Vivekanand Education Society’s Institute of Management Studies and Research hold Congruence ’10; its annual Management event on 27th February 2010. This year, Congruence focused on Marketing in changing times and the event is envisioned to be a Marathon of Marketing.

Renowned Marketing professionals from accorss industries shared their years of invaluable knowledge with the Management students from Mumbai and nearby areas. They spoke on the current developments and trends in the field of Marketing and how these trends will influence the future.

The topics range from Branding to IT Marketing and from Rural Marketing to Public Relations. Some of the noted speakers include names such as Brand Guru Jagdeep Kapoor, Chairman, Samsika Marketing Consultants Pvt. Ltd., Abhinav Kakade, Sr. Director (NPD & International), Neoacceal, Rajesh Agrawal , Head-Steel trading, Cargill, T K Cherian , Global SME Head, TCS and Veena Gidwani , CEO, Madison Public Relations.

Congruence has always focused on enabling academic and industry interface. With this purpose in mind, Congruence sparks panel discussions, debates and student interaction. Marketing Marathon 2010 brought together management students, academicians and industry professionals with a view to enrich them both.

Article provided by Vineeth Kannoth

As reported by Press Trust Of India (PTI) on  Jan 20, 2010

Apparently upset at being suspended for a week, a 13-year-old student today allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself at his residence in suburban Chembur, police said.

The deceased identified as Khaled Abdullah Sheikh, an eighth standard student of Swami Vivekananda school, was found hanging by her cousin sister this evening, they said.

According to police, Sheikh had beaten up a student Akshay in the school following which his parents were summoned.

Since his parents were not at home, his uncle went to the school where the teacher complained about Sheikh’s misbehaviour and asked him not to send Sheikh to school for a week.

The boy, who seemed upset, went to home and ended his life when he was alone, police said adding that no suicide note was found.

Further investigation is on, they said.

Senior BJP leader L K Advani expressing confidence in the nation’s youth, today said that they would lead India in the next century.

As reported by PTI on 17th Jan 2010
“The next century is India’s. I have a lot of expectations from the youth and I am sure they will fulfil those,” Advani said, at a function organised by Vivekanand Education Society and Bharatiya Sindhu Sabha in Chembur here.

Advani lauded the contribution of Sindhis to society.

“Sindhis are spread all over the world and are known as a hardworking business community,” he added.

Vivekanand Institute of Management Studies and Research hosted their Management Event Chaitanya on 24^th October this year once again with great zeal and zest. This year’s theme for Chaitanya was “Go Global” since advent of newer technology has shrunk the world. Chaitanya consisted of various management events, Case Study being the flagship event. Other events included biz quiz, press conference, mock stock, ad-mad, sports, realty show and extempore management games. Over 400 students from various Management Institutes in and around Mumbai participated and unleashed their talents and exhibited their managerial skills in the various events.

This year title sponsor for Chaitanya was Union Bank of India, Style partner was Spykar, education partner was Management Paradise, Media partners Maharashtra Times and Food Partner Kaffe Kona.

Judges and chief guests were industry stalwarts viz. Mr. Ramkrishnan-Corporate HR consultant, Mr. Parshuraman-Manager IT at Asian Paints, RJ Neil of 93.5 Red FM, Mr. Nilesh Talreja- Brand Manager FCB Ulka, Mr. Anil Nomani Maharashtra Times.

The winners of the various events were honored with prizes worth Rs. 60,000.

Navi Mumbai resident Harshad Prakash Chavan topped the HSC result by scoring 96.67 per cent. Chavan, a student of Swami Vivekanand College, scored 580 marks out of 600 in the HSC examination.

Akshay Rohit Gandhi of SIES College missed the top spot by a whisker. The Ghatkopar resident scored 96.33 per cent. While Lekha Murlidharan of Ruparel College scored 96.17 per cent to take the third spot.

A total of 74.61 per cent students have passed the HSC examination in Mumbai this year .

March 9th 2009, marked 88th birth anniversay of Jhamatmal Wadhwani , the  founder President of VES since its inception upto his demise in April 2007. The  staff and students of Vivekanand Education Society’s (VES) Tulsi Technical Institute celebrated the anniversary of on March 9 with various activities. Mohan Motwani, managing trustee of VES inaugurated a computer lab and a one-day free medical and dental check-up camp was also organised for the students on the occasion.

Read Sujatha Subraman’s article in Chembur-Ghatkopar Plus

A ninth standard student Ashwini Patankar from Swami Vivekananda school, Chembur won the first prize in the ISRO’s ‘Water Rocket Making and Launching Competition’ here on Friday.

The competition is one of the “outreach” programmes of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) to popularise space and rocket sciences. This is the first time it has been held in Mumbai. The second prize was bagged by Sanket Joglekar of IES Modern English School and third prize by Tushar Sawant of St Xavier school in Borivili.

The winners received Rs 2000, 1500 and 1000 respectively from ISRO. There were three consolation prizes of Rs 500 each. Typically, a water rocket can travel up to a distance of about 300 feet and to a height of 50-75 feet, B R Guruprasad in-charge of the programme said. Today’s maximum was around 250 feet but many of them could make their water rocket travel up to 180 ft.

The competition brought out the engineering skills in them and some even showed innovations in the ISRO’s design model taught to them. It was very satisfying, he said. “The experience of building water rockets makes the students understand the basics of rocket propulsion as well as nuances involved in a simple model rocket construction,” Guruprasad said.

Such a competition was first held in Bangalore in 2007. This is the second such competition on water rockets that was held in Mumbai, S Satish, an official from ISRO said. “We jointly organised the event with the Nehru Planetarium and are planning to organise several such events in various states to enthuse students in rocket and propulsion science,” he said. There were 98 ninth standard students selected from schools across Mumbai and out of them 27 were selected for finals, Satish said.

Water rockets are model rockets that can be built from empty pressurised soft drinks plastic bottles, plastic and PVC sheets as well as a few stationery items, Guruprasad said. These rockets are then filled with water, pressurised using a pump, and launched using a spring loaded simple rocket launcher, he said. Building and launching water rocket provides the exciting experience for high school students, said Planetarium director Piyush Pandey.