Despite a tight job market, in search of a dream placement offer (Photo courtesy: thegoldguys.blogspot.com/) To help students combat placement stress, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta will allow the 2012-14 batch PGP students to have multiple summer placement offers from companies. The institute is also introducing a day break between the summer process, […]

Queens Mary Technical Institute at Pune An injury in a road accident during Operation Rakshak in Kupwada district of Jammu and Kashmir in 2001 stole away Veeresh Ms chance of living a normal life. Veeresh from Koppal in Karnataka was 22 then. Veereshs, spleen had to be removed after the accident and leading a normal […]

Registrations for Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) February 2013 opened from today. The exam will be conducted from February 21-25. Aspirants can register online by visiting the CMAT website. The last date of registration for the exam is January 2, 2013. Candidates who have appeared for the exam in September 2012 can appear for the […]

Photo: Flickr In a week, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) is expected to announce the name of its new director. In all likelihood, the top job will go to someone from within the institute, considering that quite a few applications have come from in-house. PaGaLGuY also learnt that the present director Dr Samir […]

Xavier Institute of Management (XIMB), Bhubhaneswar A tussle is going on between Xavier Institute of Management (XIM), Bhubhaneswar, and the law department of the Orissa state government over building a Xavier University in the city. In a conversation with PaGaLGuY, Father PT Joseph, the XIMB director said that he would resign from his post if […]

The Indian School of Business, Hyderabad is on the list of unapproved colleges again, put out by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) two days ago. It shares the list with 42 other colleges, some having notorious reputations. That ISB is on the list is not surprising but that fact that the bi-annual […]

You might make out the difference between your chalk and cheese but ever heard a chalk and condom being spoken about in the same vein? Better still, what if someone gave you Bekaar Di music cds to listen to? These innovative and seemingly bizarre products and ideas are not the brainchild of a mad scientist; […]

Just when we were close to concluding that Prometric had perfected the on-ground delivery of the Common Admissions Test (CAT) after the lessons it had learned in 2009, entire testing labs at at least two test centers in New Delhi failed this Saturday, on day 8 of CAT 2012. But instead of providing the choice […]

The Institute of Rural Management, Anand, (IRMA) in Gujarat has filed a writ petition against the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) in relation to the now famous court case concering the permitted MBA entrance exams. IRMA is fighting to retain its own entrance exam and not take any of the five exams as […]

Candidates scheduled to appear for the Common Admission Test (CAT) at Asia Pacific Institute of Management in New Delhi today faced technical snags and had to spend almost eleven hours at the centre, while some had to travel all the way to the Gurgaon test centre to appear for their test. Elaborating on her experience, […]