Even as lakhs of students battle it out for every precious seat in a government professional college, the state has decided to alter its clientele from the economically weak and middle class to the NRIs, who come with their high disposal income.
In a contentious move, the Maharastra government has decided to divert seats from the merit quota to make way for the rich and the mighty in its aided
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Kalaraag is event promoting performing arts.rnWell, It is actually a college festivalrnIt is a cultural festival run by a engineering college.rnIt is a cultural festival run by a Engineering college students.rnThis is how i would put it from all I could gather from discussions with students of D.Y. Patil college in last couple of weeks.
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ऑगस्टच्या पहिल्या रविवारी जगभर फ्रेंडशिप डे साजरा केला जातो आणि त्या पुढला आठवडा फ्रेंडशिप वीक. मैत्रिच्या या अनोख्या उत्सवानिमित्त...
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An anumsement park, township, colleges and all that a city takes could come up along the mumbai pune express way. This study is carried out by darashaw consultants for MSRDC. 23 plots have been identified, which can be commercially exploited generating rs. 500 crore of revenus for MSRDC.
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When TOI set out to uncover the seats-for-cash scam in medical colleges, we expected to encounter touts in hole-in-the-wall offices.
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The subject will be introduced in the syllabus of class IX and XI. The books are educative and won't be too graphic. Teachers will be given appropriate training before they begin imparting the knowledge to students. Government i also introducing a law where action can be taken against those (parents) who deprive education to childrens.
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This can be called an official admission of the state’s failure to curb loadshedding. Admitting that the problem of power cuts has grown out of proportion, the state government recently issued an order to offer finance to all aided schools and colleges to purchase inverters.
The Maharashtra government has made it mandatory for those obtaining MBBS, BDS and higher medical degrees from government or municipal colleges to serve up to two years in government or defence institutions and decided to impose fine ranging from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 25 lakh on defaulters.
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In February last year, three college students, who had been partying till late into the night, crashed their car near Malabar Hill, an elite south Mumbai locality.
One of the boys died on the spot. Another was critically injured; and the third (the driver of the luxury car) Jatin Mehra, was arrested for drink driving.
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Aiming to improve HIV-related research in India, a government-run hospital in Mumbai has joined hands with a New York-based medical college to hold a clinical training course in AIDS research. A team of five faculty members, including two Indian Americans Sarita Shah and Neel Gandhi from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is conducting the course at the B.Y.L Nair Hospital to promote a culture
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While most Mumbai Sheriffs have breezed in and out of their positions with nothing much to talk about, the city’s newest Sheriff Indu Shahani is making sure she leaves her mark.
After promising to do something for the city’s deteriorating environment, Shahani’s first project is taking up the cause of Mumbai’s declining sparrow population.
The mad scramble for admissions to colleges may be a thing of the past. On January 1, the University of Mumbai expanded the number of seats by a whopping 50% this year.
The varsity’s new year bonanza means that an unprecedented number of new institutions—226—have got the green signal for its affiliation.
For lakhs of aspirants who don't make it to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the new year has brought in cheer—this tech school is opening its classrooms beginning Wednesday for engineering colleges across the country.
As reported by TOI on December 8, IIT-Bombay will broadcast its lectures live through Edusat, the satellite which caters exclusively to the educational sector.
After a hectic new year night festivities, some collegians bunk college while others attend classes forcibly. They claim that they are not mentally present even if they sit in the class.
Should colleges declare January 1 as a holiday?
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Sheikh Faisal was a engineering college dropout from pune and then in February 2001, Sheikh was a garment-seller. A representative of the Student’s Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) contacted him during Friday prayers at a mosque.
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