IIM Calcutta doubles stipend for PhD students

In order to churn out more lecturers and professors for the premier business schools and encourage research, the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, has doubled the stipend for its PhD programme in management.

The decision was taken at a Board of Governors meeting on December 23. The students will now get Rs 20,000 to Rs 24,000 per month along with a contingency grant of Rs 20,000 annually. Besides, they will also be provided a one-time grant for field study, laptop and opportunities to participate in international conferences.

"IIM-C has decided to double the stipend for its fellowship programme. We expect the step will encourage talented students with industry experience to opt for academics," said Bhaskar Chakraborty, Chairman, Fellow Programme and Research. After the stipend, which will be implemented from 2009, IIM-C will be offering the highest stipend among all the IIMs in the country.

As business schools are grappling with a shortage of skilled faculty, at present, the average annual intake in PhD programme in management is 10 to 15 students. Although there is no restriction on the intake, according to institute officials, the decision will increase the number of students opting for PhD.

The institute has also revised the rules of the fellowship programme. To provide more enriching academic experience to students, the institute will offer teaching assistantships, which will fetch them up to Rs 11,000 per month in addition to the monthly stipend.

Dinesh Varma, Chief Administrative Officer, IIM-Calcutta, said "We took this decision so that students can support their stay in the campus”.

Jamshedpur: Adityapur small industries facing block closures

Owners of around 600 of the 800 auto units in the Adityapur industrial area (AIA) supplying parts and spares to Tata Motors' plant here are a worried lot, having experienced two block closures from the auto major in November itself. Tata Motors, which turns out heavy commercial vehicles (HCVs) at its plant here, has in view of the current sluggish demand, decided to take a second block closure during the month, for five days between November 25 and 29. "Around 80% of us have shut down units and laid off workers," said Adityapur Small Industries Association (ASIA) President SN Thakur.

Taking the earlier shut down into consideration, the units would have effectively run for only 15 days during the month of November. Depending upon individual size and production capacities, the ancillary units together are estimated to take a hit in excess of Rs 500 crore during November as liabilities like payment of power bill, interest on bank loans/overdraft, payment to laid off workers including key personnel on half-pay basis, etc, cannot be avoided. Most affected are the small and big sheet metal and engineering units who work for suppliers of parts and spares to Tata Motors, and those supplying parts and spares like gears, axles, doors, etc, directly to the auto major. According to the ASIA president, most of the units have for some months now been already running at around one-third of their capacity, as Tata Motors has been turning out around 150-200 HCV chassis a day in recent months compared to around 600-650 units during this time last year. "We had already been victimised by low production and this block closures have come as a secondary hit," Tata Motors has already said that the slowdown in sales of its HCVs would call "for appropriate action from time to time to match the production with demand and avoid unnecessary build-up of inventories in the company or with its dealers".

Tata Motors removes 300 employees in Jamshedpur

Auto major Tata Motors has asked 300 temporary employees at its Jamshedpur unit not to report for duty from Monday (Oct 20).

Out of these 300 employees, 100 belong to the truck division, and 200 to the engine division.

Tata Motors said the decision had nothing to do with the current global economic meltdown and added that asking temporary staff to stay away was normal. "It is a routine affair and it has nothing to do with the global economy," said company spokesperson P.J. Singh.

“This is not first time we have asked temporary employees not to come on work. On rotation temporary employees are given work. Last month, we also regularised services of 250 temporary employees,” he said.

Sonal Munda- a tribal girl from Ranchi- Tops JNU MCA Entrance Exam

Thanks to Prabhatkhabar, through which I came to know this good news.

Sonal Munda did her BCA from St Xavier’s College Ranchi and has now topped the MCA Entrance Exam conducted by JNU.

For the very first time, it has happened that a student from Bihar/Jharkhand has achieved this outstanding remark.

Almost 2 lakhs candidates appeared for the entrance exam towards admission to MCA programme from JNU, which has just 35 seats nationwide.

Success of Sonal Munda is an inspiration for the students of Bihar & Jharkhand and specially to those who belong to tribal community.

At the same time, it is a big slap to those who comment like “SC/STs don’t have talent.”

Way to go Sonal... Keep it up!!

If you wish to face problems- go for Touch Broadband

In today’s cyberworld, there are hundreds of Internet Service Providers. All of them talk about providing best services available.

Here I am sharing some of my experience in this field. I am connected with a cyber café based in Jamshedpur, India. So, this post can be of some help to the people of Jharkhand state, who are willing to avail services of an Internet Service Provider.

If you are based in Jamshedpur and you are willing to have new connection or you are willing to switch to a new service provider, then..

“Never go for Touch Broadband”.

Touch Broadband basically operates in Jamshedpur, and works under VSNL. They are providing services from VSNL, under their own tag Touch Broadband.

They just promise to give you services par excellence. But the fact is once you become their client, you will have to face too many problems with your internet connectivity.

If you wish to have 15 days connection in a month, then you can go for Touch Broad.

Not only that.. in problematic days they are not going to listen your problems. Your phone calls and complains will just go unheard. Such is the greatness of Touch Broadband which operates in Steel City of India i.e. Jamshedpur. I wonder how people of Jamshedpur have taken services of Touch Broadband.

In a way, it can also be concluded that Touch Broadband is nullifying the good will of VSNL.

CAT 2008 Bulletin Details

The CAT 2008 bulletin for the CAT exam towards admission to different B-Schools is now available at the Axis Bank counters. In place of 6 IIMs, this year we have 1 IIM added to the IIMs list, and that is IIM Shillong.

CAT 2008 entrance will be for admissions into various Post Graduate Management programs being offered by the following institutes:

IIM Ahmedabad
IIM Bangalore
IIM Calcutta
IIM Indore
IIM Kozhikode
IIM Lucknow
IIM Shillong
These are some of the important dates for CAT 2008

Issue of CAT Bulletins by Axis Bank STARTS :
JULY 14, 2008 (Monday)
Issue of CAT Bulletins by Axis Bank ENDS :
AUGUST 8, 2008 (Friday)
Issue of CAT Bulletins by IIMs ENDS :
AUGUST 13, 2008 (Wednesday)
Last date for receipt of completed CAT Applications by the IIMs : SEPTEMBER 5, 2008 (Friday)
COMMON ADMISSION TEST CAT 2008:
NOVEMBER 16, 2008 (Sunday)

For other Important information on CAT 2008, please keep checking CAT website www.catiim.in

3rd JPSC Main Examination expected in September

Those candidates who have cleared the preliminary examination for the 3rd Civil Services Examination, conducted by JPSC are waiting the main examination dates to be given by JPSC.

However there is nothing latest info related to this on JPSC website, it is expected that the main exam will be conducted in the month of September. Expectations are that the exams will begin in the 1st week of September.

Do check later for latest info.

WBJEE 2008 Results

WBJEE 2008 Results have been declared for Admission to Engineering, Techonological, Medical & Dental Degree Colleges in West Bengal.

For your results please follow the given link..

Your WBJEE 2008 Results Here

Ranchi University Degree Exam Results 2008 published

Ranchi University Degree Examination Results 2008 have been announced today and they are available on the Internet.

For your results please follow the links..

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Results 2008

Bachler of Commerce (B.Com.) Results 2008

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Results 2008

AIEEE Results Published

After IIT JEE results, its the turn of AIEEE results which is making buzz among engineering entrance aspirants. The results for the AIEEE 2008 have been declared by CBSE and is available on their site.

For detailed results of AIEEE 2008 please follow the given link.

AIEEE Results 2008

Jharkhand Intermediate Results 2008 PUBLISHED

The results for the Intermediate examination 2008 for the streams science, arts and commerce have been declared. Although it was expected to come out yesterday only, it came one later and became available on the internet today at 3:30pm onwards.

To see the results, please visit the given link.

Jharkhand Intermediate Results 2008

Delay in IIT JEE 2008 Results

IIT JEE 2008 was held on 13th April 2008, and according to their schedule results were to be declared on 30th May 2008.

But the results are yet to be declared. There could be some reasons better known to them.

For more and latest information on this, you can visit following websites.
http://www.jee.iitb.ac.in/
http://www.jee.iitd.ac.in/
http://www.iitg.ac.in/jee
http://www.iitk.ac.in/jee
http://www.iitkgp.ernet.in/jee
http://jee.iitm.ac.in/
http://www.iitr.ac.in/jee

I went through the IIT websites but couldn’t find a link pointing to the results.
However, NDTV has published a news which states that IIT JEE 2008 results have been declared. I don’t know where they got it?

Here is the piece of information that NDTV has published…
“The Indian Institute of Technology has declared the results of IIT-Joint Entrance Exam on Wednesday.
Candidates can log on to the individual websites of all the seven IITs - Delhi, Mumbai, Madras, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Guwahati and Roorkee for their results.
Each year around 4,000 students are selected for the undergraduate course through the IIT-JEE entrance examination.”

Anyway, till this moment IIT JEE 2008 results are not on the internet.

CBSE 10th Results Published

Central Board of Secondary Education has announced results for class 10th. It was declared today in the morning at 8am.

To find CBSE class 10th results, please follow the link given below.

CBSE 10th Results 2008

Bihar Intermediate Results 2008 DECLARED

Bihar Intermediate Results 2008 for the streams science, arts and commerce have been declared today.

To check results you can follow the given link below.

Bihar Intermediate Results 2008

Bihar School Examination Board- Class X Results 2008 Published

The much awaited class X results for Bihar School Examination Board 2008, have been declared. But the funny thing is, the website of BSEB where the results have been published is taking too much time to upload.

Thanks to indiaresults which has provided an alternative to see the results.

You can see your results by following these links:

Bihar Class X Results 2008

Jharkhand Government all set to give haircuts to students

The Jharkhand government is all set to give haircuts to students in state-run schools.
“School principals have been directed to hire part-time barbers to give the students haircuts in the schools. There are many poor students with long hair as their parents are unable to take them to barbers,” these are the words from Bandhu Tirkey, the state's human resource development minister.

He said: “The barbers will be available in school for at least three days every week.”
To implement the decision, 30,000-40,000 barbers will be needed as there are over 16,000 primary, middle and high schools in the state.

The barbers are happy with the decision. The have welcomed the decision. It will give employment to barbers and at the same time help the poor children of the state.

The state's HRD department is introducing several schemes to check school dropouts.

Earlier, Tirkey had announced poor students would have their birthdays celebrated in school.
'We have to make education attractive for the students and reduce the burden of the parents. Jharkhand is one of the backward states of the country and we need to improve literacy rate. Caring for poor students can help in improving the literacy rate,' he said.

Jharkhand has a literacy rate of 54 percent, compared to the national average of 65 percent.

Jharkhand Matric Results 2008 published

The much awaited Matriculation exam results have been declared. The results are available on the internet now.

Earlier Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) had announced that the results will be on the net 3PM onwards. Though it came half an hour late, its a good news that JAC published the 10th results on a predefined date.

You can follow the given link below to see 10th results.

Jharkhand Matric RESULTs Here