The retirement age of college and university teachers in Bengal is being raised from 62 to 65 and that of vice-chancellors from 65 to 70 so that institutes of higher education are able to retain the e...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee asked vice-chancellors of universities on Tuesday not to bow to pressure or come under any influence as they were heads of autonomous institutions.The chief minister had...

Calcutta University has resumed construction of a workshop for engineering students, in the absence of which the university was unable to increase the number of BTech seats for next year.Vice-chancell...

Calcutta University has failed to increase the number of BTech seats because of infrastructure inadequacies. The university had received funds to develop infrastructure, though.Last week, the joint en...

Calcutta University cannot increase the number of BTech seats from the 2019-20 session because of infrastructure problems, university officials said on Friday.The heads of the nine engineering departm...

St Xavier’s College has always stood for “pluralism and diversity” and it is open to any culture, religion and language, Father Dominic Savio, the college principal, said on Thursday.He undersco...

Mamata Banerjee on Monday praised Calcutta University for respecting “old values” and said it was “unfortunate” that “big” and “renowned” Jadavpur and Presidency universities were not ...

Professorship is associated with scholarship but one seldom comes across such a many-faceted personality as professor Shanta Mahalanobis, whom academics in Calcutta would always remember as the one an...

Calcutta University held the meeting of its senate and syndicate on Tuesday without governor and chancellor Jagdeep Dhankhar and approved the name of Nobel laureate Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee as DLitt r...

Three kids were injured in a crude bomb explosion at Ghutiari Sharif in South 24-Parganas on Tuesday afternoon. The bomb was kept in a bag behind the house of a man named Rajjak Sardar, police said. T...