The event was addressed by Kiran Karnik, president, National Association of Software & Services Companies (NASSCOM). A panel discussion on War for talent had speakers like Shailesh Tewary, Managing Director, Human Resources Institute of Development & Analysis International (HRIDAI); Ashutosh Sinha, Director, Recruitment, of leading ITES company Converges; and Richa Tripathi, Vice President, Talent Management and Development, Wipro BPO, discussing the issues of talent management.

According to the information shared by Career Launcher with MBAUniverse.com, the seminar will be designed in collaboration of Veritas GMAT elite preparation, one of the leading GMAT prep company of the world.

The seminar will feature Chad Troutwine and Markus Moberg, Veritas Founders and MBA graduates from Yale School of Management. The event will be an interactive seminar targeted for working professionals who want to get into Global MBA programs.

After Delhi, the seminar will also be organized in Mumbai and Bangalore on 22 July 2007.

While there are many new additions to the list, ten institutes including Mumbai based S.P.Jain Institute of Management & Research have opted out of CAT.

This year the test will be conducted in 19 cities include Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai, Jamshedpur, Jaipur, Indore, Allahabad, Bhubaneshwar, Lucknow etc. IIFT has also announced that it will accept GMAT score declared after January 1, 2006.

According to IIFT, the test paper is designed on multiple-choice answers that include English Comprehension, General Knowledge & Awareness, Logical Reasoning and Quantitative analysis. Students have to solve total 200 questions within 2 hours, says IIFT.

Prof J K Mitra, Dean of FMS Delhi, shared this information with MBAUniverse.com. Announcing the date of the FMS entrance test, Dr Mitra said, We have scheduled the next FMS entrance exam for the second Sunday of January -- January 13, 2008. Last year we had to push our exam to third week of January due to extraneous factors, but this year we will pull it back to second week of January.

The announcement was made by advertisements released in national media yesterday. The test will be conducted in 23 centers in India. The announcement of CAT date is sure to add urgency and impetus to the preparations of over 200,000 aspirants vying for coveted seats at IIMs and other prestigious institutes.

The CAT Bulletins, which contains application form can be purchased from today till August 16 from select bank branches, and in special cases from IIMs directly by August 20. The last of submission of CAT forms is September 8.

Several questions haunt the test-takers. How should I plan for CAT? What is the preparation I should do to crack CAT? Which are the key areas to focus on? What to expect from the new avatar of CAT this year? And so on.

This time, 167 B-schools are participating in MAT. The participating B-schools include Delhi Business School, New Delhi; Graduate School of Business and Administration, Greater Noida; IILM Institute of Higher Education, Gurgaon; Rai Business School, Hyderabad; IBAT School of Management, Pune; and Jagan Institute of Management Studies, Jaipur.

According to AIMA, MAT is an ISO 9001:2000 certified test and accepted by hundreds of Institutes and University Departments. Every year, lakhs of students avail of this test.

The institute invited Mr Anil Jain, former chairman, Institute of Chartered Accounts of India and Mr Bimal Dubey, PCS ADM, Finance and Revenue, G B Nagar district, for the orientation program. They gave insights to the new batch on management. The gathering was also addressed by Dr D K Garg, chairman, IIMT, and Mr Alok Pratap, deputy director IIMT.

SNAP is the common written test, accepted by Symbiosis post-graduate institutes. The participating institute in SNAP include Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM); Symbiosis Center for Management & Human Resource Development (SCMHRD); Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies (SIMS); Symbiosis Institute of Telecom Management (SITM); Symbiosis Institute Of Operations Management (SIOM); Symbiosis Institute of International Business (SIIB) and Symbiosis Institute of Mass Communication (SIMC).