At our 2015 convocation last spring, Tata Group Chairman and Universita Bocconi International Advisory Council Member, Mr. Ratan Tata urged graduates to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities as opposed to simply managing for others. At MISB Bocconi, we couldn’t agree with Mr. Tata more. Let’s take a closer look at what makes...
Read MoreTiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) is the World’s largest network of Entrepreneurs. With over 12000 members worldwide, TiE is the leading organization for all things entrepreneurial. TiE, Hyderabad and the Woxsen School...
Read MoreUnion Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu presented his second Railway Budget on 25th February, 2016 with the theme Reorganize, Restructure Rejuvenate Indian Railways: ‘Chalo, Milkar Kuch Naya Karen’. 3 strategies to revitalise Indian Railways Nav Arjan – New revenues Nav Manak – New norms Nav Sanrachna – New Structures Financial Performance:...
Read More1. Armaan Ebrahim wins FMSCI Motorsports Man of the Year trophy Car racer Armaan Ebrahim has bagged the Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India’s (FMSCI) Motorsports Man-of-the-Year trophy. The award was given for his performance in the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Asia Series. Additionally, B.I. Chandhok received the Lifetime...
Read More1. How is your experience in VIT? I should say it has been very good so far. As Director/Dean of the fledgling Business School at VIT Chennai, during 2011-14, we could quickly scale up the operations, improve admission quality and placements and organized a lot of events, chief among them...
Read MoreAppearing for any exam induces anxiety and stress in a student’s mind. In addition to the Board exams, engineering aspirants prepare for all India entrance exams like the IIT-JEE. The academic pressure associated with these entrance exams is evident from the number of student suicides reported from different coaching hubs...
Read MoreIndian Institute of Science (IISc), the organising institute for Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2016, is refunding multiple payments made by the applicants in October last year. In order to apply for GATE, students need to pay an amount of Rs 1,500 through online banking or e-challan. However, sometimes...
Read More1. Hashim Thaci elected President of Kosovo Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci has been elected as President of Kosovo after winning the required simple majority in the elections held in Pristina. He will succeed Atifete Jahjaga. Kosovo unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008. Kosovo and Serbia reached a landmark agreement...
Read MoreWith extraordinary findings of gravity ripples in space, the scientists at LEGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) have successfully served mankind with the knowledge of a completely new dimension, which is- Gravity. Thanks to Einstein who dared, 100 years ago, to go against the Newton’s theory of gravity- ‘Mass attracts Mass’,...
Read MoreJEE Main multiple choice questions require aspirants to pick the correct answer from a set of options. There are generally four options to every question, out of which one, or more than one option is correct. It is usually seen that candidates consider objective questions easy as compared to subjective. Despite the...
Read MoreDate – 6th Feb, Venue – The Orchid , Vile Parle , Mumbai WAT – Teacher Training Programme in India has not been effective in India . No effective teachers are being produced Through Training Programme . It is better to stop all these Training Programme and save public money to build Toilets and infrastructures in Schools. Analyze and argument ……etc Panel...
Read MoreThe second day of Tryst, the extravagant technical fest of IIT Delhi went on with great enthusiasm shown by the participants and the audience alike. The prime event scheduled for day 2 that attracted the maximum audience was the Q&A session with Sachin and Binny Bansal, founders of the Indian...
Read MoreThe Union Budget announced today does not have the best of tidings for the Education sector. A few good projects, a little more money but no real will. Money, because the Department of School Education and Literacy has been bestowed with an allocation of Rs 43,554 crore this year as...
Read MoreThe Budget 2016, amongst high promises in the education sector, fails to highlight the status of converting Indian School of Mines(ISM) into an Indian Institute of Technology(IIT). The BJP Government promised to upgrade ISM to the status of an IIT, during the financial budget session 2015.This conversion process requires an...
Read MoreThe Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented his third budget along with the Finance Bill today. With billions of rupees allocated for farmers and the poor, the 2016-17 budget aims to boost the rural economy. Key achievements of the Indian economy in 2015-16: The Indian economy’s most notable achievement in...
Read MoreThe third day of Pragyan kick-started with several guest lectures that were a major crowd-puller. Lectures by Sudhir Kumar Mishra, CEO and MD of India’s premier missile programme, BRAHMOS and by Gianni Di Caro, a senior researcher at IDSIA, the Swiss Artificial Intelligence lab, both witnessed a packed auditorium. The latter’s presentations covered the...
Read MoreMore than 400 girls at Smt. Durgabai Deshmukh Government Women’s Technical Training Institute, Hyderabad, are forced to urinate in the open and in empty classrooms, since the college does not have usable toilets. The 40-year-old establishment has only one toilet for 462 students, which poses serious hygiene and sanitation issues for women....
Read MoreSome 4500 students of the 6,000 odd, at IIT Kanpur were in for a rude shock when they were asked to cough up approximately Rs 1,500 to Rs 2,000 each as electricity bill for January 2016. This is a far cry from the odd Rs 2,000 they used to individually pay up...
Read MoreThe who’s who of international cinema took their hats off for some of the best films of 2015 at the 88th Academy Awards which was conducted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). The Oscar, as the award is commonly known as, was presented across 24 categories....
Read MoreIn a world where youngsters are into buying selfie sticks, IITians in their first year buy drafters. Initially what seems to be a simple instrument of two perpendicular scales, it is well equipped with numerous plans of destroying the first 4 months at IIT. Well, Engineering Drawing or ED(as IITians...
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