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Employment in Mumbai

Mumbai has a lot of business opportunity due to its booming trade and birth of various Industries. In 1980s it was mainly a manufacturing hub together with service, trade/finance taking the 2nd and 3rd spot respectively. But with the liberalisation of Indian Economy a lot of service sector jobs have come up. Many software companies, BPOs have set up their operations in the city and thus provide employment to many. With so many companies and offices in Mumbai, it attracts many people who can find a suitable employment opportunity.
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Careers in Mumbai

Mumbai being the financial capital of India, and hub for manufacturing and shipping/export industry has a lot of opportunities available.  It also has many colleges that produce students that can fulfill the industry demand.  Also, with its large population and a consumption base it has to maintain a lot of self-sustaining services like, Hospitals, Restaurants, transportation and Shopping Malls. These automatically create more career opportunities.
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Now a Study to Map Depression in Mumbai Campuses

As per a study one in every 4 suffers from some degree of depression in Mumbai Campuses. Fourteen in every 100 have thought about suicide sometime or the other. The current system creates a lot of pressure even for small kids; children as young as five and six testing clinically depressed. Indo-US researchers who had carried out the first study on the same topic are planning to do it the 2nd time. They would carry out their research in Mumbai and Boston from January ’10 to April ’10.
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India 2009 -Some Key Events -Recap

  • The Return of the Indian National Congress, The Congress victory wagon rolls on, BJP in self-destructive mode showing all its weaknesses and washing dirty laundry in public: Congress has been eating way BJP’s vote bank across the country.
  • Swine Flu Threat – Reeda Shaikh, 14, became the first patient in India to succumb to the flu in Pune on August 3. Narendra Modi and Shreeshant Maharashtra and Karnataka were the worst affected states of the country. At least 249 people have died in Maharashtra while the virus has claimed 128 lives in Karnataka. Pune, with over 120 cases of deaths due to the H1N1 virus, earned the dubious distinction of being the swine flu capital of India.
  • Tata’s Nano arrives: Tata Motors’ ambitious Nano, the Rs 1 lakh car, finally hit Indian markets early this year. Marketed as the ‘people’s car’ and the ‘cheapest car in the world’, the Nano won the Indian Car of the Year Award for 2008-09, promising an affordable and comfortable vehicle to millions of Indians for whom a car was far out of reach.
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