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(typing tests)(albert einstein quotes)(green card and US citizenship)(computer keyboard shortcuts)Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) - Ranked #3 in the world after MIT and University of California (Berkley) because - (IIT anti-Reservation letter to President of India...)
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=>Best students are chosen from the whole country that compete with each other to produce the finest professionals (only 4,774 seats in 7 IITs in the year 2005) .
=>IIT is the hottest selling brand name in the global IT market .
=>Wholesome education is mandatory in the IIT curriculum .
=>IITs are 100% autonomous that sustains excellence by providing complete freedom to their Professors in these renowned educational institutions .
=>IIT students receive the best education from teachers who respect what they teach .
=>Humility and patience become the hallmark of an IIT student as he is constantly surrounded by students who are equal or better than him/her in academic intelligence .
=>IIT dorms are like miniature high-tech companies which prevents straitjacketing and encourages mutual brainstorming .
=>IIT inculcates a strong feeling of hope to deliver excellence and compete with anyone in any part of the world .
=>IIT alumni are the creme de la creme that produce the most millionaires per capita than any other university .
=>IIT lab SINE (Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship)is a business IT center where ideas from IIT Bombay students, professors, and alumni can be developed and commercialized .
=>In National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), all the seven IITs of the country along with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) of Bangalore have joined hands to offer their courses online including free access to study materials of about 120-odd courses under various streams offered by them (no certification or diploma will be awarded from the institutes) .
=>Srikant Datar likely to be the next Dean of Harvard Business School (HBS) . This was reported by Harvard Crimson (Harvard University's in-house newspaper) . Srikant Datar is currently the Senior Associate Dean and the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Accounting at Harvard Business School .
Best Management Books -
=>First Break All the Rules : What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently (by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman)
=>Good to Great (by Jim Collins)
=>One Minute Manager (by Kenneth Blanchard)
=>Advice by current IIM students and IIM alumni to pass the CAT (Common Admission Test) for entry into IIM (Indian Institute of Management) - IIMCATWALK.COM
=>Cut-off lists for admission in various Delhi University courses can be accessed here - Delhi University Admission Guide
=>Gujrat University marksheet is now becoming high-tech by implanting a chip in it that will have last 3 years student's educational information (can be used by foreign unversities to verify students' credentials for their admission process). It will be seen only in ultra violet light and with a secret code inside it. Each year, the University will be providing a different color certificate for the passing students. This is being done to eliminate fake certficates and degrees for admissions in International schools
=>Estimates of Annual Starting Salaries for Fresh MBAs (Master of Business Administration) in 6 major industrial sectors of Indian Economy -
=>Automobiles - Rs. 5.5 lakhs
=>IT and related services - Rs. 6.8 lakhs
=>Fast-moving consumer goods - Rs. 6.5 lakhs
=>Telecom - Rs. 7.5 lakhs
=>Pharmaceuticals - Rs. 6.4 lakhs
=>Banking and finance - Rs. 6.8 lakhs
=>Due to high rupee appreciation against the US dollar, the gap in average annual salaries of software professionals in the United States and India is reducing...
| IT Profession | US | India |
| EXECUTIVE level | Increase from $205,047 in 2006 to $213,336 in 2007 | Increase from $65,356 to $103,167 in 2008 |
| Middle-Manager level | Decrease from $104,681 in 2006 to $103,379 in 2007 | Increase from $32,733 in 2006 to $44,250 in 2007 and to $53,566 in 2008 |
| Staff level | Decrease from $92,201 in 2006 to $91,965 in 2007 | Increase from $13,156 in 2006 and $16,800 in 2007 to $20,337 in 2008 |
=>Average cost of a four-year private college in United States is $30,367 (average tuition at a four-year public college and university is $5,836 for the 2006-07 school year, average tuition at a four-year private college is $22,218)
=>Bangalore is the silicon plateau of India like San Fransisco is the silicon valley of USA
=>TCS (Tata Consultancy Services), Infosys, Wipro, Satyam Computer and HCL Technologies are the fab-five club of Indian IT space
=>Infosys Technologies has earned more than $1 billion revenue in the first 6 months of fiscal year 2005. This means a 36% growth in net profit of the 3rd best IT services company (develops applications, designs supply chains and offers back-office services) and one of the 100 most respected companies of the world. It reported a 67 per cent rise in its quarterly profit with a net profit of Rs 1124 crore ($263 million) in the three months ending March 2007 (total income of the company increased by 43.38% to Rs 3,675 crore for the fourth quarter ending March 31) due to higher outsourcing by foreign clients (due to low-cost labour)
=>WIPRO (IT major) reported a rise in second quarter net profit by 16% to Rs 478 crore in 2005 . Its first half year revenues were more than $1 billion with services such as testing and technology infrastructure management contributing a major portion of it . July-September quarter revenues increased by 27% YOY to Rs 2,507 crore
=>Satyam Computers services limited reported in the 2nd Quarter (on 30 September 2005) a net profit of Rs 250.72 crores, with the total earnings of Rs 1148.39 crore .
=>Google profits jumped seven fold from last year to $381.2 million . Google revenues increased by 96% to $1.578 billion from previous year, with sales of $1.05 billion . Google is one of the biggest advertising vehicles in the world that will sell $6.1 billion in ads this year . By next year this advertising revenue is expected to be $9.5 billion which is more than that generated by any newspaper chain, magazine publisher or television network . Google advertises through little ads (12 word snippets of text which are linked to topics that matches user interests) on its search engine (google.com), email (gmail.com) and any participating website publisher (like ebay.com)
=>US senate is debating seriously to add 60,000 H-1B visas to the annual quota of 65,000 that will give another chance to the Indian IT professionals to emigrate to the USA
=>Nine Indian outsourcing firms, led by Infosys and Wipro, use 19,512 of the H-1B visas, or 30% of the 65,000 visas allocated each year. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) employs 8,000 foreign nationals working in the U.S. on H-1B visas and Infosys has 7,100 in 2007. Among the top Indian outsourcing firms, these were the amount of H1B visas used: Infosys Technolgies - 4908, Wipro - 4002, Tata Consultancy Services - 3046, Satyam Computer Services - 2880, Patni Computer Systems - 1391, Larsen & Toubro Infotech - 947, i-flex solutions - 817, Tech Mahindra Americas - 770, MphasiS - 751 .
=>US Senate votes in favour of raising the cap on H1B visas to 95000 and on employment based immigration visas (green cards) to 240,000 per year .
=>US Non-immigrant visas for Indians will be cleared in six days .
=>US will put a stop on accepting H1B visas application for one year (for 2008). US Immigration Services (USCIS) received 1,50,000 applications for 65,000 H1B visas within the first few hours of opening petitions (for 2007). Since the number of applications received was already more than double the limit, the Immigration Service Office decided to use computers to randomly pick visa recipients from the applications received. It was the first time that a lottery system was used to pick H1B candidates .
=>271000 applications for obtaining visa numbers to file for I-485 (AOS - Adjustment of Status to Green Card), 350000 applications for labour certification and more than half a million primary applications are pending approval from USCIS for immigration to United States.
=>Legal Permanent Residents in United States in -
2003 - 705,827
2004 - 957,883
2005 - 1,122,373
=>Migrant workers in the United States send $300 (€239) a month to their native countries. Latin American migrants earn $900 (€716) a month, six times what they were getting at home. Three of every four of them send money home. $45 billion (€36 billion) was sent home annually by 12.6 million immigrants from Latin America
=>1 of every 20 workers in the US is illegal and doesn't possess the legal authorization to work
=>World's top 10 countries which will have the highest 'real' wage increases in 2007:
1. India
2. Indonesia
3. China
4. Philippines
5. Thailand
6. Slovakia
7. South Korea
8. Malaysia
9. Egypt
10. Russia
=>In American companies, you are monitored for the first 30 days (or 3 months) after getting a job. If you don't perform well enough to meet the expectations for which you were hired, you are fired immediately without any notice
=>UK will issue 4 lakh multiple entry visas to Indians this year (news by British High Commissioner to India - Michael Arthur) . India got more visas (3 lakh already) from UK than any other country in the world
=>Rolls Royce won a $600-million contract to supply V2500 engines for its 100 A320 aircraft fleet from low-cost airline IndiGo
=>Anil Ambani (Chairman of Reliance India Limited) may begin a joint venture with Sony Corporation (CEO Sir Howard Stringer) in the media and entertainment space to produce Bollywood movies in India including joint distribution of feature films
=>Anil Agarwal Foundation gifted $1 billion to establish Vedanta University in India
=>Billionaire John Werner Kluge (media entrepreneur) will give $400 million to Columbia University for financial aid to students, one of the largest gifts ever to an American university. He was the wealthiest man in America in 1989-91 and was listed as the 25th richest American with an estimated net worth of $9.1 billion
=>ESO is Educational Services Outsourcing in which thousands of teachers/educators in India and Pakistan will set up their own Internet businesses (online tutorial websites like MathGuru.com) to teach students from US, UK, Canada, Netherlands, Europe and the Middle East (called e-learning or interactive online tuitions where accreditation with the American Education Council is compulsory).