Clearing the Symbiosis National Aptitude Test or SNAP, scheduled on December 21, is the first step for admission to any Symbiosis Institute that offers postgraduate programmes.
The Gulf Cooperation Council countries -- Bharain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates -- present a lot of trade opportunities for India, he said. The Assocham has been promoting India as an investment destination for infrastructure, biotechnology, power, roads, IT and allied sectors. It has also created an Andhra Pradesh Investment Cell to attract investments to the state.
According to a report, while the total employees are 1,27,094, only 1,04,241 have been accounted for.
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'Let's talk a bit about minimum and overtime wages, since that is a topic so dear to everyone's heart. After all, critics say that heartless Devyani paid poor Sangeeta neither the minimum wages nor overtime wages and since "in this country we don't do it this way," she deserves to go to jail. But the FLSA itself makes several occupations exempt from either payment of minimum wages or from overtime wages or both. Disabled people need not be paid minimum wages under FLSA. Seamen on American vessels have to be paid minimum wages but seamen on other than American vessels need not be. So how fair is the Fair Labor Standards Act,' asks Sharmista Khobragade, diplomat Devyani Khobragade's sister.
Even as faculty members of the Indian Institutes of Technology began their hunger strike on Thursday, the All India IIT Faculty Federation has prepared a letter to be sent to the Ministry of Human Resource Department.
The power struggle in Andhra Pradesh Congress after the death of Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy took an ugly turn on Sunday when the supporters of YSR's son Jaganmohan Reddy disrupted the party's condolence meeting.
Judging the research output of an IIM is an art form.
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The Kapil Dev-led Indian team, which won the 1983 World Cup, left for London on Tuesday to celebrate the silver jubilee of their historic triumph at Lord's. The entire team, barring Ravi Shastri, left for the British capital where Sunil Gavaskar has organised a dinner to celebrate 25 years of the victory on Wednesday.
US Agency for International Development Administrator Dr Rajiv Shah has been praised by US lawmakers for shepherding America's development efforts with the scarce resources available and alleviating poverty-stricken populations in Sub-Saharan Africa, parts of South Asia, and Haiti, which was devastated by a killer earthquake over two years ago.
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President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday addressed the first joint sitting of Parliament as mandatorily required under the Constitution after the general elections. The address is the political, economic and foreign policy road map of the Narendra Modi government and covers virtually all crucial areas.
The Centre has asked all Indian universities and higher education institutions to cancel admissions of foreign diplomats pursuing higher studies.
The economic slowdown has forced many students to take up entrepreneurship because of lack of jobs in the market.
Taking a dig at India and other countries that believe economic activities must be spread geographically to benefit the poor, a new World Bank report has called for concentration of production, mobility of people and economic integration to lift rural people out of poverty. Population shift from villages to cities is natural and should be encouraged, it said.
Continuing its formula of "social engineering", the Bahujan Samaj Party on Thursday announced four Brahmin candidates in Maharashtra for the coming Lok Sabha polls
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) CEO and Managing Director S Ramadorai said that the company would hire computer science PhD students who have graduated from any Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in the country without any interviews for the next five years.
Only 13 infrastructure companies attended the pre-bid conference at Rail Bhawan, compared with over 25 companies that had earlier submitted RFQs to the railways. Out of those 25, the railways had prepared a list of 13 companies which were technically qualified for the project. However, the RFQ was cancelled and a new set of documents was prepared.
Wasim Jaffer and Ajinkya Rahane were involved in an unfinfished partnership of 328 runs as Mumbai amassed 366 for 1 on Day 1 of the Ranji Trophy match against Hyderabad.
It plans to make Hyderabad as its back office hub for data management in clinical research and financial service segments. Novartis is putting infrastructure to put all these people in one place and the centre is expected to turn operational next year. It will be the back office for Novartis' pharmaceutical operations and will find many PhDs and post-graduates working there, said Jurgen Brokatzky-Geiger, head (human resources), Novartis.
Applications are invited for IIT Joint Entrance Examination 2010 for admission to undergraduate programmes at Indian Institutes of Technologies located at Bhubaneswar, Bombay (Mumbai), Delhi, Gandhinagar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras (Chennai), Mandi, Patna, Punjab, Rajasthan and Roorkee
In 2007, a year in which the inflation figure had yet to become the finance minister's Friday fear and crude oil was not hogging headlines, the placement salary spike was 10 per cent. What makes the jump this year even more impressive is that it does not take into account the offers from international companies, which typically dish out more than domestic recruiters.
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As professors of Indian Institutes of Technology resorted to the unprecedented step of day-long hunger strike on Thursday over the salary issue, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said he is open to having any kind of dialogue with them to discuss their demands, but ruled out world-class salaries due to lack of resources.
Several theories but no evidence yet. This is the status of the investigations into the twin blasts at Hyderabad exactly a year back. When the twin blasts rocked Lumbini Park and Gokul Chat in Hyderabad, it was largely believed that the investigations would be taken over by the Central Bureau of Investigations, which was already looking into the Mecca Masjid blasts. However that did not happen.
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Intelligence Bureau officials said that several important SIMI activists are still on the run. On top of the list of wanted men is Mohammad Altaf Subhan. Subhan specialises in designing bombs for the outfit. IB officials say that Subhan, a resident of Thane near Mumbai, had started imparting bomb-making training to several SIMI activists across the country.
Global railway companies have emerged the top contenders on technical parameters for the country's first railway station modernisation and operation project in New Delhi, the first of private-public partnership schemes.
The move is part of the company's plans to expand its hardware, services and ICT systems integration and distribution business.
EdUK advisors from the British Council hosted a chat with readers on August 10 about studying in the UK. The transcript.
Amid concerns over lesser number of students taking up science as a career, a new study has shown that while the percentage of students taking up pure sciences remained static at 21, there was a 17 per cent increase in job opportunities in the field.
Bhai Mohan Singh came to Delhi from Rawalpindi after the partition, having made big money in road contracts in the northeast region during the Second World War. He was soon in business, lending money to companies based in Delhi. It would be difficult to tell if he would have shared the elation of his grandson, Malvinder Mohan Singh at the family's exit from the company today.
Though the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs in a communication dated June 11 (D.O. No.OI-15014/02/2009-DS) informed that the rules to renounce the Indian citizenship have been further simplified, the Ministry of External Affairs have not taken it into consideration so far, showing the lack of coordination among the ministries.
The Indian biotech sector continues to face an acute shortage of specialists. But now there is a ray of hope, interestingly from a dark story being narrated in the pharma and biotech sectors in the United States and Europe. The sector is seeing downsizing there. This has made scientists of Indian origin explore opportunities in India. "The shortage and the noticeable gap is in terms of discovery-led drug development," said Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, CMD, Biocon
The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 99 points at 15,094. The index touched a high of 15,349, and a low of 15,056. Sensex ended up 294 points. HDFC, ICICI Bank, Wipro, Bharti Airtel, Hindustan Unilever, Reliance, ITC, L&T, ACC,Tata Motors, Ambuja Cements and TCS were major gainers. Tata Steel, Reliance Energy and Jaiprakash Associates were major losers. Reliance topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 202 crore, followed by GSS America and Reliance Natural Resources.
Medium pacer Thiru Kumaran bagged four wickets to help Chennai Superstars crush Mumbai Champs by nine wickets in a Twenty20 match of the ICL in Panchkula on Sunday.
Renaissance Technologies, the world's largest hedge fund firm handling assets worth $35.4 billion (Rs 1,41,600 crore), has received approval from the Securities and Exchange Board of India to operate in the Indian stock markets as a foreign institutional investor.
The five-millimetre-a-side 'GiFi', unveiled at the Melbourne University-based national information and communications technology research centre, can transmit data through a wireless connection at a breakthrough rate of five gigabits per second over distances of up to 10 metres.
Sources say Carnegie Mellon's president Jared L Cohon, who was in Bangalore recently, held discussions with senior state officials in this regard. The university is planning to establish a skeleton presence in Bangalore to study the market condition before starting a full-fledged campus here. They want to help the IT sector in the country secure quality manpower.
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