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The theme for Delphique 08 is Emerging Business Horizons: Opportunities for Indian companies. MDI has invited eminent business leaders to address the convention.

Indias leading business news channel CNBC-TV18, along with Indias leading management portal MBAUniverse.com and global research agency TNS, is ready to announce the CNBC-TV18 A of B Ranking on Saturday, November 8, 2008.

The A of B Ranking has drawn wide support from B-schools, Recruiters, MBA-students, Alumni and MBA-aspirants. In fact, with participation of 100 B-schools and over 7500 stakeholders, this is fast emerging as Indias leading B-school Ranking -- in its debut year itself.

Dream and pursue your dreams. Gates was at IIT Delhi to launch a new Microsoft Initiative Dreamspark, that offers professional software to students free of cost.

I think Indian students are better placed that how I was 35 years back. They are more exposed to the ground realities than their counterparts in the US, know the challenges of poverty and therefore know how technology can be used to achieve best results in order to help the poor, he added.

The summit was an attempt to bring together the corporate and the academia to deliberate on issues and challenges facing the nation and share their experiences and views with the larger audience. Presentations were made on cross-border investments, innovation and infrastructure by academicians, thinkers, economists and industry leaders.

Despite the anxieties and the fear of reduced hiring due to the global economic scenario, national and international companies flocked to IIM Kozhikode for the Summer Recruitment process for the batch of 2008-2010. With a 102 firms, up from 66 last year, participating in the process, the 261 students in the batch got placed in companies of their choice. Summers 2009 saw students walk away with 14 International offers across various functions and in locations like Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, Dubai, South Africa and London.

In particular, he will head SkillBridge - the employability enhancement program, and AVAGMAH the continuous learning initiative, lines of business.

Before joining 24x7 Learning, Mr. Thimmiya served as the Senior Vice President & Global Head for Channel Operations & Distance Education at Manipal Education. There, he was instrumental for the growth and profitability of the distance education business of Sikkim Manipal University.

Mr K V Kamath, President, CII and Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, ICICI Bank pointed out during his special address at Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) organised Knowledge Management (KM) summit KM India 2008.
Mr K V Kamath also said effective knowledge management is a catalyst for economic growth. More it (knowledge) is allowed to flow, more it grows. Sixty percent of Indias GDP is generated by the service industry and for them knowledge is key.

After advice on DI & LR and Quantitative section, this third and final article looks at how to do well in Verbal Ability section.

Verbal Ability:
By Mr. Shiva Kumar, Director (R&D) & Academics
With the number of questions in this section coming down to 25 in 2006 and 2007, the focus is no longer on speed as on comprehension and accuracy.

Tackle the two groups in this section, namely English Usage (i.e. sentence correction, paragraph completion, parajumbles, etc.) and Reading Comprehension separately.

NMAT is NMIMSsseparate entrance exam known as National Management Aptitude Test.The NMAT will be held on December 28, 2008 for NMIMSs two-year full-time MBA program starting 2009.

The number of seats at NMIMS for two year MBA programmes may increase by 120 in year 2009. According to NMIMS, The total number of admissions expected in 2009 in the Flagship MBA programme is 360 which were 240 earlier.