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INDIAN Americans have been identified as significant and the tech-economy-force, which are not politicians in the United States can afford to ignore.
At least that’s what Vinod Gupta, a close friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton and the founder of infoUSA, a $ 340 m in the database of companies whose headquarters are in Omaha, Nebraska, touching.
Gupta, in fact, no problem for India with the Republican government in the United States in the post-9-11-scenario. “India was the first country to offer support for the United States after the attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. And many Indians were killed at the World Trade Center,’’says Johnston it.
As Pakistan win diplomatic points elves after the war against the Taliban, Gupta feels the most important issue was Pakistan to the geographical proximity with Afghanistan.
“Smart few Pervez Musharraf travels, and it is time that India realizes that he is a pragmatic leader. But India has not really lost in relations with the United States. Now, more than ever, the American government recognizes the impact of the terrorist attacks in India.
In addition, India is a huge power in the region of South Asia is not only a nation that stands sent”de man, who was inclined to contribute to Bermuda as Consul General American, Fiji, as an ambassador for Switzerland and the Ambassador of India, while the Clinton administration presidentship.
“I pulled my name, because the pressure of my business. Now, with the Democrats in the office, that’s all history,’’said Gupta.
But his friendship with Clinton is forever. “I never asked for anything to the exception of Bill Clinton in favour of improving relations with India.
Both of us are in the same age and have much in common. We both came from poor families and have a high level of positions. When we have friends exchange pleasantries, Friends of golf and playing cards late into the night.
And Bill Clinton has promised to come to India at least once a year, “says Gupta, who is perhaps the only one in India has been invited to a night at the White House and at Camp David.
“I called my mother at Ghaziabad history of the bedroom Lincoln at the White House. It was rather indifferent, of course, because they do not know what it meant. But the atmosphere is very attached overwhelming and I was happy to leave, for a Jog early the next morning,”recalls Gupta. “Camp David, however, is a beautiful place to be”, he adds.
Gupta, although the trend layer of India in philanthropic giving to a alma mater is of the opinion that the Indians do not really an inclination to give money-back, or to society.
“She would have preferred that they leave to their children. But as Americans to donate their universities, and I started to $ 2 million for the Vinod Gupta School of Management at IIT Kharagpur, and $ 2 million, a new curriculum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,”he said.
He was studying at the two institutions. Of course, Bill Clinton is much hyped visit Gupta’s Maniharan village of Rampur UP, the cornerstones of Rs 4.4 crore Hillary Rodham Clinton, the media center of Rs 2 crore and William Jefferson Clinton, Centre for Science and technology, there has been on the map internationally.
“One hundred percent of the fortune of my willingness to go a charitable purpose. My children have already to make, and I think that we again to the company to give what we have,’’said Gupta, whose proverbial rich history rags If the product made techie dreams.
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Kharagpur, IIT Campus, March 12: “Strike is suicide, the work is Life” was the message from Manish Tripathi wanted to say it loud and clear.
A representative from Mumbai dabbawallah’s Community - celebrated for their operational efficiency - Tripathi was visiting Vinod Gupta School of Management at IIT Kharagpur, for a briefing on the supply chain management dabbawallah, a provider of essential services in Mumbai.
For 40 students from the University of Nebraska, Omaha, it was a lesson. Students and members of the Faculty are available on a visit to the Institute as part of an exchange program - for the first time - with IIT Kharagpur.
The team had begun his stay in India, Bangalore, where she visits Biocon and Infosys, torchbearers of the glory India in both sectors. But it was a different experience, expected Kharagpur - a taste of the grass successful management of the root system.
Tripathi presentation was followed by a seminar - “Credibility India: India in transition” has meant for visitors to confide in the changing economic scenario in India.
“His speech was a very rewarding experience.’s Work culture and ethics which he spoke a universal application. We could even think that his ideas in our universities,” said Krista Cupich, consultants, University of Nebraska.
Tripathi is part of a network of 5000 dabbawalahs in Mumbai and its fractions, each approximately 40 clients.
The whole sector has an annual turnover of Rs 30 crore, with each dabbawallah deserve Rs 5000 per month on average.
But he is adamant his services, it has great distinction - from India and abroad. “We have not had a strike in the 116 years of our service. This is also when we call for a hike not yet been reached by our customers,” said Tripathi.
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KOLKATA: When he was 11 years old, he began with the reading of the Exchange. A year later, he started betting on horses and by high school, he started an activity (Pinball machines), with a friend, and $ 50 per week.
Over time, when he completed his studies, he not only in possession of a business, but also purchased 40 acres of farmland in Nebraska for its own benefit.
Today, he is the richest man in the second in the world, worth $ 44 billion, according to Forbes 2005. So when he speaks, listen to the entrepreneurs. But not everyone has the chance to receive, Warren Buffett.
In what would be a first in the history of Indian universities, students at IIT Kharagpur’s B-school are given advice on how to successful entrepreneurs from Buffett.
About 35 selected the first and second year students of the IIT Kgp’s Vinod Gupta School of Management in Omaha visit to the United States spend time on May Creighton University and the University of Nebraska, and also talk to Buffett.
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Kolkata, March 4: The first Inde’s intellectual property law from school with the ground had a formal agreement, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed today between the Director of IIT-Kharagpur ( IIT-KGP), Professor SK Dube, and Vinod Gupta, an IIT-KGP Alumnus and CEO of infoUSA.
Gupta, who has already given $ 1 million in seed capital for the right to the school and during the installation of Vinod Gupta School of Management at the IIT-Kharagpur, plans to start flagship of the least two programmes of the Law School this July.
Preparation for the Law School has already begun, with the agreement of cooperation between the IIT-KGP and the George Washington University of Law, one of the world leaders IPL schools. “This close link between us in the development of curriculum, exchange of professors, library and training. We have also started the recruitment of the faculty, but we also have a lot of visiting professors’ Abroad, “Profiles Prabir Gupta, Technical Director of the Law School, said News Line.
The two courses from July - with a total of 100 seats of force - is a three-year (six semesters) LLB habitation with distinction in Technology and Intellectual Property Law (IPL), and a year and a half, the program diploma to work IPL Management - aimed at IIT-KGP and its extension to Kolkata and Bhubaneswar.
The price of the course, Professor Gupta said, would be for an amount of Rs 50000 per semester.
The eligibility criteria for the courses, all candidates for a CA or B-Tech degree or a PG Science Degree within each theme and an MBA from the science background, can apply.
In the diploma programme, lawyers for LLB degree are also eligible. A national programme of the entrance test is scheduled for April, after the selection of candidates are briefly listed by the group discussion and personal interview.
The Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, that the school was named, it is anticipated that a large number of lawyers trained in the protection of intellectual property are of crucial importance for industries such as bio-technology, nanotechnology, bioinformatics, information technology and De software.
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Kolkata, April 13 - DIE Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) hat angekündigt, die Einführung einer Zwei-Jahres-, Teilzeit-und Business-Management-Programm für Führungskräfte arbeiten.
Das Programm, das ist das erste seiner Art in der IIT-System, wäre dies bietet IIT-KGP-Campus in Kharagpur, Kolkata and Bhubaneswar.
Die Aussage, das heute im Rahmen mit einer Schnittstelle newspersons, Prof.. Kalyan Chakravarti, Dekan der Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT-KGP, sagte der drei jeder Universitäten einschreiben würden 25 Studenten, die gewählt werden, nach einem Einstufungstest würde.
Um in Frage zu kommen für die Einschreibung, Studenten sollten gesichert haben ein Minimum Marken von 60 Prozent in BE, B. Tech, Mr. Com, Mr. Sc, 3 Jahre MCA-oder einer gleichwertigen Prüfung.
Prof. Chakravarti, sagte der Post-Graduate Diploma in Business-Management-Programm konzipiert wurde für die Arbeit Führungskräfte, die sich nicht in der Lage zu verfolgen, Vollzeit-Studium, sondern in der gleichen Zeit brauchen, um ihre-Management für die Fähigkeiten schärfen berufliche Zukunft Wachstum. Das Programm, das aus der ersten startet Juliwoche, besteht aus vier Semestern.
Der der Anweisung angenommen Modus wird, um zu sein “Kontakt-cum-Modus Unterricht Abstand von und Lernen.
Die Kursgebühr ist gekoppelt year Rs 1.8 lach, Rs 45000 oder pro Semester, nach Prof. Chakravarti.
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Calcutta, April 6: The chance of rain this summer, the Vinod Gupta School of Management, the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
And if the placement of the summer in the 11 years of school management is not an indication? And they are certainly an indication fair? The final amount of money value of the investment.
The best India Inc. and some global majors, including ITC, Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, HSBC, DSP Merrill Lynch, IBM, Nestle, and Caterpillar, sank in Kharagpur, the B-brains.
The summer schools and include projects doctoral thesis for a period of six months.
? We welcome the great resonance of individual companies, the training programmes summer on all our 85 students? Says Gautam Sinha, in the training and placement, IIT Kharagpur.
The largest placement agency, the Fast Moving Consumer Goods giant ITC, the cancellation of 15 students? A record among the country? S Management Institute, at school? The officials? For the six months of the stations.
In the area of finance, ABN Amro, Deutsche Bank, DSP Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, IDBI, HSBC, Reserve Bank of India and Standard Chartered Bank is the pioneer of headhunters.
From sales were Marico, Nestle, Rallis India and Bajaj Auto, among others.
Other mediators are part of the staff of IBM, Hewlett-Packard, HCL-Tech, e-service and Systsoft Skytech, Caterpillar, Ashok Leyland, TAFE, Tata Motors, Tata Steel and Tata Chemicals.
In keeping with tradition, four students were selected for projects InfoUSA, the company is owned by Vinod Gupta in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.
They are also used for courses at the University of Nebraska and Creighton University, with the work on the projects.
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Kolkata, November 26 THE American President George W. Bush ’s return to the White House for a second term, it is also the spiral of the Indian IT industry, instead of the American president was not against the relocation of jobs to India, Mr. Vinod Gupta, founder and chairman, InfoUSA and a Life Fellow of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP). It took the introduction of Vinod Gupta School of Management at the IIT-KGP.
Mr. Gupta said that on interaction with teachers, students and media representatives during his annual visit to his Alma Mater in Kharagpur, on Friday.
He provided $ 2 million of mutual funds and its non-profit foundation of the Foundation to facilitate the expansion of the school management.
According to some sources, the number of pupils at the school has tripled from 30 in 2002 to 90 in 2004. It is expected that nearly 120 of 2005.
In addition, two new programs are underway. The first is a five-year programme, Dual Degree B. Tech (Hons) in a field of engineering and a Master of Business Management Programme.
The second is a sponsored two years full-time residential Master of Business Administration program exclusively for the defence services officers.
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MUMBAI - If Arun Sinha, co-promoter of Mumbai-based design software Expo Pvt Ltd (Dexpo) wanted to expand, was immediately hired 30 fresh chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai. The engineers of chemistry in a software company? “It does not matter. IIT gives the degree of resistance of logical analysis capabilities, which is a graduate fees provide early concepts in a new discipline,” said Sinha.
Dexpo since the acquisition of the Canadian bank software SLMSoft great and renowned SLMSoft India. Sinha, the director, himself a graduate of IIT Kanpur, an industrial town north of the city, India, to continue to devote IIT engineers and loan.
He is not alone. Companies again on the seven IIT Campus across the country - Mumbai, New Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Guwahati Roorkee, and - if they require top-notch talent Engineering. If Valley legend Jim Clark (co-founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape), has been the health sector Floating company Healtheon, he had a dictation for his Headhunter: recruit as many IITians how she could find.
The IITs offer Undergraduate and postgraduate programs in various of engineering, science, technology and management disciplines. The IITs should be the cradle of some of the best talent from around the world, under the heading IITians today some of the largest companies in the world.
Arun Sarin, the new CEO appointed by Vodafone, the largest in Europe, the mobile group. Vinod Gupta is the president of the database management of the company InfoUSA. Rajat Gupta, director of the international consulting firm McKinsey & Co. Manoj Singh is the chief executive officer, America, Deloitte Consulting. Rono Dutta is president of United Airlines. Dr Purnendu Chatterjee heads of the leading Venture Capital firms which Chatterjee Group.
Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Gururaj Deshpande launched Sycamore Networks and is one of the most affluent Indians. The vice-chairman of Citigroup, Mumbai lad Victor Menezes. Dr Arun Netravali is president of electronic research center at Bell Laboratories. Romesh Wadhwani is an experienced Silicon Valley investor. And Suhas Patil is chairman emeritus of Cirrus Logic.
Back at home, the former head of IITians much of India on the companies. Nandan Nilekani, CEO, President and CEO of India a major software company Infosys Technologies Limited. C G Krishnadas Nair, Hindustan Aeronautics. Arjun Malhotra co-founder of the leading infotech HCL. Deepak Satwalekar is director of residential construction financing giant HDFC. YC Deveshwar (Yogi) frontline public sector airline Air India and is now head of the large-honcho, tobacco ITC. Reliance Telecom, and is under the direction of BK Syngal, was once the numero uno in India at a distance, the only telecommunications company, Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd.
The main causes of the supply of these products whites IITs:-in the full autonomy of the nearby (though the institution was prepared by the Government by a specific act of the Indian Parliament), and a fanatical focus on quality . In a country with a poor record of the primary school, an inefficient and corrupt system of higher education and universities, accustomed to their policy of preventive master, these IITs are training centres of unequalled quality.
The quality of students is determined by the quality of the faculties. The first task to education requires ITI highest calibre. Cirrus Logic’s Patil was quoted as follows: “When I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for my MS, my first thought was that IIT professors were really better than most MIT.”
Auspices of the Government has also contributed to the situation. ITI was the idea of India, the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, and to continue to draw a lot of resources from the State. Thus, while the Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute, a remarkable Engineering College in Mumbai, managing only Rs 90 million (1.88 million USD) per year, the annual budget of the IIT Bombay over 1.25 billion Case
The most important thing is that students IIT gives one of his best because he realizes plunged into a sea of intellectual property benefits. Back at school, he was the best, but there is now a greater challenge before him: he has emerged as the best among the best. He spent five years in a competitive environment, where the only things to be respected heads and talents. Students and faculty members do not differentiate between rich and poor, city and countryside cultivated people. The only things, the issue is the ability of expertise and quality management.
Whatever the reasons for the success of IIT, IITians was never so good. “The old boys network IIT goes a long way to go with me to my shop,” says Sunil Shrivastava, a manufacturer of linear, which made its Mechanical Engineering from IIT Delhi. My five years at the IIT Chennai m ‘has given them the confidence that I could in the world, “said Sunita Pritam, followed in the year 1985. Mohan Bijlani added that the IIT Bombay, he won by a mill “, and has helped as a form of this first generation of entrepreneurs.
Entry for the IITs is limited by the harsh fair and exams, the Centre Common Entrance Examinations (JEE). The examinations are very bitter disputes and no money or the chain of connections withdrawal help. Only 2% of the more than 200000 boys and girls who participate in the JEE receive each year.
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It costs Rs 10 lach, an engineering degree. Even when IITs facilitate a brain drain, that the countries are not likely to make some of the famous graduates to try their bit. Dipak Ghosh reports USUALLY, the path followed by an IIT graduate is as follows: a university abroad, on the completion of the course, you are looking for a lucrative offer, and that more searches up to a green card. But the unpalatable truth is that the costs Rs 10 lach for an IITian. It is a high price to pay in a developing country like India, especially in West Bengal today, in one of its worst financial crises. Accordingly, the Indian Institute of Technology, created with the idea that state-of-the-art technology-based engineering training, as well as values and ethics einschärfen in harmony with our national values — in other words, for professionals of concern for national needs - to promote a brain drain, that the country is not likely to provide. The millions of dollars of the issue is whether the former IITians - formed in large part on money from the public treasury of the state - still give something, to the outward and return journeys. Especially given the fact that foreign students in universities, mostly run by private organizations, often to pay a certain percentage of their salary to their Alma Mater. An institute as IIT, Kharagpur, for example, which has a number of famous companies and the masters of heavyweights in the industry - Purnendu Chatterjee (founder of Haldia Petrochemicals), Arjun Malhotra (Chairman and Chief Executive of the list Hardware Compatibility computers); RN Mukerjea (Senior Vice - Chairman of Larsen & Toubro); R Gopalkrishnan (Tata’s Executive President) - certainly deserves better than his own Alumni for success stories. After former director, GS Sanyal, enjoys a status icon in IITians school graduates who go abroad, the technical upgrading of the country’s ambassadors. A loan from the alma mater remains IIT Foundation, a non-profit organization in 5000 graduates, which is headquartered in the United States and Canada. The Foundation has a full business school named Vinod Gupta, given US $ 2 million to set it up. The idea is to dazzle and technology, management, ie enable managers to understand and appreciate both critical technology and management issues of their implications. Arjun Malhotra Kiran and his wife have contributed to the state-of-the-art GS Sanyal School of Telecommunication. The advanced VLSI lab on campus is primarily funded by the Foundation is the maintenance of hardware and software, the salaries of teachers and staff, as well as the visit of the faculty, teaching short sessions a year. A visionary idea of Silicon Valley Subhash Patil, the Golden Jubilee, the network of PCs with Internet and Intra-net for all students of the Auberge 3500, in his room, for the world. The Foundation also announced a grant of Rs 5000 for students in need, even more meritorious character whose name in the Top 100 of the commune of the review of salaries list. But in comparison with the 320,000 men Alumni IIT Kharagpur, now, as Arjun Malhotra, Vinod Gupta, and Subhash Patil are rare. “In IITs, the government has made substantial investments to obtain maximum and a minimum return,” says a member of the Faculty. “The government must take stricter measures for the brain drain.” But Professor GS Sanyal is not ready to accept that the former IITians convenient employment settle abroad, and there is not something to the whole country. “They are the companies that earn foreign exchange and, more importantly, they share the technical know-how with the IITs, in pursuit of a low-cost solution to the basic problems to do with the food, shelter, potable water, health and education. “However, as many of the former IITians really do?
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