SC gives go-ahead to OBC admissions in IIM-C

The Supreme Court on Friday quashed a Calcutta High Court interim order that stopped implementation of 27 per cent OBC quotas in post-graduate courses, including the ones in the Indian Institutes of Management.
The Calcutta High Court was hearing a plea challenging OBC quotas in post-graduate courses by a student who is to appear for an [...]

Court notice to Centre on OBC quota in IIMs

The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre seeking its response to a petition challenging the implementation of 27 per cent reservation for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in Central higher educational institutions, including the Indian Institutes of Management.A Division Bench, comprising Justices T.S. Thakur and Siddharth Mridul sought a response from [...]

Doctors, lawyer and a fashion designer make it to IIM-C

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Kolkata_/Doctors_lawyer_in_IIM-C_class/articleshow/3028965.cms
Excerpt from the above link.
KOLKATA: When postgraduate classes start at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, on June 23, there’s a surprise in store. Five doctors, a lawyer and a fashion designer are among those who have made it to the 2008 batch — and IIM-C old timers say that this is perhaps the [...]

Two Inspiring Stories

Came across these news items last week.
The first one of Anurag Jain – a student from a Hindi medium government school background cracking the CAT in his 3rd attempt and getting a place on the merit list of IIM Lucknow and Indore.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Lucknow/Govt_school_boy_bells_the_CAT/articleshow/3006240.cms
And the second one of Gaganbir Singh from Ahmedabad, who got admission calls from [...]