Sunday 22 November '09
It was around five months back that a reputed unaided English medium school affiliated to the SSC board in the city hiked its fees for Classes V to X to Rs 20,000 per annum from Rs 12,000 — an increase of over 60 per cent.Saturday 21 November '09
A recent state circular asking schools following CBSE, ICSE and other boards to switch to SSC from Class I to Class V is being fought by school managements that feel it would bring down standards in their schools.Wednesday
18 November '09The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education is planning to offer a ‘best five’option to the SSC students to bring about parity with the CBSE, ICSE and other boards.Tuesday
17 November '09Rain in November is no more a new phenomenon for the city and the record shows that it has rained in this month in every year in the last decade except 1999 and 2005.Monday
16 November '09Taking notice of the latest estimated figures suggesting that about 80,000 to one lakh experts in High Performance Computing...Monday
16 November '09Around 96 applications from candidates vying for the post of University of Pune vice-chancellor have reached the nodal office of the V-C Search Committee.Sunday
15 November '09In what comes as a shot in the arm for the Allow to Keep Term scheme launched by the state government this year...Thursday
12 November '09Even as the IMD officers maintained that cyclonic condition in winter season is rare but not abnormal, the city on Wednesday experienced an abnormal wind speed of 50 to 60 km per hour for about four hours, in the first half of the day.Saturday
7 November '09The 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 '09The 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...
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