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Indian Express
29-06-2025
- Business
- Indian Express
FYJC Round One List 2025: Admissions to allotted colleges till July 7; know process
FYJC Round One List 2025: The Maharashtra School Education Department on June 28 released the first merit list of the First Year Junior College (FYJC) admissions. A total of 10,66,005 candidates applied for FYJC admissions under the CAP round 1, with 2,31,356 opting for Arts, 2,24,931 for Commerce, and 6,09,718 for Science. Out of these applicants, 6,32,194 have been allotted seats in CAP round 1, breaking down into 1,49,791 in Arts, 1,39,602 in Commerce, and 3,42,801 in Science. Students who have now got their names have to confirm their admissions to the allotted colleges within the stipulated deadline. Such students have to accept the seats between June 30 and July 7. For the same, students have to click on the proceed for admission if they are satisfied with the allotted Junior College and upload the required documents and then confirm admission. Within the deadline, students need to report to the allotted college for document verification and payment of prescribed fees, etc and confirm the admission in the allotted Junior College. If a student doesn't want to take admission in the allotted Junior College, he or she participates in the next round. All the selections like admission confirmation, rejection and admission cancellation,n should be done at the college login dashboard. Student registration with their preferences filling will continue for new applicants until the next round if consent is given by the student, as mentioned in the official schedule. Students who have been allotted their first preference it is compulsory to take admission in the allotted College. If such students fail to take admission or have been rejected, they will be blocked for a subsequent regular Round 2 to 4 and can only be considered open for all rounds onwards. If a student wishes to cancel his/her confirmed admission, they can request the concerned College for this and get the admission cancelled. Such students who have cancelled their admissions will also be restricted from a subsequent regular round and can only be considered after the next round. The FYJC merit list, initially expected on June 26, was delayed due to technical issues. Although the deputy director's office announced June 30 as the new release date, the list was released on Saturday evening. Cutoffs for popular city colleges have seen slight variations, with some increasing marginally. For instance: – St Xavier's College: Arts cutoff remained steady at 94.3%, while Science cutoff rose from 91.6% to 93%. – Ruia College: Arts cutoff increased from 92.2% to 92.4%, and Science cutoff went up from 93.4% to 94.4%. Now, after admissions under CAP round 1 are finalised, the vacancy list for round 2 will be declared on July 9.
Indian Express
28-06-2025
- Business
- Indian Express
First merit list of FYJC admissions finally declared
After a prolonged delay, the first merit list of the First Year Junior College (FYJC) admissions was finally declared on Saturday — 59 per cent of the total applicants for the Common Admission Process (CAP) round 1 have been allotted seats. All these students have until July 7 to confirm their admissions in the allotted seats. In all, 10,66,005 candidates had applied for FYJC admissions under CAP round 1, including 2,31,356 for Arts, 2,24,931 for Commerce and 6,09,718 for Science. Of the total applicants, 6,32,194 have been allotted seats in CAP round 1 — 1,49,791 in Arts, 1,39,602 in Commerce and 3,42,801 in Science. In all, 4,57,841 candidates have been allotted seats in their first college of preference. This includes 1,35,620 allotments in Arts, 82,594 allotments in Commerce and 2,39,627 in Science. As per rules, all these students have to confirm their admissions in their allotted seats. Meanwhile, out of 1,45,225 applications received under the in-house, minority and management quota of junior colleges, 60,487 admissions have been confirmed in round zero, which takes place before CAP round 1. Now, after admissions under CAP round 1 are finalised, the vacancy list for round 2 will be declared on July 9. The FYJC merit list, which was earlier scheduled to be out on June 26, was delayed due to technical snags. The office of deputy director had announced that the list will be out on June 30, but it was declared on Saturday evening. With slight variations, cutoffs of popular city colleges have gone up marginally. For example, at the city's most popular St Xavier's College, cutoff for Arts remained the same as that of last year's – 94.3 per cent. Whereas in Science stream it has gone up from 91.6 per cent to 93. At Ruia College, cutoff for Arts increased marginally from 92.2 per cent to 92.4 whereas in Science it has gone up from 93.4 per cent to 94.4.
The Wire
27-06-2025
- Politics
- The Wire
Remembering Jim Masselos, the Australian Scholar of Bombay's Social History
James Cosmas Masselos (1940-2025) studied and wrote about Bombay/Mumbai for six decades. He was a pioneer in the study of the history of urban South Asia, held in great esteem and affection by generations of scholars who regard his work as foundational to their own. Jim was at the tail end of a generation of Australians who made a global impact on London in the 1960s such as Germaine Greer, Robert Hughes and Barry Humphries. However, after graduating from the University of Sydney, Jim headed not to London but instead made the journey by sea to Bombay (as it was) on a studentship funded by the Indian government under the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan. Supervised by Professor William Coelho at the Heras Institute of Indian History and Culture, St Xavier's College, Jim submitted his doctoral thesis to the University of Bombay in 1964. This was a study of the origins of nationalist associations in late 19th century Bombay and Poona. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Jim wrote a series of essays which laid the foundations for a new kind of urban social history. He explored how 19th-century Bombay was made from below by a range of social actors. These writings traversed a range of themes: the world of the urban mohalla, crowds and popular culture, and the changing rhythms of everyday life in the city. In the 1980s, Jim began his work on Congress' efforts at popular mobilisation in inter-war Bombay, then in the early 1990s, he looked at how other visions of the political that threatened to undercut its secular fabric. Thus, shortly after the 1992-93 riots in Mumbai, he published an essay that examined the first Hindu-Muslim riots in the city a century earlier. Professor Prashant Kidambi quotes an essay of Jim's from 1992: 'Bombay was always an Indian city; even in the days of the Raj Bombay was never merely a white enclave surrounded by an Asiatic universe.' It was a view that stood in stark contrast to prevailing notions of the so-called 'colonial city', which regarded it as a largely European construct in whose fashioning Indians had little or no role. Jim drew on empirical and archival material using strong analytical frameworks. He underlined the shaping of Bombay by the dynamic between the formally 'defined city' and the informally inhabited 'effective city'. Again Kidambi quotes Jim: 'The city defies the intentions of its masters to impose an orderly planned pattern upon it. The contrast between the habitation wishes of its population and the plans of those who formally control the shape of the city remains a constant tension in the structure of the relationships which create the urban complex.' Kidambi notes four major themes in Jim's work: 'First, he has documented the ways in which urban communities, far from being manifestations of primordial cultural identities, were historically reconstituted in the modern city. Second, he has shown a remarkably keen and prescient awareness of the centrality of space in the making and unmaking of these communities. Third, he has highlighted how diverse forms of power, operating at different scales, have structured social relations in the city. And finally, he has also been concerned with how one form of power, that expressed in the discursive practices of nationalism, sought to acquire and exercise hegemony in the city.' Bombay before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos, edited by Prashant Kidambi, Manjiri Kamat, and Rachel Dwyer. Using these four divisions, Kidambi structured the book of papers that was co-edited by him, Professor Manjiri Kamat of Mumbai University and myself that were published in the UK (Hurst Publishers), India (Penguin) and the USA (Oxford University Press) as Bombay before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos (2019). These drew from presentations made at a conference held in his honour at the Department of History, University of Mumbai, in 2017. Many urban historians and colleagues remembered him when he passed away. Manjari Kamat wrote to me and said: 'Jim Masselos, an alumnus of University of Mumbai and former Honorary Reader in History at the University of Sydney can be seen as a pioneer among the urban historians of Bombay." "His later writings, particularly his seminal article, The Power in the Bombay Moholla which appeared in the journal, South Asia in 1976 and the articles he published thereafter on crowd events in the city during the nationalist movement inspired historians to shift their attention to neighbourhood networks and popular movements to understand India's urban modernity and the unfolding of the nationalist movement in Bombay. "It was Jim's constant endeavour to connect the present to the past as in the case of his article on the1993 riots juxtaposed with a study of the riots of 1893 that set him apart and reflected his deep engagement with the changes and continuities in his beloved city of Bombay.' Jim's colleague in the University of Sydney, professor Robert Aldrich said: 'Jim was a much loved teacher of courses in Indian history, Southeast Asian history and other fields, his classes always enriched by his sojourns in Asia and his deep appreciation of Asian art, film and culture in general. Jim shared his passion for history and for South Asia. Just last year, a colleague told me how he had just met and chatted with a group of undergraduates whom she was taking to Mumbai for a summer course – and how excited the students were to see one of Jim's books on a display table in a bookshop when they were there. Jim was immensely kind and generous with his students, many of whom became lifelong friends (and some them distinguished scholars in their own right), and they have now been remembering him with great fondness and sadness at his passing.' There is a consensus about Jim that he was not only a fine scholar but a great friend, a supportive mentor, a generous sharer of his time. My husband and I were lucky to get to know Jim over many years, first meeting during the riots in Bombay of December 1992. My husband was unwell, so Jim and I went to wonderful parties hosted by journalists and writers. He introduced me to many film makers including Shyam Benegal and Mani Kaul. I remember walking back from a party on Malabar Hill along Marine Drive talking and laughing uproariously. I kept wondering why my new acquaintances kept saying Michael (now well) looked much younger and better. It was only when he was asked why he'd shaved off his beard I realised they meant Jim which led to much more laughter and wondering if Greek Australians and British Irishmen looked the same. I was a doctoral student when I met Jim and he set me the example of never talking down to people. He talked to everyone with respect and kindness. He had three sisters of whom he was very fond and he occasionally talked about growing up in Sydney of Greek heritage. He used to get me to try to say 'Dimitri' (his Greek name) correctly and laughed at my hopelessly romantic Hellenophilia. Jim certainly had the famous Greek xenophilia – love of foreign people and cultures, the opposite of xenophobia. He had many friends in India from royalty to the ordinary person. He wasn't interested in money or status at all and was happy to tramp around the streets although allowing himself more comfort in retirement. Jim was also extraordinarily hospitable at home, throwing parties and dinners for us, making our way to his kitchen through the books and papers that had spread from his study and were taking over his whole house. He always took time out when we visited to show us around Sydney, his other favourite city. Jim often worked with Jackie Menzies, the Head of the Asian Art at the Art Gallery Gallery of New South Wales, holding conferences there and leaving them most of his enormous collection of Indian artefacts. He was an immensely cultured man and loved art and cinema (though I never persuaded him to like 'Bollywood'). The four of us met several times in Australia and in London and ate at restaurants and drank good wine, creating lifelong memories. One time Jim, Michael and I went to a very fancy restaurant – then the most famous – in Sydney where Jim was allowed to bring some special bottles from his cellar. The waves at Bondi Beach were much louder than usual the next day. Jim had not been in good health for a while and was very ill over the last few months. I had hoped that I would get to see him one last time but it wasn't to be. Perhaps it's best to remember him as he was with his jhola and his cigarette, always smiling and full of great conversation. Eonia i mnimi – eternal memory.
Hindustan Times
26-06-2025
- General
- Hindustan Times
The Aussie urban historian who was consumed by Mumbai's many hues
LONDON: James Cosmas Masselos, one of the foremost urban historians who wrote and researched extensively on Mumbai, passed away at the age of 85 in Australia on Wednesday. Over a glorious six-decade career, Masselos published six books, brought out five edited collections and contributed over 50 research articles. By any yardstick, this is a remarkable body of work. The Aussie urban historian who was consumed by Mumbai's many hues In January 2017, a festschrift conference was held in his honour at University of Mumbai where scholars from around the world presented papers. These were later published in a volume titled 'Bombay before Mumbai' in 2019 edited by Professors Rachel Dwyer, Prashant Kidambi and Manjiri Kamat. Masselos's association with the city began in July 1961 when he travelled from Sydney on a studentship funded by the Government of India under the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan. The flight with stopovers in Darwin, Jakarta, Singapore and Madras finally led him to Bombay where his abode was a hostel on B Road in Churchgate. Just a year before his arrival, the former Bombay Presidency had separated into two new states of Maharashtra and Gujarat in 1960. He achieved his PhD in 1964 under the supervision of Professor William Coelho at St Xavier's College. Masselos's scholarship has the trademark of deep archival research combined with a clear desire to understand how the city worked and the various communities who made it home. The urban space of Bombay fascinated him, and he got naturally drawn to the multitude of street spectacles that he witnessed. An enduring feature of his scholarship was the ability to constantly reflect on the city's past based on current happenings. The Mumbai riots of 1992-93 spurred him to write an essay in Economic and Political Weekly about the communal riots of 1893. The detailed narrative provided a glimpse into the city's street life a century before and helped dissect the phenomenon of communal riots. His own experience of wandering in the city facilitated a rich understanding of how urban crowds behaved. His essay titled 'Bombay Time/Standard Time' informed a large section of intellectuals of what it meant for Bombay to have its own time zone, separate from the standard India time, as late as 1955. Perhaps using time as a metaphor, Masselos was making the statement that just as Bombay time and Indian Standard Time were different, so was the cosmopolitan city of Bombay from the rest of India. Bombay's uniqueness was brought out in many of his other influential research articles which continue to inspire and attract new scholarship. In 'Power in the Bombay Moholla', another exploratory essay, he explained effectively the context in which the assistance and concurrence of city's mohalla leaders were required by national leaders in the early 20th century if they wished to make inroads with the masses. Similarly, his 1973 essay on Khojas of Bombay was one of the earliest accessible works which clinically identified how colonial courts in the 19th century were defining community and sectarian norms. Masselos remained connected with the University of Sydney through his working life. After his PhD from University of Bombay, he joined University of Sydney as a lecturer in 1965 and taught generations of students till his retirement in 2001. His affable nature and curiosity endeared scholars across the world who were seeking to make sense of Bombay. He loved Bombay and its people in all its hues, which is amply reflected in his scholarship. In 2009, along with writer and journalist Naresh Fernandes he wrote 'Bombay Then and Mumbai Now'. Accompanied by fascinating pictures, the book captured the changing essence of the city bringing into conversation the past with the present. Jim is now gone, but future generations of scholars will continue to refer to his rich work to understand the dynamics and famed resilience of the city.
Time of India
13-06-2025
- General
- Time of India
A dream cut short as Manisha, AI crew member from city, dies in crash
1 2 Patna: Manisha Thapa, a 27-year-old flight attendant from Patna, was among the 265 people who lost their lives when Air India flight AI-171 crashed moments after take-off from Ahmedabad airport. The tragedy has plunged her family and neighbours into deep mourning. A pall of silence and shock hung over the Jagdeo Path locality near the BSAP ground in Patna where neighbours were grappling with the devastating news of Manisha's untimely death. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, bound for London, went down just two minutes after taking off at 1.38pm on Thursday. The ill-fated flight carried 230 passengers, including 169 Indian nationals, 53 from the UK, 7 Portuguese citizens and one Canadian. On board were also 12 crew members. Among the passengers were 103 men, 114 women, 11 children and two infants. Manisha, who served as a cabin crew member on the flight, was known for her academic brilliance and vibrant personality. A graduate of St Xavier's College, Patna, she completed her bachelor's in business economics from 2014 to 2017. She began her aviation career with IndiGo Airlines as ground support staff, moved to Akasa Air and later joined Air India , where she regularly served on international routes, including London and Australia. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Giao dịch vàng CFDs với sàn môi giới tin cậy IC Markets Tìm hiểu thêm Undo "Manisha was also known for her graceful demeanour and friendly nature," said neighbour Santosh Kumar. The entire neighbourhood has been in mourning with residents coming together to comfort her grieving family. Born in Patna to Raju Thapa, a Bihar Police officer posted in Begusarai, and Laxmi Thapa, a homemaker, Manisha traced her roots to Biratnagar, Nepal. She is survived by her younger brother Amit, currently pursuing his studies, and her uncles Bablu and Guddu Bahadur Thapa, both serving as havildars in the Bihar Special Armed Police. Her uncle Guddu said, "One of Manisha's friends informed us about the tragic incident on Thursday around 2.30pm. Her parents are in Ahmedabad for a DNA test to help identify her remains. Manisha was not only excellent in her studies but also very cultured and sociable." St Xavier's College will hold a memorial service at 8.45am on Saturday to honour their distinguished alumna. The college campus, where Manisha once thrived, now resonates with sorrow. Mohit Manna, a former batchmate at St Xavier's, posted a tribute on X, sharing a photo of Manisha. "Lost my friend Manisha Thapa in the plane crash today. She was a business economics graduate and used to sit in the classroom next to mine and sometimes together in some common classes. Her smile, charm and energy were so elegant." In a follow-up post, he wrote, "She helped me numerous times in organising events and activities. The family, her younger brother, will not be the same again. I can't even remember one instance where she was angry or spoke harshly to anyone. Oh God, you are so merciless. Why did you do this to her? RIP Manisha." He added, "A few days ago, she posted a small clip where she wrote it was the first time she danced on a stage. She looked so happy. Oh God, why!" Follow more information on Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad here . Get real-time live updates on rescue operations and check full list of passengers onboard AI 171 .
