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TOI : PUNE: As if talent, temperament and interests were not enough, more and more students are queuing up at the offices of numerologists and astrologers to help them select the right career.

Parents and students approach them to know the inclination of their wards and select the field accordingly. The number goes up following results and psychologists term the tendency as “anxiety tolerance”.

The HSC results were declared recently and the pass percentile was very high. Choosing the field for further study is proving harder for parents and students and so many knock at the doors of numerologists to get guidance.

“Lots of options are available these days. Most students get confused when it comes to selecting the right career,” said Mmanisha Rakshe, a numerologist. Rakshe says in numerology, studying the birth date, name can help find an individual’s area of interest. “One can know if the person has inclination towards arts or science or any other field. We exchange these observations with the parents.” she said.

She pointed that although people approach her throughout the year, the number goes up by around 40 per cent after results are out. Youngsters even demand change of spellings in the name for better prospects.

According to another numerologist Siddharth Joshi, parents from various backgrounds come to him for advice.

“Selecting a career is important and parents and students don’t want to take chances. So they come to us,” he said adding that some times the area of interests chosen by the parents and their wards defer. This leads to a conflict and they come to us to find a way out, he added.

A mother of two, Nikita Rananaware elaborates the reason for approaching a numerologist. “Both my children are young. I thought if I can find their areas of interest at the right time then building a…More

TOI : PUNE: As if talent, temperament and interests were not enough, more and more students are queuing up at the offices of numerologists and astrologers to help them select the right career.

Parents and students approach them to know the inclination of their wards and select the field accordingly. The number goes up following results and psychologists term the tendency as “anxiety tolerance”.

The HSC results were declared recently and the pass percentile was very high. Choosing the field for further study is proving harder for parents and students and so many knock at the doors of numerologists to get guidance.

“Lots of options are available these days. Most students get confused when it comes to selecting the right career,” said Mmanisha Rakshe, a numerologist. Rakshe says in numerology, studying the birth date, name can help find an individual’s area of interest. “One can know if the person has inclination towards arts or science or any other field. We exchange these observations with the parents.” she said.

She pointed that although people approach her throughout the year, the number goes up by around 40 per cent after results are out. Youngsters even demand change of spellings in the name for better prospects.

According to another numerologist Siddharth Joshi, parents from various backgrounds come to him for advice.

“Selecting a career is important and parents and students don’t want to take chances. So they come to us,” he said adding that some times the area of interests chosen by the parents and their wards defer. This leads to a conflict and they come to us to find a way out, he added.

A mother of two, Nikita Rananaware elaborates the reason for approaching a numerologist. “Both my children are young. I thought if I can find their areas of interest at the right time then building a…More

TOI : PUNE: Authorities of the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) are delighted about an offer received from a Malaysian firm which has agreed to provide 2,500 air-conditioned buses as “royalty” to the PMPML in exchange of advertisement rights for a period of 15 years.

The proposal by the firm, Landmark Media, will be placed before the board of directors next week, PMPML chairman and managing director Subbrao Patil said on Tuesday.

A total of six firms had submitted proposals. Except for one foreign firm, all others are Indian, Patil said. “But their offers are no where close to the proposal tabled by the Malyasian firm. Its offer is the best that we have received,” he added.

The city transport department had, in mid-April, invited offers from private agencies for getting modern buses as “royalty” in exchange of advertisement rights on buses and bus-shelters. As per the proposal, the agency would get the advertisement rights for a period of 15 years.

At present, the PMPML has over 1,000 bus shelters in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad. The number of bus shelters would increase to 2,000 as the PMPML has plans to erect more shelters having futuristic designs on build-operate-transfer (BOT) basis. The agency can also advertise on the exterior and interior parts of the buses.

Incidentally, some private agencies had come up with their own offers last year in which they had agreed to provide buses in exchange of advertisement rights. While the proposals were kept on hold, district guardian minister Ajit Pawar, who had taken the initiative in forming the PMPML, had asked the authorities to invite competitive bids from private agencies.

The authorities also said that the revenue potential from advertisement rights was huge as the city has unique features and was growing at a fast pace. The authorities felt that advertising with the PMPML would be advantageous…More

TOI : PUNE: The University of Pune (UoP) has asked colleges to ensure that they do not effect admissions to first-year bachelor’s degree courses in excess of the students’ intake sanctioned by the university or the state government.

With admissions to first-year BA, B.Com and B.Sc courses commencing on Monday, following the higher secondary certificate (HSC, class XII) exam results, the UoP has released an elaborate set of admission guidelines. The same can be referred to on the university’s website, unipune.ernet.in.

The guidelines would form the basis for resolution of any issue arising out of the first-year senior college admissions this year. Colleges would be responsible for verifying academic qualifications of admission-seekers prior to effecting the allotment.

Similarly, the guidelines state that at institutions where junior colleges are linked with senior colleges, the principals are authorised to give priority to admitting junior colleges pass outs from their own institution to the first-year degree courses.

It is binding on colleges to maintain the number of student strength approved for each division by the university or the state government. Each stream will have one seat reserved for Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) migrant students as per the state and the Union ministry of human resources directive.

Fifteen per cent seats “over and above the sanctioned intake”, will be for students with status of people of Indian origin (PIO), foreign students and foreign nationals. These admissions would be effected through the International Students Centre (ISC) at the university.

Similarly, 10% seats “within the sanctioned intake” would go to NRI students through the ISC.

A merit list of general, backward class and OBC students will have to be submitted by the college concerned to the university within eight days of completion of the admission process.

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TOI : PUNE: In yet another move towards decentralisation, the civic standing committee on Tuesday gave powers to ward level committees to approve tenders up to Rs 25 lakh.

The ward-level committees will now function as mini-standing committees to give momentum to local level civic work as they will not need sanctioning of the civic general body.

Addressing a press conference, standing committee chairman Sham Deshpande claimed that the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is the first civic body in the country to make such a move. Earlier, the ward-level committees had powers only to sanction and execute works up to Rs 5 lakh, he said.

“However, it needed approvals from the standing committee and the general body. But now, they will have the power to go ahead on their own, which is a very important step to increase the pace of work,” municipal commissioner Pravinsinh Pardeshi told press reporters.

Deshpande said that “Although it meant curtailing the powers of the standing committee, we went ahead, because there are large numbers of works going on in the city and it is necessary to change the system to save time. This will also enable spending the budgetary funds in the same year they are approved.”

“Now, the ward offices will be able to execute even medium-sized roads and spend at least Rs 200 crore,” he added.

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TOI : PUNE: The state government has directed the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) to complete the work of demarcation of flood control lines of Pavana, Mula and Indrayani rivers.

Civic officials said the government is expected to take a decision on the approval of the development plan (DP) for the fringe villages after the demarcation of the flood lines is completed.

A total of 18 villages were partially or fully merged into the PCMC limits in 1997. The civic body has sent the DP of these areas for approval to the state government.

Additional commissioner Subhash Dumbre told TOI that the work of demarcating of flood control line of the rivers has already been allotted to the irrigation department and Rs 30 lakh has been paid for the work. Irrigation department officials have informed the PCMC that the work of demarcating the flood control lines is in the final stages.

According to Avinash Patil, deputy director of the town planning department, PCMC; irrigation department officials have said that they will give their report on the demarcation before June 15.

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TOI : PUNE: As if talent, temperament and interests were not enough, more and more students are queuing up at the offices of numerologists and astrologers to help them select the right career.

Parents and students approach them to know the inclination of their wards and select the field accordingly. The number goes up following results and psychologists term the tendency as “anxiety tolerance”.

The HSC results were declared recently and the pass percentile was very high. Choosing the field for further study is proving harder for parents and students and so many knock at the doors of numerologists to get guidance.

“Lots of options are available these days. Most students get confused when it comes to selecting the right career,” said Mmanisha Rakshe, a numerologist. Rakshe says in numerology, studying the birth date, name can help find an individual’s area of interest. “One can know if the person has inclination towards arts or science or any other field. We exchange these observations with the parents.” she said.

She pointed that although people approach her throughout the year, the number goes up by around 40 per cent after results are out. Youngsters even demand change of spellings in the name for better prospects.

According to another numerologist Siddharth Joshi, parents from various backgrounds come to him for advice.

“Selecting a career is important and parents and students don’t want to take chances. So they come to us,” he said adding that some times the area of interests chosen by the parents and their wards defer. This leads to a conflict and they come to us to find a way out, he added.

A mother of two, Nikita Rananaware elaborates the reason for approaching a numerologist. “Both my children are young. I thought if I can find their areas of interest at the right time then building a…More

TOI : AURANGABAD: Come inspection days, and it’s time to prove by hook or by crook that we meet the set standards and norms. This is exactly what the state government is doing now — move teachers to colleges lacking the required strength and infrastracture until the inspection by the Medical Council of India (MCI) is over.

About 25 teachers, including three professors and heads of departments (HoDs) of the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) here, have again been moved on ‘usanvari’ (borrowing) basis to other colleges, including Pune’s B.J. Medical College. The government has shifted about 50 teachers from its 14 colleges across the state to the colleges being visited by the MCI teams for inspection, said Vinod Mundada, local unit secretary of the Maharashtra State Medical Teachers Association (MSMTA).

Members of the MSMTA had resigned en masse in October 2007 to raise various issues including the ‘usanvari’ system and had submitted several memoranda between July 2007 and January 2008 urging the government to stop the practice. Because of the ‘usanvari’, teachers are resigning from government medical colleges to join private institutions in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, said Shivaji Sukre, former vice president of the MSMTA.

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TOI : PUNE: As if talent, temperament and interests were not enough, more and more students are queuing up at the offices of numerologists and astrologers to help them select the right career.

Parents and students approach them to know the inclination of their wards and select the field accordingly. The number goes up following results and psychologists term the tendency as “anxiety tolerance”.

The HSC results were declared recently and the pass percentile was very high. Choosing the field for further study is proving harder for parents and students and so many knock at the doors of numerologists to get guidance.

“Lots of options are available these days. Most students get confused when it comes to selecting the right career,” said Mmanisha Rakshe, a numerologist. Rakshe says in numerology, studying the birth date, name can help find an individual’s area of interest. “One can know if the person has inclination towards arts or science or any other field. We exchange these observations with the parents.” she said.

She pointed that although people approach her throughout the year, the number goes up by around 40 per cent after results are out. Youngsters even demand change of spellings in the name for better prospects.

According to another numerologist Siddharth Joshi, parents from various backgrounds come to him for advice.

“Selecting a career is important and parents and students don’t want to take chances. So they come to us,” he said adding that some times the area of interests chosen by the parents and their wards defer. This leads to a conflict and they come to us to find a way out, he added.

A mother of two, Nikita Rananaware elaborates the reason for approaching a numerologist. “Both my children are young. I thought if I can find their areas of interest at the right time then building a…More

TOI : PUNE: As if talent, temperament and interests were not enough, more and more students are queuing up at the offices of numerologists and astrologers to help them select the right career.

Parents and students approach them to know the inclination of their wards and select the field accordingly. The number goes up following results and psychologists term the tendency as “anxiety tolerance”.

The HSC results were declared recently and the pass percentile was very high. Choosing the field for further study is proving harder for parents and students and so many knock at the doors of numerologists to get guidance.

“Lots of options are available these days. Most students get confused when it comes to selecting the right career,” said Mmanisha Rakshe, a numerologist. Rakshe says in numerology, studying the birth date, name can help find an individual’s area of interest. “One can know if the person has inclination towards arts or science or any other field. We exchange these observations with the parents.” she said.

She pointed that although people approach her throughout the year, the number goes up by around 40 per cent after results are out. Youngsters even demand change of spellings in the name for better prospects.

According to another numerologist Siddharth Joshi, parents from various backgrounds come to him for advice.

“Selecting a career is important and parents and students don’t want to take chances. So they come to us,” he said adding that some times the area of interests chosen by the parents and their wards defer. This leads to a conflict and they come to us to find a way out, he added.

A mother of two, Nikita Rananaware elaborates the reason for approaching a numerologist. “Both my children are young. I thought if I can find their areas of interest at the right time then building a…More