Dasna Jail Library entrance It is just after 10 am and activity has already begun inside Ghaziabads Dasna District Jail library, which is located about 35 kms from both New Delhi and Greater Noida. Four prison inmates who volunteer at the the newly formed library in the jail premises take...
Read MoreThe Supreme Court has extended its last year’s stay order on the AICTE notification that had sought to do away with major MBA entrance exams in favour of only the CAT and MAT. For the coming admission season of 2012-13 too, PGDM institutes can continue their admission processes on the...
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Read More(Click for full image) So this is it people, today is the Last Day that you will see PaGaLGuY in its current avatar. We transition to the new PaGaLGuY starting tomorrow afternoon (the article assumes you sleep till noon), the one we’ve been introducing you to since the last week....
Read More(Also read Part 1 and Part 2 of the series introducing the new PaGLaGuY) The one question a lot of people have asked us about the next-generation PaGaLGuY is: What happens to Private Messages (PMs)? Do they stay or go? I have two exciting updates to share in our re-imagined...
Read MorePhoto: Flickr A lecture, according to Wikipedia is an oral presentation intended to present information or teach people about a particular subject, for example by a university or college teacher. That’s how lectures have pretty much been since the time sages and gods gave sermons. In real terms, for many...
Read MoreIn last week’s first preview of the next-generation PaGaLGuY, we introduced you to the upcoming ‘Follow’ feature, and how your experience with the new PaGaLGuY will revolve around following people, discussions and articles. We strongly believe that online communities aren’t as much about the information posted in them, as they...
Read MorePhoto Credit Flickr For the first time, the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore has registered a count of 100 women in its 2012-2014 batch. While it works to just around 26 % (batch size being 377), lower than what other IIMs like (IIM Shillong and IIM Kozhikode have known to...
Read MoreIn the last 10 years since it said hello to the world, PaGaLGuY has come to define how MBA applicants across India share information and network with each other online to crack the toughest MBA entrance tests and get into the best business schools in India and across the world....
Read MorePhoto Credit: Flickr What’s in a name? Plenty, if you take Union Minister for Human Resources and Development, Kapil Sibal’s latest drive in question, to get the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) to start doling out degrees instead of diplomas. Sure, the move seems noble considering that in management studies,...
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Rajeev Gowda, Prof of Economics & Social Sciences, IIM Bangalore (Photo credit: Tejas Team, IIM Bangalore) In a short interview with PaGaLGuY, Rajeev Gowda, Professor of Economics and Social Sciences, of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore, explains how management education can connect to a career in politics and...
Read MoreProf SSS Kumar, of The Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode (IIMK) has been appointed CAT (The Common Admission Test) Convenor for 2012. Prof Kumar who teaches Finance, Accounting and Control is from Guntur, Andhra Pradesh and joined IIMK in 2003. The news was confirmed by an official from IIMK, though...
Read MoreManoj Rana on graduation day Uttar Pradesh born Manoj Rana is not the predictable computer engineer who ended up doing an MBA. His reasons were slightly different. A dreadful fire in 2005 had rendered both of Manojs hands and his upper extremities severely contracted. Today, after suffering 95% burns, undergoing...
Read MoreAnkur Kumar of Wharton ( Photo: Wharton ) In a quick Q&A; with PaGaLGuY, Wharton’s admissions director Ankur Kumar talks about the new curriculum at Wharton, the move to eliminate alumni from admission interviews and the school’s approach to the new GMAT. Could you describe what your role as Director...
Read MoreGoizueta Business School, Emory University (Photo: Daniel Mayer) From the previous blog posts in this series, we know that essays can play a key role in helping candidates differentiate themselves from the rest of the competition. This time we look at some guidelines to start working on those first drafts....
Read MorePhoto by Tony (Flickr) The fall-out of the food poisoning incident that took place at the Indian Institute of Management Indore (IIMI) on Saturday which rendered about 200 students ill, has forced a change in hygiene rules in the campus as well as an addition in the menu. Besides checking...
Read MoreAbout 200 students of the Indian Institute of Management, Indore have fallen ill after eating food in the college mess. While many were admitted to the Choithram and Unity hospitals in Indore, as of now 12 are still there and being kept under strict observation. One student is still being...
Read MoreAfter numerous technical issues held back the Gujarat Common Entrance Test (GCET) last week, the re-exam was conducted smoothly on Sunday. There were problems reported in 23 of the 25 centres across the state on Thursday and Friday and for all the exam slots. Not only were there mechanical problems...
Read MoreThe present IIM Trichy campus IIM Tiruchirapalli (IIMT) will be opening a new campus in Chennai. According to details available, a new building has been taken over in the Guindy, which is considered prime real estate in Chennai and is the entry point to the city from the southern parts...
Read More(Photo: Edd Morgan) In a month or so, b-schools, which were practically silent all of last month and April will resound with the ‘at-home’ chatter of students. The second year guys have probably started filling up hostel blocks already while the first year students will make it there soon. We...
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