
A week after she announced that she “would not mind trying for the IIMs”, Poonam Pandey has already become a business school icon. IIPM, in a coup of sorts, has announced that the Kingfisher calendar girl and a cricketing icon, Poonam was the new brand ambassador of the Mecca of management education, IIPM, which is ahead of all IIMs in terms of global exposure.
July 31, 2011 | Filed under
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With a string of scams coming up in every part of India, the government is planning to turn this weakness into strength. Experts believe that India could earn huge amount of tourism revenue if the government converted all the scam sites into tourist destinations. Experts cite example of Iceland, which has turned its volcanoes into tourist attractions, and is earning tourism revenues after being hit by them badly last year.
July 31, 2011 | Filed under
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A couple of days after almost quitting Twitter, Rajdeep Sardesai has announced that he would finally be leaving Twitter for good and launch his own micro-blogging website that will be free of any “bile” and “ignorance”. Rajdeep, India’s renowned anchor, political commentator and the male face of CNN-IBN, had found too much of bile, ignorance, and noise on Twitter, which reminded him of TV news studios.
July 30, 2011 | Filed under
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Lay’s, the premium producers of packaged flavored air, faced a major crisis today when a production glitch resulted in far more potato chips being put into every pack of air than the “normal” level. Potato chips normally fill around 5% of the packet volume and they are helpful in adding flavor to “packaged air”, which is the flagship and largest selling product of the company.
July 29, 2011 | Filed under
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Frustrated with the fact that there appeared to be no impact on circulation of money in the market even after recurrent raise in interest rates, RBI has now decided to take extreme measures to control inflation and supply of money. The central bank will now hire goons who will snatch superfluous money from individuals and organizations to maintain the optimal level of liquidity in the market.
July 28, 2011 | Filed under
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In a dramatic development, BJP has offered Kapil Sibal, senior congress leader and union minister of various portfolios, to take up the job of Chief Minister of Karnataka once BS Yeddyurappa resigns. BJP believes that after taking over from Yeddyurappa, Sibal can successfully defend the actions taken by the office of CM in the illegal mining case and pave way for return of BSY at some time in future.
July 28, 2011 | Filed under
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Realizing that most Indian men are googling for more and more images of Hina Rabbani Khar, the good looking Pakistani foreign minister with large sunglasses and a Birkin bag, Times of India has decided to rename their Indo-Pak friendship campaign as ‘Aman Ki Hina’. Earlier it was called ‘Aman ki Asha’. The media company hopes to attract a renewed interest and improved traffic to the campaign with this change.
July 27, 2011 | Filed under
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In an attempt to rationalize the process of political funding in India, Congress has taken a lead and announced a series of circus shows all over the country to raise funds for party expenses. Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar, who had earlier likened the grand old party with a circus, has been given the charge of organizing these shows and raising money to meet the operational expenses of the party.
July 26, 2011 | Filed under
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Mobile services company Idea, which has outdone Chetan Bhagat in offering simple solutions to complex problems faced by India, has gone a step further and announced their intention to launch special condoms to control the population of India. The step was announced after the company’s latest television ad, which proposed high speed internet access to control population growth, drew flak from experts who termed it “infeasible”.
July 25, 2011 | Filed under
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A suspected English cricketer has thrown a Kolkata Knight Riders’ t-shirt in the hotel room of Ishant Sharma. Team management believes that this has been done to “mentally injure” the Indian fast bowler and further deplete team India. Ishant Sharma had a forgettable stint for KKR in the first three seasons of IPL, but he proved to be a completely transformed bowler after he left KKR.
July 25, 2011 | Filed under
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