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News in numbers: 95% students of IIM Calcutta 2014 batch are engineers

ONGC to invest Rs55,000 crore in KG oil and gas discoveries, said an unnamed senior official

In order to address criticism that the multiple-choice question format of the entrance exam to IIMs favoured engineers, and to add diversity to the student profile, the CAT will see descriptive questions being added to the test this year. Photo: HT Premium
In order to address criticism that the multiple-choice question format of the entrance exam to IIMs favoured engineers, and to add diversity to the student profile, the CAT will see descriptive questions being added to the test this year. Photo: HT

23%

The percentage of people injured in a road accident in India in 2014 who died. As many as 21 states and union territories register a number higher than the all-India average, with the worst being Punjab (52.8%), Uttar Pradesh (49.7%) and Bihar (41.5%). On Sunday, addressing the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the government was working on a scheme to provide cashless and automatic medical treatment to victims for the first 50 hours of an accident.

0.18%

The decline in oil production recorded by state-owned ONGC from its own operations (excluding its joint ventures) in 2014-15, over 2013-14. Its gas production also fell by 5.4%. With its ageing oil and gas fields showing stagnant or declining production for some years now, India’s largest oil and gas producer needs its new fields to start delivering. An unnamed senior official of ONGC was recently quoted as saying that the company would invest $8.8 billion (about 55,000 crore) to operationalise its discoveries in the Krishna-Godavari basin by 2018-19.

1,600 crore

The amount the government is expected to raise by selling 5% of its shareholding in Power Finance Corporation, the auction for which is being conducted today at a base price of 254 per share. The government has set a target of mopping up 69,500 crore in 2015-16 from the sale of its shares in public sector undertakings. This is more than twice of what it realized in 2014-15 and is about 4% of its overall revenues in 2014-15.

95%

Percentage of engineers in the batch of 2014 of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta. Similar dominance of engineering students in MBA programmes is reported in other IIMs also. In order to address criticism that the multiple-choice question format of the entrance exam to IIMs favoured engineers, and to add diversity to the student profile, the Common Admission Test (CAT) will see descriptive questions being added to the test this year.

2

Number of women in the list of 20 most marketable sportpersons in the world, according to the London School of Marketing. The two women are tennis players Maria Sharapova (rank 12) and Serena Williams (rank 20). Cricketer MS Dhoni was the only Indian in the list, at number 9. But having retired from Test cricket late last year and with the team he leads in the Indian Premier League banned for two years, even this position for Dhoni might be under threat.

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Published: 27 Jul 2015, 11:35 AM IST
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