With India all set to declare a unique identification symbol for its currency, demands for declaration of a symbol for Pakistani rupee too have started growing in Pakistan, even as opinions in the civil society appear divided over it. While the pro-symbol groups believe that such a step will help their nation catch up with the Indian economy, the anti-symbol groups believe it to be against the basic Islamic principles.
June 24, 2010 | Filed under
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Rambhai, the famous tea stall owner outside IIM Ahmedabad campus, has decided to hire global management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company to advise him over his plans to sell Omelets and Maggi alongside tea and cigarettes. Rambhai has been mulling over diversifying his portfolio of products and services for quite some time now, and finally decided to take the route usually taken by astute business managers.
April 16, 2010 | Filed under
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Are you one of those who are forced to spend hours in bathroom on toilet seats due to some stomach problem or because you just love being there? This hobby or handicap of yours might have proved to be an impediment to a regular employment till now, but things could soon improve. A leading recruitment consultancy company has mooted the idea of Work from Toilet jobs.
March 15, 2010 | Filed under
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In a serious development raising concerns of his well being, an IIM student has started believing that he would actually be getting the same amount of cash in hand as has been reported by media for being his annual salary. The 24-year-old student from one of the top IIMs (campus withheld to protect identity) bagged a job offer of 1.92 crore rupees as per media reports.
March 10, 2010 | Filed under
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The opposition parties walked out of the parliament as soon as they could make sense of one sentence of the budgetary speech by the finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, which hinted at rise in prices of petrol and diesel. But the government is hopeful that the negative impact of this price-rise would be negated by the lower prices of solar rickshaws, which will help deal with the food crisis.
February 26, 2010 | Filed under
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With just about four days to go before Copenhagen summit on climate change begins, a major breakthrough has been achieved with the top nations of the world agreeing in principle to cut down on global fart for a healthier and cleaner world. A joint-statement at the end of the summit on 18th December will detail out the steps that ought to be taken for this purpose.
December 3, 2009 | Filed under
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The Reserve Bank of India has announced scrapping the production of the One-Rupee coins and replacing it with Cadbury’s Éclair toffees instead. Speaking a day after announcing the GDP figures of the 2nd quarter of 2009, RBI Governor D Subbarao stated that he had been mulling this change since quite a few years; however the global recession had provided the perfect time to initiate this change.
December 1, 2009 | Filed under
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Just a few days before Diwali, when the country was hoping to celebrate economic recovery, comes the shocking news of complete financial disaster of Vijay Girpade, a first generation entrepreneur, who lost everything as he tried to build a multimillion dollar enterprise. Vijay has finally given up on his entrepreneurial pursuits, sold off his office space and furniture, fired all his employees including himself, and now is seeking a government bailout.
October 13, 2009 | Filed under
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IIMs have accepted for once and for all that one needed to dare think beyond the IIMs to get into IIPM. This lays down an end to the controversy that started a few years back after some bloggers disputed IIPM’s claims in its advertisements, which has the famous tagline “dare to think beyond the IIMs”. IIMs will come out with full page print advertisements in the coming days accepting that IIPM was beyond the IIMs.
September 22, 2009 | Filed under
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