Synovate has made senior hires for its Delhi and Mumbai offices. Jaisy Desai will head up qualitative research for the Western Indian market, and Meeta Luthra, Deepak Dasila and Sumit Arora join at AD and Senior Project Director levels.

Desai has over 15 years of experience and joins from qual boutique Ormax. She worked earlier for TNS, IMRB and ACNielsen ORG MARG on projects including ad testing, usage and attitude studies, concept and product testing, customer need analysis and trend analysis. She holds an MBA from Jamnalal Bajaj Management Institute, Mumbai.

Luthra joins Synovate Loyalty as Associate Director, from IMRB International where she spent much of her career in the customer satisfaction division. She worked earlier at Godrej and Boyce Manufacturing Co.

Deepak Dasila joins the Mumbai office and Sumit Arora the Delhi office, both as Senior Project Directors. Dasila also joins from IMRB International, and was previously General Manager-Client Services with the International Institute of Research, Sydney. He holds an MBA from Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar Institute, Aurangabad. Arora leaves JD Power & Associates, Singapore and will work primarily in Synovate Motoresearch. His MBA in Marketing comes from IISW & BM, Calcutta University.

The mane and beard are missing, eyes burning a rebel. All the same, “Che” It is the CPM.

Unlike the guerrilla guru of the jungle of Latin America, Chepuri Sri Krishna is the cream of society World. And he has no lessons to teach the CPM, but only to learn.

Students from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, has travelled to New Delhi to its two-month summer internship with India’s largest communist party.

“I am always fascinated by left-wing intellectuals. I am here to understand the issues and the pursuit of law and order, “he said.

“I hope I have to be able to add value to the party. I’ve read, Amartya Sen’s work and famine have always wanted something in return. ”

The idea came when he belonged Chepuri Sitaram Yechury courses on a campus.

“I do not personally agree with everything he said. But I wanted to know more about how the CPM - once Ausgestoßener a background for the liberalisation of men - is intermittent in important policy areas. ”

About a half-dozen other students were then told Yechury it wants their internship with the AK Gopalan Bhavan - CPM national headquarters - and promised their curriculum vitae.

But only Che landed yesterday in New Delhi.

It is party leader Prakash Karat, today began his research at 12 Windsor Place, the parliamentary office of the CPM.

For the next eight weeks, the young man is to live in a room of an apartment in Vithalbhai Patel house where the CPM has its Delhi office of the state and party, where many deputies.

The apartment has no television, but does not Chepuri. “Ahmedabad, I too have seen little TV.”

The IIT Bombay graduate of aeronautics and space in his Master’s in the Ohio State University, before pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson to the USA. Last year, he joined IIM Ahmedabad.

It is a typical problem of identity crisis for the city students of Rai University. Over 200 students who had taken admission at the Kolklata centre of Rai University are in a dilemma now. Two months back students under various courses like BBA, MBA, Mass Communication, Bioetechnology had taken admission in Rai University’s Kolkata centre which is known as Eastern Institute of Integrated Learning and Management (EIILM).

A fortnight ago, the students of Kolkata were told that the Rai University had withdrawn affiliation from their centre and if they want to study with Rai university they have to shift to the outstation campus of the university.

Students preferring anonymity said that they had paid hefty sum for admission to the university and the money receipt that was given to them was in the name of the Rai University and suddenly they are hearing that that EIILM is no more associated with Rai University. A post graduate student of mass communication said that he had paid about Rs 42,000 during the first semester and now the university has changed. “So you can well understand that our future is at stake,” he said under conditions of anonimity.

Many of the students who had taken admission for the three year course mentioned that they had taken admission only for Rai University and now they feel duped. Even the students complain that the lab facilities are not upto the standard.

Another student said that Rai University had offered them scholarships after their performance in the admission test and now they fear that once the university withdraws its operation from the city, the scholarships will also stop. Moreover, the students have complained that the teaching standard is poor and most of the teachers are visiting faculty. Even the students allege that some undergraduate degree holders were teaching at the post graduate level!

However, when CT contacted the Delhi office of Rai University the officials refused to make any comment on the issue and suggested that CT contacts EIILM. However, Arijit Majumdar, associate dean of EIILM, said that there is no confusion regarding the affiliation. “Rai University and EIILM are under the same umbrella of Rai Foundation.

Rai University first got the university status on May 30, 2003, while EIILM got university status on September 4. As a rule two universities cannot operate from the same place. So Rai University decided to close down operations in Kolkata. The students can opt to continue their courses with EIILM from Kolkata or they can move to other centres of Rai University.”

Majumdar mentioned that from curriculum to course fees and scholarships everything has remained unchanged in Kolkata and most students are not opting out of the Kolkata centre. He also rubbished the allegation of poor infrastructure, as he maintained that labs were most modern and had the latest gadgets.