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UAF eyes collaboration with city engineering colleges

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.
Bi-focal courses: Govt mulls reducing marks

Saturday 7 November '09

The government is considering reducing the marks for bi-focal courses in classes 11 and 12.
Bifocal subjects: opposition from all quarters at board meeting

Friday 6 November '09

The 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.
Crowd at Marathi book expo gives bibliophiles hope

Thursday 5 November '09

While there is a perception that readers for Marathi books are declining day by day, here is an exception.
Aspirants on rise, bifocal option under scrutiny

Thursday 5 November '09

Last 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.
Swine flu shadow over school annual gatherings

Tuesday 3 November '09

With the fear of swine flu epidemic reviving in winter, schools have been asked to curb their plans for annual gathering and residential trips.
Rainwater harvesting need of the hour: expert

Sunday 1 November '09

Terming 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.
Third Front fails to impress, loses deposit

Saturday 24 October '09

After much hype in the run-up to the elections, the Republican-Left Democratic Front or the Third Front failed to impress city voters.
Pune silver lining in BJP-Sena cloud

Friday 23 October '09

Bucking 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.
On counting eve, prayers and last-minute preparations

Thursday 22 October '09

Hours 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.
Lighting up lives, with earthen lamps

Saturday 17 October '09

For 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.
Rethink fixed 5-yr term: college principals to Sibal

Sunday 11 October '09

With several colleges already functioning without a head due to lack of qualified candidates...
Raj pulls a huge crowd, causes jitters around

Saturday 10 October '09

A day after Rahul Gandhi, Sharad Pawar and Raj Thackeray held election meetings, almost around the same time in the city...
‘Honour killings have emerged as a serious problem for rural women’

Saturday 3 October '09

To 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.
Confusion marks extension of Keep Term scheme

Thursday 1 October '09

Even as the Bombay High Court has given the go-ahead to the state government’s Allowed To Keep Term (ATKT) scheme for SSC students...
Focus on tie-ups with city institutes, says Alliance Francaise director

Wednesday 30 September '09

Alliance Francaise de Pune will now be focussing on having more tie-ups with educational institutes in the city for promoting French language and culture.
MNS and RLDF likely to play spoilers for big 4

Sunday 27 September '09

The political pundits may be unsure about Maharashtra Navnirman Sena and Republican-Left Democratic Front winning any seats in Pune district in the Assembly elections...
CPM to target middle class votes, says it will reach out to tech-savvy voters

Thursday 24 September '09

When 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.
Third Front to counter Cong-NCP secular card

Wednesday 23 September '09

The Republican-Left Democratic Front (RLDF) or the Third Front has drawn up a strategy to counter the Congress-NCP claims of being secular.
DTE rules: no buying seats, vacant engineering seats only on merit

Tuesday 22 September '09

Now, those engineering diploma students aspiring to get direct admission to second year engineering courses can get admissions on the basis of merit.
Oscar entry Harishchandrachi Factory gets set for grand release

Tuesday 22 September '09

Ecstatic 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.
Revaluation: no panel yet to look into old rule

Sunday 20 September '09

The 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.
LSE grad, also champion of housemaids, is lone CPM candidate from Pune

Friday 18 September '09

She’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.
Artificial rain: IITM not sure of results

Friday 18 September '09

Rain 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...
Flu scare tones down Navratrai festival

Tuesday 15 September '09

After 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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