CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Pune Lavasa Campus

A Home Away from Home: Celebrating Durga Puja on Campus As the festive season arrives, our campus is preparing to come alive with the sound of drums, the fragrance of flowers, and the glow of lamps. This year, students are celebrating Durga Puja on campus, and it promises to be far more than a festival. It is an invitation to pause, gather, and feel at home. For many students and staff, the festive season can be the loneliest time of the year, because it is spent far from family. The celebration is designed to change that. Through music, art, devotion, and shared meals, it creates a true home away from home, where everyone is welcome as part of one larger family. What makes the event special is the effort behind it. Student organisers and volunteers plan, decorate, cook, and coordinate side by side, and in the process they build bonds of brotherhood and sisterhood that cross lines of region, religion, gender, and background. Late evenings spent painting backdrops or arranging flowers t...

The 'Ghar Wali Diwali' Entrepreneurial Carnival is a student-led initiative organized in collaboration with the Women Empowerment Cell (WEC). It is designed to provide students with hands-on exposure to entrepreneurship while creating an opportunity to acknowledge the contributions of campus support staff. These employees play an essential role in maintaining the cleanliness, safety, administration, and daily functioning of the institution. Their work takes place behind the scenes, yet it contributes to a comfortable and well-organized campus. The carnival provides a platform to express appreciation and recognize their efforts as an important part of the university community. The event also holds significance as it takes place around Diwali. For faculty members and students who remain on campus during the holidays, being away from their families can make the occasion feel different. Through celebrations and thoughtful gestures, the initiative aims to create a warm atmosphere th...

The Library and Information Center, in association with The Readers Club, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Pune Lavasa Campus, organized a two-day book display event titled “Books in Search of Readers: A Diwali Special” on 4th and 5th November 2026. The initiative aimed to promote reading habits, create awareness about the library's diverse collection, and encourage students, faculty, and staff members to explore books beyond their regular academic interests. The event was conceptualized to bridge the gap between the library's extensive collection and potential readers by bringing books closer to the university community. It also emphasized reading as a meaningful recreational activity during the festive season of Diwali, encouraging participants to develop reading as a lifelong habit and a source of knowledge, creativity, and personal enrichment. As part of the preparation, members of The Readers Club carefully selected more than 400 books from both the Central Library and th...

How Nostalgia and Big Data Collided at the MSc Data Science Reunion Glowing laptop screens illuminated radiant faces across multiple time zones, bridging thousands of miles back to the misty hillside where it all originally began. The digital room pulsed not with cold technical jargon or routine algorithmic reviews, but with genuine laughter, joyful calls of recognition, and an overwhelming sense of true homecoming. As nearly forty enthusiastic alumni and devoted faculty members logged into the virtual hall, the digital divide completely vanished, instantly rekindling a deep, undeniable bond originally forged through intense late-night coding sprints and quiet, reflective evening walks. Thoughtfully organized by the academic department of Statistics and Data Science, this Online Alumni Meet for the MSc Data Science 2022-24 batch served as a profound, inspiring testament to the enduring impact of a Christite education. In an accelerated era where artificial intelligence and big data ana...

CHRIST Infotech in association with School of Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Pune Lavasa Campus, organised HackVerse 2026 as a platform for school and college students to explore technology, develop ideas, and collaborate on practical challenges. With separate tracks for the two groups, the event combined competition with training, encouraging participants to approach problems creatively and communicate their solutions effectively. The school track began with an online preliminary round on 26 October 2026, followed by training and the final competition at CHRIST College, Pune, on 31 October 2026. Seven teams registered for this track. Six teams comprising 14 students participated in the online round, while five teams comprising 12 students attended the offline programme. The inaugural programme of the school track welcomed Fr Arun Antony Chulli, Principal of CHRIST College, Pune; Prof Thomas KT, Head of CHRIST Infotech; faculty members; and participating students. Ms PS An...

The air was electric as students, faculty, and sports enthusiasts gathered at the Christ University Lavasa campus for Sportalytics 4.0. The event was the culmination of months of planning and preparation by the Department of Statistics and Data Science, whose team worked tirelessly to bring together speakers, experts, and participants from varied backgrounds. Its aim was simple but ambitious: to equip participants with the skills and knowledge needed to stay ahead in a sports industry that is being reshaped by data every single day. Sport has always been about numbers, from runs and goals to lap times and strike rates. What has changed is the scale and speed at which those numbers can now be collected and interpreted. Wearable sensors, video tracking, and match databases generate more information than any coach could read unaided. Analytics turns that flood into decisions: who to select, how to train, when to rest a player, and how to read an opponent. Sportalytics 4.0 placed this shif...

On the 30th and 31st of October 2026, the Christ University School of Business And Management Association (CUSBMA), in collaboration with the Institution Innovation Council (IIC), proudly hosted the highly anticipated EKLAVYA ’26. This Annual Inter-Department Entrepreneurship Fest completely transformed the campus into a vibrant, high-energy hub of business innovation and strategic thinking. Over two action-packed days, students from various academic backgrounds converged across multiple Central Block venues to showcase their entrepreneurial mettle. The atmosphere was electric with the excitement of aspiring leaders stepping out of traditional academic boundaries to test their skills. EKLAVYA ’26 was carefully designed to bridge the critical gap between theoretical classroom concepts and real-world practical application.    The core philosophy of the event was deeply rooted in the legendary spirit of Eklavya, which champions self-learning, perseverance, self-assessment, and co...