My brother Navin has selected the orthopedics course at Manipal.. here he comes tulu land :)

Manipal is just 5 kms away from Upudi .. and around 70 kms away from Mangalore

I think my brother has a shaven head from his recent visit to Tirupathi .. Looks like finally Lord Venkateswara showered blessings on him :)

My brother Navin has selected the orthopedics course at Manipal.. here he comes tulu land :)

Manipal is just 5 kms away from Upudi .. and around 70 kms away from Mangalore

I think my brother has a shaven head from his recent visit to Tirupathi .. Looks like finally Lord Venkateswara showered blessings on him :)

My brother Navin has selected the orthopedics course at Manipal.. here he comes tulu land :)

Manipal is just 5 kms away from Upudi .. and around 70 kms away from Mangalore

I think my brother has a shaven head from his recent visit to Tirupathi .. Looks like finally Lord Venkateswara showered blessings on him :)

Creating new thread

Prabhu,

I just realized that Prashu and Shailesh could start their own threads .. Hey guys can u post the details.

Nitin

update on PGET consuelling

PGET counselling only after all-India quota seats are taken
http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/apr182006/state1844392006417.asp

PGET counselling only after all-India quota seats are taken
http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/apr182006/state1838382006417.asp

renukasugars

http://www.renukasugars.com/
Recently one of my uncle's who invested 5000 rupees in this company in stock is currently valued at 5 lakh. Wow .. look at the ROI

Anyways this is based in Belgaum... in camp belgaum

I vagualey remember Shanti, me and Vikram used to observe a girl in their house who had an hair-style as julia roberts :)

Attended the Phoenix java user group yesterday.. I attend it on and off.. Google was the sponsor yesterday. They have set up a development shop in Tempe.
Won an "Blogger" t-shirt in the raffle. Can u believe. :). Smita (her first meeting) also had a raffle ticket .. so I am not sure if she won or I won.. WE won :)

We spoke about the Google Maps API .. Mashups .. some very interesting applications
checkout www.weatherbonk.com for kicks

These numbers may not be exact..

In US, less than 10% of population is involved in producing agriculture.. but it produces like 30-50% of world's agricultural out-put..

Typically lands are owned by corporations and farmers. Farmers own huge cultivable land .. says 500 hectares .. and use heavy equipment to cultivate their land.

I recently read in which Business Week about the rapid growth of India. One very interesting tit-bit .. 14 varities of grapes were imported from France to create vineyards near bangalore...

interesting right ..

Definately there is growing demand for wine's in India, but the growth of Indian produced wines is very interesting

Questions to think.
1) Does this mean grape cultivation is poised for a rapid growth?
2) Does this mean great news for Bijapur district farmers and land-owners?
3) Does this mean there is investing opportunity, where we can buy lands in grape districts?

State of prospective's Post-Graduate Medical Students in Karnataka
Well Navin has given bunch of exams, and his ranks has not been great for the effort he has put. But there are other interesting things going on in the medical higher education industry currently.
I will touch of 3 exams
1) All India Post graduate Medical Entrance Exam (AI-PG)
2) Entrance exam created by COMEDK (COM-PG)
3) Entrance exam by Rajiv Gandhi University .. Karnataka Medical colleges (RG-PG)

Now the AI-PG is under the hands of Indian Courts to decide whether a re-exam should be conducted. Reason: the CBI has decided the the paper was leaked and some students were involved in it. The court says it's expensive to conduct a re-exam (makes sense), and has asked to show further evidence.
Problem: Students are not sure whether there will be re-exams, and should they take admission if they get seats through other exams..
Remember this exam is conducted on behalf of various prestigious colleges in India.

COM-PG and RU-PG .. both have conducted exams for the same seats and same colleges .. funny right. Now both are fighting over the validity of the exams in the courts. Either one says that the other does not conduct exams in a free and fair manner. Now the courts are again going to announce which one is valid. btw ... There was an inquiry conducted on the RG-PG exams and mal-practice was found, but the court decide not to conduct re-exam but take some kind of action against the students invloved. (Makes sense) .. but what gaurantuee is there that more students were not involved

Counseling :
My brother Navin has got a rank of 700 in Comedk .. 1600 in RU-PG ..
Ideally the AI-PG Counseling is schedulled first.. then admissions to the Karnatake medical colleges (Govt) and then the private colleges.. Now with the dilema prevailing within students and parents they are left with no choice but to pick seats with whoever offers their seats first .. in this case the COMEDK has schedulled for April 13th ..
Lets look at a scenario where I will show how the private institutions can make good profits just by doing nothing
Student A .. has a rank of follwing
AI-PG ...10
COM-PG.... 40 (ComedK fees are avg 3 lakh/year for a 3 yr course.)
RG-PG.....30

Student A is not sure with all the mess that's going in the gov to take decisions.. and picks up a college in comedK .. Pays 3 Lakh fees..
5 days have passed AI-PG announces that the rank list is valid and calls for counselling .. Now Student A says "man I can really get in my dream college with a subject of my choice" .. so now he has 2 options
a) forget about his dream
b) pay 9 lakhs (3 lakhs per year) to the ComedK college and apply for this dream college

Student A and his parents decide option b) .. not that they have spare money .. but just that it's all about fulfulling dreams.
Now the comedk college says .. wow .. we are getting 9 lakhs and this seat is again available in the open market .. and some student B will pay 30 lakh donation in get in .. so the college make a profit of what 9 lakhs + additional money by opening up to the market..

So some interesting points to ponder
1) Who makes money here?
2) Who loses trust in the system?
3) What can we/people do prevent this from happening in the future?
4) How can be make this process better?
5) How can we hold exams/tests/assessments in a leak-proof (for lack of a better term) manner?

We probably know some answers ..but more answers/actions are required

Hey Guys,
How are the things with every one. No news from most of you. My experience of Dad's day out is coming to end. Veena had gone to US, leaving me & our 8 months baby. It has been a month now, and I am managing the show both at office & home. It is kind of amazing experiences, as my son made me to run all over the world. At last his mom is back on Monday. And I would be relaxed dad.
Sorry shantya, I could not your call on other day, as I holding my son and running around so that he eats his mum.

Bye
Prashant

I have been following President Bush's trip to India and the historic deal to provide civilian nuclear fuel to India. I am very very happy with this development, and hope this deal passes the US Congress and Indian Parliament.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,18338582%255E25377,00.html