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IIMs, IITs fail to impress India Inc on gender diversity; recruiters complain of lesser women graduates by Saumya Bhattacharya & Devina Sengupta

India's top business and technology schools are struggling to keep pace with the growing gender diversity aspirations of big employers in India Inc.  Women students at IITs have almost doubled to 11% in five years and their numbers at two B-schools - ISB-Hyderabad (29%) and IIM-Kozhikode (36%) - are inching closer to Harvard Business School (39%). Yet, recruiters complain there still aren't enough women graduates to untangle the diversity labyrinth at...

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‘Funding NGOs? I was living on $10 a day’

-Tehelka AFTER A stormy night and a long flight, Rainer Sonntag Hermann reached Essen at 7 pm on 28 February. Hermann is the German tourist who was deported from Chennai the previous day on charges of being involved in the anti-nuke protests at Koodankulam. When TEHELKA tried to contact him via email, he replied, “The last two nights I had no bed and I’m very tired now. So, please allow me...

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4.5% quota for minorities in IITs from this year by R Ravikanth Reddy

There is good news for IIT aspirants from the minority community. The IIT-JEE Admission Committee has decided to implement 4.5 per cent reservation for them within the 27 per cent seats meant for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) from this year. Those minority candidates who had submitted the application forms online and have not mentioned their status can do so on the IIT-JEE website — http://JEE.iitd.ac.in/obcminority.php — by giving an undertaking...

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Push for offload stick on airlines by Ananya Sengupta

JEEja Ghosh, the disability activist who was forced off a Goa-bound flight because she suffers from cerebral palsy, joins a long list of passengers who have faced such humiliation. “What happened to JEEja isn’t something new. For every JEEja case that gets reported in the media, there are 10-15 others that don’t get reported. It is only through heavy fines and exemplary punishment that one can ensure that these incidents are...

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Born at 44 by Richard Mahapatra

Odisha village gets pattas after nearly half a century. Land reform programmes get jumpstart They say home is where the heart is, but that’s not always true. Ask Arakhita Pradhan, resident of Chilipoi village in Odisha’s Ganjam district. On a cold evening some 44 years ago, the authorities forcefully shifted him and his neighbours to a place where no civic amenities existed. Reason: the state had built an irrigation dam that...

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