The Hyderabad Sind National Collegiate (HSNC) board, every year organizes a prestigious research paper writing and presentation event known as the ‘International Economics Convention’. More than 8 colleges across the city, along with colleges from United States of America compete in this event. In its 22nd year, the theme for the Economics Convention was ‘Political Systems and Economic Development’. All the colleges were assigned one country to research on this topic. The country assigned to Podar was Singapore. To represent Podar at the event, a 6 member team was selected. The team members were: 1) Varsha Srinivasan - T.Y. B.com 2) Amol Bhoir – S.Y. B.com 3) Shyam Datye – S.Y.B.com 4) Adhishree Aras – S.Y. B.com 5) Amish Shah – F.Y. B.com 6) Mihir Jain – SYJC The mentors for the team were: 1) Dr. (Mrs.) Vinita Pimpale 2) Mrs. Sudarshana Saikia The team worked for over 6 months to prepare a worthy research paper and presented it in a 3 day event from 11th to 13th December, 2014. The Podar team won the ‘Best Research Paper’ award & ‘Best team presentation runner up’ award along with the most coveted ‘Winning Team’ award at this event. Hearty Congratulations to the team!