Medals and degrees were awarded to more than 1,000 toppers of undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA programmes at the first convocation ceremony of JIS University on March 25. West Bengal Governor Jagd...

XLRI will hold its 65th annual convocation on a virtual mode on April 24.  The convocation ceremony will be held for the 2019-21 batch. During the convocation function, 509 students o...

Author Mani Shankar Mukherjee, 87, a chronicler of Calcutta and better known as Shankar, has won this year’s Sahitya Akademi award for his memoir Eka Eka Ekasi. Published at Calcutta Book fair ...

IIM Calcutta will hold its convocation online on May 15. According to an official of the institute, a meeting of the academic council on Wednesday discussed the possibility of holding the event on th...

The Chancellor said the new education policy of 2020 aims at promoting mother tongue, Indian-ness and morality. Following the new education policy and ensuring that students benefit from it ...

IIT Kharagpur held its 66th convocation on Tuesday and there was no announcement of the inauguration of the Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Institute of Medical Sciences and Research. Instead, the director...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday tried to draw a parallel between Rabindranath Tagore’s vision of education and his government’s controversial New Education Policy saying both sought...

Steel city-based premier B-school XLRI will hold its 64th annual Convocation on February 20 in a virtual mode to bid farewell to the 2018-20 batch, the institute announced on Friday. Sanjiv Mehta, ch...

Calcutta University will decide on holding the convocation after campuses reopen for in-person classes, vice-chancellor Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee said on Sunday. The university usually holds its co...

St Xavier’s College has postponed its convocation for a second time and rescheduled it for March 13, officials said on Sunday. The Park Street institution had first deferred the convocation fro...