Kinjal Desai Dna

• NIFT to celebrate Converge 2010 and silver jubilee

  For the first time in the five years of 'Converge' - National Institute of Fashion Technology's (NIFT) annual event -- being celebrated across India, the celebrations will, this year, take place at the Gandhinagar NIFT campus. This year, the event will be celebrated from December 22 to 25. But what the NIFT community is most excited about is that t...

• Narendra Modi to flag off Sabarmati Marathon

  When they started out running on the streets, these young boys were often mistaken for madmen, and nearly stoned by the citizens. However, come December 26, and the scenario is set to change, as denizens are all set to join the organisers of Sabarmati Marathon for a dream run.Entrepreneurs, Vishwas Bhamburkar and Lihas Trivedi, have near about cove...

• City-based author wins Sahitya Akademi award

  She was a sculptor and painter who turned to writing at the age of 46. And now, city-based author Esther David has bagged the Sahitya Akademi award. "The award has come as a pleasant surprise to me. I came to know of it only when reporters began calling me up with congratulatory messages. I have been busy working on my publication 'The man with eno...

• Practical how-to-go-green ideas win IIMA award

  Two army officers, who are currently students of the Armed Forces Program (AFP) at IIMA, won the Green Initiative competition held at Kronos-2010 which concluded recently. Kronos-2010 was projected as the 'agri-biz zone of Confluence-2010' and had run parallel to it. The army officers, a Major and a Lt-Colonel, won because it was possible to implem...

• MICAns launch online book exchange portal

  If books have always been the love of your life, but you've been unable to devote as much time to the written word as you'd ideally like to, here is a website that you can't possibly ignore. What's more, the site is a labour of love from two students of an Ahmedabad-based institute.Booksvilla.com is a platform for people to read as well as exchange...

• 17 NIFT students' designs go on display

  Seventeen students of the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Gandhinagar have put up their apparel designs on display at the institute, as part of their project submission made towards the end of their year-long certificate course.The students from Garment Production Technology and Apparel Design (GPTAD) discipline of NIFT, Gandhinaga...

• Integrity helps overcome all obstacles: Abdul Kalam

  "I will work with integrity and succeed with integrity," went the concluding statement of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India, during a speech he gave at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA)'s new campus. He was speaking on 'Multiple dimensions of innovations' during ConneXion 2010, an annual management conclave organised ...

• IIM-A all set for some IPL-style bidding

  After city-based communication school MICA decided to have IPL-style trading for their in-house cricket tournament, management mecca IIMA is following suit. Confluence 2010, which is slated to be the flagship event for IIMA's golden jubilee celebrations, will introduce a number of grey cell-scratching events, one of which will be based on the IPL t...