With 17 per cent market share in the Indian mobile market, Samsung Mobile plans to add another six to seven per cent market share this year.
Industry majors keen to hire freshers based on their performance during summer internships.
In 2008-09, all students from the PGPX batch were recruited by June. The batch of 2009-10 was expected to follow suit.
In 2010, those armed with an MBA degree and one-two years of work experience got the highest salary hikes
The Rs 30,000-crore consumer durables market is expected to rake in more money this summer on the back of rising mercury levels.
PVR Ltd., the retail entertainment company, is planning to open 500 screens across the country in three years. For this financial year, the company plans to open 60 screens in cities including Surat, Kochi, Pune, Bhopal, Vijaywada, Mysore, New Delhi and Jalandhar.
The India-born global management guru not only helped companies but also MBA students and faculty to think laterally.
Emerging as the single largest export zone in the country, the Jamnagar SEZ has seen its export nearly touch Rs 80,000 crore (Rs 800 billion) till March 2010.
The Gujarat International Finance Tec-City project in near-coma It was once seen as Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's reply to then counterpart Vilasrao Deshmukh's plans for a finance city in Mumbai.
UK-based INEOS, the world's third largest chemical company, is exploring the possibility of setting up a catalyst unit at the Dahej Special Economic Zone in Gujarat.
Bosch Rexroth (India) Ltd, a subsidiary of German automation giant Bosch Group, a drive and control solutions for industrial applications, has bought private land near the Tata Nano site in Sanand recently with plans to set up its second manufacturing unit in the state.
The entrepreneurial bug does not appear to have bitten students at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad this year. So far, not even one student is believed to have opted out of the final placements process to start his own venture.
The IIMs were just recovering from the uproar over technical glitches during the CAT. Now, at least five students have filed applications under the right to information law.
Having witnessed a surge in the number of offers and average salaries as compared to 2009 -- a year marred by the impact of the global slowdown -- they believe the exuberance of 2008 would only return in 2011.
Institutes are seeing many first-time recruiters for lateral placements. Not only are they expecting more offers, but higher salaries, too.
'The situation is such that they feel unsafe and confused whether they should go out and work or just sit at home fearing safety. Incidentally, the number of aspiring Indian students to Australia has dropped dramatically.'
The makers of 3 Idiots may be smiling their way to the banks with box-office records in Bollywood, but the National Innovation Foundation awaits funds promised by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, the film's producer. NIF sourced the innovations for the film.
The murder of a 21-year-old Indian national, Nitin Garg, in Melbourne has further tarnished Australia's reputation for hosting Indian students. For the academic year 2010, overseas education consultants are predicting a 20-50 per cent fall in the number of students applying to Australian universities.
In a first at the National Institute of Design (NID), academic profiles were offered to the graduating batch of young designers during placements this year.
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