A city court has ordered 80 primary school teachers to rejoin Pune Zilla Parishad (ZP) schools.

The ZP had earlier relieved a group of 150 teachers so that they may join the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) schools.

These teachers worked in villages located in the fringe areas which were earlier under the zilla parishad. After they were merged with the Pune Municipal Corporation, they expressed a desire to join PMC–run schools. The order to send the group of 80 back to ZP schools was passed by civil judge (senior division) GK Rathod on February 13.

Defence counsel KR Shah, who represented the teachers, however said that an appeal before the sessions court will be made challenging the civil judge's order.

Annual family income of Rs2 lakh is the ceiling, while the creamy layer has been completely kept out of the purview of the quota

The department of higher education has announced the criteria for eligibility to seek admission to engineering courses for the next academic year under the quota for poor and meritorious students.

A government order issued on Tuesday, has said that all those not covered under the creamy layer policy laid out in government order No SWD225BCA2000 and dated 30/3/2002, will be eligible for availing admission under this quota.

The state government had decided to distribute 50% of seats under the government quota for the poor and meritorious students who have earned competitive ranks in Common Entrance Test.

The helplines for CBSE schools have found a lot of takers not only among students but also among the parents.

With the board exams having already kickstarted, the helplines have registered a number of calls from anxious parents.

Experts agreed that parents too need counselling ahead of exams on how to guide children without stressing them out. "Parents need more help on how to prepare their child for exams as well as support them," Dr Srinivasa Murthy, counsellor, CBSE helpline said.

After creating history on March 13, 2006, when 34-year-old Wahida Prizm from the militancy-ridden state of J&K became the first commissioned lady officer to command a parade in the armed forces in the country, the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) is all set to repeat the feat.

This time, a lady medical cadet, Harleen Chopra, hailing from Ludhiana, will command the parade on Thursday at the premier military institution in Pune.

AFMC spokesperson Lt Col Abhijit Rudra confirmed that Harleen is all set to become the first lady cadet ever to command a passing out parade (PoP) in the history of the Indian Armed Forces. Harleen joined the AFMC in 2004.

Four NMIMS students' idea won the prize at the Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition in the US

"We offered a Nano-type food product for the slumdwellers and it won a global award," said a jubilant Sreejit NG.

Sreejit and his colleagues Ankit Jain, Siddharth Bedi, Rahul Kumar Agrawal — all students of Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) — won the $10,000 grand prize at the Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) at the University of Washington Foster School of Business. The product they offered was a full nutritious meal for slumdwellers containing rice, lentils, vegetable peels and jaggery for just Rs5.

As students twitter away in their board exam answer sheets, a problem of 'ggntic' proportions is in the making. When these answers end up with SMS-illiterate moderators, not only will they be left fazed, but given the lack of an official stand on the matter, will also have to individually determine whether 'textisms' are acceptable or not.

It is not that the students are unaware of the pitfalls of writing 'Us' and '2s', but hundreds of quick-fire smses seem to have formed an unbreakable habit, and try as they may, SMS lingo creeps in unconsciously.