Kerala has been a favourite tourist destination for many in India and abroad, thanks to its beaches, the lush greens, the backwaters, ayurveda... Now add one more offering to the list: shopping, courtesy the Grand Kerala Shopping Festival (GKSF), a government of Kerala initiative.

Kerala tourism: A complete package

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The top 10 business bestsellers

The world&rsquo;s 12-th largest handset manufacturer has set a scorching pace in localisation.

Micromax grows up fast

The chocolate market in India is pegged at Rs 2,000 crore and is growing at a rate of 18-20 per cent per annum. The global chocolate market is estimated around $83.2 bn. The industry is extremely fragmented in terms of range of products.

KIT: Chocolate market in India

    This person was a gadgeteer whose biggest break came in the early 1900s when he invented a system to make digging through index cards easier. One of his contributions is vital for all central banks in the world. He also founded a company which is now called Remington Rand. Name him and his invention.

The Strategist Quiz (#220)

After the brand war in packaged cereals such as wheat, rice and maize, it&rsquo;s the turn of pulses. While players like Future Group, Reliance Retail and ITC are already in the fray with their branded pulses products, late entrants like the Tata Group are making the competition fiercer.

Branded pulses in bid to make presence felt

University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, is exploring partnership opportunities with top Indian educational institutions and businesses. While it does not intend to open an India campus or offer tailored corporate degrees, it is looking at research avenues in collaboration with centres of academic excellence in the country.

Q&A: Fred Hilmer, President, University of New South Wales

    This idea first surfaced in the work of US leadership theorist Warren G Bennis.

Answers to last week&#39s quiz (#219)

Last month was decidedly hectic for N Chandrasekaran, CEO &amp; MD of India&rsquo;s largest IT services provider Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), who typically spends 20-23 days on the road primarily to meet clients. He was criss-crossing India, trying to meet up with as many of the company&rsquo;s over 200,000 global employees as possible. &ldquo;I spend around 90 minutes in each location. I first show them a 30-minute video about the goings-on in the company, after which I welcome questions.

The human factor

Cloud has the potential to transform the way IT services are delivered.

The silver lining in the Cloud

Less than 10 days after the council of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) announced a four-fold increase in fees, private engineering colleges are mulling a hike of 15 to 30 per cent.

Pvt engineering colleges mull 15-30% fee hike

The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) on Monday launched the institute&rsquo;s website in Hindi, as a part of the ongoing celebration of the Hindi Fortnight held from September 14 to 29 every year at the campus. The Hindi fortnight is observed every year by the institute for the implementation of the official language policy of the Government of India.

IIMA launches Hindi website

Indian consumers want the best of both worlds. So focusing only on health may backfire.

Health bhi, taste bhi

For the quick-service chain, growth is not just about adding stores; it&rsquo;s also about optimising existing ones by adding business channels.

McDonald's new growth drivers

US-based Harvard University has, in principle, agreed to partner with the Maharashtra government to provide training for its elected representatives, bureaucrats, executives and academicians on issues relating to governance and development. This will be the first time Harvard University has agreed to be part of such a venture in Maharashtra.

Mumbai calling: Harvard provides the answers

The proposed common admission test format for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and National Institutes of Technology (NITs), could prove to be a damper for the Rs 10,000-crore coaching industry.

IIT CAT 2013: Hard lessons for private coaching centres

The nexus between IIT-JEE and the board subjects is well versed since the applications of the basics taught in higher secondary are tested in IIT. Giving equal weightage to the boardexams and JEE as well will deserve scorn from some elite aspirants who are full fledged committed to concentrate on IIT JEE.

Student's corner

V Narayanasamy is an earnest man. The Minister of State looking after the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) shot off a note last week asking officials to fast-track a proposal to increase the mandatory &ldquo;cooling&rdquo; period of bureaucrats from the existing one year to three years from the date of retirement.

Shyamal Majumdar: When exceptions become the rule

Bisleri seems to have had enough of clich&eacute;d images of mountains and springs. In its latest television commercial, the mineral water brand has used humour (&ldquo;save yourself from a monster by offering him Bisleri&rdquo;) to drive home the brand message: stay protected with Bisleri water.

Bisleri's growing thirst for volumes

LG Electronics is hoping it will be second time lucky as far as laptops are concerned. Two years after withdrawing its laptop models from the Indian market, LG is back &ndash; but with a key change in its game plan.

LG plays pricing card for laptops

Austrian beverages maker Red Bull today said it was looking to grow the energy drinks market in India via a series of marketing initiatives and promotional events leveraging on the country's first ever Formula 1 race to be held next month.

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