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Legendry singer James Brown , also known as Godfather of soul died at the age of 73 due to conjunctive heart failure. James brown who gave a new dimension to the music, set the stage for future music genre with his dress code and on the stage histrionics. Full story

Darden's Admissions Office and the India Alumni Chapter invite alumni and prospective students to enjoy an evening of Darden hospitality! Full story

The Mumbai Dabbawallas stole the hearts of the students at IIMK with an inspiring talk today. The presentation at the institute’s scenic campus in Kozhikode was part of OPUS 2006, the Annual Operations seminar of IIMK. The event which was held on 25th and 26th of Nov, 2006 was organized by Omega, the Operations interest group at IIMK. Cool Avenues was this year’s online media partner and Business Line the print media partner. Full story

High GDP growth, GDP growth for last two years and renewed focus on agriculture and rural economy, showed its impact on campuses as Agri Business program at IIM Ahemadabad concluded on Nov 1 2006. Full story

Speaking at youth festival, Mr. Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Chief Minister of Haryana announced that Haryana would soon have an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) as he had already sought informal approval from HRD Ministry. Full story

Wharton India Economic Forum 2006 (WIEF), the premier student-run business forum focusing on India, will take place on November 11th, 2006 at the Doubletree Hotel in Philadelphia. Established in 1996, Full story

BITs Pilani, the premier unaided private institutes has denied that it has agreed to reservation system. In a press release issues, BITS Pilani has said that NDTV and certain other news channels have wrongly quoted BITs Pilani name in the list of unaided deemed universities, who have agreed to implement reservation for SC/ST & OBC in which BITS, Pilani’s name is also mentioned. Full story

Opsyrus 2006 being organised by Operations Interest Group (OIG) at IIM L in partnership with Coolaveneus.com provides participants a chance to ponder over the latest issues in Operations management while competing with the best brains across the country. Full story

Naukri.com IPO is going to hit markets on 30th October. Infoedge (India) Ltd the promoter company of Naukri.com, Jeevansaathi.com, 99acres.com and executive search firm Quardangle is going to issues 5323851 equity shares at a price band of Rs 290 - 320 per share which is 29 - 32 times of the par value of the share. Full story

N Sunil Kumar, a student of XLRI's one year MBA program (GMP 2006-07) has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of ABN AMRO Foundation. Full story