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I am not surprised that image-searching ‘mumbai logo’ on Google fetches more of the Mumbai Indians cricket team logo and hardly any of the official Mumbai logo that the city’s municipality released three months ago. This logo was originally intended to brand Mumbai in the same way ‘I The Mumbai logo fails my own test […]
Being a ghaas-phoos person in India is one thing but going bina-doodh is quite another. With no vegan restaurant anywhere, cooking without ghee or butter at home can get bothersome for families. It is hilarious visiting a specialised maas-machi restaurant and ordering vegan food. At one such famous fish do in Mumbai’s suburbs, the waiter […]
India is very keen about building modern metro rapid transit systems for its cities (three already have one, twelve more are planning to), but very few of those cities are thinking about planning convenient pedestrian access to their stations. As sound as the intent is to make urban commuters shun cars for fast and comfortable […]
Sale of vouchers for the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2013 began today. About 12,000 vouchers were sold in all and about 10,000 candidates registered. Of this, 80 per cent had bought the vouchers online. According to CAT Convenor Prof Rohit Kapoor of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore, the availability of e-vouchers brought in […]
(Photo: Francisco Diez) Next Saturday, three successful alumni from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA shall be in Mumbai to talk about their experiences of studying at the legendary American school and how the education has helped them in their careers. Our friends at ReachIvy, an MBA admissions consulting firm, will host and […]
(Photo: Liz West) Arts and commerce students – or those from non-engineering academic backgrounds are often in a fix about how to prepare for CAT. I talk of certain strategies that can be useful for such applicants. Non-engineering students often find that quantitative ability is their bête noire. This is because after high school they […]
The four at the Red Ants Pants festival A thought struck four first-year students of Harvard Business School last November, as they discussed summer internship possibilities: Why not leave the beaten path of working with a high-profile company and actually set out on a learning adventure? They gave it a thought and six months later […]
(Photo: herval) Questions based on the modulus function or absolute value are common in the Common Admission Test (CAT) and other management entrance exams. In simple terms, modulus or the mod is just the non-negative value of the number inside the function. It is often represented as |x|. For example, |5| will be the same […]
Dr. Nachiket Mor is one of the few people who followed his heart and has successfully moved from a corporate career to the social sector. He is currently on the Board of Care India and Sughavazhvu Healthcare and is former director of India’s largest private lender ICICI Bank Ltd. He was also one of the […]
(File photo) The voucher sale for Common Admission Test (CAT) 2013 will now begin from August 5, 2013 to September 24, 2013, Rohit Kapoor, CAT Convenor 2013 confirmed to PaGaLGuY. Previously the registration was scheduled to begin from July 29, 2013. Impending changes in the official CAT website is the reason behind this shift in […]