PUNE: Over 15,000 students from Maharashtra cleared the common entrance test (CET) for the five-year law course, the results of which were announced online on Tuesday. The admission process would be conducted based on the CET merit list, which would be announced soon. The director of higher education Dhanraj Mane said, “In the exam conducted by the higher secondary directorate,Continue reading

PUNE: The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) has awarded two first-year students the prestigious Inlaks India Foundation scholarship for the current academic year, which is worth Rs 1 lakh each. The students, Fareeda AM of the video editing department, and Samridhi Dutta, who studies acting, received the scholarship amount from the FTII director Bhupendra Kainthola on Monday, in the presenceContinue reading

Pune: The Pune Cantonment Board’s (PCB) Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Memorial Technical School will offer five new vocational courses from the 2018-19 academic year. This was decided at the PCB’s general body meeting on Monday. The five new courses will be on motor vehicle mechanic, civil draftsman, mechanical draftsman, plumber and computer hardware streams. The stateContinue reading

Aishwarya Tupe, Sanjana Jadon and Chaitrali Padamwar of SMEF’s Brick School of Architecture, Undri, have emerged winners in the open ideas design competition for smart community markets organised by Pune Smart City Development Corporation Limited (PSCDCL). The competition was announced three months ago and 15 architectural colleges were invited to participate, out of which, sevenContinue reading

Pune: Her dedication to arts has always stood her in good stead – right from being the Google doodle winner in 2014 to bagging a 100% scholarship at Cornell University, where the acceptance rate is below 7% of the total applications. Her feat is all the more spectacular in a country where conventional thinking favoursContinue reading

Pune: The Deccan Education Society (DES) in collaboration with the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has set up an on campus lab to run certificate programmes in three technologies – big data analytics, business intelligence and data science. Students pursuing under graduation, post-graduation as well as working professionals can now apply for this course. TheContinue reading

A recent edition ofVariety, the American entertainment magazine, included Pune’s Film and Television Institute of India(FTII) in its list of top global film and TV learning schools. The mood among FTII faculty and alumni was understandably of pride. They said they always knew about the institute’s excellence and had confidence in its global status. The list,Continue reading