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Infosys become first Indian IT company to generate own power
BANGALORE: In 2006, soaring hotel costs and traffic snarls led Infosys to build Le Terrace, a four-star hotel with 500 rooms for its employees and overseas clients in its campus in Bangalore's Electronics City.
Eight years on, the software industry posterchild is about to embark on generating its own power, in the process saving costs, getting clean reliable power for its operations and fulfilling its broader obligations to society.
Infosys...
How Nokia will help its former employees in India
CHENNAI: Nokia India is implementing what it calls a 'Bridge' programme for former employees who lost their jobs, providing vital help during a difficult period and earning goodwill among those who worked at its Chennai plant.
The Finnish mobile phone maker's India manufacturing unit was at one time a marquee investment and a symbol of India's importance for Nokia. But the company quickly fell into troubled times. It has shed thousands...
SAP brings cloud-based learning to university students
SAP
today announced a cloud-based offering designed for students to incorporate the
study of SAP solutions into university coursework. The student edition of SAP
Learning Hub offers a comprehensive library of electronic content that
universities can provide to students for self-study covering close to 150 SAP
solutions. It also includes access to e-learning courses, handbooks and other
training materials from the SAP Education organization...
Careers in Journalism
Pen is mightier than the sword. Even today, the younger generation is attracted to journalism. Everyday, there are several events happening across the world - political, cultural, religious, educational, social and natural events, etc. We come to know about these events sitting in our houses. How is that possible? Through mass communication, providing information to a large crowd at the same time. But, for this, someone has to collect the information...
IIT Bombay launches its first MOOCs
Further to its collaboration with EdX, a massive open online course (MOOC) platform, last year, IIT Bombay (IIT-B) recently launched its first three MOOCs.While sessions for two of the courses – Introduction to Computer Programming (part one) and Thermodynamics – will commence this July, the third course – Introduction to Computer Programming (part two) – will begin in September.Informs Deepak Phatak, professor, Department of Computer Science...
Unusual career options for commerce graduates
Commerce graduates are increasingly opting for non-traditional careers. Here’s a list of five offbeat career options that are gaining popularity among them
With a large number of Indian companies setting up global facilities, employment opportunities for professionals across sectors have increased massively. This has impacted the career choices of young graduates from all streams – arts, science and commerce. While jobs in banking, company...
Over 2,000 foreign applications flood Delhi University
New Delhi: The Foreign Students' Registry has received 2,098 applications from abroad with as many as 1,259 for the four-year undergraduate programme.
"This is unprecedented as in previous years, the number of applicants would be much higher for post-graduate courses," says a senior official from DU. There is a considerable number of applications for the master's programme as well - 607 - and 107 for PhD.
The registry...
Compulsory Tamil puts students in fix
Chennai: Despite taking a pledge to compulsorily teach Tamil as main language in 2006, several private schools in Tamil Nadu continued to teach other languages keeping the students in the dark.
Officials in the directorate of matriculation schools say they have already informed the schools and even got the declaration form signed by school authorities that they would comply with the norms.
The Tamil Nadu Tamil learning Act (2006)...
11 new management development programmes launched in IIM Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad: Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has launched 11 new Management Development Programmes (MDPs) for the academic session beginning 2014 - 2015.
Currently, IIM Ahmedabad offers the following courses: Fellow Programme in Management (FPM), Post-Graduate Programme in Management (PGP), Post Graduate Programme in Agribusiness Management (PGP-ABM), One Year Post-Graduate Programme in Management for Executives (PGPX),...
Bill on foreign universities to be brought back
New Delhi: The Union human resources development ministry led by Smriti Irani is working hard to bring back one of the UPA government’s pet projects, the Foreign Universities Bill, that will allow foreign universities to open branches in India. Sources said the proposed Bill is likely to draw heavily on the original legislation proposed during the UPA-2 government.
The proposal, mooted by then former HRD minister Kapil Sibal in UPA-II’s...
