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Roving Periscope: Himalayas melting alarmingly, warns UN chief

December 2, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Warning the world that the Himalayas are melting at an alarming rate, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday insisted on urgent action to protect the world from climate challenges ahead. Nearly 240 million people depend on the glaciers and 10 major rivers, including the Indus, Ganga, and Brahmaputra which […]

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The Summer Placement process for the MBA Class of 2025 of PGP in Management at IIM-A was completed

December 1, 2023 Vinayak Barot

The Summer Placement process for the MBA Class of 2025 of the Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in Management at IIM Ahmedabad was completed. Firms from multiple domains participated virtually across the three clusters in Summer Placements, with all students being placed across more than 25 cohorts. Cluster-Cohort Placement System 124 firms participated with 170 different […]

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Modern Stars: D-Mart’s RK Damani tops the list of “Top 200 Self-Made Entrepreneurs”

November 30, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Radhakishan Damani, founder of retail chain D-Mart, may be leading the list of the “Top 200 Self-made Entrepreneurs of the Millennia 2023”, announced on Thursday, the focus of Modern India is elsewhere. For, eight of the Top 10 most valuable companies in the list are startups. “The IDFC FIRST Private […]

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Roving Periscope: Despite irritants, Canada softens, India resumes e-visas

November 23, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The growing proximity in the last few years between India and the West, especially the US, prompted the global anti-India lobby to fire on all cylinders: it relentlessly planted and amplified anti-Hindu stories in the obliging media, resuscitated the comatose Khalistani activists within and without, reactivated the Pakistan-based Islamist terror […]

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Challenges: RBI chief Das cautions about uncertain times ahead

November 22, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Warning that a ‘deadly mix’ of challenges could put policymakers to the test and that new risks keep emerging, Reserve Bank of India (CBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das on Wednesday cautioned the financial sector to avoid all kinds of exuberance. Addressing an annual banking conference, organized by FICCI and the Indian […]

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Sweetner: Centre approves 27 companies under the new IT hardware PLI scheme

November 18, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Centre on Saturday approved incentives for 27 information technology hardware manufacturing firms under the PLI scheme. The “new import management system” is aimed at monitoring shipments of laptops, tablets, and computers into India without hurting market supply or creating a cumbersome licensing regime. These companies receiving approval under the […]

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Education: 35% of overseas college students in the US came from India in 2022

November 13, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After the post-pandemic recovery, 35 percent of all foreign students who joined the colleges in the United States in 2022 came from India, a new study has revealed. American colleges enrolled nearly 269,000 students from India, more than ever and second only to China. Most came for graduate programs, often […]

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E-commerce: Amazon, Flipkart, and others to make deliveries using EVs in India

November 8, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: E-commerce majors Amazon and Flipkart, and other players, have launched programs in India envisaging cent percent deliveries using electric vehicles. Currently, Amazon India has a fleet of 6,000 EVs for making deliveries across 400 towns and cities in the country. It will increase the fleet to 10,000 in the next […]

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The University of Wollongong will open its international campus at Savvy Pragya-2 in Gift City

November 7, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Ahmedabad: In a historic first for India, a foreign university has announced a full-fledged campus on Indian soil. “University of Wollongong” is all set to open their international campus at Savvy Pragya-2 at GIFT City, the first and the only operational smart city in India. At Savvy Group, we feel honoured to have witnessed the […]

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Third Cluster of Summer Placement Process Held at IIM Ahmedabad

November 6, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Ahmedabad, The third cluster of the Summer Placement process for the PGP class of 2025 was held today at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. The firms that participated in Cluster 3 comprised twelve cohorts – Banking Financial Services & Insurance, Consumer Technology, Core Manufacturing & Infrastructure, Education Tech, Enterprise Tech, Financial Tech, Gaming & Sports, […]