Working in the education sector was always a weekend activity, not a potential employment avenue.

Education ventures mean serious business for IIM, IIT graduates

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The Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) will act as the mentor for IIT-Orissa and admit 120 additional students seeking admission in IIT-Orissa in the 2008-09 academic year.

IIT-KGP to mentor IIT-Orissa for 3 years

P>The impact of sustained rise in input costs and an imbalance in the demand-supply situation wherein demand has not kept pace with the increase in supply are forcing various businesses to react in different ways.

Arvind Singhal: Declining Service in Services Sector

Tata Tea, which sold its stake in US-based Glaceau in last year, plans to begin selling a low-priced bottled water in the country through its unit Mount Everest Mineral Water (MEMW) to take on global rivals such as Coca-Cola and PepsiCo in the Rs 1,500-crore packaged drinking water market.

Tata plans water brand to take on Coke, Pepsi

&nbsp;Social influencers need to recognise India is a teenager. 
&nbsp;A recent life insurance commercial shows a wife returning home and finding her husband sitting in the balcony still'.

Madhukar Sabnavis: How mature is India?

WHAT I&#39;VE LIKED The brave new world of telecom ads It&#39;s finally happening.

Creative spark lights up telecom ads

GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare's latest offering Women's Horlicks was the best ever launch for the company because of its unique product design, which hugely influenced purchase at modern retail stores, say executives.

FMCGs up R&D spend on design

&nbsp;Creatives made in India are being delivered all over the world. Indian talent is getting recognised.

You`ve got creative

On its 25th anniversary, Maruti Suzuki seeks to reiterate its leadership with a new brand film.

Maruti`s silver hue

SELF LEADERSHIP AND THE ONE MINUTE MANAGER Authors: Ken Blanchard, Susan Fowler and Laurence Hawkins Publisher: Harper Collins Price: Rs 125 ISBN: 0007252064.

The top 10 business bestsellers

    While this brand was founded in 1952, its origins date back to 1908 when the company decided to make acid-resistant ceramic jars for the sulphuric acid it was manufacturing at its Ranipet plant in Tamil Nadu. Name the brand.

The Strategist Quiz  (#050)

The retail sector in India is valued at $342 billion in 2007 and is expected to reach $530 billion by 2012.

KIT: The future of hypermarkets in India

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<LI>Where would you experience the Tenzing service and what is its significance? An Emirates airline.

Answers to last week`s quiz (#049)

While continuing its attempt to take management control of Zandu Pharma, Kolkata-based fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) company Emami is also looking at acquiring some of the regional FMCG brands with turnover ranging from Rs 20 to Rs 50 crore.

Emami looking at regional acquisitions

BEVERAGES: The company plans to move into the Delhi, Chandigarh, Bangalore and Pune markets.

Homegrown Indus Wines steadily makes its mark

F or those who want to think beyond an MBA in Finance, HR or Marketing, there is some good news.

MBA specialisations: The road less travelled

The Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry's proposal to set up an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) exclusively for girls has intrigued the faculty and management of existing IITs.

An all-girl IIT will face faculty issue

With the UPA government announcing that it would set up eight new IITs as part of the 11th Five-Year Plan and the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) deciding to open six new IITs this year itself, there will now be around 6,800-odd seats available for the engineering students.

`The new IITs would need our assistance for at least five yrs`

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's largest IT company, has selected a whopping total of 1,075 students of VIT University after a very rigorous screening in the first slot for the 2009 June passing out batch.

TCS creates record at VIT

One of the country's most reputed universities - the University of Pune - has passed an ordinance which allocates 70 per cent of its seats in all its master's degree programmes to students completing bachelor's degree courses from Pune, Ahmednagar and Nashik districts, which fall under its jurisdiction.

Pune varsity reserves 70% quota for locals

The Maharashtra government's "counter sales" courses for the big retail chains have met with a huge success with the first batch of 2,000 students being completely absorbed by the industry.

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