Pan-IIM meet calls for radical changes in future of education
The Hindu
World Management Conference begins at IIM-K
The eighth pan-IIM World Management Conference (WMC) and the second edition of Globalising Indian Thought (GIT) international conclave kicked off at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM-K) here on Thursday evening.
Prof. Peter M. Senge, faculty, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Prof. Tarun Khanna, Harvard Business School, attended the meet as the 25-year-old IIM in Kerala launched its three-day intensive congregation on global management practices.
Prof. Senge, an accomplished author of the best-selling book The Fifth Discipline, addressed the gathering of scholars, researchers, faculty and students on the need to develop a compassionate system with profound interconnectedness as the core idea of future of education.
Sitting MP and DMK ally IUML’s candidate K. Navas Kani registered a remarkable victory from Ramanathapuram Lok Sabha constituency on Tuesday. While Mr. Navas Kani polled 5,09,664 votes, O. Panneerselvam, Independent candidate supported by the BJP, bagged 3,42,882 votes, AIADMK candidate Jayaperumal secured 99,780 votes and Naam Tamilar Katchi candidate Dr. Chandra Prabha Jeyapaul bagged 97,672 votes. As many as 6,275 voters pressed NOTA button.
Hailed as the “hrudayavanta” (man with a kind heart), cardiologist C.N. Manjunath registered a resounding victory by beating the three-time MP, D.K. Suresh, and sending ripples across Bengaluru Rural seat, a bastion strongly controlled by Mr. Suresh and his brother Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar.