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 statue of Sarvodaya guide Jai Prakash Narayan, are installed on the ground adjacent to the Ferozshah Kotla Stadium, following an agreement between the extrajudicial Delhi District Cricket Association and the Centre. The Delhi High Court today gave its approval to the settlement between the two parties.

SK Kaul Justice has approved the extra conciliation between the government and the DDCA higher after the lawyer Arun Jaitley, appeared for the DDCA, argued that the problem was resolved by mutual agreement by both parties.

According to mutual understanding between the two parties, a garage would be developed on the ground beside Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, before the stadium and JP’s statue would be installed above ground, Mr Jaitely, appeared for the DDCA, said the court.

The DDCA in a petition had to reserve the field for parking during the Cricket games, while the Government had a proposal to develop it into a park and install the statue of Jai Prakash Narayan.

ICFAI Business School, Bangalore is implementing a two-day national seminar on the theme “Redefining retailing: The Indian avatar, 13 and 14 September here.

The seminar is organized various issues related matters of detail, the themes and consumers to keep the understanding of behaviour, develop retail formats, budgeting and planning for retail trade, Supply Chain Management, franchising and retail promotions.

KSA-presenter Techopak, Jardine Matheson Group India and AC Nielson ORG Marg, among others, is more closely on various topics related to different segments of retailing.

Some universities and institutes have started courses in disaster management. IGNOU was the first to offer a six-month certificate course in disaster management for plus two students. The programme is offered through distance mode and provides students with information on disasters - the causes and effects; factors, significance, disaster preparedness; prevention; mitigation; relief; reconstruction and rehabilitation. In addition, IGNOU also offers a comprehensive programme on community awareness in disaster preparedness.

The PRT Institute of Post Graduate Environmental Education and Research, Maidangarhi Marg, New Delhi, in association with Barkatullah Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal, offers a two-year Master’s in Disaster Control to graduates or working professionals through distance learning. The institute is engaged in training, research and consultancy in the areas of disaster management, risk analysis, sustainable development, environmental impact assessment, pollution control and monitoring with the idea of optimal development of a global sustainable society. The institute, in association with the Sikkim Manipal University of Health, Medical and Technological Sciences, Gangtok, also offers a Master’s in Disaster Mitigation for graduates in any discipline. Disaster mitigation includes activities that prevent a disaster and reduce the chance of a calamitous event, or lessen their damaging effects.

Mahatma Gandhi was the inspiration behind the recent Bollywood Mega-Hit “Raho Sandra”und situation is today, the film which is a form of virtual revolution inspiration.” Gandhigiri “is the latest mantra of the magic of inspiration unusual protests and discussions with a difference.

While students and doctors residing in the country, the main medical facility, the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), followed unique, and not the “Gandhigiri” mode of protest Wednesday, when President ‘ Institute and the European Union health ministers Anbumani Ramadoss has come to review the situation dengue, the film is also a source of inspiration for several discussions in the city.

Hoping to give in the future, something managers to think and learn, the Birla Institute of Technology Management organizes a debate in New Delhi on “Gandhigiri: Lessons for Business Management”. Need not be say that the debate is inspired by the film.

Thus, the Indian National Science Academy to Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg Saturday, the discussion is too wait to see the participation of several actors, including gandhianischen Tushar Gandhi.

They shed light on various questions such as “How do gandhianischen thoughts are valid in the real world of economics and administration”, “Why is it important in the daily lives absorb Gandhigiri worklife?”, “How Indian companies quotes on the principles of truth and transparency? “,” What can the school management adopt in their curricula Gandhigiri? “And” Are honesty, ethics and spirituality is part of the B-school? “Obviously, it is time to look back and think about the influence ideas, that India is a grand manner in the past. — Bindu Shajan Perappadan