In response to our 'Life After CAT' series, Get Ahead reader Saurabh Uboweja narrates his journey from being the 'first' person in Bhopal to get calls from 6 IIMs after the CAT exam and the challenges he faced as he ventured into entrepreneurship. Read on.
The Delhi Daredevils, IPL's Delhi team which is owned by the GMR Group, has recruited a student of the Postgraduate Programme in Public Policy and Management (PGP-PMP) from the institute to manage its operations. Colonel Vinod Bisht, the student, has been hired as assistant vice-president (operations) for the company for a Rs 30-40 lakh package.
When Samir K Barua took over as the director of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) in November 2007, he had listed knowledge creation, hiring and retention of faculty members and increasing contacts with the industry as his priority work areas. Four months on, Barua is planning a number of initiatives in the upcoming academic year towards achieving his objectives.
The annual event attracts a vast number of delegates from industry, academia and policy areas from beyond the 700-strong alumni network of India's top business schools -- the six Indian Institutes of Management.
Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh has called a meeting of the directors and the chairmen of all the six premier Indian Institutes of Management on May 31.
In the latest rankings for masters in management released by Financial Times, the country's premier management institute has slipped eight places down and is ranked at Number 18.
The Shunglu committee, which went into the financial needs of the Indian Institutes of Management, is understood to have backed the drastic fee reduction mooted by Human Resources Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi.
An entire nation waited, praying and hoping fervently, as the countdown to touch down on the moon wound to a slow close on Wednesday with many thousands gathering in schools, places of worship and elsewhere and scientists doing last minute checks to ensure Chandrayaan-3 makes a soft landing on the lunar south pole.
The Congress will conduct a caste census in Madhya Pradesh after winning the assembly polls and establish a university in the name of Sant Ravidas, said party president Mallikarjun Kharge, accusing the regime at the Centre of wishing to change the Constitution.
The premier management institute, Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore, is in a bind. It had asked for Rs 114 crore (Rs 1.14 billion) to build infrastructure to accommodate additional students under the OBC quota.
RediffGURU Mihir Tanna broadly lists the ITRs to be filled by individuals having income from salary, house property, capital gain, business and other sources.
The human resources development ministry has decided to set up an Indian Institute of Management in the North East mainly to cater to the students of the region.
Kolkata software engineer who scored a perfect 100 percentile in CAT 2011 says that he is looking forward to he wants to be an investment banker and will join IIM-Calcutta because it is the best management institute to study finance.
In 2008-09, all students from the PGPX batch were recruited by June. The batch of 2009-10 was expected to follow suit.
'Most young taxpayers prefer income tax filing to be flexible yet straightforward.'
According to sources close to the development, the government is shortlisting the states where the new IITs and IIMs will be set up. The states will be selected on the basis of their economic and social status.
A bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and L S Panta delivered the verdict on a batch of petitions filed by various organisations and individuals challenging the decision as being unconstitutional.
The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad has been ranked second in the list of top business schools from which Asia-Pacific employers most prefer to recruit executives.
Software and training organisation NIIT Ltd has tied up with one of country's leading business school, Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta to offer 'Executive Development' programmes through virtual classrooms.
It is for the first time that students of PGPX, a one-year programme that targets young industry executives with an average work experience of 7 to 9 years, has got such offers. Last year, a PGPX student had broken all records by receiving the highest job offer of over Rs 1 crore (Rs 10 million).
This semds a signal that reservation for OBCs (Other Backward Classes) in elite educational institutions might not be implemented at one go.
Several BJP leaders in the past have raised a demand for changing the name of the country from "India" to "Bharat".
The Supreme Court will go into the IIM fee cut issue as the government has declined to give a written undertaking not to interfere with the autonomy of the management schools.
Rajat Goyal a student of IIM Lucknow's batch of 2008, shares his CAT advice.
The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development has indicated that it may allow the premier Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management to set up campuses in foreign countries once they improve their faculty positions.
The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore has made a provision of Rs 4 crore (Rs 40 million) in the coming academic session to provide assistance to the needy students in its flagship Post-Graduate Programme (PGP).
Top leaders of the Opposition's Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) held talks in an informal setting in Mumbai on Thursday evening to chart out a concrete roadmap and evolve a structure for cooperation among the alliance partners to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
In the university category, IISc stood first, followed by JNU and BHU.
Gaurav Jaiswal, IIM Calcutta -- Batch 2011, shares his experiences and advice.
The Indian Institute of Management IIM (Bangalore) has hiked its fees from Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 4 lakh.
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