A Guidance for selecting the right B-school.

Placements, Quality of faculty, Quality of students, Opportunities for doing internships and ‘live’ projects, Infrastructure, are some of the most important criteria for selecting the right B-school. Another important indicator of the quality of a B-School is the ‘Cut Off’ percentile that it considers for shortlisting candidates for the GD-PI round.

 Going through this list will provide you an indication of the quality of the B-schools and your likelihood of making it to your dream B-schools.

 PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE CUT OFFs ARE FOR MBA ADMISSIONS 2009-10 FOR FLAGSHIP 2-YEAR MBA PROGRAM, AND MAY UNDERGO CHANGES THIS YEAR. more..

Sky Drops - Collecting Water in the Sky

Skydrops is a helium inflated balloon designed to collect water by harnessing Mother Nature’s own energy. Spinning in the wind creates energy used to cool metallic sheets with peltier cells within the balloon. As the air passes through the cooled surface, water begins to condensate, and becomes a liquid before falling through a cable to a reservoir at the ground. Designed to fly uninterrupted for up to 2 months, the Skydrop will be able to create up to  50 liters every day.

The existence of a world with a double sunset, as portrayed in the film Star Wars more than 30 years ago, is now scientific fact. NASA's Kepler mission has made the first unambiguous detection of a circumbinary planet -- a planet orbiting two stars -- 200 light-years from Earth. Unlike Star Wars’ Tatooine, the planet is cold, gaseous and not thought to harbor life, but its discovery demonstrates the diversity of planets in our galaxy. Previous research has hinted at the existence of circumbinary planets, but clear confirmation proved elusive. Kepler detected such a planet, known as Kepler-16b, by observing transits, where the brightness of a parent star dims from the planet crossing in front of it. Image: In the Light of Two Suns - This artist's concept illustrates Kepler-16b, the first planet known to definitively orbit two stars -- what's called a circumbinary planet. The planet, which can be seen in the foreground, was discovered by NASA's Kepler mission. more