University of Mumbai

Elphinstone College is an institution of higher education affiliated to the University of Mumbai. Established in 1856, it is one of the oldest... colleges of the University of Mumbai. It was exalted as a prestigious seat of learning during the British Raj and is generally observed for its vibrant alumni. It is reputed for producing several luminaries like Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Pherozshah Mehta, and Jamshedji Tata. It is further observed for having played a key role in spread of Western education in the Bombay Presidency. The year 2006 marked the Sesquicentennial celebrations of the college . At present it offers undergraduate level courses in the arts, sciences and commerce and is under the Governance of Maharashtra Government. Locally, the college is famous for its 'Romanesque Transitional' style building that has been recently categorized as Grade I Heritage structure. By 19th century Bombay was a prosperous centre for maritime trade and commerce. In 1824 an English school was set up by the Bombay Native Education Society for Indian students .
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Lokmanya Tilak College of Engineering , established in 1994, is one of the premier engineering colleges in Navi Mumbai affiliated with the University... of Mumbai. The college is approved by AICTE, New Delhi and is recognized by the government of Maharashtra. Over the years the college has gained recognition in the engineering fields by producing merit rankers each year. The institute has been graded "A" by the Directorate of Technical Education, Government of Maharashtra State. It is recognised by the AICTE and has received accreditation from the National Board of Accreditation , New Delhi. LTCOE offers graduate programs of engineering in the following fields: LTCOE offers post-graduate programs of engineering and management: It also offers a two-year Masters Programme in Mechanical engineering. The college was started in 1994. It is named after the Indian freedom fighter and social reformer, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, who was reverently addressed as Lokmanya Tilak. Mahatma Gandhi called Tilak "The Maker of Modern India.
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Rāmniranjan Ānandilāl Podār College of Commerce and Economics, popularly known simply as Podar College, is affiliated with the... University of Mumbai, situated in Matunga, Mumbai, India. It is run by the Shikshan Prasarak Mandali also called the S.P. Mandali, which has its headquarters at Pune. The college offers courses in commerce for undergraduate degrees, and the affiliated Wellingkar Institute of Management and Commerce offers postgraduate degrees and postgraduate diplomas in commerce and management. The College is located in central Mumbai, on Lakhamsi Napoo Road which is on the east side of Mātungā central railway station. The College building is of neo-Gothic style. It is flanked on one side by the famous Ramnivas Ruia College of Arts and Science and on the other side by the Welingkar Institute of Management. All of which are controlled by the Shiksan Prasarak Mandali, Pune In 1941, Seth Rāmdeoji Ānandilāl Podār provided funds of one hundred and fifty thousand rupees --a substantial sum in those times-- for establishing the College in the memory of his brother, Rāmniranjan Ānandilāl Podār, giving the charge of running the college to the Shikshan Prasārak Mandali.
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Shah & Anchor Kutchi Engineering College is an engineering college in Mumbai, India. The college has been graded 'A' by the Directorate of... Technical Education, Maharashtra State. This college was established by the Mahavir Education Trust in 1985. Mahavir Education Trust was established in 1983 to promoting technical education. With the help of donations of two main donors, Shrimati Laxmiben Karamshibhai Shah Trust and Shah Lalji Velji Anchorwala, a polytechnic under the name of Shah and Anchor Kutchhi Polytechnic was started in 1983. The inauguration of the polytechnic was by Vasantdada Patil, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra State. In 1984, due to the need of a university level education, the Mangal Textiles Building located in the adjacent Ujagar Industrial Estate was purchased. After modifications to the building Shah and Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College was opened in 1985. The construction work for the modern building for the engineering college was started in 1994. The new building is provided with electronics and computer laboratories, classrooms, library, and an auditorium as per the Central/State Government authorities' norms.
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Manil Suri is an Indian-American mathematician and writer, most notable for his first novel, The Death of Vishnu, which was long-listed for the 2001... Booker Prize, short-listed for the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize that year. His latest novel is The Age of Shiva. Suri was born in Bombay , India, the son of R.L. Suri, a Bollywood music director, and a schoolteacher. He attended the University of Bombay before moving to the United States, where he attended Carnegie Mellon University. He received a Ph. D. in mathematics in 1983, and became a mathematics professor at UMBC . He still continues to hold this job even though he is more notable as a writer, and has risen through the academic ranks of the university. Suri began writing short stories in the 1980s during his spare time, but none were published. In 1995 he began writing The Death of Vishnu, a novel about social and religious tensions in India taking place in an apartment building in contemporary Mumbai.
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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is an Indian film actress. She worked as a model before starting her acting career, and ultimately won the Miss World pageant... in 1994. Rai has acted in over 40 films in Hindi, English, Tamil, Telugu, and Bengali. Often cited by the media as the "most beautiful woman in the world", Rai made her acting debut in Mani Ratnam's Tamil film Iruvar , and had her first commercial success in the Tamil movie Jeans . She gained the attention of Bollywood through the film Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam , directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Her performance won her the Filmfare Best Actress Award. In 2002 she appeared in Bhansali's Devdas, for which she won her second Filmfare Best Actress Award. After a setback in her career during 2003–2005, she appeared in Dhoom 2 , which was her biggest commercial success in India. She later appeared in films like Guru , Jodhaa Akbar , and Enthiran , which were commercially and critically successful. Rai has established herself as one of the leading actresses in Bollywood.
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Madhuri Dixit is an Indian film actress who has appeared in Hindi films. Often cited by the media as one of the best actresses in Bollywood, Dixit... made her film debut in Abodh and received wider public recognition with Tezaab . She went on to establish herself as one of Hindi cinema's leading actresses, acknowledged for several of her performances, her beauty, and her accomplished dancing. Some of her proceeding films include such box-office hits as Dil , Saajan , Beta , Hum Aapke Hain Kaun! and Raja . After a relatively low phase, she reinvented herself with the romance Dil To Pagal Hai and subsequently received critical acclaim for her work in films like Mrityudand , Pukar , Lajja and Devdas . In 2002, she retired from films in order to raise her children and made a comeback with the musical Aaja Nachle in 2007. Dixit has won five Filmfare Awards, four for Best Actress and one for Best Supporting Actress. She holds the record for the highest number of Best Actress nominations at Filmfare, with 13.
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