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Abha Goradia
Abha works with the Mumbai bureau and covers the education beat as well as other stories she finds interesting.
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MU senate members write to Governor, demand apology from Vinod TawdePremium Story
January 12,2019 09:54:26 AM
The letter, signed by members Pradip Sawant, Milind Satam, Supriya Karande, Pravin Patkar and six others, said Tawde misused his power and ordered “arrest” of a student who had recorded the interaction. Senate members of the MU want to lodge their protest, they said.
Sat, Jan 12, 2019NAAC reaccreditation top priority, says MU Vice-ChancellorPremium Story
January 12,2019 09:29:01 AM
Addressing students at the annual convocation ceremony at the Fort campus of the varsity, Pednekar said, “NAAC reaccreditation is now our topmost priority and the preparations for this are going on full swing.” The university has applied for NAAC reaccreditation and is expected to get it by January end.
Sat, Jan 12, 2019
Around the world on a cycle: 20-year-old to pen book on her 159-day expeditionPremium Story
January 11,2019 04:08:07 AM
What started as a plan to cycle 1,400 km across the United Kingdom turned into a goal of going around the world. Kulkarni chose Perth in Australia as the start and finish line, maintaining an average of 320 km or 16 hours of cycling per day.
Fri, Jan 11, 2019
Thirty seven academics write to ISCA: ‘Deeply shocked, disturbed’Premium Story
January 10,2019 04:42:16 AM
Scientist Kannan Jegathala Krishnan, on the other hand, dismissed Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, Isaac Newton’s Law of Gravity and Stephen Hawking’s theories about Black Holes.
Fri, Jan 11, 2019
GMO foods are safe, science backs it: Nobel laureatePremium Story
January 10,2019 02:23:02 AM
“Non-GMO is a western indulgence of the rich, it doesn’t work for the poor in Africa,” he said. Roberts, the chief scientific officer at New England’s Biolabs, distinguished between traditional breeding method and precision method, which means transferring genes directly into plant.
Fri, Jan 11, 2019
Three from Mumbai among 8 state colleges get autonomous statusPremium Story
January 09,2019 03:48:28 AM
The colleges being conferred autonomous status should experiment with their curriculum, said higher and technical education minister Vinod Tawde, in a statement issued on Tuesday.
Fri, Jan 11, 2019
NCC Day celebrations at SIESPremium Story
January 09,2019 03:36:12 AM
Honorary Major Deepak Rao was the chief guest at the event. Advising students based on his own life experiences, Rao encouraged them to opt for courses which satisfy their aptitude, passion and skill.
Fri, Jan 11, 2019
In a first, Mumbai University to host Nobel laureate Sir Richard John Roberts
January 07,2019 02:29:36 AM
Roberts, who currently works at New England Biolabs, was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip Allen Sharp for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing.
Fri, Jan 11, 2019
We are a rich nation with poor population: Nitin GadkariPremium Story
January 06,2019 02:39:55 AM
Gadkari said he had faith in IIT students, as he believed that innovation, entrepreneurship, science and technology, research and skill-make knowledge, and conversion of knowledge into wealth is the future.
Fri, Jan 11, 2019
This community radio completes 10 years of high frequencyPremium Story
January 04,2019 05:04:19 AM
“In the rural area where we started, people would run away at the sight of a mic. Villagers coming to the studio to present their art was a far-fetched thought,” said Sachin Menkudale, the station’s technician and assistant.
Fri, Jan 11, 2019
Mumbai: A bleak view for Parsis fighting Metro rail workPremium Story
January 01,2019 03:40:58 AM
Structural engineer and former professor at VJTI College Jamshed Sukhadwalla says planning for underground projects must involve not only engineering, but also geology, geomorphology, and other considerations.
Fri, Jan 11, 2019
Opposition doing arithmetic, no policy: Yogendra YadavPremium Story
December 30,2018 02:35:29 AM
Speaking at the Mood Indigo festival of the IIT-Powai, Yadav said the last four years have seen “the idea of India” be dismantled bit by bit. This challenge, he added, comes from those occupying positions of constitutional power.
Fri, Jan 11, 2019
‘How I wish to live is my choice, certificate cannot decide that’: transgenders against screening committeesPremium Story
December 27,2018 01:59:57 AM
Vicky Shinde, a transgender activist and founder of Shivshakti Foundation, said people tend to think of transgenders as sex workers, bar dancers or beggars.
Fri, Jan 11, 2019Faculty crisis at Mumbai varsity’s BA in Chinese StudiesPremium Story
December 26,2018 02:10:52 AM
Director Dr Vibha Surana said, “We will have to discontinue offering the First-year Bachelor of Arts (FYBA) in Chinese programme from 2019, if full-time positions are not created.”
Fri, Jan 11, 2019
Maharashtra: 13 district schools get affiliated to new international education boardPremium Story
December 26,2018 00:13:52 AM
To provide international standard education to students in Marathi, their native language, a first-of-its-kind Maharashtra International Education Board came into being on Tuesday.
Fri, Jan 11, 2019
Mumbai: Stipends delayed, junior resident doctors protestPremium Story
December 25,2018 03:02:48 AM
Junior resident doctors of five government colleges in Nagpur, Akola, Aurangabad, Ambejogai (Beed) and Latur have not received their stipends for some months.
Fri, Jan 11, 2019
IIT Bombay students protest, seek hike in fellowshipPremium Story
December 23,2018 02:39:11 AM
The students alleged that while the fellowship money for research scholars has not been revised for the last four years, the living expenses and fees in the institute have witnessed a drastic increase.
Fri, Jan 11, 2019
South Indian Education Society award for Manmohan SinghPremium Story
December 23,2018 01:13:45 AM
“Truth is high, but higher still is truthful living. God’s name, according to Sikhism, is said to be truth,” said former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, invoking the words of Guru Nanak Dev, while accepting the award.
Fri, Jan 11, 2019
Jiyo Parsi Care: 172 Parsi babies were born under scheme between 2014 and 2018Premium Story
December 21,2018 03:50:21 AM
The schemes, under ‘Jiyo Parsi Care’, have been designed to offer monthly financial assistance for creche and childcare, honorarium to senior citizens for childcare and support to couples to encourage elderly dependents to stay with them.
Fri, Jan 11, 2019
Maharashtra government nod to improvement in rules for self-financed private collegesPremium Story
December 21,2018 03:39:45 AM
The five varsities are REST Self-finance University (Mumbai), DY Patil University (Talegaon), MIT University (Solapur), Ramdev Baba Self-Financed Private University (Nagpur), Vijaybhoomi University (Raigad).
Fri, Jan 11, 2019
Mumbai: State Cabinet approves formation of cluster collegesPremium Story
December 21,2018 03:25:45 AM
According to the revision in guidelines for self-financed colleges, approvals will be given to start courses such as skill development, sports, medicine, textiles, agriculture, animal husbandry, fisheries development and others.
Fri, Jan 11, 2019