She is the only girl from the village of Ghorkhali, along the banks of the Matla river near Canning in South 24-Parganas, who has not dropped out and managed to continue her studies till college.Rozin...

A power cut in laboratories has led to loss of research material accumulated over at least 10 years, scientists of Calcutta University have said.Some of the materials that need to be refrigerated at l...

The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) of the Union ministry of human resource development has ranked Visva-Bharati at 50 among all Indian universities, a big slide from last year’s pos...

Several Calcuttans are stuck around the world, from the US to Mauritius and Mexico. Their plans of returning home after April 14 have gone for a toss with the extension of the lockdown till May 3.Bhas...

Calcutta University will start the process of conducting semester examinations for its BA and BSc courses as soon as colleges reopen after the Puja vacation and complete evaluation of answer scripts i...

Teachers of Jadavpur and Calcutta universities have started taking online classes for students, like some schools in the city have done, because of the lockdown triggered by the coronavirus.Some teach...

Calcutta University has turned down requests from a number of college principals to scrap the system of barring students from writing exams because of inadequate attendance.The university authorities ...

Calcutta University will teach its BTech students how to communicate in English, develop “appropriate pronunciation” and maintain decorum to appear more employable to potential recruiters.The abse...

Subhrajit Ghosh, a student at Calcutta’s Maharaja Manindra Chandra College, did not have enough money to register for the online programme that would help him prepare for a computer programming test...

Bengal governor Keshari Nath Tripathi sent a report to the Union home ministry on Wednesday evening, terming “the law and order situation” in the state “a matter of concern”, said sources.An o...