Christian Ignorance
The grown up child shows a little bit of childish character in their behaviour. It takes some times for the adolescents to shake away the infantile character. The parents disdain the baby character in striplings because it will affect the development of the child.
Similarly, the spiritual child tends to follow the former ways which he resolved not to do when he accepted Christ. The former ways crab the growth and freedom in Christ. One of the students described like this after referring to the verse John 8:32. “The Christians have a lot of freedom when compared to other faiths.” The statement is almost true. Nevertheless many are not able to enjoy it due to their desire to follow the ancestor’s tradition, rituals and customs.
Recently the Hollywood Superstar Amitaabh Bacchan forced her daughter in law to marry a Peepal tree at Benaras and a banana tree at Bangalore to overcome astrologically (mars bearing Manglik as per the horoscope for removing dhosham) differences with her fiancee Abhishek bachan.
It penetrates even into Christian believer’s life by keeping the dates, seasons, celebrating different type of functions like installing Main door frame in the constructed building, full term pregnancy celebration, teenage girl attaining puberty, installing green bamboo in front of house to commence the wedding ceremony etc. in the name of prayer and thanks giving meeting. Not only that, we use the same type of stuff like banana, cocounut, candle, 14 types of rice, fruits etc. without knowing the symbolic behind this.
The custom has filtered into Christian faith so that the world is not able to identify true Christians.
Paul rebuked the Galatians in Gal 4:8-10, formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods. 9 But now that you know God-or rather are known by God-how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again? 10 You are observing special days and months and seasons and years! By observing the dates and times, we are showing the ignorance…no no.. denying…………..
A. God’s Creation:
God created the beautiful world for man to enjoy it. God Himself acknowledged His creation each day by saying Good (Gen.1:4,10,12,18,21,25_. In the sixth day, He saw the whole creation and said very good (Gen.1:31). The word good means moral excellence and superior to the average. God created everything well so there is no need for us to consider one day inferior to another day. If we give importance to the days and times then we are disbelieving God’s creation. All the days and season are equal in God’s sight. In Matt 12:8 Jesus said,” For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
B God’s Salvation:
Aiswarya Rai married an idol to pass on her mars bearing manglik dosham(curse) so that the dosham should not pass on to her finance and their family.. This type of rituals is illegal moreover it carries punishment of untouchabilities. As a Christian, we believe Jesus Christ has remove away our dosham in the cross once for all. There is no need to do any rituals or customs to get rid of dosham in our day to day life. If we do it we are crucifying Jesus Christ to the cross once again.
C. God’s coming:
The return of the Lord will take place in any time, any season. God never expresses an auspicious day of His coming. He will come like a thief. It means some countries has night other countries it may be a day.
As a glocal member, try to think globally before give in to any rituals or seeing the date and time. The time is not uniform to all. It will differ from place to place. So it is better to treat each and every day as God’s gift and grace.
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PM outlining ‘24/7 surgery’ plans
The government says waiting times are at their lowest ever
“Round-the-clock” surgery could be introduced in England to help cut NHS waiting times to a maximum of 18 weeks, Tony Blair is to say.
He will suggest the idea of keeping operating theatres open “out of hours” during a visit to a London hospital. The government wants the 18-week limit between GP referral and treatment to be met by the end of 2008 – 13 trusts are committing to hit it a year early.
The Tories said the target would distort priorities in the NHS.
‘National campaign’
Next month a nationwide campaign will aim “to focus the activities of all NHS staff” on cutting waiting times. Hospital bosses will also be encouraged to send more patients abroad and make greater use of the private sector. Mr Blair hopes that with an extra push the average wait from referral by GP to treatment could be cut to seven or eight weeks.
The reality is that in many parts of the country PCTs deep in deficit are slowing down patient referrals to hospital -Liberal Democrat Norman Lamb
But he will also urge patients to play their part by making sure they keep their appointments. Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt, who will accompany Mr Blair on Monday’s visit, said: “This is about the NHS helping change people’s lives by improving care and cutting unnecessary delays. “This will lead to a much better experience for patients.” Health minister Andy Burnham said: “The necessary improvements will be achieved by NHS staff, clinicians and managers working together locally to understand how they can reduce unnecessary delays, rather than being told what to do and how to do it from Whitehall.”
He told BBC Five Live that offering staff the option of working longer days was a “fantastic vision” that would end hospital waiting “as we have known it” by 2008.
Some hospitals are already keeping their operating theatres open longer.
In Yeovil District Hospital , in Somerset , staff work late four nights a week, keeping theatres and clinics running.
‘Efficient care’
A Downing Street spokesman said: “Hitting the 18-week target will see an end of waiting for treatment as we traditionally know it. “It will mean an end to worrying about unfixed appointments, an end to concerns about falling off waiting lists and delivering the sort of efficient care that people assumed in the past could only be provided to the privileged or lucky.” Liberal Democrat Norman Lamb said in some areas it was primary care trusts (PCTs) not hospitals that needed attention. “It makes sense to maximize the use of theatre space to treat patients as quickly as possible,” he said. “But the reality is that in many parts of the country PCTs deep in deficit are slowing down patient referrals to hospital, extending waiting times rather than reducing them.” But Mr Burnham said this was not the “true picture”. The vast majority of NHS trusts were “improving and bringing down waiting lists”, he said. The Conservatives said the waiting-time target would distort priorities in the health service and divert resources from where they are most needed.
Filmmaker shows Jesus, Mary ‘coffins’
[ 28 Feb, 2007 0258hrs IST REUTERS ]
NEW YORK: “Titanic” director James Cameron presented on Monday what he said was evidence the tomb of Jesus had been uncovered, but some scholars dismissed it as a publicity stunt.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker and a team of scholars showed two stone ossuaries, or bone boxes, that he said might have once contained the bones of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. The findings are the subject of a documentary he produced called The Lost Tomb of Jesus and a book The Jesus Family Tomb.
The two small caskets were part of 10 found in 1980 during construction in South Jerusalem . Several had inscriptions translated as Jesus, Mary Magdalene and “Judah, son of Jesus,” Cameron told a news conference at the New York Public Library surrounded by scholars and archeologists. “This is the beginnings of an ongoing investigation,” Cameron said. “If things come to light that erode this investigation, then so be it.”
The filmmakers said that statistically there was a 1 in 600 chance that the names found on the inscriptions were not the family of Jesus. They also argued that the name “Mariamene e Mara,” the only inscription written in Greek, translated to Magdalene’s real name.
If this was the tomb of Jesus, the revelations are likely to raise the ire of Christians because the discovery would challenge the belief that Jesus was resurrected and ascended to heaven.
The documentary comes on the heels of the huge success of the novel The Da Vinci Code, which contends that Mary Magdalene had a child with Jesus. But Dr Shimon Gibson, one of the archeologists who discovered the tomb, told Reuters he had a “healthy skepticism” the tomb may have belonged to the family of Jesus.
In Jerusalem , the Israeli archeologist who also carried out excavations at the tomb on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, disputed the documentary’s conclusions.
The archeologist, Amos Kloner, said the 2,000-year-old cave contained coffins belonging to a Jewish family whose names were similar to those of Jesus and his relatives.
“I can say positively that I don’t accept the identification (as) … belonging to the family of Jesus in Jerusalem ,” Kloner said. “I don’t accept that the family of Miriam and Yosef (Mary and Joseph), the parents of Jesus, had a family tomb in Jerusalem .”
“They were a very poor family. They resided in Nazareth, they came to Bethlehem in order to have the birth done there — so I don’t accept it, not historically, not archeologically,” said Kloner, a professor in the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archeology at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv.
After they were discovered, the bones were reburied according to Orthodox tradition, leaving just the boxes with inscriptions and human residue to be examined though DNA testing.
Professor L Michael White, of the University of Texas , said he also doubted the claims were true. “This is trying to sell documentaries.”
He survived without food, water for 75 years!
Pramod Panwar
[ 19 Feb, 2007 2115hrs IST TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
PALANPUR: He claims to have survived without food or water for 75 years. At 86 years, Prahlad Jani has become a case study for doctors, who wonder how could he have survived and kept fit.
Fondly called ‘Mataji’ because he wears earrings and calls himself a devotee of Goddess Amba, doctors who carried out tests on him say his body seemed fitter than other people of his age. A panel of 21 doctors from different faculties examined Jani in Ahmedabad four years ago.
These included a cardiologist, neurologist, gastroenterologist, endocrinologist, diabetologist, nephrologist, ENT surgeon, a general physician, a psychiatrist, opthalmologist, a genetic counsellor and a radiologist.
“Nearly 100 doctors of the association had examined Jani, and placed surveillance cameras in his room,” says VN Shah of Sterling Hospital in Ahmedabad. “We had also deputed a team of doctors and security personnel to keep a watch on him round the clock.
He underwent all possible medical investigations from blood pressure to MRI of brain and gut which were normal,” says Dr Shah. Jani says he has not even passed urine or stool since he conquered hunger when he was 11 years old.
Denied entry to IIM, girl uses RTI
Shweta Ganesh
CNN-IBN
Bangalore: Vaishnavi never let visual impairment stand in her way when she prepared for the CAT 2006.
She cleared the test with a percentile of 89.29, outdoing thousands of other candidates. Her hopes soared by leaps and bounds when IIM-Bangalore declared a cut-off of 86.42 percentile for the disabled. Vaishnavi was sure she would make it to the next round. But the call never came. Shocked at her exclusion, Vaishnavi demanded a list of credentials of the blind candidates short-listed by the Institute. But when they denied declaring the cut-off marks and said such information is confidential, Vaishnavi’s family slapped a RTI notice on the institute. “We will not take this lying down. We will fight for justice,” says Vaishnavi’s father, R K Kasturi.
On the other hand, authorities from the institute say they will react only after meeting the candidate and her father on Saturday.Even if the meeting doesn’t go her way, Vaishnavi still has a chance with the RTI hearing coming up on Monday. She’s also getting support from other quarters. “Vaishnavi needs to write in to us and then we will take it on from there,” says Assistant Commissioner, Commissioner’s Office for Disabilities, Eshrath Afza Begum.But despite the initial hiccups, Vaishnavi still hopes to receive a call letter. “I still want to go there if they give me admission,” she says.
For any MBA aspirant, making it to an IIM is a ticket to success. But for Vaishnavi, it has not been an easy road.
Her hopes are now pinned on the Right to Information act.
Global warming raises risk of drought: NASA
[ 13 Feb, 2007 1035hrs IST IANS ]
WASHINGTON: Global warming may worsen droughts in water-strapped parts of the world and lead to more rainfall elsewhere, said NASA.
Researchers at the US space agency compared historical records on how changes in the sun’s output affected climate on earth with forecasts of how a warmer climate, driven by heat-trapping gases, will change rainfall patterns.
Rainfall could decrease further in areas such as the south-western US, Mexico , parts of North Africa, the Middle East and Australia , and it may increase across the western Pacific, along the equator and in Southeast Asia , the study said.
Much of the Mediterranean area, North Africa and the Middle East are rapidly becoming drier and “if the trend continues as expected, the consequences may be severe in only a couple of decades,” lead author Drew Shindell said in a summary of the study on Monday.
The original research was published in the Dec 27 issue of the American Geophysical Union journal. Shindell, a NASA climatologist, has publicly accused officials in President George W. Bush’s administration of trying to suppress global-warming findings by US government scientists.
After critics accused him for years of dragging his feet on the issue, Bush in January acknowledged climate change as a “serious challenge.” He proposed steps to slash US petrol consumption and the country’s dependence on imported oil, but has not endorsed mandatory caps on greenhouse-gas emissions.
` India can attract 25% of global engg process outsourcing’
Wednesday, 14 February , 2007, 10:50
New Delhi: As the International Engineering and Technology Fair kicked off on Tuesday, the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Kamal Nath, said that country had the potential to attract 25 per cent of the $ 70 billion global engineering process outsourcing industry.
Italian docs transplant HIV-hit organs
[ 21 Feb, 2007 2343hrs IST REUTERS ]
FLORENCE: Italian doctors mistakenly transplanted organs from an HIV-positive donor into three recipients, the head of a Florence hospital said on Tuesday.
Doctors at Careggi Hospital told reporters an infected woman’s liver and kidneys were transplanted after a laboratory biologist incorrectly wrote on her medical records that she had tested negative for HIV.
“This was a tragic human error,”said Careggi’s chief Edoardo Majno. “Fuelling an alarmist reaction after this case of human error,which luckily is extremely rare, could have negative consequences for many people who are on a waiting list for a transplant,”said Franco Filipponi, director of transplants for Florence ’s Tuscany region.
‘World is recognising India ’s presence’
Posted online: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 1040 hours IST
Updated: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 1045 hours IST
New Delhi, February 20: It’s the right time for the country and if youth movement develops in right folds, there’s no stopping India . Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar Shaw chats with Aprajita Anil. In 1978, only few had heard about biotechnology. But this never once deterred Kiran Mazumdar Shaw from going ahead with her dreams. From a little operation in her garage to establishing a world-class institution, the Biocon chief has successfully carved a place for herself and the country in the global arena. Yet “there is no time to relax. This is going to be a very exciting year for India Inc. There is a lot in store, positive signs and plenty of challenges,” said Shaw.
“ India is going to consolidate its position in the technical sector and would gain much more in terms of global presence.” Talking about the growing Asian market, Shaw said, “The world is now recognising the presence of India as well as China . Perhaps it would not be correct to put one on top of the other. Both countries are extremely important for the world. Both countries have thrown open a plethora of opportunities.”
She, however, was quick to add, “But to ensure the sustenance of this growth, it is important to focus on the country’s infrastructure and to penetrate deep into the rural land. It is this step that would bring the real success.”
Ranked among the 50 most powerful businesswomen, Shaw has immense faith in the youth power of the country and feels they need to rightly channelise their energy. “The tendency to take shortcuts is not good. The ‘get rich quickly’ attitude prevailing among the youths of today has to be immediately done away with. This approach is not sustainable.
“Job-hopping has become rampant. It may fetch you good money but it does not help you build experience or your personality.
“Youth movement is very positive and if developed with the right folds, a lot can be done.”
Empowered nation and national pride has always gone hand-in-hand for Shaw. “Pride to me is the most powerful ethos,” she had once said and once again she expressed the “need to build the nation pride”.
“We need to eradicate poverty and generate employment and all this can be easily achieved through education.
“We all need to put in a little for nation building – a nation we are proud of!”
45% of Indian girls married off before 18
Kounteya Sinha
[ 23 Feb, 2007 0114hrs IST TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
NEW DELHI: It’s a social ill that continues to shame India . Nearly 45% of women in the country, aged between 20 and 24, are married off before they reach 18, the legal age to marry. What’s worse, the number is over 50% in eight states.
While 61% of women in Jharkhand were married off before 18, the number stood at 60% in Bihar, 57% in Rajasthan, 55% in Andhra Pradesh, 53% each in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal and 52% in Chhattisgarh.
Lack of education was found to be a major factor fuelling this trend. Over 71% of women who got married below the age of 18 had received no education.
These are part of the findings of the latest National Family Health Survey-III, carried out in 29 states during 2005-06. The survey, conducted by 18 research organisations, including five population research centres, and designed to collect and provide vital information on population, family planning, maternal and child health, child survival, nutrition of children and status of women, also unmasks another worrying trend. Six states — Arunachal Pradesh, Punjab, Mizoram, Sikkim, Tripura and West Bengal — which reported a lower percentage of under-18 marriages among women during the NFHS-II survey conducted in 1998-99, show an upward trend in NFHS-III. Officials say more and more women in these six states are being married off at the age of 15.
The survey, which interviewed 1,24,395 women and reported a response rate of 94.5%, shows that this social malady exists mostly in rural India . While 52.5% of the cases of under-18 marriages were found to be in rural areas, the number stood at 28.1% in urban India .
Some states, however, have shown a low prevalence of this practice. States like Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur , Jammu and Kashmir , Kerala, Punjab, Delhi , Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand and Meghalaya reported 12%-25% prevalence
An IIT brain, selling illicit drugs online
Saibal Sen
[ 14 Feb, 2007 0040hrs IST TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
KOLKATA: It’s a criminal set-up only an IIT brain could have designed. A year-long operation that led to Sanjay Kedia’s arrest has revealed a web of companies dealing with online pharmacies for illegal trading of prescription drugs.
Kedia, an IIT-Delhi alumnus with a masters from North Carolina University , was held on Monday from the office of Xponse Technologies, the firm he founded in 2002, on the charge of trading in illicit medicines under various sections of the NDPS Act. If convicted, he could get up to 20 years in jail.
Operation ‘Pharma’ comprised officials from Narcotics Control Bureau, customs, central excise, banks and US Drug Enforcement Agency besides IT professionals.
The officials have been tracking three Salt Lake BPOs — Xponse Technologies, Xponse IT Services and Xponse Inc, which served as the syndicate’s nerve centre operating through 29 illegal online pharmacies — following reports that some pharmacies in US, Canada and Sweden were supplying medicines, regulated under the psychotropic drugs rules, in bulk to people in those countries, NCB officials said.
Asteroid could hit Earth in 2036, UN urged to act fast
[ 21 Feb, 2007 0336hrs IST REUTERS ]
SAN FRANCISCO: An asteroid may come uncomfortably close to Earth in 2036 and the United Nations should assume responsibility for a space mission to deflect it, a group of astronauts, engineers and scientists said.
The 20-million-tonne asteroid could be heading the way towards Kamchatkans and Venezuelans. Californians have even more reason to worry the asteroid is more likely to hit the Pacific Ocean, triggering a tsunami that could devastate the west coast of North America.
Calculations show it would strike somewhere along a narrow track that stretches eastward from Siberia to the west coast of Africa . Astronomers are monitoring the asteroid named Apophis, which has a 1 in 45,000 chance of striking Earth on April 13, 2036 .
Although the odds of an impact by this particular asteroid are low, a recent congressional mandate for Nasa to upgrade its tracking of near-Earth asteroids is expected to uncover hundreds, if not thousands of threatening space rocks in the near future, former astronaut Rusty Schweickart said.
“It’s not just Apophis we’re looking at. Every country is at risk. We need a set of general principles to deal with this issue,” Schweickart, a member of the Apollo 9 crew that orbited the Earth in March 1969, told an American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in San Francisco.
Schweickart plans to present an update next week to the UN Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space on plans to develop a blueprint for a global response to an asteroid threat.
The Association of Space Explorers, a group of former astronauts and cosmonauts, intends to host a series of high-level workshops this year to flesh out the plan and will make a formal proposal to the UN in 2009, he said.
The favoured approach to dealing with a potentially deadly space rock is to dispatch a spacecraft that would use gravity to alter the asteroid’s course so it no longer threatens Earth, said astronaut Ed Lu, a veteran of the International Space Station.
The so-called Gravity Tractor could maintain a position near the threatening asteroid, exerting a gentle tug that, over time, would deflect the asteroid. An asteroid the size of Apophis, which is about 460 feet long, would take about 12 days of gravity-tugging, Lu added.
Doctors accused of shunning HIV boy
A STAFF REPORTER
Calcutta, Feb. 22: Seven-year-old Maniur Rehman desperately needs an operation but surgeons at leading state-run hospitals wouldn’t touch him — allegedly because he is HIV positive.
The thalassaemic boy can consider himself a victim of the state’s health care system twice over — he probably got infected during one of the regular blood transfusions he has needed for years.
Now, his spleen has enlarged — a complication of thalassaemia that experts said can be life-threatening. But for over a year, no hospital would admit him, his father says.
Sheikh Idrish Ali, a daily labourer from Sandeshkhali in South 24-Parganas, says he has been doing the rounds of SSKM, Calcutta Medical College and Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College hospitals without success.
The blood that Maniur needed came from Central Blood Bank, Maniktala, Idrish said. At first, he used to need a transfusion every two or three months, but after his spleen enlarged in 2005, that changed to five times a month.
The doctor treating him advised splenectomy (removal of a part or whole of the spleen), and Idrish got him admitted to SSKM’s paediatric ward on December 20, 2005 . On December 29, the boy tested HIV positive.
“The doctor refused to do the operation and asked us to take him away,” Idrish said. Maniur was discharged on January 3, 2006 . “Through the whole year, we tried to get him re-admitted, but in vain,” the father said.
He went to MCH where the medicine department examined Maniur on December 23, 2006 , and referred him to the paediatric department for surgery. But the surgeons wouldn’t operate on him. Ditto at NRS.
Two voluntary organisations, People for Better Treatment (PBT) and Human Development Research Institute, offered help. PBT has asked the state government to provide treatment and compensation and plans to move court, its president Kunal Saha said.
For them cigs are stress-busters
New Delhi, PTI:
Youngsters in urban slums are increasingly turning to cigarettes to puff away their worries and stress, says a recent study conducted by All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
Youngsters in urban slums are increasingly turning to cigarettes to puff away their worries and stress, says a recent study conducted by All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
“With lung cancer being the third commonest cancer in India , it is worrying that smoking among youngsters is on the increase, more so in urban slums. Among all nicotine products, cigarettes are the most popular. It acts as a stress-buster,” said Dr Randeep Guleria, Professor in the Department of Medicine in AIIMS.
Dr Guleria, who, along with three other AIIMS doctors conducted the study, said that they found a high percentage of people taking up smoking at a young age of 19.
Survey
“Half of those we surveyed said they smoked within 30 minutes of waking up. Forty nine per cent of them said stress drove them to smoking as it helps them to forget and fight back their worries and a mere 2.08 per cent have attended smoke-quit clinics,” he said.
“The media, especially the movies, glamourise smoking. The youngsters feel it is fashionable to smoke. Once they start, they get hooked to it,” he said. “What was interesting to note was that about 91 per cent of smokers were willing to quit the habit if they could be provided assistance. We have to motivate them as it has been seen that among Indian men, lung cancer is very common,” he said.
The survey, however, did not go into detail about how many have started showing symptoms to smoking-related diseases. “We are planning to target other areas in the city and would go back to do a follow-up to find whether they have started showing symptoms of any any disease due to their habit,” he said.
Guleria said that though awareness among the masses against smoking was increasing, the efforts are not enough and people continue the practice, which increases their chances of getting lung cancer. He added that lung cancer accounts for 28 per cent of all cancer deaths in the US , while in India 42,000 new lung cancer cases are reported every year.
IIMs gear up for record placement
MANSI BHATT
TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2007 12:13:19 AM]
AHMEDABAD: Over 1,000 students spread across six Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) in India are set to witness historic highs during the final placements which kick starts at IIM Kozhikode from Tuesday. The would-be IIM graduates may be in for the best ever placement performance this year both in terms of pay packages and work profile.
In days to follow over 100-130 top-rated companies from varied sectors are likely to visit each IIM scouting for talent this year. IIM-K will be the first one to start the final placement process this year, followed by IIM Indore which will hold placement week from February 27 to March 2 and IIM Lucknow and IIM Bangalore (March 6 onwards).
At IIM-Ahmedabad and IIM-Kolkata, the process will start from March 8 and March 10 respectively. “Each slot is spread over two days and the number of companies in each slot varies from 15-20,” says Shravan Menta, member of the placement committee at IIM-K. The institute expects 40 new recruiters this year.
The placement process is divided in different slots-each slot is spread over two days. Slot Zero in the placement process witnesses international firms, mainly investment banks and consulting firms. The companies are slotted on the basis of a student’s preference based on job profiles, compensation, brand image, posting and exclusivity of the recruiter.
However, the booming economy is now throwing up new recruiters in each slot. Interestingly, for the first time this year at IIM-C, retail giants, insurance and trading firms have joined investment banks and consulting firms to participate in coveted Slot Zero.
“Students are showing interest in emerging sectors such as retail, IT consulting and real-estate which is evident in the slotting of companies,” says a student member of the placement committee at IIM-C.
This year, companies such as Unitech, Tesco, Mahindra, DTZ have visited the campuses for the first time. Software and pharma companies, mall and SEZ developers and even real estate consulting firms are likely throng the premiere institutes in a big way. The average salary last year at IIMs was around Rs 9-9.5 lakh per annum. This year the average salary in the emerging sectors is expected to touch Rs 12-lakh-a-year mark.
