'We continue to view India as a standout within EM.'
'Corporations that were recruiting 15 or 20 [students] have reduced the number to two or three.'
B Muthuraman, vice chairman, Tata Steel, has been elected as the vice president of CII.
The growing caution among hospitals is being driven by a rise in double-extortion ransomware attacks, AI-enabled phishing, deepfake fraud, and vulnerabilities in connected medical devices.
What does Arun Jaitley's Union Budget have for India's student population? We explore
The Union Budget 2014-15 has proposed to set up new IITs and IIMs
Generative AI is transforming workplaces but at a cost -- there are fewer jobs for young workers just entering the workforce, reveals a Goldman Sachs report.
Education is merely seen as a means to further one's career. A bunch of entrepreneurs are trying to change this.
Ending a week-long uncertainty, the government on Sunday directed all the centrally-funded elite educational institutions, including Indian Institutes of Management and Indian Institutes of Technology, to implement the Other Backward Classes reservation from this year. The Human Resource Development Ministry issued the directive to the Central Educational Institutions, after the Supreme Court on April 10 upheld the 27 per cent reservation for OBCs, excluding the creamy layer.
However, under several external factors -- such as technological disruption or advancement, regulatory or policy changes, or economic shocks -- the gig workforce may grow only to 32.5 million by 2047, a report points out.
Students earning stipend in foreign currency need to pay tax, unless they get it as allowance.
This semds a signal that reservation for OBCs (Other Backward Classes) in elite educational institutions might not be implemented at one go.
We propose an expert group be set up to form a national strategy on digital fraud. This group would bring together skills in financial regulation, security economics, cyber defence, and public communications, and an understanding of the Indian financial and security systems. It should lay the foundations of a coordinated approach by the Indian State in fighting digital fraud, suggest Ajay Shah and Nandkumar Saravade.
The centrally-funded technical Institutions, including IITs and IIMs, are suffering due to about 25 per cent shortage of faculty, the Lok Sabha was told on Wednesday.
In a double-dose bid to boost growth and employment prospects, the Union Cabinet on Tuesday approved a Rs 2.07 trillion outlay for a research development and innovation (RDI) Scheme to fund private sector innovations, and an employment-linked incentive (ELI) to create over 35 million new jobs over the next two years.
The Department Head of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur's MBA program, Prof Jayanta Chatterjee, talks about what makes their MBA programme special, and what new things the incoming batch can expect.
Leading business school graduates prefer better job profiles to handsome salary.
rediffGURUS who are career counsellors and JEE experts are currently helping counsel engineering aspirants to prepare for upcoming entrance examinations to secure a good college.
The conditions that lead to landslides, including soil texture, soil moisture and slope are known, and it is important to put all this knowledge into an operational system, he said.
General Insurance Corporation plans to tap professional institutions like Indian Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Management for young managers after cutting flab through a voluntary retirement scheme in the next fiscal.
The institutes are excellent because of the quality of students.
Economist Ajit Ranade chatted with our readers on March 1, and explained how the Budget affects us all.
Faculty of top academic institutions like the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), and central universities say the Sixth Pay Commission's recommendations do not have a direct bearing on their compensation levels. The new pay structure of assistant professors, associate professors and professors will be finalised by an internal committee of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, which would take a couple of months at least.
From tackling visa woes to admission counselling, rediffGURU Dr Karan Gupta helps you choose the right course and country to study abroad.
A nation touted at places like the World Economic Forum in Davos a few years ago as an economic superpower in the making is only just beginning to address the problem that only 27 per cent of children in class 5 in its village schools can subtract.
The ever-astute Ravi Matthai, Director of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 1971, offered me a basic salary of Rs 1,000 per month on my return from the United States. I doubt if IIMA could hire a faculty member at Rs 55,000 per month today! points out Dr Shreekant Sambrani.
In the university category, IISc stood first, followed by JNU and BHU.
Institutional investments in Indian real estate have seen a strong start to 2025, with inflows reaching $ 1.3 billion in the first quarter - a 31 per cent year-on-year (YoY) increase. This growth was primarily driven by domestic investments, which accounted for 60 per cent of the total inflows during the quarter. With $ 0.8 billion inflows, domestic investments saw a 75 per cent annual rise and were largely focused on industrial & warehousing and office segments.
The Pay Review Committee, headed by Prof Goverdhan Mehta, set up for faculty members of central technical institutes like IITs and IIMs had submitted its report to the HRD ministry in February this year.
Did you know that ethical hackers earn anything between Rs 800 to Rs 1,000 per hour?
The mission has been delayed for several years because of setbacks in the spacecraft's development.
Many high-profile IPOs in India since 2021 have destroyed investor wealth due to overvaluation, weak business models, and post-listing disinterest, turning 1 lakh investments into as little as 3,500.
Whenever there is an evaluation scheme, it is human tendency to score as high as possible. None would like to highlight their shortcomings, and everyone likes to highlight their positives. This is what is happening in this context of rankings as well, points out Profesor N Ravichandran.
The National Knowledge Commission is setting up an online network that will enable college students to access study material and connect with institutions and faculty members from around the world by the year 2008.
Increased reservation for backward categories in these premier central institutions is possible only with increased intakes.\n
Mukesh Ambani has raced ahead of Gautam Adani to become the richest Indian on a list of wealthiest people in the country. The 66-year-old chairman of the diversified Reliance Industries saw his wealth growing by a marginal 2 per cent to Rs 8.08 lakh crore, while Adani's fortune plummeted by 57 per cent to Rs 4.74 lakh crore, as per the 360 ONE Wealth Hurun India Rich List 2023. Anas Rahman Junaid, managing director and chief researcher at Hurun, attributed the decline in Adani's wealth to the Hindenburg report published in January. In January,
