High scoring ‘reserved students’ to be considered in ‘merit list’ – panel

A special committee set up by the University Grants Commission (UGC), India’s top higher education body, has faulted the agency for excluding high-scoring candidates from the ‘merit’ or ‘general’ list just because they belonged to a ‘reserved category’. In other words, if a ‘reserved category’ candidate qualifies in merit list, he or she cannot be […]

FDI in India at $5.4 billion in Q1

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), or investment by foreign companies to start or expand their operations in India, remained lackuster in the first quarter of the current financial year, according to data from the trade ministry. A total of $5.4 billion was received by India during the June quarter, compared to $22.4 billion during the whole […]

SanDisk taps Freescale country head to lead its India design team

SanDisk has tapped Freescale Semiconductor’s India head Ganesh Guruswamy to head its Bangalore-based India Design Center. Guruswamy, who has been appointed Vice President, will be in charge of leading the memory device maker’s Bangalore-based engineering teams to devleop what it called its next-generation consumer storage solutions, including USB flash drives, memory cards, microSD cards, and […]