
Mumbai: Following the leak of a TYBCom paper, a three-member committee was set up and their findings were released on Sunday. Three professors have been suspended and the college has been fined Rs 1 lakh following the probe. On March 27, when students came to appear for their Business Economics examination at BNN College, they were instead given the Marketing and Human Resource Management (MHRM) question paper for an examination...

10:53 AM, Apr 02, 2012

Just inside the office of Pashmina Realty in Worli, there's an entire wall covered by a poster of LIFE, an NGO (non-governmental organisation) whose Mumbai chapter focusses mainly on health, education and low-cost housing under the Asit Kotecha Foundation. The poster is full of slogans written by Pashmina employees who participate actively in the NGO. Behind the poster wall is the office of Asit Kotecha, who owns Pashmina Realty and...

12:25 PM, Nov 23, 2011

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07:01 PM, Nov 06, 2010

On 'Face The Nation', Sagarika Ghose asks a panel of experts if it is okay to ban books in the light of controversy surrounding Rohinton Mistry's book 'Such A Long Journey'. ...

07:24 AM, Oct 21, 2010

Mumbai: The Maharashtra chief minister has backed Mumbai University's decision to drop Rohinton Mistry's novel Such a Long Journey from its syllabus. This book was dropped mid term, almost immediately after the Shiv Sena protested saying the book contained objectionable remarks about their party. And while the author has slammed both the university and the Sena, students in Mumbai too have expressed anger about their syllabus being dictated by a...

11:07 PM, Oct 20, 2010

Mumbai: Indian-born Canadian writer Rohinton Mistry on Monday voiced dismay over Mumbai University providing "deluxe service via express delivery" in quickly dropping his Booker prize-nominated book 'Such A Long Journey' from college syllabus following a demand by the Shiv Sena. "A political party demanded change in syllabus and Mumbai University provided deluxe service via express delivery making the book disappear the very next day," Mistry, who is based in Canada,...

10:39 AM, Oct 19, 2010

Mumbai: Another Thackeray enters politics with a controversy - 20-year-old Aditya Thackeray, grandson of Balasaheb Thackeray forges ahead the legacy of his political leanings after forcing the Mumbai university to drop Rohinton Mistry's book from the syllabus. He is in the centre of controversy for forcing the University of Mumbai to drop a major literary work by Rohinton Mistry from its syllabus. The Shiv Sena GenNext's latest salvo - getting...

09:38 AM, Oct 06, 2010

Mumbai: The Shiv Sena has now forced the Mumbai University to drop Rohinton Mistry's Booker nominated novel 'Such a Long Journey' from the Bachelor of Arts (BA) second year course. But the teachers are worried that the university by buckling down to the Sena's threats has set a bad precedent. The exams are postponed and teachers and students are agitated. It was Shiv Sena's heir apparent Aditya Thackeray, a student...

07:47 PM, Oct 04, 2010

SC Jamir visited the university premises to take stock of the damage. ...

12:41 PM, Jan 30, 2009

The MNS is 'hurt' by the decision to make Marathi an elective subject in its Social Sciences course. ...

08:30 PM, Jan 27, 2009

Police have arrested six students in connection with the incident. ...

02:43 PM, Jan 27, 2009

Maharashtra state govt wants to sensitise students against terror. ...

02:09 PM, Dec 19, 2008

New Delhi: Same role but a different avatar awaits MS Dhoni as he attempts to add more sparkle to Chennai Super Kings' (CSK) bejewelled crown against a contrasting backdrop of the fiasco in England. Dhoni tasted defeat for the first time in a Test series, and loss in the T20 and ODI series against England completed a miserable England tour for him. En route, India conceded their No. 1 rank...

12:47 AM, Mar 02, 2008

More infotainment and less
gyaan, that's what Mumbai University's first community radio station promises its listeners. ...

08:39 PM, Mar 20, 2007