Tata Tea&rsquo;s Jaago Re! One Billion Votes campaign is stirring the conscience of young Indians. The campaign, launched in September last year, creates a platform which facilitates citizens&rsquo; entry into the electoral process. The website www.jaagore.com hosts a voter registration engine that allows people to fill in voter registration forms online. Almost 250,000 youngsters have registered for voting through the site.

Tata stirs up responsible brew

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As the prospects for campus recruitment turn bleak, leading business schools are promoting entrepreneurship among students.

B-schools prod students to float ventures in weak job market

There is a pressing need for more liability insurance for independent directors in the wake of corporate governance scandals such as Satyam Computer Services Limited, opined speakers at the second Asian invitational conference on &lsquo;Family Business&rsquo; that concluded at the Indian School of Business (ISB) here on Sunday.

&#39;Independent directors need more  liability cover&#39;

MEDIA: Movies provide a cheaper, alternative platform for greater visibility and brand promotion.

Brands in films gain more footage in slowing economy

    This Indian entrepreneur hit upon the idea to start a low-cost airline when he was travelling from Johannesburg to Cape Town in a flight operated by Kalula.com.

Answers to last week&#39s quiz (#084)

    This company&rsquo;s website greets you with the tag line: &ldquo;Faster. Further. Freer &mdash; Our Message in a Bottle.&rdquo; These are its leading principles on the basis of which it runs its business. Name it.

The Strategist Quiz (#085)

The Indian health care market is $40 billion (Rs 1,94,246 crore).

KIT: The health care market in India

Indigo's obsession for details when it comes to cutting flab is paying rich dividends to the low-cost carrier.

Fine strokes

Companies get a lot of advice on the subject. Which decision-making disciplines really make a difference?.

How companies make good decisions

MANAGEMENT SCHOOL days have been some of the most productive in terms of establishing a strong foundation to my corporate learning journey. From expectation and relationship management to team-building and issues management, I saw a foundation being cemented for a quality corporate life &mdash; more often than not extending to the social life.

The importance of intuition

The slowdown came down like a pile of bricks on Indian companies and their leaders. Most of them had little experience of handling a meltdown of this scale. As a result, they are still groping for answers.

&#39;India lacks the experience to handle downturns&#39;

The Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur (IIT-KGP), one of the oldest IITs in the country, has sanctioned the setting up of at least four new centres of excellence. One of these, the School of Entrepreneurship, will work exclusively to encourage entrepreneurship. However, the institute is also working to ensure that academic standards are maintained. In an interview, Deputy Director Madhusudan Chakraborty, likely to take charge as IIT-Orissa director, tells Pradipta Mukherjee that the institute plans to tie-up with foreign institutes to increase the number of PhDs graduating from the institute.

&#39;We will invest around Rs 46 crore in four new centres of excellence&#39;

How LG Electronics plans to more than double its share in the handsets market.

How LG plans to double handsets mkt share

Entrepreneurship is the flavour of the season. Premier institutes, including the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), are organising conferences, seminars and lectures on entrepreneurship.

B-schools encourage setting up of start-ups

The University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) is planning to set up campuses in Dubai, Qatar, Vietnam, Egypt, Nigeria, Sudan and Khazakastan in the next five years.

UPES eyes foreign shores

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Students from some of India's premier institutes such as IIM Calcutta (IIM-C), IIM Kozhikode (IIM-K), IIM Lucknow (IIM-L), IIT-Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) and National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai have voluntarily undertaken to mentor hundreds of aspirants who cleared the written Common Admission Test (CAT) and IIT joint entrance examination (JEE) to cover the group discussion and personal interview, the final lap for a coveted IIM or IIT seat.

IIM, IIT students turn mentors for aspirants

In these times of recession, advertisers are looking to increase the efficiency of their ad-spend. Besides a cut in outlay, they are consolidating their accounts and moving from multiple advertising agencies to a maximum of two-three agencies. There are also plans to shift regional-level accounts from regional-level agencies to national-level agencies.

Advertisers look to consolidate

A severe outbreak of chikungunya or dengue may cost Gujarat Rs 74 crore in terms of lost tourism revenue, warns a working paper published by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A). &quot;This is in addition to the Rs 380 crore immediate cost of these diseases to Gujarat&quot;, says Dileep Mavalankar, faculty member at IIM-A who led the study.

Chikungunya may trim tourism revenue by Rs 74 crore: IIM-A

Cash-strapped Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is reviewing its branding agreement with cricketer Sachin Tendulkar a year into the deal.

RBS reviewing contract with Tendulkar

Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB) expects to roll out a 15-month regular executive Post Graduate Programme in Management from June this year. This programme would cater to the needs of corporate executives and it will have the academic rigour of a two-year MBA course.

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