The multimedia-cum-film city project, first of its kind, is estimated to cost around Rs 800 crore and will spread over 30 acres.
Compared with the standard package of Rs 3.5 lakh per person, a tailor-made package for a family of four would cost around Rs 22 lakh for a minimum of eight nights.
Rising costs, service tax and recognition of their own increased brand value has prompted most Indian Institutes of Management to raise placement fees this season -- in some cases like IIM Kozhikode's -- even up to 25 per cent.
Financial services companies are partnering B-schools to design industry-specific courses.
After taking over the IT hub mantle from Bangalore, Hyderabad has pushed the garden city to second place in terms of recording the fastest average room rate growth.
Come July, professor Nilanjan Chatopadhyay - placement chairman at the Institute of Management Technology Ghaziabad - will start living life out of his suitcase, literally.
Top honchos of the corporate world will have their own villas to live in when on their business tours.
Get ready for a different rail travel experience. A special rail coach with a living room, two bathrooms, two toilets and a private kitchen. The catch: You will be allowed to take your own chefs on the trip.
The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) is brimming with ideas and concrete plans for the new year and ahead
With the lateral placements (for students with at least a year's experience) underway and final placement (for freshers) season round the corner, institutes expect this year's placements to be one of the best ever.
The first stage of the 27 percent OBC quota is set to be implemented from academic year 2007-08.
The hospitality groups are also looking at a different and 'genuine category' of well-heeled religious tourists.
Tourism boards have turned innovative in radio advertising when it comes to promoting their destinations among Indian travellers.
The university is expected to match the standards of institutions like Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford.
Deans from two international law schools -- Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago and Deakin School of Business and Law, Australia -- recently visited India.
Having dominated the summer placement scene at IIMs, companies like McKinsey, Boston Consultancy Group and UBS showed up for the first time for placements at IIT Bombay.
MoU for three-star hotels on the cards.
Analysts say hotel room rates in India are among the highest in the Asia Pacific, rising by 20 per cent annually.
India is set to add 10,000 budget hotel rooms in the next two years in response to the burgeoning demand for low-cost accommodation across the country.
As many as 40 international universities have sought land from the Maharashtra government in the Mumbai-Pune-Nashik belt for the purpose.
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