IIM Ahmedabad campus placements from today

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

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The top IIMs, IIM-A, IIM-B and IIM-C usually give each other a gap of two-three days on final placements to allow recruiters to criss-cross the country to visit these campuses

New Delhi : The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) will launch its final on-campus job placements on Wednesday. “Day Zero begins tomorrow,” said Vivek Jain, student placement cell member at IIM-A. He declined to give a closing date for the placements.

Business schools across the country have braced for a tough placement season that could take weeks to close instead of days as experienced in earlier years. Recruiters have predicted that a significant number of students will be without jobs at the end of the placement season. IIM Calcutta (IIM-C) launched its Day Zero on Saturday last week, while IIM Bangalore (IIM-B) is planning a Day Zero launch on Friday this week. The top IIMs, IIM-A, IIM-B and IIM-C or A, B and C as they are called, usually give each other a gap of two-three days on final placements to allow recruiters to criss-cross the country to visit these campuses.

The three IIMs, tense over the process, have brought forward their dates on final recruitment with IIM-C holding the process in two phases, one before and one after exams. Last year, final recruitment began on 4 March, with IIM-B taking the lead.

NDTV exposes Modasa syringe racket, case filed

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As Modasa battles to tame the deadly Hepatitis-B outbreak in Gujarat, NDTV exposes the deadly syringe racket where used syringes are first hoarded and then sold. It's believed this was the reason the disease spread so quickly in the district.Saijuddin, a syringe dealer in Modasa, buys thousands of used syringes from private clinics and hospitals everyday and sells them to regular buyers from Ahmedabad and Himmatnagar. Unabashed, after he was caught on camera by NDTV, he explained how he did it."I buy it from several people and then sell it to merchants in bulk coming from Ahmedabad and Himmatnagar. I don't know their names," said Saijuddin.The NDTV team found four large warehouses in and around Modasa where used syringes are stacked in gunny bags, ready for sale.The state Health Department, which has so far denied the existence of any such organised racket, finally swung into action after NDTV informed Health Minister Jay Narayan Vyas about what it had found.Twelve teams of the department carried out simultaneous raids across Gujarat and confiscated lakhs of used syringes - cleaned and repackaged.On Wednesday, they registered four cases and booked the kingpin, Saijuddin.'These syringes should have been destroyed after use, but actually these have been resold in the market after just cleaning and packing," said Rajneeth Kumar, Collector, Modasa.The hub of recycling disposable syringes has been operational in Modasa for years. After the NDTV expose, actions have been just initiated by the Collectorate and Health Department as NDTV informed state Health Minister Jay Narayan Vyas about the racket.

IIM Ahmedabad campus placements from today

Posted by Snehsan

The top IIMs, IIM-A, IIM-B and IIM-C usually give each other a gap of two-three days on final placements to allow recruiters to criss-cross the country to visit these campuses.

The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) will launch its final on-campus job placements on Wednesday. “Day Zero begins tomorrow,” said Vivek Jain, student placement cell member at IIM-A. He declined to give a closing date for the placements.

Business schools across the country have braced for a tough placement season that could take weeks to close instead of days as experienced in earlier years. Recruiters have predicted that a significant number of students will be without jobs at the end of the placement season. IIM Calcutta (IIM-C) launched its Day Zero on Saturday last week, while IIM Bangalore (IIM-B) is planning a Day Zero launch on Friday this week. The top IIMs, IIM-A, IIM-B and IIM-C or A, B and C as they are called, usually give each other a gap of two-three days on final placements to allow recruiters to criss-cross the country to visit these campuses.

The three IIMs, tense over the process, have brought forward their dates on final recruitment with IIM-C holding the process in two phases, one before and one after exams. Last year, final recruitment began on 4 March, with IIM-B taking the lead.

Did docs spread the deadly virus?

Thursday, February 19, 2009

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Modasa ( Sabarkantha ) : There is a growing worry among health officials that local doctors may have helped spread the deadly hepatitis B virus in Modasa instead of curtailing it out of sheer carelessness. Sources said the doctors may have reused infected syringes instead of disposing them. So far, six private doctors in Sabarkantha have been accused of medical malpractice. They are facing allegations of not segregating bio-medical waste, which means that infected syringes could have found their way into community bins, inscreasing the possibility of them being reused. The doctors booked are Govind Prajapati, Dattu Rawal, Bharat Shah, Girish Shah, Tarun Shah and Rakesh Shah. To add to this, a homeopath was arrested on Thursday for posing as a regular physician and treating patients affected by the Hepatitis-B. Modasa town police station officials arrested Dr Rakesh Patel for medical malpractice and produced him before a court which granted him bail. Patel was accused of dispensing allopathic medicines despite being a non-practitioner. After Hepatitis-B epidemic surfaced, the government conducted raids on some private doctors and found them following unhygenic medical practices. On February 14 medical officer, primary health centre (PHC), Modasa, Siraj Sutaria filed an FIR against Patel. According to police, Patel administered orthopaedic drugs to patients illegally. He was charged under sections 30 and 33 of the Medical Practitioners' Act.

Narendra Modiji and the missuses

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AHMEDABAD : Chief minister Narendra Modi is known to have a strong following among women. He also knows how much influence the woman of the house
wields. Graduating from mahila sammellans in the rural setting, Modi is now hosting wives of IAS, IPS and IFS officers at Gandhinagar ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. The meeting is being organised by wife of chief secretary D Rajagopalan. In many cases it was husbands who got the call and were asked to send their wives to the meet on Friday. But of course the meet might end up with officers like Geetha Johri, Anita Karwal, Sunaina Tomar attending it too, because they happen to be wives of IPS, or IFS officers. COUNTDOWN BEGINS
Ticket aspirants in the BJP are keeping their fingers crossed. For, starting February 20, central observers of the party will fan out to different districts and collect recommendations on candidates for upcoming Lok Sabha polls from party workers. Incidentally, BJP's prime ministerial candidate L K Advani is also visiting Ahmedabad on Friday -- the day when observers will meet workers for short-listing candidates for Ahmedabad (East) seat. "To make the entire exercise constructive, we have told party workers that they are free to recommend names. But they are also told oppose names suggested by others," said a senior BJP leader. Gujarat government may have finally recognised the competence of Ravi Saxena, an IAS bureaucrat of 1978 batch, by appointing him as state health secretary, a powerful post responsible for controlling the mighty health establishment. However, the officialdom seems puzzled. Despite several reminders, the Central government is not letting him go to take up the new assignment. He took over a Central job, of development commissioner, Kandla SEZ, after feeling sidelined under the Narendra Modi government for years together. But finding that work with Modi could be more exciting, he decided to prematurely returned to the state fold.
"Though he has been appointed state health secretary, the Centre is strangely not clearing the file relieving him", a senior official known to be close to Saxena complained. Result -- health remains a parentless department. There is nobody to monitor what is happening at Modasa, where people have died due to Hepatitis-B. Even health commissioner Amarjit Singh, second in command in the department, is awaiting an appointment in Delhi.

20 die in Gujarat Hepatitis outbreak

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Sabarkantha district in north Gujarat is in the grip of the deadly Hepatitis B virus. Sabarkantha is just 2 hours away from Ahmedabad. At least 20 have died in Modasa taluka in the district in the past 2 weeks. The scare has the state and centre on edge.Over 70 patients have come in from all over Sabarkantha district, some of them have slipped into coma,19 others have died.Shockingly, the spread could have been prevented. The government has filed an FIR, naming seven doctors for using infected syringes.A patient's relative says: "They said private hospitals have been using infected needles."A Central team from the National Institute of Communicable Diseases that visited Modasa says the situation is critical. Some patients have tested positive for Hepatitis D, increasing the risk to patients. Like HIV, Hepatitits B spreads through blood and unsafe sex. But is 100 times more infectious than HIV and spreads much faster. "The situation is serious. We have asked for central government's help," says a doctor. According to the World Health Organisation, 63% of syringes in India are unsafe because they re-used. And, in Modasa it appears to be a common practice.