Visva-Bharati, the university founded by Rabindranath Tagore, has paid out Rs 2.17 crore as subsistence allowance to its faculty and administrative staff in the past two financial years, information a...

Now, more than a month after the poet’s death, the dark shadow of collective grief and mourning seemed to be fading – if ever so slightly. Perhaps this was linked to the change in seasons;...

Visva-Bharati will hold a programme on Friday to review a book on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, chancellor of the central varsity, prompting a section on the campus to allege that the event with a &ld...

Indian traditional masks Sarkar says masks can be categorised by their place of origin. “There are different types of masks in India in different states, most are based on deities as well as on...

Police said when he did not wake up till late on Wednesday morning, a domestic help pushed the door that was locked from inside. She is then said to have peeped into the room through a small gap and s...

Justice Moushumi Bhattacharya of Calcutta High Court on Wednesday issued an interim stay on the decision taken by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) of the government of India that removed...

The Bengal Assembly on Monday passed a bill to make chief minister Mamata Banerjee the chancellor of state-run universities by replacing the governor amid opposition from BJP MLAs. On May 26, the sta...

Mamata Banerjee used the occasion of the birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore on Monday to highlight the failure of the CBI in recovering the poet’s Nobel medallion that had been stolen from...

Uttarakhand government has allotted 45 acres of land for the satellite ...

CID officials, along with experts of state forensic science laboratory, on Thursday visited Visva-Bharati and the hostel room where Class XII student Asim Das was found hanging on April 21. The move ...