In an attempt to resolve gender issues in corporate houses of the country as well as understand the diverse experiences of both men and women in the boardroom, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad has set up a Gender Resource Centre.
The country's premier B-school is all set to help MPs in effectively spend their grants so that maximum number of people can reap benefits. A group of students of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad has taken up a project to study the spendings and suggest changes for the Rs 2 crore (Rs 20 million) grant given each year to parliamentarians under the MP Local Area Development (MPLAD) scheme.
The premier Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad saw a 25 per cent drop in the average compensation package offered to its final-year post-graduate programme students in this year's placements, conducted over nine days from February 25 to March 5.The average yearly salary for domestic offers stood at Rs 12.17 lakh and international offers at $83,000. Last year, the average offered by domestic companies was Rs 17.85 lakh -- a 30 per cent jump from Rs 13.7 lakh in 2007.
Three senior executives have resigned from Byju's at a time when the most valuable edtech company has been trying to address challenges such as due diligence issues, legal battles with lenders, challenges in raising fresh capital, and a markdown in its valuation by investors. Prathyusha Agarwal, the chief business officer of Byju's, has quit, according to sources. They said Himanshu Bajaj, business head of Byju's tuition centres, and Mukut Deepak, business head for Class 4 to 10, have also moved on.
Final student placements of the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad) was over on Tuesday, with the premier B-school witnessing a hike in domestic and international salaries, as well as growing preference for enterpreneurship.
Over 100 companies are expected to make offers to the 256 students who will graduate this year.
During its summer placements in 2006, six start-up companies had visited the IIM-A campus for the first time, of which six students had interned with them.
The efforts of IIMA to defend its steep hike in the fee structure comes in the backdrop of a Parliamentary panel taking exception to the fee hike and suggested that the IIMs should wait for the report of the Bhargava committee, set up to review functioning of the Institutes. Under the unique arrangement, students who belong to families with annual income levels of upto Rs 100,000, could complete the two-year post graduate programme beginning next month.
The institute will take legal action if the talks did not make headway.
In the university category, IISc stood first, followed by JNU and BHU.
Of 235 graduates from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad this year, 161 preferred jobs in India, 11 declined foreign offers.
After the CAT results were leaked this year, IIM-A plans to hold test runs of future CAT results in a 'secure environment'.
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India will catch up with China by the year 2020 in terms of economic growth on the strength of its better efficiency of investments, an Asian Development Bank economist has said.
Twelve universities from India feature in the top 100 of QS Rankings by Subject 2021.
Adani Airports is planning to centre its airport business around Mumbai and Ahmedabad by developing them as gateway airports, feeding them with traffic from other airports in the company's portfolio. The Ahmedabad-based conglomerate - with investments in logistics, transportation, utilities and energy - intends to spend Rs 35,000 crore in the airport business in the next five years. This forms the bulk of the conglomerate's total capex of Rs 50,000 crore. According to a presentation given by the company in an investor call with Bank of America, gateway airports of Mumbai and Ahmedabad will be connected with the feeder airports of Lucknow, Guwahati, Trivandrum, Jaipur and Mangalore.
The government has retained Arvind Subramanian as its chief economic advisor, unlike other American professors Dr Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Panagariya, who quit their jobs as RBI governor and NITI deputy chairman respectively.
The e-commerce firm recruited 18 post graduate students.
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While most of Mukherjee's lectures will be closed door for the students taking up the elective, the institute plans to open up one or two sessions for public in November this year.
The Reserve Bank's rate setting panel on Thursday met to finalise a report for the government on why it failed to keep retail inflation below the target of 6 per cent for three consecutive quarters since January this year, said sources. The report will be presented to the government as per the Reserve Bank of India Act, they added. The six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is headed by Governor Shaktikanta Das.
Ivan Manuel Menezes, the India-born CEO of the world's biggest spirits company Diageo, died on Wednesday, days after being hospitalised for treatment of stomach ulcer. Menezes, 64, who was to retire at the end of this month, died in London, the company said. "It is with great sadness that Diageo announces that Sir Ivan Menezes has passed away following a brief illness, with his family at his side," it said in a statement. Diageo had on Monday announced that CEO-designate Debra Crew will assume the top role on an interim basis immediately as Menezes undergoes medical treatment.
N R Narayana Murthy, co-founder of Information Technology giant Infosys, has lamented that economic activities in India were 'stalled' and decisions were not taken by the Manmohan Singh government in time in the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance-era.
The bill to amend the IIM Act of 2017 was introduced in the Lok Sabha last Friday amid disruptions by opposition members over the Manipur violence issue.
