25 March 2012

IMD’s training institute to open doors to varsity students

PUNE: The National Meteorological Training Institute (NMTI) in Pune is working on a plan to extend its courses to degree-holders in science stream from universities and research institutes. The NMTI is run by the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

Pune team wins moot court competition

The fifth national Moot Court competition organised by Amity Law School concluded on Saturday. A total of 45 law colleges from across the country participated in the three-day event.

The two teams that reached the finals were New Law College, Bharti Vidhya Peeth, Pune and D. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow, where Pune emerged as winners. The topic for the finals was Media Law. The participants from New Law College were Nistha Arora, Sunya Mudang, David Russell while Anusha Ramanathan, Himani Singh, Deepshri represented RML National Law University.

Varsity to go ahead with online FE exam for 2012-13

PUNE: The University of Pune's online exam plan for the first-year engineering (FE) degree course will roll out as declared earlier from the academic year 2012-13.

Pune University teachers to skip paper checking

Pune University Teachers Association (Puta) and Pune University College Teachers’ Organisation (Pucto) have decided to boycott checking of papers.

UoP proposes a whopping R 446.99 cr budget

The University of Pune (UoP) budget for 2012-13 has shot up to Rs 446.99 crore, a good Rs 62.16 crore over 2011-12, which was at Rs 384.83 crore.
Tabled before the UoP senate by Pandit Vidyasagar, the budget makes provisions of Rs 34.06 crore for student-centric activities.

Rs `446-cr budget tabled in senate

A Rs 446.99-crore budget for 2012-13, with fresh provisions to increase the bandwidth capacity for the on-campus use of internet and enhanced focus on research programmes and fellowships, was tabled before the senate of the University of Pune (UoP) on Saturday.

University senate members flay proposed MPU Act

PUNE: The Maharashtra Public Universities (MPU) Act, 2011, proposed by the state government-appointed Arun Nigavekar committee, came in for some severe criticism by members of the senate of the University of Pune (UoP) on Saturday.