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Established in 1996 in collaboration with the Government of the state of Kerala, IIM Kozhikode was fifth addition to the list of IIMs. It started operation from a temporary campus at National Institute of Technology Calicut and moved to its present campus at Kunnamangalam in 2003.
IIM Indore, established in 1996, is the sixth addition to the list of IIMs. It became the first IIM to start operating outside India with its Post Graduate Programme in Management in UAE in 2011. However, it stopped the operations in 2014. Additionally, IIM-I also offers a non-residential full-time Post Graduate Programme in Management in Mumbai from 2012. No other IIM has a presence in the financial capital till now.
Established in 1984, IIM Lucknow is a centrally funded institution and the fourth IIM to start operation after IIM Calcutta, IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore. It’s the first IIM to start an additional campus in Noida. The IIML Noida campus was built exclusively for executive education and to leverage its proximity to Delhi.
It’s often believed that Indian Railways is the largest employer in the world. And even if it’s not India, Chinese could be the largest employer in the world, given the size of population of these two countries. However, the World Economic Forum published a research to put an end to these speculations and declared US Department of Defense as the largest employer with a workforce of 3.2 million people. Interestingly, in their list of top ten largest employers only three are private companies – Walmart, McDonald’s and Foxconn.
Here’s the full list.
Glassdoor asks you if you love your job and use your feedback to decide the winners of their annual Employees’ Choice Awards. They have been doing this for nine years and this year was no different either. On Tuesday they published the result and announced their list of 50 best companies to work for. The list is based on 2.1 million anonymous company reviews.
Unsurprisingly 20 out of these 50 companies are tech based. Here’s the whole list of 20 companies where you can send out resumes for 2017.
IIM Calcutta is one of the leading B-Schools in India and the Asia Pacific region. Established in 1961, this prestigious institution was the first national centre for post-graduation studies and research in Management. It’s the only triple accredited B-School in India and best known for its Finance related courses. In fact the department is considered to be one of the best in the world. If you have taken CAT this year and rooting for Finance, IIMC is the obvious choice.
Ideally politicians earn higher than the average citizens. Ideally the countries with highest GDP per capita have the highest paid leaders. But that’s rarely the case. Because if it was, the Prime Minister of Luxembourg should have been the highest paid political leader of the world, except the leaders’ salaries rarely align with the country’s GDP per capita in real world scenario. Here’s a list of top 10 highest paid heads of the State which will make you cringe under the desk.
The world is full of billionaires these days. There are 1,810 of them right now, with an aggregate net worth of $6.5 trillion. No economic slowdown or falling stock market can affect their growth. Hence, the number of billionaires has increased 50% since 2013.
Here are top 10 countries with most number of billionaires in the world.
Vijay Mallya is a wanted man. The former liquor baron is currently in England, hiding from several Indian public sector banks to whom he owes more