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Till a few years ago, there existed a mad rush to join the league of popular professions. Students passing out of schools and colleges would almost robotically choose to do engineering, medicine, management, journalism, law and the other such 'popular' professions that instantly come to our mind...

As the B-school admissions pick up steam, candidates are busy preparing for the nerve-wracking group discussion-personal interview phase. To assist aspiring management grads in their preparation, students at IIM Lucknow [ Images ] have come together to pool their experiences of the admissions...

Approximately four lakh students are expected to appear for the IIT-JEE 2010, scheduled for April 11, 2010. My advice to students is to avoid selective study in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. This is because with the number of questions being more in objective type papers and with...

Selecting a B-school appears so insurmountable a task because there are no universally accepted parameters that one can use to measure the 'worth' of one B-school against another. But here's what you should be wary of! Pre-selected for GD & PI This should be your biggest warning sign that...

Sore throats are the most common reason that patients visit a doctor. The tonsils and throat are very open to infection due to the contaminated air that flows through the area. The contaminated air contains pollutants, bacteria and viruses that attack throat tissue. What is a sore throat? Sore...

The Darjeeling toy train was back in the news with 'Parineeta'. Though not as memorable as his mother’s 'mere sapno ki rani' picturisation, nonetheless, Saif Ali’s 'yeh hawayein gun ganaye' has all the dewy freshness of a Vidhu Vinod Chopra song sequence. Boarding the train transports you into...

The aim and the dream behind the Books10Solutions portal of Point10Solultions portfolio, is to solely help, fund and aid needy students by extending a helping hand for them to move a step further in life. This portal is not meant for any lucrative business ideas, but to motivate students to...

by Peter Bregman, Harvard Business Publishing I was walking down 48th Street in midtown Manhattan, when a man, well-dressed in a nice suit and shined shoes, with coiffed hair, and a leather briefcase, brushed by me. Then I saw him turn his head and spit out his gum. I kept my eye on the wad...

The government on Tuesday said as many as 20 lakh people may become jobless in the export sector, which has been hit hard due to rupee appreciation vis-a-vis dollar in the last one year. Replying to a question in Lok Sabha, Commerce Minister Kamal Nath said 20 lakh people may face unemployment...

Mukul Gupta, CEO, Birla Sun Life AMC Open any newspaper or a magazine and you will not miss a story or two about the domestic equity market being propelled to new highs, personal fortunes of successful businessmen growing by leaps and bounds on the back of rising share prices, foreign investors...

Harish Hande, CEO, Selco, who has been selected social entrepreneur of the year by the Nand and Jeet Khemka Foundation this year, has been in the business of solar electrification since the past 12 years. At last count, his clients numbered 85,000 in 220 villages in Karnataka and 2,000 clients...

by Anurag Jain... When asked to pen my thoughts on the topic, I did a quick recap of how I was at B-school and how I have evolved and matured as a person. Quite obviously, one learns a lot at B-school, but what one does not learn is the difference between being an entrepreneur and a business...

Anil Rego, CEO, Right Horizons How many of us can think of retiring at 30? And actually achieve it? If you are Anil Rego, CEO of Right Horizons, an investment advisory and wealth management firm in Bangalore, now Bengalooru, then it is eminently possible. "I'd always wanted to be an...

Andrew Denby took over as the chief executive officer, supermarkets, of Aditya Birla Retail Ltd six months ago. Before joining the Aditya Birla group, he had worked for retail majors like Marks & Spencer, Dairy Farm, A S Watson, et cetera. He has travelled across India studying the Indian...

India plans to set up about 1,000 automatic weather stations in the next financial year as part of the Indian Space Research Organisation's expansion programme to improve meteorological services. "About 1000 automatic weather stations are planned to be deployed during 2008-09," Director of...

There is a misconception many aspiring Indians have that one can apply for an H-1B visa directly and get to the US for a job. You cannot apply for an H-1B visa yourself. US Immigration law is vague about the definition of the word profession (relevant to H-1B visa) stating only that the...

A social IT project holds answers to traffic snarls and transport problems in Indian cities. And Delhi may soon be on its map. The city then, with the help of the project, will be able to help its denizens travel on traffic-free roads and reach their destinations in time. The initiative will...

The Aditya Birla Management Corporation is looking at raising total employee strength to 55,000 in its retail business alone, from 8,000 employees right now. Speaking at the seminar organized by the National HRD Network in Kolkata, Santrupt B Misra, director-HR and IT of the company, said, "We...

Initially, when I started to teach at a reputed business school, I was dismayed by the fact that an average MBA student who does not want to specialise in Finance is quite happy if she can obtain a C plus (the minimum pass grade) in the basic accounting course. It is the same with middle-level...

Incumbent mobile operators and applicants for new licences have found a new weapon to fight their rivals on the contentious issue of licensing and spectrum allocation: the Right to Information Act. Providers of GSM-technology services, which account for the bulk of mobile services in the...