Saturday 7 November '09
The University of Alaska Fairbanks the US, is looking for collaborative arrangement with city engineering colleges, in which students can have a common engineering degree and an opportunity to study for two years in Pune and two years at UAF.Saturday 7 November '09
The government is considering reducing the marks for bi-focal courses in classes 11 and 12.Friday
6 November '09The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education plan to reduce the marks allotted to bifocal subjects from 200 to 100 met with strong opposition from teachers’ representatives, principals and officers of directorate of vocational education and training.Thursday
5 November '09While there is a perception that readers for Marathi books are declining day by day, here is an exception.Thursday
5 November '09Last year, there were around 30,000 HSC students aspiring to join engineering colleges who opted for bifocal courses (technical electives such as computer science/electronics/ motor servicing) so as to get a high score for their Class 12 public exams.Tuesday
3 November '09With the fear of swine flu epidemic reviving in winter, schools have been asked to curb their plans for annual gathering and residential trips.Sunday
1 November '09Terming the current status of water resources in India as an emergency situation, Johan Rockstrom, internationally acclaimed environmentalist and executive director of Stockholm Environment Institute said rainwater harvesting is the need of the hour to preserve water.Saturday
24 October '09After much hype in the run-up to the elections, the Republican-Left Democratic Front or the Third Front failed to impress city voters.Friday
23 October '09Bucking the statewide trend, the Shiv Sena-BJP combine registered a marked improvement over their 2004 results, bagging four out of eight seats in Pune city.Thursday
22 October '09Hours before counting of votes to decide the fate of candidates in the eight city constituencies, many candidates were busy with last-minute prayers or seeking blessings from elders.Saturday
17 October '09For six years now, Anand Saraf has been celebrating Diwali in a manner he knows best-by spreading light in the lives of many, especially jawans fighting on the border.Sunday
11 October '09With several colleges already functioning without a head due to lack of qualified candidates...Saturday
10 October '09A day after Rahul Gandhi, Sharad Pawar and Raj Thackeray held election meetings, almost around the same time in the city...Saturday
3 October '09To commemorate 2nd October as the International Day of Non-Violence, an awareness campaign against atrocities on women and children was launched at Karuna Sadan in Sector 11 on Friday.Thursday
1 October '09Even as the Bombay High Court has given the go-ahead to the state government’s Allowed To Keep Term (ATKT) scheme for SSC students...Wednesday
30 September '09Alliance Francaise de Pune will now be focussing on having more tie-ups with educational institutes in the city for promoting French language and culture.Sunday
27 September '09The political pundits may be unsure about Maharashtra Navnirman Sena and Republican-Left Democratic Front winning any seats in Pune district in the Assembly elections...Thursday
24 September '09When it comes to elections, everything is fair. This assembly election, the champion of proletariats’ cause and the voice of labour class, the Communist Party of India (CPI-M) will be seen wooing the middle class.Wednesday
23 September '09The Republican-Left Democratic Front (RLDF) or the Third Front has drawn up a strategy to counter the Congress-NCP claims of being secular.Tuesday
22 September '09Now, those engineering diploma students aspiring to get direct admission to second year engineering courses can get admissions on the basis of merit.Tuesday
22 September '09Ecstatic with the nomination of Harishchandrachi Factory as the official entry of India for Oscars, producers of the film are now planning to dub the film in Hindi and four regional languages.Sunday
20 September '09The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education is to yet form a committee to re-look into the old rule of not allowing the students to apply for reassessment of their answersheets.Friday
18 September '09She’s a post-graduate from the London School of Economics (LSE). Now she has taken on a totally different avatar — a champion of housemaids in Pune.Friday
18 September '09Rain shadow regions like Rayalseema, Telangana, Marathwada and north madhya Maharashtra will witness the cloud seeding experiment next monsoon season as part of the Cloud Aerosol Interaction and Precipitation Experiment...Tuesday
15 September '09After the sudden spurt in H1N1 patients following Ganesh festival in the city, the Navratri celebrations will be a low-key affair.
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