He succeeds Prof. Ahindra Chakrabarti. Prof Puri, in his long academic career, has been associated with many B-schools including Institute of Management Technology (IMT) and FORE School of Management.

Established in 1995, Fortune Institute of International Business has been accredited by National Board of Accreditation (NBA). Post Graduate Diploma in Management (International Business), awarded by FIIB, is recognised by AICTE as equivalent to MBA.

This channel will be targeted at B-school students and young executives who wish to take the road less traveled.

To kick-off this initiative, MBAUniverse.com tied-up with National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), a not-for-profit initiative of the Wadhwani Foundation working to inspire, educate and support the younger generation of entrepreneurs. MBAUniverse.com will partner experts and institutions to present tools, guides, faqs and success-stories on Entrepreneurship.

If India has become the center of global attention, thanks to its market power, passionate entreprenures and bright managers have payed a big role. And Indian Institute of Managements have been for decades the mecca for producing these globally admired managers, and now entreprenures too.

Lets begin this edutour by remembering the genesis of the Indian Institutes of Management.

On Friday, seventh IIM, the Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management (RG-IIM), began its maiden academic session at the temporary Mayurbhanj Complex of the North Eastern Hills University (NEHU). Meghalaya chief minister Donkupar Roy launched the institute formally while inaugurating the first Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) which has admitted sixty students.

The partnership is aimed at providing Industry endorsed professional skills through a 6 months certification program at Keshavpuram under the aegis of School of Open Learning, DU, which will largely enhance their skills as they prepare to launch their career.

Students from Sad Business School will be seeking recruitment from Indian companies as part of Oxford-India Recruitment Fair that will take place in Mumbai on 30 - 31 July 2008. The student group has been working closely with key companies, including PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Macquarie Group, to identify opportunities.

Says Said B-school, Oxford-India recruitment fair is a unique opportunity for Indian recruiters to meet the outstanding postgraduate student talent from Sad Business School under one roof.

The National Council on Skill Development will be chaired by the Prime Minister and would consist of Ministers of Human Resource Development, Finance, Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises, Rural Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Labour and Employment and Chairperson of the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council.

Orr has had an interesting journey so far. He studied Economics and Accounting from The Tel Aviv University in Israel. After his graduation he served as a paratrooper in the Army for 3 years. Stint at the army instilled the basic tenets of discipline in me, he remarked. Later Orr operated his own mutual fund for 30 months which further strengthened his fundamentals of Finance. Orr next travelled all over India and South-east Asia for 3 years and while in India, he developed an emotional attachment with the country.

Dr Devi Singh, Director, IIM L inaugurated the WMP programme. Prof Punam Sahgal, Dean Noida Campus, Prof Amit Mookerjee, WMP Chairman, Prof Ajay Singh, Management Development Prgramme (MDP) and CIC and other faculty members were also present on the occasion.

It is expected that of the next 250 million Indian wireless users, approximately 100 million (40%) will be from rural areas, says a FICCI Ernst & Young paper on Telecom: The Last Frontier: Connecting Indias Rural Telecom Community.
The paper points out that operators have demonstrated they can achieve profitability in spite of ARPU of less than USD 6 per month by reducing fixed costs, controlling variable costs and carefully tailoring services to the requirements of their customers. A similar model with minor customisation could be emulated in the rural areas.