In a recent interview vis-a-vis Devil’s Advocate Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN, Taslima Nasrin really disappointed me. I never knew the fiery author could be so shallow. She looked stupid at times and made me wonder - does this woman know what she says?

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Here are the list of leading B-schools in India.

1. Indian Institute of Management (IIM-A), Ahmedabad

2. Indian Institute of Management (IIM-B), Bangalore

3. Indian Institute of Management (IIM-C), Kolkata

4. Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad

5. Indian Institute of Management (IIM-L), Lucknow

6. Xavier Labour Research Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur

7. Indian Institute of Management (IIM-I), Indore

8. Indian Institute of Management (IIM-K), Kozhikode

9. IIM-A Agri Business Management (ABM), Ahmedabad

10. IIM-L Agri Business Management (ABM), Lucknow

11. Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi University, New Delhi

12. SP Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai

13. Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi

14. Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai

15. Indian Institute of Technology- Department of Management Studies, New Delhi

16. Great Lakes Institute of Management (GLIM), Chennai

17. Symbiosis Centre for Management and HRD (SCMHRD), Pune

18. Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), Pune

19. K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research (SIMSR), Mumbai

20. ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad

21. Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business, Kolkata

Students prefer to do an MBA abroad because, the curriculum offered by the overseas universities is so much more richer.

• It offers more practical, case-study based approach and needs self-study. Here the students learn from live-projects.
• Biggest advantage is that it can launch a student’s career in the international market.
• Foreign MBA degree offers lot of money in the job market. After passing from a B-School abroad, the salary is minimum $1.1 lakh annually to upto $2.5 lakh.
• It also helps students to gain an understanding of business, along with instilling a sense about new eastern Europe markets and of emerging economies in south America and the Far East.

TOP 5 US B-schools:

1. Harvard University.

2. University of Pennsylvania.

3. Columbia University.

4. Stanford University.

5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The vast difference in fees with US universities, has made European MBA programs attractive for Indians. While theUS would cost an Indian student Rs. 40 lakh to Rs. 45 lakh or Rs. 25 lakh to 30 lakh in a lesser ranked US institute, a management programme in Europe would cost only Rs. 20-25 lakh and in Australia it would be Rs. 15-20 lakh.

TOP 5 European B-schools:

1. London Business School.

2. INSEAD, France.

3. IE(Instituto de Empresa), Spain.

4. IMD, Switzerland.

5. University of Oxford.

TOP 5 Australian B-schools:

1. Melbourne Business School.

2. Australian Graduate School of Management.

3. Monash University.

4. Australian National University.

5. University of Queensland.

Note: We suggest you to refer to the updated rankings of business schools brought out by Businessweek, Financial Times, US news or The Economist.

The Supreme Court has temporarily stayed the government order of reserving seats for OBCs in higher education. However, there is nothing much to rejoice. For this is only an interim order. The court stayed the order only on the ground that there is not enough data on OBC demographics, that no data on this has been collected in the last 76 years. Now if the govt. readies a hurried report on OBCs the court will no more be able to say government has no data. Moreover the court has clarified that the benefits enjoyed by the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes can’t be withheld. So much for the Supreme Court! So much for India! Living in India, how can we expect justice? This is the land where caste-based reservation will continue and Lalu Prasads and all will continue to rip political benefits out of that. There is only one way out - leave the country!

SFI has faced a terrible rout in the students’ union elections of the Jadavpur University arts faculty at the hands of Forum for Arts Students (FAS). Unlike the DSF-controlled Faculty of Engineering and Technology Students Union (FETSU), the arts faculty was an SFI bastion for the past 11 years. FAS was a joint non-SFI forum formed after police cruelty on students in June 2005.

It’s good to see SFI eliminated from JU. Going by my personal experience, they are always making trouble. When I was in JU in 2005, I found them supporting police action on the fasting students. Unfortunately in my college NBMC, SFI is is the lone party. Anyway, I support only one student organisation and that is Youth for Equality.

Indian-born New York University professor Srinivasa S.R. Varadhan was awarded the Abel Prize in Mathematics. The award, considered to be the Nobel Prize of Mathematics, for “his fundamental contributions to probability theory”. Varadhan had done his Ph. D from ISI Calcutta and already has many awards in his sleeve including the Birkhoff Prize (1994), the Margaret and Herman Sokol Award of NYU’s Faculty of Arts and Science (1995), and the American Mathematical Society’s Leroy Steele Prize (1996), an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He will receive the Abel Prize worth $850,000 from His Majesty, King Harald V of Norway, in Oslo on May 22nd.

Hey friends, if you are a Calcuttan & if you have some interest in films and theatres then you must have heard about the famous Star Theatre, in north Calcutta near Sobhabazar. And guess what, its all set to touch people’s heart again as it did earlier…but this time with ‘Cinemas’… Recently I went there to see Maniratnam’s Guru… well speaking from my heart the hall’s simply awesome, you people must go and have a look. A palace like outlook, a huge arena, deluxe,comparable to Inox-es n Fame-s, with supply of good food, healthy ambience. And moreover the prices of tickets are normal. So what’s there to wait…book your ticket.

Information:

Ticket rates (weekdays)

• Front Stall:Rs.40.00
• Rear Stall:Rs.75.00
• Balcony :Rs.60.00

(Weekends & holidays)

• Front Stall:Rs.50.00
• Rear Stall :Rs.90.00
• Balcony :Rs.70.00

(May change depending on the type of movies)

Food prices:
Bestseller:popcorn with tomato & cheese flavour:Rs.20/pack,chips & many more.

Contact:
Address:79/p/4,Bidhan Sarani,Kolkata-700006
Phone no.(033)2533-6868

** 5 minutes walk from Sobhabazar Metro station.

#Special Thanks to Priya Entertainment Pvt.Ltd. for the renovation.

Three of the India’s legendary music maestros, Shankar Mahadevan, Gulzar and Prahllad Kakkar, has presented the country the present age soul stirring anthem INDIA POISED, which is definitely going to create a regeneration of thought among the young bloods……..The lines “Tum Chalo to Hindustan Chale” reiterates the fact that India’s time is now and it’s definitely going to reprove itself in the world scenerio… “Bharat abar jogoto sobhay sreshto asono lobe”….

Police detain army officers accused with misbehaving with a woman and then arrest them as they create a havoc in the police station. Next armed armymen arrive in 3 cars, ransack the police station, thrash policemen and free their men at gunpoint prompting others held up in the lock-up to escape. Notwithstanding the mistake on the part of the police - they didn’t inform the army before arresting two officers which is the norm - this act by the army is deplorable. The Park Street brawl has drawn media outrage and the army has begun a process of investigation and heaven knows whether the men in fatigues will be brought to book at all.

Whatever it is, what will be the police do after this? Well I don’t expect the same men who cowered before the military to turn courageous overnight. What I expect of them is to get a bit futuristic. In a police station in the heart of Kolkata, I expect CCTV cameras to be installed at every point. If it was so, we could have a real show of the army-police showdown and ‘investigation’ would have been a lot easier - I mean to say, the army would have had no option but to punish the offenders then.

The Hindu has apparently declared the Left rule permanent in West Bengal, Jagadish.blogspot.com points out. He is shocked and finds it ridiculous - how can a newspaper assume a government to be permanent. He writes,

There’s a vast difference between kowtowing and providing an objective editorial slant.