Educationist Fr Nirmol Vincent Gomes would be ordained as the new bishop of Krishnanagar diocese on July 23.  He will be ordained at a function at the Cathedral of the Holy Redeemer in Krishnana...

What intense deliberations would these walls have witnessed? I imagined an anxious Warren Hastings, sitting and brooding in his chair, surrounded by his coterie all sweating in the heat while they plo...

Prescience can sometimes be utterly disappointing. In May, educational institutions were closed till June 15 so that students were spared the scorching heat. Predictably, on June 13, the West Bengal g...

Two other private schools, Modern High School for Girls and The Future Foundation School, will also resume in-person classes on Monday. These two are not CNI institutions. The decision to resume on-c...

A 44-year-old man died by medically assisted suicide in Italy on Thursday, in the first case of its kind in the country. While it is technically against the law to help someone take their own life in...

The state government is planning to constitute a commission to look into complaints against private schools about fee hikes, said an official of the education department. A retired judge is likely to...

Swiftly clearing the heap of files which were waiting for him, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan shot off to Thrikkakara immediately after returning from the United States of America where he had gone f...

Over 100 students took part in the on-ground event held over two days...

Authorities say the suspect was a Chinese immigrant who harbored grievances against Taiwan. He is facing one count of murder and five counts of attempted murder. The gunman who carried out a shooting...

The tireless relief work for Bangladesh refugees under Canon Biswas continued till the end of 1972. Biswas’s work was acknowledged by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who wrote to him on ...