McKinsey led the pack by picking up 15 students, followed by Lehman Brothers and Boston Consulting taking 11 each. This year's batch, too, had their share of entrepreneurs with four students who opted out of the placements. Of the 256 students, about 100 students received pre-placement offers, and about 75-odd had bagged offer letters during the lateral placement that happened few weeks prior to the final placement.
Renowned athletics coach O M Nambiar, who nurtured Indian athletics great P T Usha, passed away in Kozhikode on Thursday due to age-related illness. He was 89.
During searches conducted in Kozikhode and Kannur districts of Kerala these six people were arrested, the spokesman said. Five of them were arrested when they were allegedly conducting a meeting at Kanakamala hilltop in Kannur district.
The Oscar winner sent the crowd in raptures during his live in concert in the state.
Singapore's budget airline Tiger Airways announced on Tuesday that it had bagged approval to fly between Singapore and six Indian cities. Consequently the airlines will soon start flights to Chennai, Cochin, Goa, Trivandrum, Kolkata and Kozikhode.
The Andhra players respectively won the boys and girls' singles crowns in the National Junior Open badminton championships.
Barua beat GM Pendyala Harikrishna while Ganguly accounted for Sriram Jha in the third round of the National 'A' chess championship to forge ahead.
The less-fancied Maharashtra girl beat the defending champion in the ninth round of the National Women's chess championship.
Dronavali Harika finished second in the women's championship.
The FIDE Presidential Board also awarded the International Woman Master title to 12-year-old Dronavalli Harika.
Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury beat the chess prodigy in the ninth round of the 41st National 'A' Chess Championship.
Indian players lead in all categories, except the boys' under-12, after the fifth round in the Asian Youth chess championship.
The veteran IM won the National women's 'B' chess title on better progressive scores.
Grandmaster Sandipan Chanda also tallied an identical 17.5 points in the 23-round event, but Ganguly won on a superior tie-break score.
Harikrishna, Chanda and Ganguly share lead before the last round in the National 'A' chess championship.
The double GM norm holder handed the PSPB GM and leader his first defeat in the National A chess championship.\n\n
GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly continues to lead the field after the 17th round in the National 'A' chess championship.
The Asian women's champion made sure of the title after the penultimate round in the tournament.
The top seed needs just a victory tomorrow against Kruttika Nadig of Maharashtra to clinch the Nat. A women's chess title.\n\n
The Asian champion has 13.5 points after 14 rounds, 1.5 points more than her nearest rival S Vijayalakshmi, in the National women's `A' chess championship.
The Asian women's champion scored her eighth victory from as many rounds in the Nat. women's `A' chess championship.
The top seed has five points from as many rounds in the National Women's 'A' Chess Championship.
The reigning Asian women's champion beat Tania Sachdev to lead the field in the Nat. women's 'A' chess championship.
Both share the top place after the sixth round in the Asian women's chess championship.
Three Indians are already assured of gold medals in their age-groups in the Asian Youth chess championships.
Budding Indian masters, Srinath N and Omkar Sanjay Davate shared the top spot in the Under-10 boys' category in the Asian Youth championships.
The two Indians maintained an all-win record in the the Asian Youth championships.\n\n
Grandmasters S S Ganguly and Sandipan Chanda share the lead with the top seed at the end of the 21st round in the National 'A' chess championship.
A fighting draw against Saptarshi Roy enabled the PSPB GM take his tally to 14 points after the 18th round in the 41st National 'A' chess championship.
The PSPB Grandmaster beat team mate R B Ramesh in the 12th round of the National 'A' chess championship to sit pretty at the top.
The Grandmaster from PSPB has 7.5 points and is followed by five players on 6.5 in the National A chess championship.
The chess prodigy beat T S Ravi to lead the fied after the seventh round in the National 'A' championship.
The 16-year-old Andhra girl proved a class above her 17 opponents in the National women's 'A' chess championship.
The victory over the defending champion gave the top seed the sole lead in the National women's 'A' chess championship.
Five players are half a point behind her after the penultimate round in the Asian women's chess championship.
The top seeded woman Grandmaster beat second seed Zhao Xue to take the lead at the end of the seventh round in the Asian women's chess championship.
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