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...

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A first-year medical student expresses considerable excitement about a WhatsApp forward about something called the Butterfly iQ. Turns out it is a portable ultrasound device. The text reads thus: It ...

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 on Thursday appointed the Gandhi chair professor and the Vivekananda chair professor.The syndicate, the university’s decision-making body, appointed Nirban Basu to the Gandhi cha...

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...

Education minister Partha Chatterjee on Tuesday asked vice-chancellors to ensure that results, including review of answer scripts, were published on time, considering that the choice-based credit syst...

Calcutta University has completed the process of appointing a full-time placement officer and the curator of Asutosh Museum — the two key posts lying vacant for more than 15 years.The names of the s...

A new chair professor post named after Iswarchandra Vidyasagar has been created by Calcutta University to commemorate the 200th birth anniversary of the Bengal Renaissance icon.The state higher educat...

An author of a research paper can be accused of plagiarism if 10 per cent or more of a published work is presented as his or her own without acknowledging the source, speakers at a workshop on plagiar...