AIEEE 2009 Online Counselling

The much awaited online counselling (the first of its kind) will start from tomorrow i.e. Monday, June 8, 2009 in India. This is happening for the first time and is applicable across all the Engineering Colleges in India.

Click here for the AIEEE 2009 results. You will need your roll number for this.

Click here for the Online registration, Choice Filling and Locking.

Click here for the Important Dates and corresponding events.

Click here for the Participating Institutions and their fees structures.

Click here for the AIEEE 2008 "Opening and Closing Rank by Institutes" for Engineering

Click here for the AIEEE 2008 "Opening and Closing Rank by Institutes" for Architecture

Recessions pangs - 6000 Small BPOs may have been shutdown in India

All of us are hit in some or the other way due to the ongoing economic slowdown and the outsourcing industry is no exception to that fact.

It is feared that due to this slowdown, around 6000 small and medium sized BPOs (50-100 seater range) have either already shut down their business or they are on the verge of shutting it down. There are in fact very small number of these BPOs, which are trying to sustain through these difficult times. Most of these BPOs had their hands full in 2008 and they were able to choose which project to work and which one to reject (profit margins being the strongest driver of such decisions).

Come 2009, most of these BPOs haven't been able to sign up any new customers nor have they received any new orders from their existing customers. So these BPOs, in a bid for survival, are looking internally within India - domestic market - to search for work and they are literally willing to do any work at any cost.

On a side note, Phillipines is emerging as a strong competition to the Indian BPO industry. Phillipines iffers comparatively cheaper labour, better infrastructure, lesser red-tapeism. She also has a good number of English speaking people. The big names of Indian BPO industry like Genpact, Aegis BPO and others already have foot-prints in Phillipines and they have ambitious plans to grow in that market. It is said that the Phillipines market is growing at double the rate that of India's Outsourcing Market growth.

Jaipur Gems Jadau Festival in Mumbai

The leading name in the Gemstone jewellery manufacturing, Jaipur Gems, has scheduled an exhibition to promote the "Jadau jewellery." The event is aptly called as ‘Jadau Festival’ and is slated between August 2 to August 9, 2009 in Mumbai. Jaipur Gems also holds the Jadau Festival in Chennai and Coimbatore as well.

The company has lined up a display area for exquisite Jadau jewellery manufactured in-house, as well as the Jadau jewellery which features as its family heirloom. The exhibition will be held at the Jaipur Gems showroom located at Hughes Road, Mumbai. It will be an occasion to promote the classic jewellery styles of Rajasthan against the modern backdrop of Mumbai lifestyle.

Jaipur Gems has 1 showroom each in Mumbai, Coimbatore and Chennai.

The Mumbai office is at - 2, Dharam Palace, Hughes Road, Mumbai 400 007. You can reach them on +91 22 2363 1888 / +91 22 2363 6378

The Chennai office is at - 50, Cathedral Road, Chennai - 600 086. You can reach them on +91 44 2811 7145 / +91 44 2811 0104

The Coimbatore office is at - 729, Avinashi Road, Coimbatore - 641 018. You can reach them on +91 422 439 3964.