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XLRI completes summer placement for its largest batch size

Batch size this yaer was up 26% with 303 students against 240 students in 2012

Diesel decontrol hope puts Essar in high gear on fuel retail

With petrol already freed, sees big opportunity ahead

IIM-K sees 36% jump in stipend for summer placements

Highest stipend offered this year is Rs 2 lakh

RIL may see 31% jump in KG-D6 output in 6 months

Company says it will drill 8 development wells on D34 and lay a pipeline to take the gas to the existing facilities of D1-D3 fields

Panjab University steals a march over IITs in global rankings

This slowdown, B-schools bet big on executive education

Hope to generate more revenue through management development programmes

Why industry is pussyfooting on skill development

Industry reluctant to creating adequate salary differential between skilled and unskilled workers; many firms consider skilling a part of CSR

S Varadarajan takes over as BPCL CMD

Replaces RK Singh, who superannuated on September 30

Gulf between job seekers and employability widens

Boston Consulting says 40% current workforce illiterate, another 40% made up of school dropouts

Breathe easier: CAT might be a less crowded affair this year

While in 2011, there were 68 aspirants for one seat at an IIM, figure has now dropped to 58 candidates per seat

Slowdown woes for MBA test registrations

Industry experts pointed out that with rising costs and increasing fees, doing an MBA from a reputed institute was not viable for the Indian middle class

Real wages in India expected to quadruple by 2030

On the other hand, wages in the UK and US are projected to rise by a third by 2030

Essar Energy bullish on the E&P segment

New gas price regime will be implemented from april 1st, 2014

Eight new faculty members join IIM-A till Sept 2013

Professor Sharon Barnhardt has joined IIM Ahmedabad, after a stint at IFMR

Entry, junior level hiring dips as employers want productive workforce

Employers are hiring only when there are projects as employment sentiment lags business sentiment

Panel wants tougher norms for private universities

Committee formed to revisit UGC Act says these should not be allowed to take students for a ride

Shapoorji Pallonji to exit renewable energy venture floated with BPCL

They have offered their holdings to the existing promoters in the proportion of their current shareholding

Slowdown clouds skip top engineering schools

Early signs in placement season show more firms signing up and increase in salaries

LG Chemicals backs out of BPCL's Rs 5k-cr petrochemicals project

Latter scouting for other partners to either form a joint venture or source technology from licensors

BPCL bucks the trend, sees debt-equity ratio improve

Growing borrowing levels, high interest rates in India have escalated the debt servicing burden