Morning Digest: October 3, 2022

[ad_1] Brazil presidential race goes to Lula-Bolsonaro runoff Brazil’s top two presidential candidates will face each other in a runoff vote after neither got enough support to win outright Sunday in an election to decide if the country returns a leftist to the helm of the world’s fourth-largest democracy or keeps the far-right incumbent in office. Poverty, […]

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Veteran Richa faces challenge from gen-next in the National Games swimming events

[ad_1] Eighteen-year-old Shrungi Bandekar, who was the star of the recent Khelo India University Games, will be Richa’s main rival Eighteen-year-old Shrungi Bandekar, who was the star of the recent Khelo India University Games, will be Richa’s main rival The past, present, and future of Indian swimming have assembled to make the field competitive when […]

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Final-year B.Sc students at MU demand offline semester exam be postponed

[ad_1] While the Mumbai University has resumed the conventional offline mode of examinations post the Covid-19 pandemic, there is a growing chorus of opposition from students. On Thursday, final year B.Sc. Computer Science students from several colleges of the city wrote to the Mumbai University administration demanding that their semester V exam, which is scheduled […]

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Pune University calls on students to apply for 300 plus certificate courses

[ad_1] In order to make students ‘industry ready’, Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) is encouraging students to be part of its Degree Plus programme. The programme is conducted alongside the regular BA, BCom and BSc degrees that the students are enrolled. More than 300 certificate courses are available on the website, a majority of which […]

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Nagpur & Washim: Collect data of schools with less than 20 students, officials told

[ad_1] Even after opposition from teachers, the state government has begun the process of closing down schools having less than 20 students. On Tuesday, the education department issued notices to the block education officers (BEO) of Nagpur and Washim districts, asking them to collect information about schools in their regions that have less than 20 […]

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Scholarship to minority communities students doubled by Maharashtra govt

[ad_1] The scholarship for students from minority communities who are pursuing higher education has been doubled by the Maharashtra government to Rs 50,000. A decision to this effect was taken by the state cabinet at its meeting here. In 2011, the scholarship for students from minority communities pursuing higher education was Rs 25,000. In 2018, the […]

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CoEP Admissions: 25% extra seats for admissions in BTech will be allotted through JEE

[ad_1] From this academic year, all BTech undergraduate programmes at the CoEP Technological University (College of Engineering, Pune) will have 25 per cent more seats for admissions. For the first time, the university will allot these additional seats in each of the BTech programmes to the all India candidates, on the basis of their merit/score […]

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IIM Udaipur commissions study into increase of ‘cringe content’

[ad_1] Did you recently notice a “cringe” reel on your social media feed and were left surprised with the huge number of followers the content creator has? The “explosion” in the volume of people deliberately posting self-humiliating content and amplifying their imperfections online has generated so much interest and curiosity that an Indian Institute of […]

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SCERT to stick to online mode of career guidance for now

[ad_1] EVEN AS the new academic year has started in a full-fledged offline mode, the Maharashtra State Council for Educational Research and Training (SCERT) has decided to continue its career guidance online, on its YouTube channel. The practice, which started during pandemic-induced lockdown, has proved to be more beneficial with larger reach. “We started this […]

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Bullet train | NHSRCL invites bids for the construction of 21 km tunnel in Maharashtra

[ad_1] The NHSRCL had in July this year invited bids for the design and construction of an underground station at Mumbai’s BKC The NHSRCL had in July this year invited bids for the design and construction of an underground station at Mumbai’s BKC The National High Speed Rail Corporation of India (NHSRCL) on Friday said […]

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