Following in the footsteps of the Indian School of Business or ISB, Hyderabad, which has secured accreditation of the US-based non-profit accreditating agency Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), many a business school wants to join the bandwagon. The ISB went in for the accreditation as it is not affiliated to any university or its degree recognised by any university.

B-schools scramble for accreditations to face competition from foreign varsities

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Shoppers Stop, which opened its 50th store on Thursday with its sixth store in Bangalore, plans to spend Rs 225 crore over 2012-13 and 2013-14. The retailer, which has its operations spread across 22 cities in the country, is expanding at a frenetic pace.

Shoppers Stop on expansion mode

With cloud computing becoming a universal phenomenon and becoming more acceptable, the US-based technology solutions provider Unisys Corporation is seeking to provide its cloud-based solutions to the shipping and aviation sectors, and towards homeland security. Presently, the company is looking at the government sector, said Kumar Prabhas, managing director, Unisys India. This, even as it&rsquo;s in talks with an aviation company.

Unisys eyes internal security, transportation for growth

There is something strange taking place in Bidadi, near Bangalore. Well-dressed young men in some kind of corporate uniform seem to be walking in single file in a marked side-lane that wends its way around a well-groomed, green campus.

A little bit of Japan in Karnataka

The Koraput division of the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), which is involved in the making of the Sukhoi-30 MK1, is getting a helping hand from a Bangalore-based firm, Hind High Vacuum (HHV), for its specialised welding needs and ensure the robustness and good quality of the weld of the casings of the fighter&rsquo;s engines.

City firm to help encase Sukhoi engines right

The global macroeconomic factors that have been hard on the textile and apparel sector over the past 3-4 years have not spared Arvind Ltd&rsquo;s exports. The company is having to hence increase focus on the domestic market. It has been looking at various business models to increase the proportion of its total business from the domestic market.

Praveen Bose