ANITS bagged the Best CSI Student Branch award for Region –V

Visakhapatnam, Dec: Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology and Sciences (ANITS) bagged the Best CSI Student Branch award for Region –V, for this year.

The award was given away at the CSI's National Convention, which was organised by CSI Mumbai chapter at Mumbai recently. The college's CSI student branch coordinator B. Tirimula Rao received the award from the CFO of TCS Mahalingam in the presence of president of CSI Trimurthy.

College secretary V. Thapovardhan, principal V.S.R.K. Prasad and director R. Govardhana Rao congratulated the chapter.

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“Educational opportunities in the UK" British Council, organising a seminar in Vijayawada

    British Council, organising a seminar on “Educational opportunities in the UK"
   
Vijayawada, Dec: The British Council, Chennai is organising a seminar on “Educational opportunities in the UK” in Vijayawada and Guntur on December 8 and 10, respectively. In Vijayawada the seminar will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at The Gateway Hotel on M.G. Road, while in Guntur it will be conducted from 4 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. at Hotel Grand Nagarjuna, Brodipet.

The seminar is meant to give an insight to the students into the various aspects that make the UK the “preferred destination for quality education”, according to L. Dhanasekaran, head, Education UK South India, British Council Division in the British Deputy High Commission, Chennai. He said in a release on Monday that the programme included a meeting with principals and placement officers of key institutions to discuss educational and research links, partnerships, public seminar for prospective students and networking with educational agents.

Though the entry is free, students will have to register for the seminar at 3.30 p.m. Only a few seats are available on first come first served basis. Participants also stand a chance to win an iPod shuffle and some exciting prizes. Mr. Dhanasekaran said the seminar will bring students and parents up to date on higher education opportunities in the UK, including scholarships, information on IELTS (International English Language Testing System) and student visa procedures.

He pointed out that Indian students represent the second largest chunk of international students in higher education in the UK. For further details and any clarifications, one could call British Council, Chennai at 044–42050600 or email at chennai.enquiry@ in.britishcouncil.org.

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Ask NASA your Saturn question: NASA will hold online video conference Hyderabad

    
  Hyderabad, Dec: A live video-conference ‘Ask NASA your Saturn question' is being organised for 2009 edition winners of NASA Cassini Scientist for a Day on December 7.

Being organised by Cassini People Outreach Division, the event will have Dr. Amanda Hendrix, Cassini deputy scientist, Dr. Kelvin Baines, an expert in planetary exploration and Dr. Rosaly Lopes, a world-famous planetary geologist and volcanologist interacting with the participants.

Planetary Society, India and NASA CSAD India Organising Committee, that are the points of contact in India for the 2009 and 2010 editions, have invited the general public to observe the live video-conference on www.ournewplanets.com at 10.30 p.m.

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Indo-Global Education Summit launched

150 varsities from across the globe taking part along with 500 Indian institutions

HYDERABAD: Former Chief Minister K. Rosaiah has welcomed private participation in the education sector but urged them not to commercialise the sector and ensure inclusive growth.

He was speaking after inaugurating the Indo-Global Education Summit here on Friday, organised by the Indus Foundation. He reminded that education plays a key role in the development of the nation and he hoped that the summit will discuss new themes and will give new directions for taking higher education to the unreached.

R.P. Agarwal, former Secretary, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, spoke on the apprehensions of Indian institutions over the entry of foreign universities and the goals of Foreign Educational Institutions Bill introduced in the Parliament this year. He felt there will not be exodus of good teachers from the Indian institutions to foreign institutions in India as feared and this has been proven with the IITs, IIMs and Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore retaining their faculty despite entry of private players with attractive offers.

On the other hand, he felt, they will create more competition and attract good talent towards teaching. At the same time, he observed that there was a need for protecting Indian institutions. He felt there was a need for stringent norms to ensure entry of quality players only and not fly-by-night operators. Pawan Kumar Agarwal, Civil Servant from government of West Bengal; George Iwama, Vice-Chancellor, University of Northern British Columbia; Goldy Hyder from Carleton University, Ontario, Canada and G. Subrahmanyam, Vice-Chancellor, Gitam University also spoke. C.D. Arha, Chairman of the summit and S.B. Anumolu, president, Indus Foundation also spoke.

Exploring opportunities

The summit is being held at Hotel Marriott from December 3 to 5 with the objective to explore opportunities for academic collaborations between Indian institutions and foreign universities apart from guiding Indian students about opportunities for higher education in foreign universities in over 40 countries. Entry is free for Indian students.

An estimated 150 universities from around the world and 500 Indian educational institutions will be present. The summit will have sessions on Engineering & IT, Business & Management, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Natural Sciences, Arts & Humanities, and Social Sciences. There will be interaction among representatives of Indian institutions and those of foreign universities for collaborations.

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Government First Grade College Kuvempu University, has bagged 10 ranks at the postgraduate level this year

    Kuvempu University's Government college secures 10 ranks at PG level

    Davangere, 3rd Dec: The Government First Grade College and Postgraduate Centre, affiliated to Kuvempu University, has bagged 10 ranks at the postgraduate level this year.

The first five of the 10 ranks for MA in Kannada have been bagged by the students of the institution. In addition, three students of English have secured the first, third and fifth ranks and two MBA students have secured the fifth and sixth ranks. The achievers in Kannada are: K.A. Oblappa, H. Huligappa, P. Aradimallaiah, S.P. Maruthi and R.Shankarnaik. In English, K.B. Aruna (first), H. Vijayakumar (third) and Sayed Maria (fifth) have secured ranks while Noorjan Taj (fifth) and Ashwini D. Thukkoji (sixth) have excelled in the MBA course.

Sharing their happiness with us on Thursday, the 10 achievers attributed the success to their professors and lecturers, hard work and concentration. Maruthi and Vijayakumar said that students should not confine themselves to the syllabus and textbooks. Extensive reading would help in acquiring deeper knowledge, they said.

Oblappa, Huligappa and Aradimallaiah said that students should not be compelled to read. Stressing the need for absolute concentration, they said that on an average students should spend about four hours reading. Shankaranaika and Aruna asked students to develop interest in reading good books.

One should enjoy reading books and be curious to learn new things and new subjects, they said. Ashwini Thokkaji and Noorjan Taj said that hard work and interaction with fellow students and faculty members every day had helped them do well.

D. Basavaraj, principal of the college, expressed happiness with the achievement of his students. He said that the 10 students had brought fame and glory to the college. He complimented the heads of the respective departments, professors and lecturers for preparing their students well for the examinations.

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Hyderabad Company Four Soft signs contract with Jacobson: reinforces SCM Solution Provider

  
  Hyderabad, December 1st: Four Soft (4S), a global leader in offering software solutions for the Logistics and Transportation industry, announced the signing of a significant contract with Jacobson Companies today. Jacobson is one of the leading 3rd party Logistics service providers in the US.

Four Soft will implement its multimodal transport management system - 4S eTrans®, order management system - 4S Visilog®, Global customs solution - 4S eCustoms® and its business intelligence tool 4S Infotips across Jacobson locations globally.

This “best in class” combination will be crucial in streamlining mission critical operations at Jacobson, enabling them to comprehensively improve the already high level of services they provide to their customers.  The contract envisions an initial engagement, implementation and operational maintenance period of five years.

Jacobson was founded in 1968.  Today, they operate more than 35 million square feet of warehouse space in 35 states across the United States and employ approximately 7,000 people. Their extensive network includes 193 facilities worldwide with rapid growth in Asia and emerging markets around the globe.

Jacobson provides end-to-end supply chain solutions that include: warehousing & distribution, freight management, contract packaging & manufacturing, air & ocean freight forwarding, customs brokerage, deconsolidation & transloading. With their broad reach and proven expertise Jacobson delivers smart logistics and transportation solutions to customers around the globe.

Rajshekhar Roy, CEO, Four Soft, said: “Jacobson sees leveraging IT based solutions as a key catalyst for their ambitious growth plans.  Their rigorous search for a primary vendor for these solutions lead to them picking Four Soft from a wide range of solutions vendors.

Jacobson will deploy a stack of solutions from Four Soft covering its freight forwarding, customs, order management and visibility operations using Four Softs’ comprehensive dashboard and reporting framework. This clearly demonstrates Jacobson’s confidence in Four Softs’ ability to deliver enterprise wide mission critical solutions across complex global supply chains.

I am confident that the term of the engagement envisioned in the contract will be extended indefinitely, and the relationship will remain one of great mutual benefit.”  He further added, “We have already signed six major deals in the US this financial year. This clearly shows that we are a rapidly growing presence there.  The Jacobson engagement gives us the additional impetus to further extend our reach.”

4S eTrans® is designed and developed on the J2EE platform. It® is a multi modal transport management system with built in accounting features and interfaces that permit it to seamlessly integrate with a wide variety of enterprise applications. It comprehensively meets present requirements, and also anticipates several of the future challenges facing the global freight forwarding community.

It is designed and developed on technologies with a highly flexible architecture.  4S VisiLog® is an order management system linking the enterprise, business partners, associates, service providers & customers seamlessly based on user defined rules. It provides the enterprise end-to-end visibility over its entire value chain though its “anytime anywhere” Track and Trace capabilities.

 It incorporates features that can help with, execute, control and provide alerts on, all specified events in a defined automated work flow process. It is a web based application with native browser interface and multi lingual support.  4S eCustomsTM is global customs compliance solution, with plug and play modules for different countries, designed to work in a multicultural, multilingual environment, with interface capabilities with all Four Soft enterprise products and other standard ERP applications.

About Four Soft Limited

Four Soft is a public listed company which provides innovative software solutions, IT consultancy and BPO services exclusively for the logistics and supply-chain management market place. It is the market leader in the transportation and logistics segment with a large international client base including a large number of the top logistics & transportation companies in the world.

With regional offices strategically located worldwide, its customers include DHL, Schenker, Agility, UTI and Geodis Wilson amongst others.  Additional information about Four Soft is available at www.four-soft.com . Four Soft offers a full suite of web-native products across the logistics supply chain.

This includes 4S eTrans® for freight forwarding and logistics, 4S eLog® for extended warehouse management, 4S Visilog® & 4S VisiLog plus® for track & trace, visibility and supply-chain management, 4S eCustoms® for customs brokerage, 4S iShipping® for shipping line execution, 4S eConnect® for business-to-business connectivity and 4S Infotips for informed decision making.

Source:Adfactors PR 

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Growth in Web-Based Applications - Akamai Technologies, India

    Web Infrastructures and Web Applications

Bangalore, India-November 30, 2010: Akamai Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of cloud optimization services, in partnership with IDC, today unveiled the findings of the IDC Asia-Pacific Web Application Survey 2010 titled, "Prepare to Scale Your Web Infrastructure to Meet Imminent Growth in Cloud and Mobility."

This survey  is focused on trends driving demand for Web applications, and reveals that businesses have become dependent on the Internet for their daily operations.  The survey also outlines the challenges IT departments face as they strive to improve application performance and the end-user experience.

According to the survey results, Web applications delivered over the cloud will surge by 40% over the next 12 months and drive IT managers to further improve the performance of their Web infrastructures.  26% of the 423 organizations polled have experienced productivity issues due to poor access to Web applications.

David Kenny, President of Akamai said, “Organizations in the Asia Pacific region are increasingly turning to the Web to support their employees, customers and entire ecosystem of partners and suppliers.  Indian businesses are rapidly migrating more applications to the Web, and we can expect dramatic growth in Web application adoption over the coming year.

With this expected surge in Web-based application traffic, Indian organizations will need to leverage cloud-based solutions for ensuring the performance and scale of this mission-critical content.” Organizations were queried about their business expansion plans as well as the utilization of Internet and cloud-based computing for business functions.

Initial findings show incredible growth in the Asia-Pacific region – about 32% of the organizations polled across Asia-Pacific plan to set up branch offices over the next 12 months, with India leading with aggressive business expansion plans.  Such expansion will change the nature and complexion of the workforce.

With increased mobility and business agility, companies are able to expand their operations quickly and cost-effectively. According to Adrian Dominic Ho, principal for IDC's Asia-Pacific Practice Group covering Communications and Service research, and author of the IDC white paper, growth in extended enterprises will also contribute to the rise of the borderless world, resulting in a surge in Web application adoption.

One of the most challenging tasks IT managers will face is ensuring they deliver acceptable levels of Web application performance, and thus a superior user experience. With more than 50% of organizations currently conducting online transactions, the big growth areas over the next 12 months will be mobile access and streaming video.

For mobile access, organizations in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Malaysia are leading the region, with up to 86% of those in Malaysia expected to have mobile access to Web applications over the next 12 months.  In view of this, 20% of organizations across the region plan to give employees mobile access and support bandwidth-heavy streaming video applications over the same period.

One of the key reasons organizations invest heavily in Web applications is to empower their employees and build an extended enterprise.  Increased mobility means organizations have to think about providing employees easy access to corporate applications, regardless of their location.

Greater workforce mobility, growing adoption of mobile technology for business use; and recent improvements in centralized visibility, management, and control of mobile costs, have rendered mobility an inexpensive and important strategic asset for many organizations.

One of the key factors driving the growth in enterprise mobility is the proliferation of smart devices, which give employees ubiquitous access to business applications.  In the region, IDC expects smart phone penetration to reach 100% by 2015 in the mature markets, while emerging markets will require a further two to three years.

Cloud services have been one of the most-discussed technologies over the last 12 to 24 months. The number of applications that will be delivered via the cloud is expected to increase by 40% over the next 12 months, albeit from a low base.  ANZ and Singapore are leading with having corporate applications delivered over the cloud today.

India is expected to experience a doubling in cloud adoption, with the proportion of applications being delivered over the cloud expected to surge by 100% over the next 12 months. Top Issues Faced by Organizations

Across India, security concerns continue to dominate with more than 15% of respondents citing this as their top concern, as more data-sensitive applications are made available online.  More importantly, security teams often find it challenging to keep up with the increase in security vulnerability, as more applications are added onto the Web.

Other top concerns across the region were poor performance of Web applications, an inability to access rich media applications, delays in rolling out rich content applications, and the inability to efficiently share files.

Future Outlook Web application delivery

According to IDC, the application delivery market will experience another year of innovation and market expansion.  To meet the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities, organizations must be prepared with a strategy and commitment to deliver higher levels of application performance to the expanding branch offices and growing pool of mobile or remote workers.

With the era of the pervasive cloud upon us, organizations also need to acknowledge that further adoption of cloud services, mobility, video, and social media will place greater pressure on Web infrastructures.  However, there is no better time than now to have a concrete, strategic plan and road map for Web application delivery.

About Akamai

Akamai® provides market-leading, cloud-based services for optimizing Web and mobile content and applications, online HD video,and secure e-commerce.  Combining highly-distributed, energy-efficient computing with intelligent software, Akamai's global platform is transforming the cloud into a more viable place to inform, entertain, advertise, transact and collaborate. 

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Educomp will set up a University in Hyderabad next year in close vicinity of the Indian School of Business (ISB)

     Mumbai, November 29th, 2010: The company, which is in talks with six North-American and British Universities for a partnership, will set up the first phase on 50 acres of land at the cost of Rs 200 crore. Core Projects has acquired 194 acres of land for Rs 130 crore for the university at Gachiboli, Andhra Pradesh, in close vicinity of the Indian School of Business (ISB).

“If India has to reap demographic dividends over the next few decades, there will have to be nationwide availability of reputed higher education institutions that deliver high quality post graduate courses in various professions.

Our foray into higher education will be driven by this national need and will be supplemented by our technological expertise and our intimate relationships with American and British Institutions of Higher Learning,” Sanjeev Mansotra, CMD Core Projects and Technologies. Core says its collaboration with an international institute will help it build a seamless campus in India. While infrastructure would be provided by Core, the campus would be that of a foreign university.

The company is awaiting the Parliamentary nod to the Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operations) Bill. Ernst & Young, a professional services organizations, is drawing up the plan for the company. “By February 2011 we would be clear who will be our partners. The campus will be up and running by March 2012,” added Mansotra.

The university, to begin with, will offer professional courses like post graduate diploma in management, hospitality and computer application and engineering and weekend courses for professionals. It is targeting a total student strength of 4500. Core, which was founded in 2003, is present in seven states in India; 20 states in the US; 40 institutions in the UK; 8 African and 3 Caribbean nations.

The company, listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and with a market valuation of over Rs 3,000 crore, offers products and solutions spanning across -K12 (Kindergarten to 12), higher education; vocational training courses and teacher training.

The Core Projects has also planned a foray into the school management business. It is expected to invest Rs 150 crore for setting up schools over the next three years. These schools are divided into three - K-12 schools targeting tier I cities; IB schools targeting the IB school population and traditional K-12 schools for tier II and tier III cities.

“We have earmarked Rs 400 crore for the schools. While Rs 150 crore will be from internal accruals, Rs 250 crore will be raised via debt as and when the projects are finalised,” added Mansotra. Chennai-based Everonn Education and Educomp Solutions, two companies which are also technology provider to educational institutions, have laid out education plans for their companies.

While Everonn Education plans to open 300 schools over the next five years at a total investment of Rs 3,600 crore. Everonn has also firmed up plans to open around 25 B-schools across the country in the next few years with an investment of around Rs 250 crore.

Everonn also offers teacher training and courses in hospitality and animation and gaming education in association with the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). Delhi-based Educomp Solutions, another technology service provider to educational institutions, has also ventured across education spectrum-primary, vocational, professional, test preparation and higher.

Educomp has also partnered with 14 state governments covering over 14,500 government schools and benefiting 7.9 million students.The company through its Raffles Millennium International brand, offers courses in creative arts, design, lifestyle and business management.

It would soon venture into offering courses in law, paramedics and engineering through its Millennium Academy of Professional Studies. The academy will be launched next year. “We do not have any plans to establish a university at present as we are looking at professional courses.

We are offering management programmes in various subjects on a smaller scale. We sought approval from the All India Council for Technical Education and tied up with local education partners to offer the courses,” said an official from Educomp Solutions.

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What is your Unique Selling Proposition or USP? Indian Students is Important to the World Universities!

   New Delhi, 29th November:  Why do you want Indian students at your institute?

Our purpose is to build partnerships with Indian institutions in those subject areas in which UAD is in a leading position such as: creative industries (digital media, computer games, computer arts, software engineering); environmental sciences (biotechnology and civil engineering), etc.

Our long-term goal is academic collaboration to enhance our students’ experience and research potential by working with partners to understand the Indian higher educational sector and cooperate in the exciting expansion of higher education currently being planned by the Indian government.

How is India important to you as a country?
With its plans to develop 800 new universities and several thousand institutions of vocational learning in the next 10 years, plus there is India’s anticipated economic growth of 9 per cent per annum; India is important to the world — a country which we in Scotland must partner if we are to stay competitive.

Which are your most popular programmes?
UAD’s leading position is in the computer games and related digital media subjects. UAD is the Centre of Excellence for computer games education in the country and our association with corporates in this sector has been acknowledged by the Scottish and UK governments through their major investments in the university. But of course as a comprehensive university we also have popular programmes in biomedical and biotechnology sciences.

Any new initiatives?
We have an MoA with MIT Pune in computer games/arts related subjects and have recently signed one with IIIT Allahabad in Information Technology and many more subjects. We are also working with MIT on links with their various management schools.

What is your Unique Selling Proposition or USP?
High quality education producing graduates who create their own businesses as well as being valuable employees.

Are you thinking of any scholarships for Indian or international students?
Yes, we are presently developing a range of scholarships that will reward excellence. A formal announcement will be made in the next few weeks.

With the foreign education Bill in the pipeline, do you plan to open a full-fledged campus in India?
There is discussion on some developments although you will understand if at present we cannot go into detail. However, it is worth remembering that UAD is the leading UK university in an extremely important sector to the developing Indian economy and education sector- the digital creative media.

I am therefore hopeful that we will be playing an important role as the government in India further progresses its dynamic plans for 14 innovation universities.

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Indian students represent 15% of all international students in US higher Education

    GMAT and TOEFL Tests are More Taken by Indian Students

Chennai, 30th Nov: Recession, economic downturn and job cuts notwithstanding, the craze for studying abroad has not waned among Indian students if some finding are to be believed. Not only did enrollment of Indians in US universities go up by 2 per cent this year, more Indians are taking the GMAT and TOEFL examinations with a view to joining universities abroad than from any other country.

The largest number of foreign applications received for admission to nearly two-third of the US full-time MBA programmes were from Indian students - only one fifth of the programmes received more applications from Chinese students - according to GMAC, an international association of business schools and owner of the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT).

TOEFL administrators said that India consistently represents one of the top five countries with the largest numbers of TOEFL test takers. “We have seen a 5% increase in the number of Indian TOEFL test-takers,” an official spokesperson said.

Further, the Institute of International Education that releases its annual Open Doors report on international education, said: “Students from India increased by 2% to a total of nearly 105,000. Indian students represent 15% of all international students in US higher education.

Together, the top three sending countries-China, India and South Korea-comprise nearly half (44%) of the total international enrollments in U S  higher education.”   In 2010, Canadian graduate management programs received the largest number of foreign applications from Indian citizens.

The increased demand for MBA course could be because of the fact that nine in 10 MBA alumni from the class of 2010 had managed to land jobs three months after graduation. The results represent a slight improvement from 2009, when 84 percent of new MBA alumni said they were employed three months after receiving their degrees.

The MBA graduates of 2010 also said that they received higher starting salaries than their counterparts from the class of 2009, according to the GMAC Alumni Perspectives Survey.

The median starting salary for 2010 graduates was US$78,819, up from US$75,000 for those who graduated in 2009.  Students graduating in 2010 were significantly more optimistic about the economy in general compared with last year’s graduates

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GMAT(Graduate Management Admission Test) to replace Essay with "Integrated Reasoning" from 2012

   
    The Graduate Management Admission Test — the dominant test for MBA admissions, will soon have a new section, designed to test the ability of would-be business students to analyze multiple kinds of information.

The new "integrated reasoning" questions will present test-takers with a spreadsheet, a table, text and other information and then ask either single or multiple questions. While the answers will be multiple choice, there will likely be multiple correct answers, with test-takers asked to list all correct answers. These new questions will replace one of the two GMAT essays and will be reported in a new score, while preserving existing scores for the essay and the verbal-quantitative total. The new section will be added in 2012.

The reason that the GMAT was open to a challenge is that it is not a test specific to business schools, but rather features general verbal, quantitative and writing sections. While designed to test someone's ability to succeed in a business program, the test itself doesn't stress economics or accounting or any specific business school skill set or at least that has been the case until now.

As an example of the kind of questions that might be on the test, the students might receive a spreadsheet with data on the number of passengers and flights in and out of 21 airports, and then be asked to respond to a series of statements about the data and/or other information with regard to the various airports. Many of the questions may not be factual, but may be about trade-offs raised by certain choices.

The new questions will take 30 minutes and with the elimination of the essay, will not add to the time of the test (currently 3.5 hours). 

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Dilsukhnagar Arena's “Feel the punch" Bangs TASI Viewer’s Choice Award (TVCA) in the ‘Student films Category’

 A passion for ‘filmcraft’, a flair for creativity and the unmistakable influence of profound training in Animation was evident in the exemplary efforts that went into the making of “Feel the punch” a High-Definition, 3D Animation short film which has been magnetizing awards at Animation film festivals across the country. The future stars of Animation create a multi-award bagger!

Not one, not two, but four prestigious awards in quick succession. And there’s more to come for ‘Feel the punch’. Ever since its launch, this brilliant Animation short film has been basking in glory. Appreciations have been pouring in from diverse quarters: many congratulating the team of Animation freshers from Dilsukhnagar Arena, Hyderabad, for crafting a film that looks very much like a professional effort. Just what the industry needs: consummate Animation talent equipped for the studio. And just what Dilsukhnagar Arena has been delivering with its revolutionary Animation and Visual Effects (VFX) training.

A record 2.70 lakh clicks on YouTube The video of  ‘Feel the punch’ hosted on You Tube registered 2,70,000 clicks at lightning speed and  is all set to shoot past the 3-lakh mark shortly: a  first  for any  3D  Animation  short  film  in  India. The  film  can  be  viewed at www.feelthepunch.com

A fresh benchmark for quality The runaway success of ‘Feel the Punch’ can be attributed to the creative storyline with a mint-fresh  theme,  the  brilliant  technical  artistry,  high-quality  Animation  and  most
importantly,  the  extremely  lovable  characters which most  of  us  can  relate  to.  Mona, Paddu,  Alex  and  Bhikshu,  who  together,  form  the  animated  cast  epitomize  appealing character design. Rightly, the  film  ‘Feel  the punch’ has set a new benchmark  for high-quality 3D Animation short films in India.

Says a proud Mr. Raja Sekhar Buggaveeti, CEO of Dilsukhnagar Arena: “Feel the
punch has demonstrated that Hyderabad is more than capable of grooming class-leading
CG  talent.  Though  we  have  been  recognized  as  India’s  largest  Animation  &  VFX
Education  Facility  for many  years  now,  the  stupendous  success  of  ‘Feel  the  punch’  is
fortifying our reputation as a shining paragon of Animation and VFX training in India and
is earning us greater national recognition. In fact, the remarkable quality of the film has
sent out a  strong message  to  talent  trackers  in  the Media and Entertainment  industry
that Dilsukhnagar Arena has come good on  its word of grooming and delivering  fresh,
studio-ready  CG  talent  through  its  revolutionary  career  incubation  initiative  DNA  Inc.
(Dilsukhnagar Arena  Incubation).  I  am  overjoyed  at  the  response,  as  this  season, we
have in fact delivered a record-breaking placement performance”.

India’s most prestigious Animation Award‘Feel  the  punch’  captured  the TASI  Viewer’s  Choice  Award (TVCA)  in  the  ‘Studentfilms  category’  beating 9 national  films  and 5  international  films  to  the  top honour  atIndia’s  biggest  International  Animation  festival-Anifest  India. 

This  year,  over  320entries  were previewed  by  2  jury  panels,  out  of  which  more  than  90  entries  were selected  for  final  voting  across  4 categories. Despite  strong  competition, Dilsukhnagar Arena’s ‘Feel  the  punch’  outshined  other  contenders  to  bag  the  ‘Best Animation Short film award’ effortlessly with an overwhelming margin. The recognition comes with a TASI Trophy, HP 18.5″ TFT Monitor, Intel Notebook & Seagate 320 GB USB Drive, an Adobe Design  Premium  License,  Toon  Boom  Studio  Animate  License  &  Houdini  Professional License and an Internship Offer from Prime Focus, Mumbai.

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Google Recruiting 2,000 New Employees

Google has approximately 2,076 job postings on their Google jobs site according to a tally taken by Reuters

In September the company’s Finance Chief said they were preparing to “waging a war for talent” and given that only around 350 job were posted on the job’s site in March 2009 it appears he wasn’t kidding around.

SlashGear reports that since the beginning of 2010 Google has increased overall employee size by 18%

Currently Google employs just over 23,000 people, which means almost 10% of the company’s jobs are still available for the taking. The company also recently announced plans to give all employees a 10% payroll raise in 2011, while $1000 bonuses were also going out to all Google employees.

It should be noted that most of the jobs are in the areas of engineering and sales, with around half of those positions located in the United States, approximately 50 in China and various other positions in cities around the world. 

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Career Counseling Session at St.Francis College Hyderabad

A two day career Counseling Workshop for the second year students of St.Francis College for Women, Begumpet.

Organised by the college and the alumnae association of the college, a two days sessions are followed by host of eminent speakers from various field to share their career ups with students and downs an also to advice them.

The two-day workshop is an eye opening experience for the students. Workshop counseling also includes 'Fitness-sessions'. Students are taken to simple exercises and advised on how to lead a healthy life.

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‘The New Leader’- Dr. Daniel Goleman said that Indian CEOs need to work more on their Emotional Intelligence.

   Dr. Daniel Goleman, the legendary name in Emotional Intelligence and Leadership and author of many best sellers including ‘The New Leader’ said that Indian CEOs need to work more on their Emotional Intelligence.

Indian managers are high found to be high on IQ & better in things like expansion plans, M&A, & inner strength but low on things like excellence in execution, team leadership, empowerment accountability, which relates to EQ, when compared to their counterparts in the West or China. Dr. Daniel was on his visit to India to address a two day Summit on "Emotional Intelligence and Leadership" in New Delhi on November 23 and 24.

"Social Awareness, Empathy has to be built in the system to develop team for long term & create harmony in working relationships", said Dr. Goleman while commenting on leadership styles. "Attitudinal change was the single biggest factor in bringing change in HPCL" added Ashis Sen, DGM HPCL & Vice Chairmen FEIL (Forum for Emotional Intelligence).

Dr. Daniel, who shot to fame with New York Times bestseller "Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships" based his opinion on the widely popular ‘Hay’s Profile’ – the most widely used job evaluation methodology used in over 8,000 organizations worldwide.

Prof Sanghamitra Budhapriya of FORE School of Management, who herself has authored two books in behavioural studies added, "Indian organisation need to put extra efforts on boosting the EQ of its leaders as we have a vast pool of talents waiting to be global business leaders.

Organisations investing on developing this skill set for their employees have already started getting results. The RoI soon gets reflected in the balance sheets" Indroneil, coach & facilitator in behavioural competencies said, "IQ in the neighbourhood of 110-115 fails as a predictor of success in a career.

In other words, you need to be smart enough to handle the cognitive complexity of the information you need for a given role or job, but after reaching that threshold of "smart enough," your intellect makes little difference and that’s when overall competence comes into play and EQ takes over."

When asked by a young participant on how the subordinates of Indian Managers should manage their superiors, or is their a bottom-up approach, Dr. Daniel said, "a chunk of young employees often leave organisations as they do not get along with their bosses, on the low emotional connect, aspect." In a lighter vein he added, "in such cases bosses resume’s should be sent to recruitment consultants."

In India the entire conditioning since childhood is done on cognitive practices essentially marks one gets in school or college then CAT or the entrance exam scores for higher education and at a later stage the salary he earns becomes a parameter to judge his professional success and then suddenly one expects him to show empathy & be emotionally intelligent!

This is not something which is easy to happen, Nirmalya Pal added. Organized by the Forum for Emotional Intelligence Learning, the Seminar was supported by Government of India and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation. FEIL, was created by the coming together of eminent academicians and professionals committed to a common cause of building caring and compassionate Leadership.

The objective of the seminar was to include learning inspirational leadership and to develop oneself and others for improved individual and organizational performance and effectiveness. Dr. Daniel also touched upon ‘Ecological Intelligence’ the new concept, in which each of us is a stake holder.

Source: Solus media

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