Visva-Bharati vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty has invited around two dozen alumni and old-timers of Santiniketan, including kin of Nobel laureates Rabindranath Tagore and Amartya Sen, for a meeting...

Visva-Bharati on Friday said it was “sorry” and “wounded at heart” if anyone was hurt by vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty’s comment that Rabindranath Tagore was an &ldq...

The students’ wing of the Trinamul Congress led a protest march at Visva-Bharati on Monday against the university’s alleged “promotion of saffronisation of the campus”.Trinamul Chhatra Parisha...

A group of veteran residents of Santiniketan has written to Visva-Bharati vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty, protesting against the construction of an 8ft-tall boundary wall on the campus that will p...

Visva-Bharati vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty will lead a 12-hour hunger-strike on Monday to appeal to traders at a makeshift handicrafts market near the campus gate to remove their stalls and allo...

Visva-Bharati has decided to form separate women’s teams in different sports for the first time, prompted by denial of permission for a 20-year-old girl to play cricket with boys in a competition. M...

A group of Visva-Bharati students on Friday lodged a police complaint accusing vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty of plotting an attack on students at the varsity on January 15 night.Along with the co...

Visva-Bharati has decided to write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the chancellor of the central university, seeking his help to organise the Pous Mela, less than a week after it decided to dissociat...

Two separate teams of Visva-Bharati teachers and students on Saturday visited the house of the student who has been evicted from his hostel for recording a controversial Republic Day speech of the vic...

Police are likely to send the video clip that contains a purported conversation between Visva-Bharati vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty and a student for forensic examination to verify the tape’s a...