While addressing at IIFTs National Consulting Symposium on August 9,Mr Maira said, India is a unique nation characterized by three Ds: Diversity, Democracy and need of Development. We have less time, and more work to do. If India has to meet its potential, consultants should make organizations work better, and engage billion people in the process. The theme of the IIFT symposium was Changing business scenarios & new frontiers in consultancy and was held in New Delhi on August 9 at IIFT campus in New Delhi.

Under the UNDP-supported Leadership and Managerial Proficiency program (LAMP), Bhubaneshwar-based Xavier Institute of Management (XIM B) provided six-weeks of formal training in management skills to HIV positive participants -- and awarded them diplomas.

According to XIM B, The objective of this program was to empower HIV-positive people by enriching them in managerial skills in order to help them lead a meaningful life with self-dignity and advocating for the cause of HIV-infected people like them.

Its even better when learning is combined with a social purpose. That what Mandi, an annual event organized by Mumbai-based NITIE (National Institute of Industrial Engineering), set out to achieve on August 1. For this program, NITIE students applied all skills learnt in class by selling the toys made by an NGO called Navnirmiti. And it seems to have been a big success!

Prof. G R Chandrashekhar and Prof. Prashant Salwan are the programme directors. The programme is targeted at managers with leadership responsibilities, business heads and members of top management team.

FMS, Delhihas organized thie Integrated Services Supply Chain Workshopin association with IBM Business Consulting Group.

The flagship event of the HR Committee of IFMR, Synergy- THE HR CONCLAVE was held on September 11, 2015. The keynote speaker for the event was Mr Muthukumar Thanu, Group Chief HR Officer, TAFE Ltd. who spoke on Make In India Managing people Challenges in Manufacturing Sector. It was followed by two rounds of panel discussion involving speakers from the industry and the academia on the challenges in Manufacturing and emerging sectors of the economy.

The exam will be held on Sunday, December 30 2007.

This year the test will be conducted in 21 centers across the country. The test paper is designed on multiple-choice answers format that include Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension, General Awareness, Logical Reasoning, Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation. Students have to solve a total of 200 questions within 150 minutes.

This pilot program has been successfully completed by 500 trainees who have been inducted into the companys operations. TCS plans to scale up the Ignite program to hire 2,000 science graduates in the current financial year. The program is a significant HR innovation that taps into new talent pool for the fast growing but talent starved Indian IT industry.

The HR Summit on Managing Talent for Global Competitiveness: Issues and Challenges will be held on August 30 and 31. The Marketing Summit, titled Srijan, will focus on the theme Marketers Love Change and will be held on September 1. The Finance Conclave titled Prahelika will be held on September 2.

This program aims to develop innovators and entrepreneurs for the communications industry. The first batch of this 15-month program will be inaugurated on August 15, 2007. The batch consists of 70 students who plan to develop self-sustaining businesses in the communications sector.