Bangalore and Singapore are the Asia-Pacific’s two leading cities in mobility readiness, according to the findings of a study commissioned by Nokia.
Conducted by Saffron Hill, the study surveyed 300 IT decision makers and another 300 business users in Bangalore, Mumbai, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore to assess companies and users’ adoption and awareness of business mobility.
300 international & Indian students. 16 cities. Over 15 distinguished speakers. 8 days. 3 venues. The best Alumni. Social & Cultural awareness.Planning, Strategizing, Implementing - The Power of AIESEC.
Pradeep Kar, Chairman & Managing Director, Microland to speak at the opening of the Conference
Bangalore: BangaloreIT.in, Asia’s biggest IT and telecom annual event, will witness more than 200 top IT companies, including 60 global majors, showcase their products and services from October 29 to November one.
Briefing news persons at a press conference here today, Karnataka IT and BT Secretary M N Vidyashankar said the mega event would be held at the world class Bangalore International Exhibition Centre.
BANGALORE: The National Commission for Scheduled Castes has sent a letter to the Karnataka government for failing to reimburse the fees of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes students in professional colleges. Three years ago, the government promised to reimburse the fee of students who got free seats and 60% - of the Rs-90,000 fee - of the amount for students who chose payment seats. The refunds were scheduled to begin from 2004-2005. The concessions for the first two years were released, though after a considerable delay. However, the fee concessions/subsidy for 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 are yet to be released.
BANGALORE: The software exports from Karnataka has reached the Rs 19,500-crore mark in the first six months of this fiscal as against Rs 16,000 crore in the corresponding period last fiscal.
Ninety per cent of the exports were from Bangalore, J Pathasasarthy, Director, Software Technology Parks of India, (STPI) Bangalore said during the sidelines of announcing the BangaloreIT.event to be held in the city from October 29.
AIESEC, the international student body for young people to develop their potential, is organizing three conferences in Bangalore to mark its 25 years of presence in Bangalore.
The three conferences are The Alumni Congress, UNITE - Learning Network Conference and National Strategic Conference 2007. Some of the prominent names to speak at these conference include Pradeep Kar, Founder of Microland, Vikram Gandhi, Head – Global Financial Institutions Group, Credit Suisse First Boston and Sulajja Firodia Motwani, MD, Kinetic Engineering.
On the objective for it’s conferences, AIESEC says, “Through a series of discussions and seminars with global business, cultural, science, political and NGO leaders, top youth talent from AIESEC will have a unique opportunity to exchange opinions and discuss the most relevant issues affecting today’s world.”
BANGALORE: South Western Railway will run the following trains to cope with the seasonal rush:
Train no. 647/648 Bangalore City-Madurai-Nagercoil-Bangalore city weekly special will leave Bangalore at 4 p.m. on Saturdays. It will reach Madurai at 2.30 p.m., depart at 2.35 p.m. and reach Nagercoil at 6.55 p.m.
In the late 1977-78, a band fronted by a diminutive, muscular, longhaired man wearing incredibly tight, frayed shorts, made a Breakthrough. It was perhaps an apt title for one of India’s first original English rock albums at a time when rocking meant swinging primarily to Dum Maro Dum. At 60, Lou Majaw still sports long hair— albeit with a receded hairline —and tight and frayed shorts, and belts out songs with the vigour of a 16-year-old. But he hardly pens soul-stirring songs like Sea of Sorrow and Girls.
However, the “grand old man of rock” in the Northeast has inspired a new crop of rockers who are not content with singing cover versions of their idols ranging from Elvis Presley and The Beatles to Iron Maiden, Styx and U2. And they have been fortifying the “last bastion of rock” in India, reaching out to a wider audience with experimental fusion of haunting tribal tunes.
JODHPUR: In the 60s, a Rolling Stones tour spelled hysteria, in the 70s and 80s debauchery, and in the 90s the last word in stadium rock. Today, it’s more of a holiday. Even as he walks in, you just can’t help but sense the pulsating energy that he brings inside. The face brandishing those ravenous lips crumples into itself; a paper bag of mirth. Mick Jagger is laughing.
His lean and wiry frame makes him look far younger than his years. But the 64-year-old singer with the Rolling Stones has plenty to laugh about. It’s 40 years since his band sped into the charts with ‘Come On’ and began their tenure as the greatest rock’n’roll band in the world. Four decades later, they are still on the road, rolling.
Guwahati (PTI): At least 60 people, mostly women and children, have died of diarrhoea in Assam’s Jorhat district since April this year.
Official sources said here on Friday that the water-borne disease has almost acquired an epidemic form and affected mostly tea plantation areas.