Alifiya Khan

SPPU Registrar Narendra Kadu has started receiving letters from students — who are neither affiliated to an union nor to a political party’s youth wing — requesting that such elections should not be held.

At Abeda Inamdar Junior College in Camp, at least 10 such students turned up after the first bell went off barely 10 minutes before examination was scheduled to start.

Even in Pune division, where 2,29, 437 students had registered for the HSC exams last year, the number has gone up to 2,42,628 this year.

Voters say process was easy, had researched on candidates.

Despite not finding their names in multiple lists, voters did not give up.

No wheelchair, no ramp for the disabled and old voters at many PMC polling booths.

Officials say the numbers could go as high as 30,000

The incident took place on Thursday evening at 8 pm, while the student was on her way back to the hostel complex from the gym

Parents of Karishma and Puja say they haven’t got the post-mortem report from the university yet

Clinking glasses clinking, waiters briskly serving the patrons, laughter all around and a constant stream of customers, leaves hardly any memory of the blast that claimed 17 lives.

According to the college management, the decision to hire bouncers was taken to increase security on campus, make it safer for women and prevent any untoward incidents.