From being a newspaper delivery boy to becoming a newsmaker himself, 23-year-old Shivakumar has got through to the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) - Calcutta. Shivakumar, an engineering student and the only educated member in his family, has fought hard to make his dreams come true. N Shivakumar joined IBNLive readers for an interaction.
Q. How did you finance your engineering course? Are you taking loan for the IIM course or are they giving you a scholarship? Kudos to you. India needs people like you. Asked by: Souvik Banerjee
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05:26 PM, May 24, 2013
Bangalore: From being a newspaper delivery boy to making news himself, 23-year-old Shivakumar has got through to the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) - Calcutta. Shivakumar, an engineering student and the only educated member in his family, has fought hard to make his dreams come true. For the past ten years, N Shivakumar's day has started at the crack of dawn, sorting newspapers and heading out to deliver them in...
08:49 AM, May 24, 2013
Bangalore: A telephone call about a bomb being planted in the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) on Thursday created panic with the staff and the students being evacuated from the building but it turned out to be hoax. The call received at the IIMB reception at 12 noon sent the staff into a tizzy and in no time the building was evacuated as there was skeletal staff and very...
03:30 PM, May 23, 2013
Indore: A post-graduate program student of Indian Institute of Management Indore has received a job offer with salary package of Rs 34 lakh per annum. Without disclosing the names of the employer-firm and the student, an IIM spokesman said the job was offered in India, to a student of the PGP 2011-13 batch. A total of 432 students and 142 companies took part in the placement process and the average...
08:08 PM, May 19, 2013
Lucknow: In a first, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow on Friday reduced the fees for its post-graduate programme in management for the academic term 2013-2015. The IIM's director Devi Singh said the fees were being slashed by 10 per cent from the current Rs 12 lakh to Rs 10.8 lakh. The fee for the same course at IIM Bangalore is Rs 17 lakh and Rs 16.6 lakh at...
07:16 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Kolkata: India's premier management institute, the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C) will get a new head Monday, said outgoing director Shekhar Chaudhuri in Kolkata on Saturday. "On April 8, I shall be handing over the charge of the Institute to director designate, Professor Saibal Chattopadhyay, a senior faculty member in the Operations Management Group of our institute," he said. "I have had the opportunity to work with him very...
11:50 PM, Apr 06, 2013
A professor at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Indore has been accused by a woman colleague of sexual harassment, and a complaint has also been filed in this regard. ...
10:24 PM, Feb 22, 2013
The final placement process at the premier B-school Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) will begin from Sunday. A record 371 candidates (2011-13 batch) from its flagship Post Graduate Programme (PGP) are seeking placements in 2013. ...
10:16 PM, Feb 09, 2013
Mumbai: The Palghar girls who were at the centre of a controversy related to their Facebook post after Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray's death, have been invited by the prestigious IIM-Ahmedabad to interact with students. "(The girls) have been invited to interact with the students and teachers of the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. They will be meeting with the professors and students of the institute on December...
08:10 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Bangalore: Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B) has suspended the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) of the Institute, CV Indushekar Vassist, for alleged sexual harassment, IIM-B sources said on Saturday. The suspension came to light when the IIM-B Director Pankaj Chandra sent an internal mail to the faculty which said "the Gender Sensitivity Committee (GSC) of the Institute inquired into the complaint against CV Indushekar Vassist, our CAO, and submitted its...
04:57 PM, Dec 08, 2012
Bangalore: One of India's premier B-schools, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore is facing a moral crisis with allegations of sexual harassment being levelled against one of its senior officers. IIM-B officials, though, remain non-committal saying an enquiry is on. A doctor, who had previously worked with the Army, regrets her decision to have joined the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore. The medical officer at India's premier B-school has...
09:50 AM, Nov 30, 2012
Bangalore: A case of sexual harassment has been reported in the premier Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore whose chief administrative officer is being alleged to have sexually exploited a woman doctor over the past two years. A group of women rights activist held a protest against the same. Women rights activists say that the IIM administrative should have taken action over this complaint by now. IIM officials say that...
03:52 PM, Nov 29, 2012
Indore: Three students of Indian Institute of Management in Indore were expelled on Friday for allegedly taking drugs in their hostel room. The action against the MBA students came after they were caught taking drugs by the staff of the premier business institute. "The incident took place on November 21, when the second year MBA students were caught consuming narcotic substance by the staff," said IIM-Indore spokesman Parvez Akhtar on...
05:26 PM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: With students from engineering background dominating management programmes in IIMs, the premier B-schools are planning some changes in the Common Admission Test to ensure a broad-based representation. "Efforts are on to have a re-look at the Common Admission Test (CAT)...some changes that will be helpful for people from other discipline," said CAT 2012 convener and professor at IIM Kozhikode SSS Kumar. He, however, refused to divulge details saying...
05:01 PM, Oct 15, 2012
New Delhi: Thousands of MBA aspirants in the country will take the Common Admission Test (CAT) for admissions into the top B-schools of the country, including 13 Indian Institute of Management (IIM) starts on Thursday. CAT 2012 will be conducted between October 11 and November 6 at 61 test centres across 36 cities. A total of 2,14,068 students have registered for the exam. The country's top business schools including 13...
08:36 AM, Oct 11, 2012
Ahmedabad: A clerk at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) on Monday allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself at his official residence on the campus, police said. The clerk, who worked under a senior professor at IIM-A, was identified as Ravi Kumar, a native of Hyderabad, sources in IIM-A said. According to an IIM-A official, Kumar had gone on leave and had just returned from his native place. A...
09:40 PM, Aug 06, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has filed a complaint with the police "apprehending" theft of data from its computer network and servers by unauthorised persons. "We have received an application from the vigilance officer of IIM-A apprehending data theft from their computer networks and servers," Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch, Himanshu Shukla, said. "They have been receiving some e-mails warning them about certain data of the institute...
10:54 PM, Jul 12, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad has constituted a five-member search and selection committee headed by board chairman AM Naik to find a successor to the present director Samir Barua whose term will expire in September, sources in the institute said on Tuesday. The notification for five-member search and selection committee comprising Hasit Joshipura of GSK Pharma, Sanjay Lalbhai-CMD Arvind Group, Rama Bijapurkar, Ashank Desai of Mastek besides Naik,...
10:00 PM, Jun 19, 2012
Indore: Over 50 students of Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore fell sick due to suspected food poisoning, its spokesman said on Monday. The students had complained of nausea, stomach upset and headache after having dinner at their hostel mess on Saturday, Akhtar Parvez, IIM PRO, said. Most of them were rushed to the IIM nursing home and serious ones were taken to private hospitals, he said. Eleven of the...
10:25 PM, Jun 18, 2012
New Delhi: To groom aspiring women politicians by helping them develop necessary skills, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore on Tuesday launched a certificate course in political leadership for them. The three-month long programme called as India-Women in Leadership programme by the Centre for Public Policy (CPP) aims to equip aspiring women leaders with the requisite skills, knowledge and expertise in various aspects of governance. According to a statement,...
06:30 PM, Apr 10, 2012
