear outsourcing test

Rediff.com   11 Dec 2009

Pankaj Sarma (name changed), associate professor with an Indian business school, earns Rs 1 lakh every month for evaluating papers written by students in the US. This is apart from his salary of Rs 60,000 as per University Grants Commission scale.

IITs invite ex-students for campus placements

IITs invite ex-students for campus placements

Rediff.com   9 Dec 2009

Even as placements at the premier Indian Institutes of Technology will continue till March 2010, some IITs have begun offering students from their previous year's batch a chance to sit for job interviews this year, too.

CAT for 5,000 students rescheduled

CAT for 5,000 students rescheduled

Rediff.com   4 Dec 2009

The dates for the exam may be extended beyond December 8 and 9.

IIMs nearly dumped computerised CAT...

IIMs nearly dumped computerised CAT...

Rediff.com   3 Dec 2009

The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are understood to have contemplated scrapping of the computer-based Common Admission Test (CAT) before deciding to wait for a few more days before taking such a call.

IIM-B director on the CAT failure

IIM-B director on the CAT failure

Rediff.com   1 Dec 2009

Conducting an examination at this level is a very complex task, says Pankaj Chandra, Director, IIM Bangalore.

IIMs, NIIT blamed for CAT fiasco

IIMs, NIIT blamed for CAT fiasco

Rediff.com   1 Dec 2009

Even as day three of the computer-based Common Admission Test (CAT) continued to add to the anxiety of the student community, academicians have shifted the blame game from Prometric to the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and NIIT, accusing them of adopting a highly casual attitude.

IITs smile as MNCs return to campuses

IITs smile as MNCs return to campuses

Rediff.com   26 Nov 2009

Offers, high ones, are coming in before placements officially start.

RIL mulls entry into low-cost housing

RIL mulls entry into low-cost housing

Rediff.com   19 Nov 2009

After successfully dabbling in organised retail in 2006, Mukesh Ambani, chairman of India's largest private sector company, Reliance Industries (RIL), has now set his eyes on no-frills, low-cost housing."RIL has deep pockets and excellent execution skills. It has executed two large projects like the Jamnagar refinery and the KG-D6 basin in a record time. Another such large project is only obvious for the company to get into," said a source close to the development.

Companies may be allowed to set up universities

Companies may be allowed to set up universities

Rediff.com   9 Nov 2009

These non-profit multi-disciplinary institutions will have to be registered under Section 25 of Companies Act.

Job offers: B-schools optimistic this season

Job offers: B-schools optimistic this season

Rediff.com   2 Nov 2009

Management institutes are simultaneously inviting more companies to minimise the chances of fewer placement offers this season.

4,000 Mumbaikars may switch off R-Infra

4,000 Mumbaikars may switch off R-Infra

Rediff.com   29 Oct 2009

Several commercial and residential customers of Reliance Infrastructure (R-Infra) in Mumbai are planning to shift their electricity connections to Tata Power Company (TPC).

IIMs plan to join hands for overseas foray

IIMs plan to join hands for overseas foray

Rediff.com   22 Oct 2009

Some directors think pooling their resources - financial and faculty - for their international foray makes eminent sense.