Russia, which imparts free education to all its citizens, is set to introduce short-term courses for foreign students next year in the field of IT, business management, engineering and medicine.

Russia mulls short-term courses for foreigners

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To differentiate its one-year executive post graduate programme in management (EPGP) from its flagship two-year post graduate programme (PGP), the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM-B) has increased its minimum requirement of work experience from five to seven years. This has been taken into account while selecting its final class composition for the 2010-11 batch.

Executives need to work more to join IIM Bangalore

Microsoft is promising a whole new user experience with its retooled and re-engineered offerings.

Three screens and the cloud

The Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Ghaziabad plans to start a new dual-country course by July this year. With an intake of 120 students, the two-year course will offer students the opportunity to spend one year at IMT&rsquo;s Ghaziabad campus and the other year at its Dubai campus.

IMT Ghaziabad to launch dual-country course

Rishi Patel, a student who wanted to study in Australia, is in a dilemma. He paid his visa application fees for a course in hair design in Melbourne and was planning to start his own firm there after getting permanent residency (PR).

Student flow to Australia may dip further with migration law changes

Companies eyeing growth and scale in emerging markets have no choice but to engage deeply with these economies and serve the large and growing middle class. In their new book, Winning in Emerging Markets, Harvard Business School Professors Tarun Khanna and Krishna Palepu outline a practical framework for developing emerging market strategies.

Exploiting institutional voids

Reliance Communications tries to rope in more users for its wireless internet offering through a campaign focused on the youth.

Quest to connect

Discovery Communications has launched a new programme called Life on its flagship, Discovery Channel. The ten-part series was filmed across all continents, and took over 3,000 days to make. The images will be introduced by David Attenborough.

Bigger bouquet

Bank of Baroda has a new campaign ready to talk about its tech-savvy avatar. With a series of eight animated ads, Baroda Next shows whether the customer needs to make that eleventh hour payment of bills, repay loan installments, premiums or even tax, or if he needs a home loan in a matter of days, the bank&rsquo;s website is the place to stop by.

Tech ready

The energy drinks market in India is estimated to be around Rs 500 crore.

KIT: India's energy drinks market

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By attaining the leadership position in a country in just its third year of operations, BMW India created history within the group worldwide. In 2009, BMW sold 3,619 units, while Mercedes-Benz India managed 3,247 units. BMW overtook Mercedes for the first time when the January 2009 sales were revealed and hasn&rsquo;t looked back since.

Clash of the Teutons

Over the last couple of weeks, there&rsquo;s been a lot of buzz at the Mumbai headquarters of the Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Media World (RMWL). All the 700-odd employees of RMWL will get new cards and stationery with a new signature logo which will have RMWL as the umbrella brand and the business divisions alongside &ndash; BIG FM, BIG Live, BIG Street, BIG Digital.

More than just radio

They may fight a pitched battle around the world for your tea cup, but when it comes to branding, Tata Tea is taking a page out of Hindustan Unilever&rsquo;s (HUL's) marketing manual. So, just like HUL of the 90s, Tata Tea too has come up with its own &lsquo;power brands&rsquo;, which will get a global push.

Tata Tea creates three global 'power brands'

In September last year, workers at Green Isle Foods, a pizza-making plant in the Republic of Ireland, threatened to go on strike because three workers had been dismissed for viewing porn during office hours.

Kanika Datta: Walking the talk

The palm-coconut-fringed beach, white sand and crashing sea waves may be a feast for the eyes, but Mr Super-busy Executive is watching them as dispassionately as he would look at the Mithi river (in a prominent Mumbai intersection) every morning on his way to office. For, his mind is in a different world &mdash; where he is either the boss or a wannabe.

Shyamal Majumdar: More work + Blackberry = Holiday

The country&rsquo;s largest baker wants people in villages and small towns to eat its cookies.

Britannia Industries: Cookie goes rural

The Pacific, a miniseries based on the Second World War (1939-45), has debuted on HBO, Time Warner&rsquo;s English movie television channel. Produced at a budget of $200million (Rs 940 crore) by Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, it is the most expensive miniseries ever made by HBO.

HBO: The Pacific calling

The Indian shop-fittings market is in a nascent stage and largely unorganised.

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