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The three groups aim to address issues of governance, faculty and funding.

IIM review committees to submit report to centre in June

The electric car brand Reva may soon have a new logo which will include the name of Mahindra.

Reva gets a recharge

The Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode (IIM-K), which raised its fee to Rs 10 lakh from Rs 8 lakh this year, gave away over Rs 2 crore as scholarships to students last year. The institute, which altered its admission process to welcome higher number of women students on campus, has increased its allocation to Rs 1.21 crore for the 2011 batch from Rs 1.06 crore for the 2010 batch. Debashis Chatterjee, Director of IIM-K, tells Chitra Unnithan what changes he plans to make on the campus.

'Women make better managers'

It ranks a close second to heritage brand Nycil in the prickly heat powder market but Ahmedabad-based Paras Pharmaceuticals believes its &lsquo;stay cool, think cool&rsquo; campaign for &lsquo;Dermicool&rsquo; will give it the desired edge.

Prickly competition to beat the heat

Sometime towards the end of 2011 or the early part of 2012, General Motors will launch trucks in India. These will be small machines meant to ply inside cities, and will take on Tata Motors&rsquo; Ace and Mahindra &amp; Mahindra&rsquo;s Gio. The architecture of the trucks will be sourced from SAIC of China, which now holds 50 per cent in General Motors India, but these will be customised for India inside the General Motors Technology Centre in Bangalore.

Chevrolet all the way

The Richard Ivey School of Business (Ivey) at the University of Western Ontario has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B), according to which Ivey will invest $100,000 (around Rs 46 lakh) in India&rsquo;s premier business school.

Richard Ivey invests in IIM-Bangalore for research, exchange programmes

Back in the day, Bobby made the yellow Rajdoot famous. Later, Aamir Khan popularised the navy cap in Dil Hai Ki Maanta Nahin and geared cycles with Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander. And Manish Malhotra became a household name after he designed Urmila Matondkar&rsquo;s outfits in Rangeela.

Bollywood Cinema *ing Product Placements

Technology is a tool to make things better in and for India, believes A Jithendar Reddy, a native of Warangal district in Andhra Pradesh, who topped the recently-announced IIT-JEE results.

JEE topper eyes IIT-Bombay, MIT for higher studies

Titan has re-entered the children&rsquo;s watch segment.

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    Facit, an innerwear brand launched by Forbes Campbell Knitwear of the Shaporji Pallonji group. Facit was once also the name of a typewriter manufactured by the group.

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Set inside a bathroom, the ad opens when a young boy asks his father, played by superstar Shah Rukh Khan, why he has to brush his teeth everyday. The father slips into a character, puts on a gruff voice and explains to his son that if he doesn&rsquo;t brush his teeth, germs will attack it and his white teeth will turn black.

Pepsodent fights on

The Indian School of Business (ISB), ranked in the top 12 global B-schools by the Financial Times, has increased its tuition fee to Rs 15.3 lakh per annum &mdash; Rs 80,000 more than Rs 14.5 lakh it charged last year. The non-refundable fee remained at Rs 2 lakh.

Studying at ISB to cost over Rs 20 lakh

Most ad gurus think the third edition of the Indian Premier League has been a disappointing creative show.

Brand campaigns on IPL: Long on quantity, short on quality

Playing its health card, Coca-Cola is in the process of launching three fruit-based drinks this summer. The company is expected to launch two products under the Minute Maid brand, and a mango shake in the dairy segment under the Maaza brand by June this year.

Coca-Cola to launch fruit-based drinks

&lsquo;Dates with Honey&rsquo; or &lsquo;Pinaorange Fantasy&rsquo;? Both are within reach this summer, courtesy Amul and Vadilal, the country&rsquo;s leading ice cream makers who are trying hard to beat the competition heat.

Ice cream brands offer hot picks

The controversy that surrounds Ashoke Dutta, director of the youngest IIM, the Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management (RGIIM), Shillong &mdash; refuses to die down.

B-school faculty protest IIM-Shillong chief's nomination

Unilever is taking performance-linked pay to a different level altogether. Its CEO Paul Polman received a pay packet of more than &pound;3 million in his first full year as chief executive after the company hit a number of its financial targets.

Shyamal Majumdar: Polman's salary formula

The youngest Indian Institute of Management, Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management-Shillong, will have its maiden convocation tomorrow where its 63 students will be awarded post-graduate diplomas by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee.

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