Execs join IIMs for higher learning Aug 9, 2009
In fact, about 70% of the students admitted to post graduate programmes in management this year across the IIMs in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta and Lucknow have come with prior work experience so much so that some of them gave up pay packages of more than Rs 20 lakhs for the chance ... Meanwhile, the average work experience of the new batch of 408 students at IIM Calcutta is also about 27 months ... In fact, Rohan Mahajan, spokesperson for IIM Calcutta attributes the increase to the slowdown... (India Times)
TCS to reinforce product-line to boost offering, ensure growth Aug 7, 2009
He was talking to reporters here on the sidelines of an event organised by Calcutta Management Association on Thursday. Elaborating, Mr Ramadorai said TCS intends to come up with a service-based model for SMEs where billing will be on a monthly or on a per transactions basis. (India Times)
SC refuses to stay Kolkata clean air drive Aug 5, 2009
00004000 The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to stay the Calcutta High Court order banning polluting vehicles from plying in Kolkata and its suburbs, ending speculation on whether smoke-belching buses, taxis and autorickshaws would be back on the streets from Wednesday ... Subhas Datta, environment activist and a key party in the auto emission case at Calcutta HC, believes the apex court is unlikely to reverse the high court judgment ... The SC refused to stay the Calcutta HC order banning... (India Times, India)
Manu Chhabria's mom claims share in S Wallace Aug 5, 2009
Ranibai has contended that the Calcutta High Court's approval to the amalgamation of Shaw Wallace with Vijay Mallya-run United Spirits Ltd (USL) would dilute her valuable right to inherit one-fifth share of the estate. She claimed that Manohar Chhabria had died intestate in April 2002 and as per Hindu law she was entitled to a share of his property. (India Times, India -- Intl Business)
Holiday magazine: A majestic trip to 1961 S.F. Aug 2, 2009
Reporting on the city's nascent counterculture is theater critic and producer Kenneth Tynan, creator of the seminal, sexy "Oh! Calcutta!" Tynan's canny take in "San Francisco: The Rebels" harks back to cultural malcontents Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Sinclair Lewis, William Saroyan, Isadora Duncan and Gertrude Stein and contemporaries including Alan Watts, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Kenneth Rexroth. Taken together, according to Tynan, they illustrate that "In this bright, free-wheeling,... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Amid protests, 'polluting' vehicles off Kolkata roads Aug 1, 2009
"Practically no auto rickshaws are plying. Only a few green autos hit the streets," he said, on the first day of the Calcutta High Court-imposed ban on old commercial vehicles which are the principal source of high air pollution in the city. The decks were cleared for the government to seize the buses, mini buses, taxis and auto rickshaws after the Supreme Court Friday refused to stay the high court order banning commercial vehicles built before 1993. (India Times, India)
SC's no to stay on phasing out old vehicles in Kolkata Jul 31, 2009
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to grant interim stay on the Calcutta High Court judgement directing the West Bengal government to phase out from the metropolis commercial vehicles which are 15-year-old ... The Supreme Court on Friday refused to grant interim stay on the Calcutta HC judgement directing the West Bengal government to phase out commercial vehicles which are 15-year-old. (India Times, India)
India to fight warming: PM Jul 30, 2009
No change in stand on climate change: PM - Global Warming-Environment-The Economic Times. No change in stand on climate change: PM 30 Jul 2009, 0812 hrs IST, PTI. (India Times)
MNCs steering clear of IIT/IIMs? Jul 30, 2009
As for IIMs, the one in Calcutta suffered a big loss when it came to campus placement to MNCs from 240 in 2008 to 121 in 2009 ... Birla Corporation adjourned its annual general meeting without considering any of the items on the agenda, pending a direction from the Calcutta High Court which will take up the company's appeal against the Company Law Board order. (India Times)
Crushed garlic better for the heart Jul 30, 2009
Das got his master's degree in chemistry at the University of Calcutta in 1967. He obtained his Ph. (India Times, India)
Govt plans to get black money back Jul 30, 2009
NEW DELHI: Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that the government, as promised before the general elections, was working on getting back black money stashed away abroad. Replying to a question during the debate on finance bill, Mukherjee said the government has got assurances from countries like Switzerland, which have strong banking secrecy laws, that they would be willing to share more information provided "it is used only for purpose of tax collection". (India Times)
Tracking MF performance important Jul 30, 2009
Tracking performance as important as investing- Analysis-Mutual Funds-Personal Finance-The Economic Times. Tracking performance as important as investing30 Jul 2009, 0630 hrs IST, TNN. (India Times)
MNC offers to IIT & IIMs grads slow down Jul 29, 2009
As for IIMs, the one in Calcutta suffered a big loss when it came to campus placement to MNCs from 240 in 2008 to 121 in 2009. The hiring by MNCs in IIM, Ahmedabad, also came down from 155 in 2008 to 92 in 2009. (India Times, India)
FIIs bet big on real estate stocks Jul 29, 2009
COIMBATORE: FIIs, who resumed their buying spree after a brief pause in the run up to the Budget, are placing their bets on realty stocks. FIIs, who have net bought equity worth more than $6 billion so far this year, have increased their stakes substantially in top realty companies in three months, boosting prices of stocks in the sector. (India Times)
Govt to import edible oil Jul 29, 2009
NEW DELHI: The government on Tuesday said in the Lok Sabha that there was no option but to import edible oil to meet the demand-supply gap in the domestic market. It is not that we are very happy to import these items. (India Times)
'Doctor gave MJ drug that killed him' Jul 28, 2009
Doctor gave Jackson drug that killed him: Report- Michael Jackson-Features-The Economic Times. Doctor gave Jackson drug that killed him: Report28 Jul 2009, 0734 hrs IST, AGENCIES. (India Times)
ICICI to deduct card dues from salary Jul 28, 2009
ICICI Bank to deduct card dues of defaulters at source- News-Credit Cards-Personal Finance-The Economic Times. ICICI Bank to deduct card dues of defaulters at source27 Jul 2009, 1250 hrs IST, PTI. (India Times)
Global pension funds rush to India Jul 28, 2009
CHENNAI: Indian pension fund managers may have recently got the nod to dabble extensively in volatile stocks, but global pension funds from the US and Europe continue to back India for giving good returns. US public pension funds such as California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), California State Teacher's Retirement System (CalSTRS) and European pension funds such as Norway's Government Pension Fund (Global), Denmark's LD Pensions, Netherlands' ABP Funds, all combined, have... (India Times)
Birla estate matter: SC refuses relief to Lodha Jul 27, 2009
SC refuses relief to Lodha, directs Calcutta HC to hear Birla estate matter - India - NEWS - The Times of India ... SC refuses relief to Lodha, directs Calcutta HC to hear Birla estate matter ... The Supreme Court also directed 00004000 the Calcutta High Court to hear petition by the Lodha and Birla camps on Tuesday. (India Times, India)
'Activist' Amartya Sen pens story of justice Jul 26, 2009
I've done my share of demonstrations when I was young, when I was a student in Calcutta. Do I believe that causes that activists take up could be helped by reasoning. (India Times, India)
SC clears way for PwC prosecution Jul 13, 2009
The Calcutta High Court, on PwC's appeal, had held that the firm had failed to furnish its true and correct particulars of accounts while filing the returns. The High Court had also upheld the penalty imposed by the authorities at 100% of the tax alleged to be evaded. (India Times, India -- Intl Business)
BMW likely to launch Mini Hatchback Jul 11, 2009
In 2008, the company sold 75 cars in Calcutta. The company recently raised the annual capacity of its Indian plant to 3,000 units from 1,700 on a single-shift basis at a cost of $750,000. (India Times)
Applied science BSc may be axed Jul 10, 2009
Suranjan Das, Vice Chancellor, Calcutta University. Ours is probably the only university that does not offer biotechnology or information technology at the undergraduate level. (India Times, India)
Comment: Ghosts In The Machine Jul 3, 2009
I remember standing in long queues at ration shops in Calcutta, Madras and Delhi when i was younger. Lines for food were a part of everyday life. (India Times, India)
Rs 12.5 lakh stipend at IIM-C Jul 2, 2009
Yet, a student from the Indian Institute of Management (Calcutta) earns the highest summer internship stipend paid to an IIM student ever, exceeding the highest paid stipend to an IIM student last year for a summer internship by over 50 ... Besides these, Morgan Stanley London and Swiss banks UBS and Credit Suisse recruited exclusively from IIM Calcutta this year. (India Times)
SUBVERSE: Rum deal Jun 29, 2009
Ram Prasad, popularly known among his clientele as Rum Prasad, was a part-time bootlegger in Calcutta who specialised in police rum ... (To add piquancy to the enigma, Ram Prasad's full-time job was that of a chowkidar to a Calcutta legal beagle who sported the bibulous name of P Ginwalla ... Whether the local authorities had substantially increased the rum quota of the cops (perhaps in order to infuse in them Dutch courage to tackle the newly emergent menace of urban Naxalites who had already... (India Times, India)
SUBVERSE: Let's Dilli-dally Jun 24, 2009
And immediately the battle lines have been drawn along the Delhi/Dilli divide, as earlier happened with Bombay/Mumbai, Madras/Chennai, Calcutta/Kolkata and Bangalore/Bengaluru ... Those who favour the supposed indigenisation of names argue that Bombay, Calcutta, Delhi etc are all undesirable relics of colonial rule and, like the statues of our erstwhile British rulers, they should be scrapped and replaced with Indian counterparts ... So, where there were scattered fishing villages and mud flats... (India Times, India)
Long lost friends and acquaintainces Jun 24, 2009
For Ambi Parameswaran, executive director of Draft FCB, it was linking up with IIM Calcutta batchmate, Sangeeta Talwar ... Levers alumni were catching up all through the event, from Suparna Mitra, marketing head at Titan with Gayatri Yadav, marketing head, General Mills (the two were also batchmates at IIM Calcutta), to Levers D Rajaram and Sanjeev Kapur of Citibank. (India Times)
Indian HNIs prefer realty investment in India than abroad Jun 21, 2009
According to Sandip Sen of Calcutta Skyline who has a good network of HNI clients in the eastern part of the country, We have found that Indians are not investing a lot in foreign markets, if at all they are investing, it is restricted to UK and the Middle East. Primary constraints in making overseas property investments include unfamiliarity with local laws of that country, fear of being stuck in litigation in another country, plus lack of awareness in general. (India Times)
Delhi or Dilli: Gill triggers debate Jun 19, 2009
"I personally find this insistence on changing names very unfortunate. When Calcutta was changed to Kolkata, non-Bengalis found it hard to pronounce it. This is wasteful and irrelevant. After all, Delhi or Dilli, it's the same city.". Delhi-ites feel there are much larger issues like traffic congestion, pollution, sanitation, revival of Yamuna and power and water supply to worry about. (India Times, India)
A Car of Ones Own, Andrew OHagan,London Review of Books Jun 17, 2009
In Calcutta a few years ago, on one of those almost comically chaotic roads, I observed a minor collision between a taxicab and a pedestrian. Immediately, a crowd of observers was in place: a court, you could say, adjudicating between the personal ethics of the driver and the common rights of the walker. (Harper's Magazine)
Archie's visit to India shows the changing perception of Brand India Jun 16, 2009
Scenes of the life of East India Company nabobs in Calcutta and Madras, replete with banquets and servants, were recruitment ads aimed at young British men from the less affluent middle-class , to come East. Meanwhile the missionaries were muted ; neither the Company nor their allies in the Anglican Church liked evangelicals not least because of their awkward habit of demanding equal rights for converts (evangelicals were also deeply involved in the anti-slavery movement, which hardly... (India Times)
More of this story Jun 16, 2009
Friday's events will begin with a Whoop-Up Scramble at 9 a.m. at the Pondera Golf Club, followed by the rodeo Calcutta at 7 p.m. A kids' carnival will be held at 5 p.m. at the Meadowlark School. Saturday's events will begin at 7 a.m. with a free pancake breakfast provided by the Conrad Lion's Club. (Cut Bank Pioneer Press - Golden Triangle, MT)
Cyclone Leaves 500,000 Homeless in South Asia May 30, 2009
CALCUTTA, India (May 29, 2009)--Officials in India and Bangladesh say the risk of disease outbreaks is growing as hundreds of thousands of people crowd into government shelters after being flooded out of their homes by a deadly cyclone. The death toll from Monday's cyclone stands at 264 in the two countries. (KWTX.com, TX)
SUBVERSE: Our man in hawala May 30, 2009
I could give rupees to Desmond in Calcutta and Stan would give me pounds sterling in London ... Back in London, we got a phone call from Desmond in Calcutta to confirm we'd got the pounds ... Bunny and i knew a business friend in Calcutta who had been nabbed in a similar deal when government sleuths had cracked the code she had used to denote the transfer of funds. (India Times, India)
Visit Hanging Rock in Woodend, Aust... May 28, 2009
Walkers can observe some of the unusual rock formations such as the Black Hole of Calcutta, the Eagle and the Vampire Cliff. Those wanting to learn more about the Rock can visit the Hanging Rock Discovery Centre, which explores the history, mystery and geology of the Rock and surrounding areas through a series of hands-on interpretive displays. (Suite101.com)
Thumbnail sketches of 33 ministers May 28, 2009
Educated at Vidyasagar College, Suri (Birbhum), then affiliated to Calcutta University, West Bengal. Experience: A troubleshooter for the Congress, he has done several key ministries, including external affairs, defence, finance, and commerce. (India Times)
Q&A: 'I speak like an activist' May 27, 2009
I have been involved in several political struggles: against land grabbing in Rajarhat on the eastern side of Calcutta, the Kanoria jute workers struggle, the Paharpur workers' struggle. My songs are also political. (India Times, India)
COMMENT: High Decibel Democracy May 25, 2009
He contrasted the uncivil conduct at meetings in Calcutta where people came and went as they pleased with the orderly conduct in rural assemblies in Bengal which he had observed closely. He pointed out that if someone came to a meeting late, custom required him to prostrate himself before the entire assembly before being allowed to participate in its deliberations. (India Times, India)
Envelope with Lincoln stamp may fetch $1m May 23, 2009
WASHINGTON: When the letter with the 90-cent Lincoln stamp was mailed in 1873 by an ice exporter in Boston to his office in Calcutta, Mohandas Gandhi (later Mahatma) was a toddler of four, Narendranath Dutta (later Swami Vivekananda) was a stripling of 10, and Ulysses Grant (later to visit Calcutta) was President of the United States ... Incidentally, ice houses were established in Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay in the middle of the 19th century to cater to Americas first export to India, ice,... (India Times)
Ansari gets life term for kidnapping shoe baron May 21, 2009
Calcutta high court had to intervene once the judge in the case Biswarup Bandyopadhyay was suddenly transferred. The HC revoked the Bandyopadhyays transfer order. (India Times, India -- Community News)
Nobody deserves this May 9, 2009
More than 400,000 people live precariously above an underground inferno in Jharia, a poverty-stricken area about 300 kilometres northwest of Calcutta that boasts some of India's richest coal deposits. Subterranean fires have been raging here since 1916, and are believed to cover about 17 square kilometres, the Indo-Asian News Service reports. (Globe and Mail)
SUBVERSE: Travels to myself May 9, 2009
As a young boy in Calcutta, i would walk along the streets and bylanes of the city. I'd pass decaying mansions, elegant bungalows in shaded gardens, teeming tenements. (India Times, India)
Tagore flunked school: St Xavier's May 8, 2009
According to documents sifted by researchers to be made public on Tagore birth anniversary on Friday, the bard enrolled in Calcuttas St Xaviers school in 1875 ... These are, Normal School, Calcutta Academy and Oriental Seminary. (India Times, India)
Food entrepreneurs cook up new deals Apr 20, 2009
Anjan Chatterjee, owner of speciality cuisine chains like the 12-year-old Mainland China and Oh Calcutta, is all set to forge ahead with 19 new outlets across the country within the year, taking its total spread to 71 speciality restaurants. The buzz is that he's also about to snap up Yo. (India Times, India -- Intl Business)
Speciality Restaurant to dish out 2 acquisitions worth Rs 200 crore Apr 20, 2009
Calcutta, Sigree, Machaan and other brands like Mostly Kababs, Just Biryani, Haka and Sweet Bengal, is cooking up an inorganic growth model to foray in to the south Indian and Italian food verticals ... Calcutta outlets in North America under the franchisee model. (India Times, India -- Intl Business)
Mass evacuation in cyclone-hit B'desh Apr 18, 2009
com said its center was about 150 mph (240 kph) from Calcutta, India, and moving northeast Friday night. It said the cyclone was slowly picking up steam. (India Times, India)
Culinary nostalgia of Calcutta Apr 16, 2009
So yes, going to Calcutta is one brief, wonderful whirlwind culinary fiesta. Happy Eating, not only from one Calcuttan to another, but to all those who revel in the unique flavours of that city. (India Times)
Executives quit jobs abroad for IIMC Apr 14, 2009
KOLKATA: At least six to seven executives working in senior positions abroad have foregone an annual salary package of anything between $100,000 and $150,000 to join an MBA programme at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. This is the third year of the post graduate programme for executives (PGPEX) but this is the first time that so many have kicked foreign jobs to be here. (India Times, India)
India's vote is one too chaotic to call Apr 13, 2009
Trinamool Congress party activists walk in an election rally wearing masks of their leader and candidate Mamata Banerjee in Calcutta, India, Sunday, April 12, 2009. (The Associated Press). (Globe and Mail)
Syncretic flavours of Calcutta Apr 9, 2009
What is it about Nahoums and Nizams that draws to their doors so many of those who come to Calcutta in search of its essence. For some, Calcutta is all about nobility amid squalor, enlightenment amid poverty and other such socially and cinematically acceptable urban legends ... And all of them symbolise at least for us the essence of Calcutta, if not Kolkata. (India Times)
IIM-Calcutta's highest salary falls 28.5% Apr 7, 2009
IIM-Calcutta's highest salary falls 28 ... IIM-Calcutta's highest salary falls 28 ... KOLKATA: IIM Calcutta (IIM-C)s second batch 2007-08 of PGPEX (post-graduate programme for executives) students has wrapped up its placements, with an average domestic salary of Rs 18 lakh, a 11. (India Times)
British Airways showdown looms as... Apr 7, 2009
All additional payments for flying to certain destinations such as Madras, Beijing and Calcutta could be removed. Those 36 days include all bank holidays, xmas, easter etc etc (equating 8 days in the year) as they are normal business days to BA. Plus if you want to take a week off you have to use 7. (New York Post -- Business)
IIM Bangalore launches costliest PG programme Apr 4, 2009
After IIM, Calcutta, IIM, Ahmedabad and IIM, Bangalore, its now the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIML)s turn to go for a fee hike. The institute on Friday said that it has decided to increase the fees of its two-year flagship post-graduate programme in management by Rs 1. (India Times)
'Financiers free to seize vehicles' Apr 1, 2009
KOLKATA: In a judgment that is bound to have far-reaching consequences, Calcutta high court on Tuesday allowed financiers to seize vehicles if customers do not pay EMIs. A division bench of Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice Tapan Kumar Dutt gave the judgment while hearing 21 appeals filed by GE Capital Transportation Financial Services Ltd against customers who stopped paying instalments and then obtained injunctions from a lower court against the vehicles being seized. (India Times)
Meet Canada's latest designing brothers Mar 28, 2009
Doug: We visited boys' academies in Bombay, Calcutta and New Delhi. These schools have a strong British heritage that, combined with an eyedropper of the exotic, provides our look for fall. (Globe and Mail)
Can coaching institutes use the IIM brand? Mar 11, 2009
Can coaching institutes use the IIM brand. - Brand Equity-Features-The Economic Times. (India Times)
AirAsia plans more stops in India soon Mar 10, 2009
The destinations on the India list include Hyderabad, New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Kochi, Madurai and Calcutta ... We will fly the Amritsar and Calcutta routes even sooner but out from Bangkok, Fernandes said without elaborating. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
Orissa Sponge promoter converts pledged warrants Mar 10, 2009
The promoter has moved the Calcutta High Court while Moonstar Securities moved the Delhi High Court on the actual ownership of these warrants. The courts are likely to take a view in the coming weeks. (India Times)
Tatas, Anil out of DPSC stake race? Mar 9, 2009
Last Friday, Patton MD Sanjay Budhia had said that he would seek a clarification on the winning bidders status following the Calcutta High Court verdict on March 5 ... On Thursday, the Calcutta High Court had said that the stake sale process in DPSC could continue but an ultimate decision on who gets to bag the shares on offer would depend on the final order of the Company Law Board. (India Times)
IIMs extend placement period Mar 4, 2009
IIM-Calcutta (IIM-C) took even less, a record-breaking four days to place its 290 students ... Institutes like IIM Ahmedabad (IIM-A), IIM Calcutta (IIM-C), IIM Bangalore (IIM-B) and IIM Kozhikode (IIM-K), among others, are doing their best to keep recruiters happy by keeping the placement season open-ended, giving more elbow room to companies so they could hire students at their own convenience, and not within the time limit set by the institutes as was the case until last year. (India Times)
Prolific Ryan plans to rein in the riding as travel bug bites Mar 1, 2009
" Price's good filly Ivory Pegasus will have her next start in the $150,000 Surround Stakes at Randwick on March 7 followed by the Keith Nolan Classic at Kembla on March 22. Upset winner found Search 'n' Seek, a 50-1 bolter, won the Condobolin Picnic Cup last Saturday. The gelding beat Beltana and Mr Music. The $3 favourite Stable Talk was unplaced. Search 'n' Seek, trained by Les Bryant at Forbes, gave amateur rider Peter Lockey his career first winner. At Moree the biggest crowd seen at the... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
IIM-C fees will be Rs 9 lakh Feb 27, 2009
KOLKATA: Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) decided on Friday to hike its fee to Rs 9 lakh for the 2009-11 batch. This is more than double the fees paid by the batch passing out this year. (India Times)
* [SOFTCOVER: INDIA] Going to lots of places and none at all Feb 22, 2009
He grew up in Calcutta and left India at the age of 21 to study journalism in the US. Before joining the FT he covered business from Hong Kong for Time magazine and worked for Fortune in New York, writing about management. The first thing to strike you about this book is its publisher. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Plea in RS to impeach Justice Sen Feb 21, 2009
NEW DELHI: With the Centre yet to act on Chief Justice K G Balakrishnans recommendation for removal of Calcutta high court judge Soumitra Sen, 58 Rajya Sabha members came together on Friday to seek his impeachment on grounds of financial misconduct ... The petition said the House resolved to pass the motion of impeachment of Justice Sen on two grounds misappropriation of large sums of money, which he received in his capacity as receiver appointed by the High Court of Calcutta, and... (India Times)
