He received the Award at a function held in Ahmedabad.

Padma Vibhushan Mr. M.S Swaminathan presented the Award to Mr. DSouza. Mr. Swaminathan is well known as the Father of the Green Revolution in India.

Welcoming Prof Rajan, Chicago GSB said, After three years as chief economist for the IMF, Rajan has returned to the rigor of Chicago GSB to continue asking and answering the big questions of economics.

Dr Rajan whos had a meteoric rise both at the school as well as on the international scene -- was on loan from the GSB to the IMF. He became a full professor at GSB in just four years where he also holds an endowed chair.

Mr K T Chacko, director, IIFT, and Mr G K Pillai, secretary, department of commerce, Indian governments Ministry of Commerce and Industry, will also address the convocation. The event will be held at the IIFT campus itself where outgoing students will receive their Gold/Silver/Bronze medals, diplomas and certificates in various management programs.

The MDP calendar of FSM has 43 MDPs starting from May 21, 2007 and going on until February 22, 2008. These have been designed with a blend of conceptual and experiential learning. Some of the MDP topics this year are Trade Union Leadership in Current Environment, Business Forecasting Tools, HR for Line Managers, Project Management: Development and Social Sector and Finance for Non-Finance Executives.

He has taught at some of the best global B-schools including Wharton, MIT and Chicago Graduate School of Business. Prof Vohra also consults for blue-chip companies like AT&T, Kraft Foods and Microsoft.

Center also pleaded for setting up of a five-member Constitution Bench to hear the matter. Filing a clarification application two weeks after the apex court had stayed the provision in the central law enabling reservation for the OBCs, the Government also opposed exclusion of creamy layer from the benefit of reservation.

So much so that some of the leading global institutes that are engaged in distance learning courses are ready to drop distance from their nomenclature itself. Financial Times (FT), in his report on Distance Learning (published on March 19) quotes James Fleck, dean of UK based Open University Business School (OUBS) saying: We are trying to drop the term distance learning. I dont think it accurately portrays what OUBS does.

(he completed his PGP in1971) to deliver Convocation Address, he touched the hearts of over 1,000 people who had gathered for the ceremony. His speech, packed with nostalgia, offered an excellent overview of changing business dynamics. In a presentation, titled The Bakshali Inheritance, he drew on the massive intellectual capital that India has offered to the world even as far back as BC.

There were 80 companies on campus to recruit 115 candidates; 60% of the recruiters were first-timers; and the banking and financial services sector was the major recruiter.

It was signed in the presence of Mr. Mahabir Prasad, Minister of Small Scale Industries and Agro and Rural Industries.

As per the memorandum, CII will fund the training of potential entrepreneurs, while EDI will carry out the training and facilitate enterprise establishment. The training program is targeted to commence from May 2007. According to press CII press release the programme will be of 12 week and to begin with 200 trainers would be carried at seven locations namely, Ahmedabad, Bhubaneshwar, Lucknow, Pune, Guwahati, Bangalore and Hyderabad.