MICA welcomes Transgenders on Campus
After a recent SC ruling this April that recognises Transgenders as ‘third gender’, MICA has decided to include Transgenders in its application process, for its next academic year.
After a recent SC ruling this April that recognises Transgenders as ‘third gender’, MICA has decided to include Transgenders in its application process, for its next academic year.
In our endeavor to provide you the best guidance this ongoing MBA entrance exam season, we bring to you an interview with Chairperson, Admissions - XLRI, Professor Munish Thakur. Professor Thakur, Fellow - IIM Calcutta, teaches Strategic Management in XLRI Jamshedpur. We thank him to spend his precious time in answering our questions. Read below to find out what to expect from this year's XAT, what does XLRI look for while screening through the XAT, and why the XAT hasn't gone online yet.
In the 26th week of his extremely popular series on the best articles curated from the world wide web, Shreyas picks up stories about Apple and Google's dominance, Gujarati diamond trade's dominance, the Nobel Prize and the fight against the Ebola Virus. Happy reading.
IIFT Entrance is just around the corner - 30th November, and InsideIIM brings you this interview with IIFT entrance topper Sunny Pandey, to give you a flavour of how to prepare for D-Day. Sunny did his schooling from Holy Public School Agra and Chemical Engg. from HBTI Kanpur. He worked at ZACL for 2.5 years. He is a quizzer and has won many quizzes at institutional, regional and national level. He loves following Football and regularly writes for sportskeeda.com. He has done CFA level 1 and plans to write FRM level 1 and 2 in june next year. He is the IIFT entrance exam topper.
In today’s exceedingly dynamic world, there comes a point where textbooks become inadequate and the interaction between the present and the future leaders assumes prime importance. Indian Institute of Management Kashipur, situated in the heartland of one of the most densely populated industrialized regions of the nation, has always taken an initiative to facilitate such forums. One such is the flagship event of the institute ‘Leadership Conclave’. This is a celebrated event in IIM Kashipur and attracts bigwigs from different strata of the society right from the world of business to polity to social development.
When we talk about healthcare innovation in India, the names of pioneers like Aravind Eye Hospital, Shankara Nethralaya and Narayana Hrudayalaya usually spring to mind. I guess its natural in a poor country like ours that our first thoughts go to organizations that have been successful in bringing high quality, low-cost care to the poor. But, if we take a more holistic view, others have made a significant contribution to making healthcare what it is today, even if there are several challenges still remaining.
Think Backwaters and you might be beguiled to think of the brackish lagoons and lakes lying parallel to the Arabian Sea coast of Kerala but IIM Kozhikode has redefined its meaning. What immediately comes to mind instead is a group of future management executives battling it out amongst themselves to emerge supreme. It represents a confluence point for management students in India as corporate honchos and academicians adjudicate over events dealing with leading burning issues. Backwaters’14 is here to stir up the inherent competitive spirit in every management student.