Abha Goradia

Pratik Irpatgire, president of the body, said, “The neighbouring countries of India are Islam dominated countries, where the majority of the population practices Islam as a religion... The bill will be a boon to all those neglected and deprived classes who have migrated to India from neighbouring countries.”

The stepwells in Maharashtra are smaller in scale compared to the ones in Gujarat and Rajasthan. Stepwells like the one in Kudave are significant not only as architectural ruins but as good rain harvesting and water storage systems.

IIT-Bombay for Justice, under which the students came together, is a forum recently formed by the students following the suicide of IIT-Madras student Fatima Latheef. The students had also protested the passage of the NRC Bill.

Once the results for first prelims are out, subject experts, at least two per subject, will conduct sessions on difficult concepts through virtual classrooms.

Signatories included scholars from IITs, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Harvard University, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Yale University, University of Massachusetts and others.

The CLIx project worked to “demonstrate a scalable model of education in Indian schools” and was implemented in 478 schools in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, and Telangana. The programme was seeded by Tata Trust.

Rao IIT Academy, which runs the junior colleges, was denied an index number by the state board for allegedly not meeting infrastructural norms. On December 2, the junior college was issued a letter by the office of deputy director of education stating that the college has not fulfilled terms and conditions for state board’s recognition.

In MU, 171 seats in law colleges are vacant. “This is because some of the colleges under MU are located in the Konkan region. Unlike medical students, law college aspirants do not seek admission to colleges outside the city,” Ghanshyam Kedar, CET cell official added.

The stick is made using transparent poly-carbonate to keep it lightweight, and uses neoprene rubber at the top as a seat prop to provide rest to the body. This attachment provides a wider surface area to rest, and is detachable.

The centre will collaborate with six PSUs of oil and gas sector — Oil India Ltd, Oil and Natural Gas Corp, Gas Authority of India Ltd, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited and Indian Oil Corporation — and Engineers India Limited to conduct research projects “from lab to implementation-ready stage in mission mode”.

Breaking away from its tradition of holding the convocation in January, MU hosted the ceremony soon after declaration of annual results.

Dr Swati Popat Vats, the president of the Early Childhood Association (ECA) and co-author of 'Once upon a story: Diwaswapna and the Gijubhai method', speaks about initiatives undertaken by the body.

In 2013, Iyer was given the national award by then president Pranab Mukherjee for being a role model in the female category.

The fight against hike in fees by the JNU administration has found resonance with IIT-B, which has also been part of a countrywide struggle by IIT students against the recent fee hike announced by IIT Council.

The project, which started in August, was to be unveiled to coincide with the landing of Vikram lander on the Moon. However, it was delayed due to the prolonged monsoon and post-monsoon showers in the state.

The suicide of Fathima Latheef, a first-year student at IIT-Madras on November 9, resonated with IIT-B, where a student, Aniket Ambhore, had committed suicide in September 2014.

A three-member committee set up by IIT-Bombay (IIT-B) to probe the alleged suicide of Aniket Ambhore in 2014 has concluded that the student took his life because he was battling “internal contradictions”

Not conducting the elections within the next two months would be a violation of the Maharashtra Public Universities Act, 2016.

Shailesh Nangaonkar, who previously worked with Terna Engineering College, Nerul, had lodged a case with the labour court after being denied gratuity despite 10 years of service. Nangaonkar worked as an assistant professor in the college from 2004 to 2014.