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The Biggest B-School Fest of Eastern India Launched : Xpressions'14

The Biggest B-School Fest of Eastern India Launched : Xpressions'14

Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar launched its annual festival ‘Xpressions’ today. This is the 17th year of the festival at XIMB. It started with a silence but its echoes left the walls ringing. With the rains challenging the spirits, the field launch of ‘Xpressions’ 2014 was completed amidst much enthusiasm. It was followed by the launches of all the game committees, who conduct various events during the annual extravaganza ‘Xpressions’. With this launch the countdown has started for this year’s Eastern India’s biggest B-school festival ‘Xpressions’. A three day extravaganza that take place every year, is a cocktail of innovative games, competitions and cultural events. Participants from various B-schools of India take part in this event.

Illuminatix Old Campus
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Lie or Not Lie : A Controversial Daily Question!

Lie or Not Lie : A Controversial Daily Question!

The very first lesson a small kid is taught by his parents, even before “charity begins at home” is “do not lie”. But how many of us are born Yuthisthira, someone who prided for his vow of not uttering a single untruth word, but still somewhat failed to withhold it at the time of war? So, is it so much necessary that one cannot do without? Or we all have fallen prey to some inescapable peer pressure that it’s the only the feasible option most of the time?

Debasmita Das
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Papa Kehte Hain MBA Karega : The Great Indian Conundrum

Papa Kehte Hain MBA Karega : The Great Indian Conundrum

A little while back, I was speaking to a college junior – for probably, the first time. After a small introduction, the first question she asks me is – “ Is there any way I can get myself evicted from this college? ”, with an innocent smile on her face. Prima facie, I thought she must be kidding. But that was not to be…

Govind Agarwal
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Humanity is lost somewhere between the borders..

Humanity is lost somewhere between the borders..

A plane crashes near Ukraine border on 17th July 2014; all the 280 passengers and 18 crew members lose their lives. Hundreds of families destroyed, tens of innocent children who barely learnt to speak are dead within a fraction of a second. And moments later another news flashing on my TV screen, the Indian media brings to our attention that had the supposed attack been 5 minutes late, an Air India flight would have been crashed instead. And if the attack had happened an hour later, then India might have had lost their dearest Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, because both these flights were to follow the same route as the Malaysian flight. Till this point, I was following the media and their online columns. But suddenly I found something very intriguing in the comments section of these columns.

Ketan Bagga
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How can I get an Interview Call from IIM Calcutta ? – CAT 2014 : PGP 2015-17

How can I get an Interview Call from IIM Calcutta ? – CAT 2014 : PGP 2015-17

This is the third in our series of stories deconstructing the shortlisting criteria for the top IIMs. Read our analysis of IIM Ahmedabad’s shortlisting criteria here, and IIM Bangalore's shortlisting criteria here. The detailed shortlisting criteria for IIM Calcutta are uploaded here. The analysis of the new selection criteria is given below.

Team InsideIIM
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Can India Arrest the Slide in its Innovation Ranking?

Can India Arrest the Slide in its Innovation Ranking?

Over the last few years, the Global Innovation Index (GII) compiled annually by INSEAD, WIPO and Cornell University has become the most commonly accepted global indicator of nations’ innovation performance. So, there has been much angst in India over the last couple of weeks once it emerged that India has fallen 10 places in the last year from 66 to 76. [Link]

Rishikesha Krishnan
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Key Changes in the CAT 2014 Exam

Key Changes in the CAT 2014 Exam

The IIMs have announced major changes for the 2014 CAT including changes in the number of questions, the duration of the exam etc. Here is an analysis of how these changes affect you and what you should be doing over the next three and a half months to make sure you are well prepared for all the changes.

Deep Saklani
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