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Facebook offers Rs 70 L package to IIT student
Published by : The Financial Express
Date:09-12-2011

Kanpur (UP):Social networking giant Facebook has offered about Rs 70 lakh per annum package to an IIT student here in the ongoing campus placements. "M Tech (computer science and engineering) student Siddharth Agrawal has been offered the package (near about Rs 70 lakh)," IIT-K registrar Sanjeev Kashelkar said.

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Infosys to hire 10,000 by March: Gopalakrishnan
Published by : Business Standard
Date:09-12-2011

IT major Infosys Technologies will start construction work on its first software development centre in West Bengal, at Rajarhat near here, in three to six months, a top company official said today.

"We have paid the money and got possession of the land. We hope to start construction work in three to six months," Infosys Technologies Executive Co-Chairman S Gopalakrishnan said on the sidelines of a CII event here.

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IIM-A ranked 2nd best B-school in Asia-Pacific
Published by : Business Standard
Date:10-12-2011

The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has been ranked second in the list of top business schools from which Asia-Pacific employers most prefer to recruit executives.

The IIM-A was ranked second in the QS Global 200 Business Schools Report 2012, which ranks 200 full-time MBA business schools by region and specialisation, it was reported here today.

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Aviation firms fly into turbulence
Published by : Business today
Date:10-12-2011

Some of India's biggest aviation firms GMR Infrastructure (GMR Infra), Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines have come under a cloud, forcing investors to dump these stocks on Friday.

While GMR Infra was affected by an adverse court ruling in Maldives, Jet and Kingfisher counters witnessed selling pressure following information about non-payment of service tax claims from the government department.

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Five ways to make top performers feel valued
Published by : The Economic Times
Date:13-12-2011

To retain top performers in a tough business environment is a challenge. There are many approaches that can help, but all of them focus on driving one key message: make top performers feel valued even when the business is facing tough times. Shreya Biswas suggests ways to do that.

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Indian employers most bullish on hiring for next three months
Published by : The Economic Times
Date:13-12-2011

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Many big IT firms like Infosys, Wipro, Genpact moving into rural BPOs
Published by : The Economic Times
Date:05-11-2011

BANGALORE: Not being able to find work after studies is not the worst nightmare for India's rural youth: most of them have experienced it. But when 21-year-old Rajagopal finished his BCom in Anatapur, Andhra Pradesh, he didn't give up hopes of finding a full-time job and go back to farming like his elder brothers.

Without a fixed income, he wasn't going to be able to support his family or pay back his education loan. That's when he contacted Rural Shores, a firm that had just set up a business process outsourcing (BPO) centre in Bagepalli district of Karnataka -- two hours from his home in AP.

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