Assets Under Management (AUM) of mutual funds in India have crossed Rs 9 lakh crores for the first time following an increase of Rs 77,500 crores in the liquid assets category in the last few months. As per the Association of Mutual Funds of India (AMFI) data AUM as on...
Read MoreAn eerily haunting welcome scene, eventually corroborated with everything relevant to Dallas(read “the Southern States of the USA”) like Bullfights, cowboy hats, scantily clad girls and Gaucho boots provided the perfect setting for a movie based on the real life Texas Cowboy Ron Woodrof from the 80s. And Matthew McConaughey’s...
Read MoreIt’s going to be a long wait, if your wait for another 20 years after studying to ink your name on the list of millionaires. We all know, where there is a will, there’s always a way. Though there are no short cuts to success, there could be some smart...
Read MoreThere are several states in the Eastern part of the country which economically have not progressed in comparison to the others. These States have also suffered from natural disadvantages. Their resource mobilization itself has been inadequate. It is therefore natural that these States aspire to get a special category status...
Read More“Baba Troubleshoot” has a long legacy of solving even most complex of the problems that celebrities face. Baba Troubleshoot is also adept at predicting future and he fails lesser number of times than opinion polls do. Common man had no access to Baba until recently but thanks to Arvind Kejriwal...
Read More“Shaadi Ke Side Effects” is supposed to tell you what happened when Sid and Trisha from the movie “Pyaar Ke Side Effects” got married, but what follows is really a disaster. “Pyaar Ke Side Effects” was hilarious and fresh while “Shaadi ke side effects”, also directed by Saket Chaudhary, is...
Read MoreFrom today, Aamir khan starred Satyamev Jayate has once again started a campaign against all the evils, biases and inequalities somewhere deep rooted in our society. The episode was focused on the inflammatory issue rape, naming which is per se a humiliating affair. To add on to the humiliation, there...
Read MoreNarendra Modi’s rally in Lucknow today drew an unprecedented response. The road to Delhi is via Uttar Pradesh. It is the largest state in the country, sending eighty members to the Lok Sabha. In the 1990s when the BJP gained strength Uttar Pradesh held the key. In 1991 General Elections...
Read MoreThey call it a tradition derived from the Britisher’s to take off two days a week after a heavy weekday work and they chose it to be Saturday & Sunday. No idea why they have decided those two as Week ends and the remaining one’s as weekdays.Returning back to the...
Read MoreA walk along the haloed corridors of IMT Ghaziabad during late winters of 2013 was sure to have revealed that the placement season was alive and buzzing. The confident and upbeat mood of the smartly turned out IMTians, would testify that more jobs were chasing candidates rather than the other...
Read MoreVignana Jyothi Institute of Management (VJIM), Hyderabad, an AICTE approved institution, ranked among the top 21 B-schools of the country (by AIMA and Business Standard, 2013) is going full swing with its admissions to PGDM for year 2014. VJIM as a seat of learning, with its huge campus set amidst...
Read MoreAt NIILM-CMS, the smooth manner in which the Placement process is taking place reaffirmed its place among the premier business schools of the country. A total of 167 students participating in the placement process for the batch of 2012-14. The students who appeared for placements got offers from their dream...
Read MoreThey started coming but a few of them became happy seeing the ice-cream rickshaw. How can they be so involved with music? I wondered. In a while, Anurag too came out of the room. He noticed the children were not enjoying. “What happened to them?” He asked me. “I told...
Read MoreI reached at ‘Raju Tea Corner‘ near Mont Bolt Play School and waited for Anurag. After a while, I saw a man slowing his bike near the school. I assumed him to be Anurag. “Anurag?” I called his name. “Shaurya?” he said getting off his bike and moving towards me....
Read MoreThe summer vacations were going and my wife Anjali along with my sweet daughter Anushi had gone to my in-laws. I had no one at home therefore after the job, I was spending much of my time in “weCARE” an Orphanage that is run by a few members (including me)...
Read MoreThere is even a word for it, petrichor. The scent emanating from the sun-beaten earth after it makes its first contact with the season’s rains. The western disturbances of wintry days may not be potent enough to fill the air with this scent, but they did succeed in evoking the...
Read MorePair power packed performers like Vidya Balan and Farhan Akhtar together and what you expect is nothing short of brilliance. Shaadi Ke Side/Effects is a comedy-masala movie having various moments that most of the couples experience during their ‘shaadi ka suffer‘. Sid (Farhan) married to Trisha (Vidya) starts missing his...
Read MoreA long time ago, I was a FarmVille addict. I confess that because I played that game as if my life depended on whether I could harvest my crops on time and I could sell my goods on time. That addiction woke me up at odd hours of the night...
Read MoreLast week I visited my old college, Shri Ram College of Commerce where I had spent three of the best years of my life as a undergraduate student. In the early seventies when I studied there, the college was considered the principal institution for business studies. It continues to maintain...
Read MoreIn a Group Discussion (GD), you are expected to contribute meaningfully and help arrive at a consensus. Remember Quality of Points matters not the Quantity you speak. The skills that are usually assessed in a Group Discussion are: Communication Skills Interpersonal Skills Leadership Skills Motivational Skills Team Building Skills Tolerance...
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