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It is no use telling the aam admi that inflation here is a consequence of high food prices outside the country. The impact of this kind of explanation is a bit like what Indira Gandhi used to say about corruption being a global phenomenon.
—Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
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DEBATE |
India’s growing middle class and its demand for food is the cause behind global food price rise, says the American President George W Bush. Do you agree?
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INTERNATIONAL AVENUES |
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‘English, no issue’
Prof Dr George S Yip, dean, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands, on why Europe is emerging as a popular education destination
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| .n THE LEAD |
CAT presses ‘enter’ for online option: CAT goes online,” screamed the newspapers a couple of weeks back. Though, the IIMs have not come out clearly on the ‘what and how’ of CAT Online, there is enough evidence for you to be prepared for an online exam. Firstly, there was no outright denial (other than some minor clarifications that came up on the IIM Kolkata site) of the plans which seem to indicate that the IIMs have let the newspapers build up the case for them. Secondly, IIMs have invited tenders for conducting the test by parties “who have the ability to put up infrastructure that can handle the exam on such a large scale”. So there is enough circumstantial evidence to point to an impending shift to a CAT Online.
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No reservations
about reservation: So far, it looks like a positive move since the ruling says that students belonging to the “creamy layer” will be excluded from the reservation,” says Divya Chandran, a Ist year student of the postgraduate programme at IIM, Lucknow. She speaks for several who have similar views about the recent Supreme Court ruling that cleared the decks for the implementation of 27 per cent reservation for “socially and educationally backward classes” in premier Central government-funded institutions of higher learning. The bench of five judged, headed by Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan, validated the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006. The reservations will come into force from the next academic session, with a review of the quota’s continuation to be done every five years. There has been significantly little negativity about the ruling. ...Subscribe to the magazine to read more.
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| .n POINT-COUNTERPOINT |
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 Vagaries of mind: I had written seven articles in The Times of India in the year 2006, out of which two made it to the Times Wellness Book. Out of the two, one is on concentration:-
“Indian children are exposed to how Arjuna was asked to focus on the eye as a target for his arrow, as an exercise in concentration. Ralph Waldo Emerson has said ‘Concentration is the secret of success in politics, in war, in all management of human affairs.’...more |
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 ‘Online prepared me for print’: Vinay Chhajlani is founder and CEO of Webdunia, world’s first multilingual portal offering services in 11 languages. A graduate in electrical and electronics engineering from BITS Pilani, and an MS in print technology from Rochester Institute of Technology, Chhajlani decided to make a difference to online media and software development through his portal, even though his family derives its reputation from the print media, having founded Central India’s leading newspaper Naidunia, launched just prior to Independence. Chhajlani, now the CEO of Naidunia, is showing the same foresight and dynamism that he showed in web space, in the print space too. ...more |
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| .n ...AND MUCH MORE |
ROUND TABLE:
N-Deal, a must for nine
per cent growth: Assocham
Polity, industry debate the merits of Nuclear Deal at an ASSOCHAM meet;
Harvard prof cautions India about its foreign policy priorities ...more
‘Stenography, not journalism’
P Sainath, India’s leading development journalist, on media coverage of agriculture ...more
‘US, in irremediable decline’
Harvard University professor advises India to maintain a balance in its
relations with the US and Asian neighbours ...more
Handholding for herbs
Industry, discusses ways to promote this returned products industry ...more
Promotion plan
A FICCI report on the future of technical textiles
Awaited, funds for governance
Mani Shankar Aiyer criticises government for its
apathy towards common man
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NUMERO UNO:
• India, unstoppable ...more
• National quality awards ...more
• Six Pulitzers for Washington Post ...more
• Indian CFOs get highest pay hike
• India abroad person of the year
• French award for Arun Nanda
• Brand consciousness: India leads
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FLASHBACK:
• Quotas are here to stay ...more
• Priyanka forgives
father’s killer...more
• Budhia’s coach shot dead ...more
• Raj’s reservation rhetoric ...more
• PM Plot
• Tikait a pale shadow of his former self
• Maoists come to power in Nepal
• Two Indians killed in Afghanistan
• Arun Gawli arrested
• Volleys on and off the court
• Cricket will perhaps never be
the same again
• Torch that fanned controversies
• Big bang experiment worries the world
• Literary buzz
• Overused bus falls into canal, killing 44
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