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I sincerely apologise for wrong info above........................

The last date for submission of applications is 2nd feb 2006.........................

Sorry , again

CHEERS

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Whatever done said , rather than creating tension about everything why dont you clear your doubts and then post. Please avoid creating havoc among students like us who are banking on this only .


Please check the following link for the last date.

http://www.tiss.edu/Revised_HRM_A.pdf

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Originally Posted by Kayle

Hiya!
First-timer here. Wonder if you guys know that the written test of TISS has been postponed to March 5th. Do chk the website.

what is the last date for applying here.
wht r the institutes.
wht is the ranking wrt the CAT institutes.

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Ok people ,
Well give me today and tomorrow i will be back with all the economic and business awareness news. I have missed 5 days news so give me some time. Also as i have seen few posts on interviews i observed that there are questions asked on the Labor Party of India. And also as there have been few major issues of Labor problem in india , taking account Toyota and Honda, so there would obviously stress on that . Let me check all this i am seriously preparing on this too. Mumbai janta why dont we meet up on weekends , decide to write an essay each on burning topic and then have a go every weekend. Waiting for your replies.

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Helloo Padfoot , Well I Am A Late Lateef , As I Am Entering This Thread For The First Time , Well Please Please Mujhe Koi Bataaye , How To Prepare For Tiss Seriously And I Want To Get Admission In It , Please Reply Reply , Prime Minister Is Waiting.

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Originally Posted by PRIME MINISTER

Helloo Padfoot , Well I Am A Late Lateef , As I Am Entering This Thread For The First Time , Well Please Please Mujhe Koi Bataaye , How To Prepare For Tiss Seriously And I Want To Get Admission In It , Please Reply Reply , Prime Minister Is Waiting.

Hi ,
I am not an expert either. Just have visited few threads and all . have talked with few TISS alumni.
all i have understood is taht we should be very well read and should know the latest happening and be aware of everything happening not only in india but the whole world. Try practising few essays.
Rest the seniors from TISS please help us. Also if any seniors can throw a light on placement at TISS , it can be really good.
Once Again CALLING ALL THE SENIORS FROM TISS !!! HELP US !!!!

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Economic Study 12_17 - Part 1

• Bacardi Martini India (BMIL) is the latest liquor MNC to move the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) seeking wholesale trading permission for imported brands in the country.
• The transfer of ICI’s rubber business to a joint venture with PMC Group brings to a conclusion that ICI’s restructuring which in the span of over a decade has seen it get rid of businesses as diverse as fertilisers, agrochemicals, explosives, polyurethanes, industrial paints, trading and nitro cellulose and now rubber chemicals. That leaves it with paints, which is the largest business contributing 65% of turnover and chemicals, where it makes speciality chemicals, polymers and has a JV with HLL for the Quest flavours and fragrances business.
• Brewing giant InBev named Carlos Brito as its new chief executive on Tuesday with immediate effect, replacing John Brock whose three-year contract had ended.
• The country’s fourth largest spirits company Jagatjit Industries (JIL) is the latest to be embroiled in a family squabble. The founder LP Jaiswal’s third and youngest son has moved court in the State of Jersey, one of the largest English Channel islands and a financial hub, disputing the promoter shareholding .
• Textile Minister Shankar Sinh Vaghela on Thursday favoured extending the Textile Upgradation Fund Scheme (TUFS) beyond 2007 to allow the industry to take full advantage of the scheme.
• Provogue India Ltd has informed BSE that the Board of Directors of the Company at its meeting held on January 12, 2006, has appointed Mr. Rajiv Chaturvedi as an additional director of the Company.
• Nayla Hayek, the daughter of Nicholas Hayek (Sr), the global head of the Swatch Group, has joined the board of management of Swatch’s Indian operations.
• Hans-Joerg Seeberger, chairman and chief executive, Egana Goldpfeil, a HK$3,717 turnover group is very excited after his acquisition of German leather brand Salamander.
• The Gucci Group has identified the Murjani brothers as their partners to enter the Indian market.
• Rajesh Exports Ltd said on Thursday it has bagged an export order worth Rs 146 crore from UAE's major jewellery wholesaler, Excel Goldsmith, for the exporting designer jewellery.
• Energy Development Company Ltd on Tuesday said it has bagged an order worth Rs 38 crore from Himachal Futuristic Communications Ltd for supplying and installing conductors.
• Mirza International Ltd said it has bagged the Gold trophy in 'Overall Export Performance' category by the Council for Leather Exports for the year 2004-05.
• Just a year after entering the Rs 20,000 crore durables market, the promoters of Anchor-Daewoo Industries are understood to have approached heavyweights like LG, Samsung and Onida to buy the Daewoo brand .
• HT Media Ltd, the leading print media company on Monday posted a four-fold jump in net profit at Rs 16.3 crore for the quarter ended December 2005 .
• Indiatimes.com, India’s leading multi-content portal has entered into a strategic alliance with Legalpundits.com, a leading legal portal, to provide expert legal services online to all its users

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Economic 12_17 Part 2

• The biggest sponsorship platform in India is up for grabs. The incumbent Sahara is expected to be challenged by a host of contenders. These include Reliance Infocomm, Hero Honda, Airtel and Videocon who are expected to vie for the prized sponsorship. Also, the surprise names doing the rounds this year are that of technology companies.Infosys and Microsoft, which are learnt to be thinking of throwing their hat in the ring.
• Entertainment Network (India) Ltd, which operates the private FM radio broadcast service 'Radio Mirchi' is entering the capital market on January 23 to raise up to Rs 214 crore (including a green shoe option).
• Interworld Digital Ltd has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a Norwegian company to manufacture digital cinema DLP (Digital Light Processors) projectors.
• BAG Infotainment has won licences for FM radio stations in Hisar, Karnal, Shimla and Patiala.
• All India Radio has decided to launch two 24-hour music channels exclusively for Carnatic and Hindustani Classical music from July, its Director General Brijeshwar Singh said on Wednesday.
• ICICI Lombard General Insurance is expected to sign an MOU with the Punjab Government shortly for a health insurance scheme for farmers in the state, a senior company official said
• The RBI has banned Temasek from raising its stake in ICICI Bank but both the company and the central bank have refused to comment.
• ICICI Lombard became the first private player to cross Rs 1,000 crore in premium collection even as general insurance industry grew by 15.5 per cent till November this fiscal.
• n a first of its kind deal, Scope International, a 100 per cent subsidiary of Standard Chartered Bank, UK, has formed a knowledge partnership with Cambridge Integrated Services, the BPO arm of Scandent Solution Corporation Ltd.
• The boards of UTI Asset Management Company, the country’s largest fund house, and its trustee company, have been reconstituted. UK Sinha, who until now was the MD and CEO, will now be the CMD of the AMC. The restructuring of the board was carried out after the tenure of the chairman of the AMC, RH Patil ended recently. The other new members on the board are SC Bhargava, former ED, LIC, Anita Ramachandran, CEO of Cerebrus Consultants, KC Mishra, director, National Insurance Academy, Pune and, PR Khanna, chartered accountant.
• Hutchison Essar Ltd on Monday said it has completed the acquisition of BPL Mobile Cellular Ltd, the holder of cellular mobile telephone licences for Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Kerala
• The government is exploring the proposal to sell 10% stake in UTI Bank to a public financial institution. The stake, proposed to be sold, is part of the 27.7% holding of Specified Undertaking of UTI (SUUTI) in the bank. The government was earlier keen that Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) buy this stake from SUUTI. However, this plan did not work out as LIC, holding 10.5% in the bank is barred by regulations of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority (IRDA) from increasing its stake in the bank.

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Economic Part 3 12_17

• Coinciding with Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, Remit2India has unveiled a new plan called “Top of the Charts” for its NRI customers.
  Under this plan, an NRI gets assured gifts on every money transfer. The overseas customer can earn free calling cards, personalized music CDs and Amazon gift vouchers worth $100.
• Simplex Infrastructures Limited said on Thursday it has bagged a Rs 67.51 crore order from Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd for construction of bridges.A case was booked against M/s Threelon Synthetics Pvt Ltd, a 100 per cent export oriented unit (EOU) based in Talasari of district Thane for consigning duty free polyster knitted fabrics to two units in Shimla, which were not eligible to receive duty free goods from 100 per cent EOUs, an official release on Tuesday.
• Jet Airways, TCG Urban Infra Holding, Enam Securities, Greenbird Developers, Naman group and Starlite Systems have won bids for allotment of plots by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authorities (MMRDA) at the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC). The sale of these plots is likely to generate around Rs 900 crore for the MMRDA.
• Battlelines have been drawn after Singapore-based PSA International, the world’s second-largest port operator and owner of Singapore’s ports, made a £3.5bn ($6.18bn) approach that may lead to a fresh offer for the UK port operator P&O, raising the earlier bid of £3.33bn from DP World.
• With Gujarat Maritime Board approving a joint venture (JV) between the JK group and Adani group, Gujarat will have another chemical terminal at Dholera.
  The Rs 3000-crore chemical terminal will be country’s second dedicated chemical terminal after Gujarat Chemical Port Terminal. While JK group will hold 51 per cent, the Adani group will have 49 per cent in the joint venture.
• One of the last standalone mid-sized Indian ad agencies, New-Delhi based Capital Advertising, may be snapped up soon. The world’s biggest ad agency network, the US-based $8.6-bn Omnicom Group, is learnt to be in talks with Capital for a takeover. Sources told ET that Michael Berkin, chairman & CEO, Omnicom Asia Pacific and vice-chairman of the Omnicom Group was in India last week and held discussions with the promoters of Capital, Sunil Sachdeva and HV Subramaniam. They also added that the discussions have entered the last lap.
• Dressed in khakhi cargos and a plain white shirt (very fine count of cotton), a tikka of welcome on his forehead, Majed Al Sabah, puts his hand out to greet. The label, Sheikh of Chic suits him. Confident and casual chic is what the 37-year old nephew of the Emir of Kuwait is all about.
• Hong Kong-based Dairy Farm International (DFI) is close to offloading 51 per cent equity stake in Foodworld, the domestic supermarket chain, to a consortium of investors, including investment banker Hemendra Kothari, the head of DSP Merrill Lynch in India, and industrialist Rajan Raheja. In effect, the consortium is picking up RPG Enterprises’ 51per cent stake in Foodworld..
• Arcelor, the world’s number two steelmaker, raised its offer for Canada’s Dofasco to $4.7bn, outbidding Germany’s ThyssenKrupp in one of Europe’s hottest bidding wars.
• The Sebi has banned UAE-based Jermyn Capital, a sub-account of Taib Bank, from trading in the Indian market for its alleged links with Ketan Parekh.

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Economic Part 4 12_17

• • ITD Cementation India, engaged in construction business, on Monday said it will issue equity shares on rights basis upto Rs 75 crore.
  • Hindalco Industries, the Aditya Birla Group flagship, has bought the assets of Palco for an undisclosed amount from the Arcil.
  • Reliance Capital Asset Management picked up 7.5% equity stake in Hyderabad-based Mold-tek Technologies, a plastic packaging company.
  • Plant equipment manufacturer Patels Airtemp (India) Ltd has won an order worth Rs 2.17 crore from Bharat Heavy Electrical Ltd (BHEL) to supply engineering products.
  • Alembic Glass Industries Ltd today said it has approved the merger of Shreno Ltd with itself.
  • Tata Motors in association with Arya Omnitalk, Orix Auto and Buisness Solutions on Monday launched a new initiative called 'TAO' which will provide professional transport solutions to the BPOs.
  • IBM has held talks to acquire a stake in the Indian software services company Satyam Computer Services, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
  • Amitabh Chaudhry, currently Chief Operating Officer, will take over as Managing Director and CEO of Infosys's business process outsourcing (BPO) arm, Progeon, the Bangalore-based company announced on Wednesday.
  • Aviva, the world’s sixth largest insurance company, is set to enter the Indian BPO sector. The UK-based firm is going to buy a majority stake in the Bangalore facility of BPO company 24/7 Customer. This facility in Brookefields, Bangalore, called Aviva 24/7, is currently a 100% subsidiary of 24/7.
  • Ken Naz, CEO of Erosentertainment, North America division, spoke to the IANS ( a news agency) regarding the Google video site offering Hindi movies.
  • The promoter family is set to take control at Ranbaxy after an interval of seven years. The company is expected to announce major organisational changes under which Malvinder Singh, it is reliably learnt, is to don the mantle of MD and CEO. Besides, another family member and Malvinder Singh’s younger brother, Shivinder Singh is expected to join the Ranbaxy board.
    Current MD and CEO, Brian Tempest, is tipped to be the vice-chairman of the company. Tejinder Khanna will remain chairman of the pharma major. Malvinder Singh is currently president (pharma) and executive director at Ranbaxy.
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