Sipika Singh switched careers from being a senior consultant with Ernst and Young to a regional marketing role in the pharma major, Novartis in Singapore.
Feedback Ventures, an infrastructure consulting company, Arcelor-Mittal, and Reliance Retail are among the 25-30 companies that went to the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) this time.
Even as the domestic pharmaceutical industry is exploring new markets in Latin America and the Commonwealth of Independent States, exports to countries in Africa are declining.
Despite an expected 150 per cent increase in central spending on higher education in 2007-08
Shortage of trained professionals in the financial markets has prompted the need for specialised courses in stock markets and commodity training.
This was discussed at a meeting chaired by the Prime Minister's Principal Secretary, TKA Nair, on January 12 with the Indian Bank Association, industry bodies and human resource development ministry officials.
The commerce ministry and industry bodies are in favour of FDI in the education sector. However, the HRD ministry is opposed to it.
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown will begin a three-day visit to India from January 17. Brown's visit to India assumes significance considering that this is his first ever visit to India.
The demand for chartered accountants in the corporate world has shot up with stringent income tax laws, which require compulsory maintenance of accounts by specified categories of taxpayers.
The Confederation of Indian Industry is expanding its presence abroad in line with India Inc's rising global aspirations.
After doctors and the armed forces, it is now the turn of chartered accountants to start their names with an honorific.
Your visit to the neighbourhood beauty parlour, dry cleaner or a cyber cafe may become cheaper in the next financial year.
In a move initiated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, high-calibre graduates from institutions like the Indian Institutes of Management, as well as graduates from other streams like law, may be attached with government departments for some duration o
Pharmaceutical major Wockhardt is looking at foraying into Japan either through exports or by setting up a manufacturing base.
Singapore has decided to set up a model special economic zone in India, based on which will be set up two other SEZs. They will be known as Singapore India economic zones.
Rita McGlone, senior director of Wharton confirmed that Wharton is seriously considering a campus in India both to provide non-executive MBA programmes and executive MBA programmes.
Representatives from Israel, Russia, Italy, Poland to visit.
Around 15 venture funds from the US and Southeast Asia will be making investments in the Indian real estate sector through the FII route
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