MNCs flocking to IIT-Mumbai as usual after terror attacksMUMBAI - The process of campus recruitments at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mumbai, which received a temporary setback after the Nov 26 terror attacks last year, is back on the tracks, a senior faculty member said Monday. Obama appoints Indian American in interfaith councilWASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has included an Indian American in a revamped White House office for faith-based and neighbourhood programmes, expanding an initiative started by the Bush administration to support charitable organisations delivering social services. Scholars in Gandhian thought can’t get jobs (Jan 30 is Mahatma Gandhi’s Martyrdom Day)PATNA - Gandhigiri might be the stuff of blockbuster movies and the way to holding peaceful protests by the new generation, but students who have done their masters degree in Gandhian thought from a Bihar university are finding few takers in the job market. Next fiscal will be painful for exports: FicciNEW DELHI - Aggressive pricing by Chinese exporters, coupled with lack of credit flow and cancellation of orders, is crippling India’s exports, which may go down further in the first half of 2009, said an industry lobby survey, released here Sunday. Rs.1-tn fund for infrastructure sector advocatedNEW DELHI - The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Assocham) has urged the government to set up a Rs.1-trillion ‘revolving fund’ to assist infrastructure firms to weather the global meltdown. |