If there’s one point in our lives, when we second-guess our every motive, desperately feel the need to fit in and succumb to pressure with little persuasion, it is during our adolescence. This isn’t a time to stand out and develop your own identity; this is a time, when most often, standing out is yet [...]

Follow these tips and you’ll come out with flying colours in your annual performance review :-
Prepare year-long
Keep your eyes open all year for activities you can list as accomplishments on your review. Taking courses, keeping current with emerging technology and reading healthcare journals are all ways to impress your boss, come review time. In addition, [...]

AGRICULTURE:
VETERINARY COUNCIL OF INDIA, NEW DELHI
Last date for submission of forms is february 22, 2008
SUBJECT: The Veterinary Council of India invites applications for the All India Pre-veterinary Test 2008 for taking admission to the BVSc & AH course for five and a half years, which also includes six months of internship.
ELIGIBILITY: Candidates applying for the [...]

MA, population sciences, IIPS, Mumbai
If number crunching doesn’t scare you off then you can literally become a people’s person with this course. Institute of Career Studies has a few tips:
The United Nations, the Government of India and Sir Dorabji Tata Trust jointly established the International Institute of Population Studies (IIPM) in 1956 to [...]

Forget looking for a job. Think of an innovative idea and become an entrepreneur :
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The services sector is where new opportunities are beckoning job seekers in India. But even at the bottom of the barrel, there is a world beyond delivering pizzas or manning retail counters at malls. If you can think [...]

Harvard’s decision to help students from lower-income families will eventually lead to an increase in tuition fees in other colleges, claim opponents. Jay Mathews reports
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Harvard and other wealthy universities have won praise in recent weeks for initiatives to cut costs sharply for their least affluent students. But college officials and experts have begun to [...]

J.D. birla INSTITUTE of home science, calcutta
The Calcutta Ladies Association wanted to help women develop well-rounded personalities, so in 1962 it set up an institute that offered courses in social etiquette, flower decoration, needlework, painting, music and cooking. “These proved so very popular that the idea of developing the institute into a regular [...]

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Search engine optimisers are now in great demand, says Vishnupriya Sengupta
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Have you ever wondered how search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN or even Rediff nearly always throw up relevant results for any search under the sun?
That is a question that crossed Manish Parkar’s mind whenever [...]

Philosophy is a doctrine, school of thought or ism — a belief or system of beliefs — that is accepted as authoritative by some group or school. It is the rational investigation of questions about existence, knowledge and ethics. The term philosophy comes from the Greek word for “love of wisdom”. Some of the famous [...]

Brand management has become a crucial commercial discipline today, discovers Shabina Akhtar
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Shut your eyes and think of fast food. What comes to mind? McDonald’s burgers and Domino’s pizzas, right? Think of photocopying and you’ll be thinking of Xerox. Or, for that matter, the thought of a soft drink will most likely evoke images of [...]