Over 200 successful IITians will launch an unique 'Entrepreneurship Movement' on the Republic Day in 16 citiies across the country to coach 1,000 budding entrepreneurs.
The Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), Chandigarh announces admissions to its PhD programmes for 2008.
Under the aegis of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, the ministry has set up a special cell that would monitor movement of the Talibans. There are reports that Talibans are just 25 kilometers away from the international border in Punjab and could move in towards the border.
The broad idea is to help freshers and high-potential employees develop soft skills not generally taught at universities, and simultaneously increase retention rates in an industry that has attrition rates between 30 and 50 per cent. The industry, according to Nasscom estimates, accounts for almost $11 billion and employs slightly over 700,000 professionals (in terms of direct employment).
The Ahmedabad-based Kunvarji Group has has signed with India's leading bourse, Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX) for offering Commodities related Training Programs in Ahmedabad.
Around 100 activists, under the aegis of 'Youth for Equality', started their hunger strike at the Maulana Azad Medical College in the national capital at noon. Protestors were alleging that the government was trying to circumvent the Supreme Court ruling by extending quota benefit to post graduate courses.
Kickstarting the process to introduce mobile number portability, telecom regulator Trai will soon set up a steering committee of operators, industry associations and telecom engineering centres.
Cut-throat competition, unemployment, increasing tension and break-up of families is leading the most of India's population, including a high percentage of youth, into depression.''Up to 80 per cent of such youths commit suicide,'' Gandhi Medical College's Psychiatry Department Head R N Sahu told mediapersons. He is the convener of a conference, beginning in Bhopal on April 26. By 2020 India will have the largest number of depression sufferers
A committee constituted under the aegis of the governor of West Bengal, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, may seek more time to submit its final report on land to be provided to the agitating farmers.
'The skills and abilities of civil servants are still respected, even though they become whipping boys when things go wrong.'
After Uttar Pradesh, Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Limited is facing the wrath of local vegetable vendors and wholesalers in Uttarakhand for venturing into retail business.
'While in the past elements within the Pakistani security establishment viewed Afghanistan as an essential part of its strategic depth vis-a-vis India, the rapprochement between New Delhi and Islamabad in recent years has made such a policy obsolete.'
Thirty-one Indian companies, under the aegis of Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council, will showcase their capabilities at the Gitex Dubai 2007, the largest IT show in the region.
Cellular operators' body COAI had, last year, alleged that the new entrant Reliance Jio was attempting to acquire customers by offering connection loaded with freebies, in the guise of a trial launch.
Waking up to the threat posed by China acquiring capability to shoot down satellites by missiles, India on Tuesday announced setting up of an integrated space cell to counter growing threats to the country's space-based assets.
With 103 members belonging to the BJP, the Karnataka assembly will witness a balance it has never seen.
Dozens of women health workers were injured when the police used lathicharge on their protest rally in Patna on Thursday. Several of them were also taken into custody. The police resorted to lathicharge after the women health workers, including trained mid-wives and members of the Accredited Social Health Activist, blocked the Dakbungalow square, the busiest junction in Patna.The health workers were demanding additional benefits and schemes, which have been denied to them.
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The protestors' claim was made after the much-anctipated first inspection of the factory site on Wednesday by a committee set up under the aegis of West Bengal Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi to examine the ways of solving a controversy that had arisen after some farmers had refused compensation for the land acquired for the project.
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has demanded from the US a nuclear deal similar to the one Washington has made with India, assuring that the nuclear proliferation network of its scientist A Q Khan was broken and will not be repeated.
Shabir Shah, senior separatist leader and chairman of the Democratic Freedom Party, on Monday laid down some conditions before the DFP joins a front representing all the moderate separatist parties in Kashmir. Shah was responding to the call for unity by Mirwaiz Moulvi Umar Farooq, chairman of the moderate All Parties Hurriyat Conference. Farooq had asked all separatist parties to unite under the aegis of a common banner.
Leaders have appealed to the participants to maintain peace and not to raise any kind of slogans.
Corporate retailing of fruits and vegetables - once a domain of street side vendors - seems to be facing more troubles.
His first Telugu film, Grahanam fetched Indraganti Mohan Krishna 11 awards including the Indira Gandhi Award for the Best First Film by a director. The National and Gollapudi Srinivas award-winning director then made his second film, Maya Bazar. Now, the filmmaker is ready with his latest film, Ashta Chamma (the original version of the game ludo). Well, the title is a metaphoric one though there are references to the game.
India is Facebook's largest market with 250 million active monthly users. Along with Google, it has a 70 per cent share in the Rs 1,000 crore domestic digital ad market.
Sources say given the complexity involved in the process of creating a holding company, which will ultimately be the parent company of banking and other businesses, banks are going slow in acquiring stakes in insurance arms or mutual funds of other lenders.
A solemn ceremony to remember the martyrs, who fought with valour and made the supreme sacrifice during the 1971 War, was organised at Colaba War Memorial under the aegis of Headquarters Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa Area.
NITIE, Mumbai presents Samadhan, a series of online events exclusively for Engineering students, under the aegis of Lakshya 2006.
Banks have approached Reserve Bank of India with a proposal for allowing them to provide doorstep cash delivery services to individual customers.
President George W Bush ordered the Pentagon to shoot down the satellite through a Navy missile just before it reenters earth's atmosphere.
Tuned by G V Prakash Kumar, with the lyrics penned by Vaali, Pa Vijay and others, it is interesting to see if Kuselan touts an aural fare on par with the rest of the movie's stature.
A Canadian newspaper called him the 'Tom Cruise of India'. That could be pushing it, since Tamil movie star Silambarasan, 24 -- 'Simbu', as he is more popularly known has very little marquee value outside of his native Tamil Nadu. But within that state, he is hailed, at least by his fans, as heir presumptive to the mantle of superstar Rajnikanth.
Bankers have requested RBI to keep interest rates stable this fiscal, in lieu of sufficient liquidity in the system.
Foreign banks operating in India want the Reserve Bank of India to prepare a vision document on policy changes they can expect after March 2009.
The Tata project will directly and indirectly create about 10,000 jobs
India is expected to be among the top contributors in terms of incremental ad spends in the world, only behind the US and China.
BARC invites applications for its PhD programme commencing in September 2008 under the aegis of HBNI.
A number of students' organisations had assembled in front of university's main gate as part of "Shahadat Din" of Vemula, who was found hanging in a hostel room on the varsity campus on January 17 last year.
The code of market conduct is being prepared under the aegis of the General Insurance Council (a self-regulatory body of the 12 non-life insurance companies) in this regard.
The effects of the sub-prime crisis and the resultant slowdown of the US market is evident on the margins of Indian information technology (IT) and IT-enabled Services (ITeS) firms. Business process outsourcing (BPO) firms such as Firstsource, Pune-based HOV Services, Zenta, Aegis BPO and others have been receiving inquiries from existing as well as new customers for ramping up their account receivables management (ARM) business.
