In May 1983, Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee and some 360 other students of JNU, including 50 women, spent 12 days in Tihar jail on charges including an attempt to murder the vice-chancellor.Had the governme...

Students at Jadavpur University held the vice-chancellor and other senior officials hostage on the campus for more than 24 hours from 8pm on Monday over alleged misuse of funds by the Centre for Disab...

The Birbhum administration has decided to halt all government surveys in Nalhati and adjoining areas after residents gheraoed a block development on Monday over suspicion that data were being collecti...

A pregnant Trinamul panchayat member in Birbhum fled her village on Saturday fearing a gherao of her tin-roof home, prompting bureaucrats to suggest the clamour for the refund of “cut money” could...

Around 500 residents of Basanta in Birbhum gheraoed Nalhati 1 block development officer Jagadish Chandra Barui for two hours on Monday when he visited the village to inquire about alleged collection o...

A section of students of Presidency University confined vice-chancellor Anuradha Lohia in her office till at least midnight on Monday over alleged delay in the repair of wards 3, 4 and 5 of Eden Hindu...

Presidency University’s “first vice-chancellor” Malabika Sarkar said on Friday her three years at the helm did not see any gherao or disruption on the campus.The trick was, she said, not to “s...

Visva-Bharati has constituted a three-member committee headed by a former chief justice of Calcutta High Court to investigate the “confinement” of Rajya Sabha member Swapan Dasgupta at the varsity...