A lot has been written in the press lately about the Punjab government&rsquo;s decision to provide land to the Indian School of Business (ISB) for its second campus at Mohali. Some of the arguments and general angst about the absence of a national land use policy are valid. The argument that public land must be put to the best public use is also completely understandable.

Ajit Rangnekar & Savita Mahajan: Driving states up the learning curve

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Industry majors keen to hire freshers based on their performance during summer internships.

IIMs see surge in pre-placement offers

    Who said this about the brands he launched: &ldquo;If people find No.2 so good, they will believe No.1 to be even better&rdquo;? No.2 was launched before No.

Answers to last week&#39s quiz (#163)

The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-K) might finally get a go ahead with its plans to set up a medical school and hospital.Since it signed a $50-million MoU with the University of California, San Diego, last year to set up a 750-bed state-of-the-art hospital and research centre at the IIT, the institute had been pursuing the case with the Union HRD Ministry.

IIT-Kharagpur hopes to get Cabinet nod for medical school

Engineering education in West Bengal is facing a problem of plenty. Around 6,238 seats are lying vacant after the second round of counselling and the reasons are manifold. A third round of counselling is slated between August 29 and 31, to fill up the vacancies.

Problem of plenty: Engineering seats lying vacant in West Bengal

    At the age of 19, DK of Old Delhi started making fountain pens, and today, his company exports pens to about 75 countries. Name the company DK founded.

The Strategist Quiz (#164)

Mobile value-added services (VAS) include messaging and premium content like music, video, TV, entertainment and information services.

KIT: The mobile value-added services market in India

Laaunched in July this year, Mastiii, the Hindi music and comedy channel from Sri Adhikari Brothers, has made it to the top slot in the music television genre across Hindi-speaking markets.

Sri Adhikari Brothers: Mastiii on top

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has launched a programme to increase the supply of faculty in the country and augmenting research and teaching resources of universities. The programme called Operation &lsquo;Faculty Recharge&rsquo; will create 1,000 faculty positions nationally and offers a mechanism to address the problem of lack of research and upgrade faculty resources in their science related departments.

UGC launches drive to replenish faculty supply

Conventional wisdom says that companies must always put the customer first. HCL Technologies CEO Vineet Nayar, however, thinks otherwise.

Let employees lead

Marketing experts have often said: You either be number one or two or merge with the crowd.

Nerolac nets a new hue

Multiplex operator PVR is setting up entertainment cities across the country.

Entertainment Incorporated

Last month, the Discovery channel launched one of its most ambitious programmes. Called &lsquo;Life&rsquo;, the series was shot over 3,000 days across continents and captures various plant and animal species locked in their unique fight for survival.

Discovery takes on Hindi entertainment channels

Prometric &mdash; the US-based testing agency that conducted the Common Admission Test (CAT) last year &mdash; is now pulling up its socks to deliver CAT 2010 successfully and without any glitches. &ldquo;We are all geared up for CAT 2010 and the biggest improvements will be in three key areas of site readiness, registration and test delivery,&rdquo; says Soumitra Roy, managing director of Prometric India.

Prometric gets its act together

Nearly 700 seats reserved for scheduled castes (SCs), scheduled tribes (STs) and other backward classes (OBCs) are lying vacant at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) this year after the first allotment of seats.

Quota seats go abegging at IITs

The job scenario is hotting up if one goes by employment forecasts. However, for the first time, students of the 2009-10 post-graduate programme for executives (PGPX) batch at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) are yet to find jobs. This despite the fact that &lsquo;rolling&rsquo; placement by the institute started seven months back.

Seven months on, some execs at IIM-A yet to find jobs

The country&rsquo;s ninth Indian Institute of Management (IIM) with 45 students was inaugurated on Tuesday by the state Governor MOH Farook.

IIM Ranchi inaugurated

The RPG group&rsquo;s retail chain wants apparel to account for a third of its revenue compared to just 10% now.

Spencer's  goes off the beaten track

Come December, the Forevermark brand will take on India&rsquo;s leading diamond retailers.

De Beers takes the mass market route

With an aim to provide quality education to students, business schools in Punjab are looking for collaboration with overseas universities.

Mgmt schools gain from overseas collaborations

How do you measure a company&rsquo;s innovation mindset? Ask the Tata group.

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