BITS Pilani alumnus Pankaj Patel contributes $1 million towards $100 million Endowment FundPankaj Patel, a BITS Pilani alumnus and founder of Nile, has donated US $1 million to the institute's Endowment Fund. This contribution aim...
18 Feb, 2025, 03.19 PM IST
Top engineering colleges hit the fund trail to boost research, infrastructureIndia's top engineering schools, including IITs and BITS Pilani, are actively fundraising from alumni, corporations and philanthropists. Th...
16 Dec, 2024, 06.48 AM IST
BITS Pilani gets $1 mn endowment fund from alumni coupleBITS Pilani has received a $1 million endowment from alumni Ravinder Kumar Bhat and Sumita Desarkar, increasing the total commitment to ove...
19 Sep, 2024, 02.44 PM IST
BITS Pilani alumni pledge $15 million towards the institute’s goal of raising $100 million endowmentBITS Pilani has secured $2.5 million in pledges from alumni Prem Jain, M Sreenivasa Reddy, and Preetish Nijhawan, bringing their endowment ...
21 Aug, 2024, 12.42 PM IST
BITS Pilani alumni Anuradha and Prashanth Palakurthi and Sid Mookerji pledge $2 million to the BITS Endowment FundBITS Pilani alumni Sid Mookerji and Anuradha and Prashanth Palakurthi have pledged $1 million each to the BITS Endowment Fund, totaling rec...
07 May, 2024, 01.49 PM IST
Eruditus cofounder Chaitanya Kalipatnapu pledges over $1 million to spearhead BITS Pilani Endowment FundThis pledge not only propels the initiative forward but also sets a precedent for alumni engagement and contribution, the institute said in...
19 Feb, 2024, 01.11 PM IST
BITS Pilani alumnus Pratul Shroff pledges Rs 8.3 crore to institute’s endowment fundBITS Pilani alumnus Pratul Shroff, of the 1971 batch, has pledged $1 million to his alma mater's endowment fund. Shroff, a philanthropist a...
24 Jan, 2024, 01.22 PM IST
Engineering colleges and B-schools see spike in funding from alumni“Till 2016-2017, the institute used to raise an average of Rs 1 crore per year. Now, it has gone up to Rs 32 crore in 2022-23. Funding has ...
14 Aug, 2023, 12.00 AM IST
Wait for a dip before adding Adani Group stocks in your portfolio: Deven Choksey“Infrastructure businesses normally have a habit of a long gestation period at the beginning, but once the projects get matured, they start...
18 Jan, 2023, 10.07 AM IST
The froth in stocks is gone, big money to be made here: Sunil SinghaniaThe recent sharp correction has made the market a bit healthier in terms of the technical aspects, feels Singhania.
21 Sep, 2015, 10.56 AM IST
Irani asks IITians to utilise 'Start Up & Stand Up' schemeExhorting IITians to take advantage of the "Start Up India, Stand Up India" scheme, Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani today said engineers ne...
12 Sep, 2015, 07.26 PM IST
Do not see insurance ordinance making any major changes in the sector: Anand TandonFrankly, the insurance sector is not something which is very exciting from an investment point of view unless you are an institutional inve...
26 Dec, 2014, 04.36 PM IST
Indian universities should emulate Nalanda: Lord Swraj PaulIndian universities, which failed to make it to the top 200 World University Rankings, should draw inspiration from ancient academies like ...
27 Sep, 2012, 03.35 PM IST
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With the tax-saving season settling in over the last two weeks, the market has seen a variety of products being launched by insurance compa...
28 Jan, 2012, 08.07 PM IST
- Alumni back IIM-A: 40 crore promised in a day
Twenty-four hours were enough for the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) to get promises of Rs 40 crore from its powerful al...
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- IL&FS Investment to raise $300 million for Tara India-IV
IL&FS Investment Managers, the private equity arm of IL&FS, has hit the fund-raising road to raise $300 million to capitalise its 'growth p...
17 Jun, 2011, 01.08 AM IST