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TopicVisva Bharti University

Topic: Visva Bharti University

Santiniketan gets a Unesco tag when its heritage is actually in decline

Will the increased attention on Santiniketan and rise in tourism push Rabindranath Tagore's cultural hub further into the arms of urbanisation?

Santiniketan isn’t an abode of peace anymore. A rot has set in

Santiniketan literally means the abode of peace. It is where Rabindranath Tagore lived and founded a central university. Now, Santiniketan has been added to the list of...

BJP against ‘mudslinging’ in Visva-Bharati-Amartya row, but says lotus will bloom in Sen’s garden

A controversy over 13 decimals of land between Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen and Visva Bharati has turned into political slugfest after Sen said 'Mamata Banerjee has ability to be next PM'.

‘Survived Covid, but dying businesses will kill us’: Bengal kantha artists are now labourers

Known for their fine handiwork in batik and kantha, rural craftsmen are now resorting to selling vegetables or working as daily wagers to earn a livelihood in the second lockdown.

BJP calls Nobel laureate Amartya Sen a ‘land grabber’, says letter to Mamata a ‘poll gimmick’

The letter was sent to Mamata Banerjee after she supported Amartya Sen by reacting strongly to Visva-Bharati, which accused him of illegally possessing land on the campus.

Day after Visva-Bharati violence, ED to probe source of money used for ‘mob mobilisation’

Enforcement Directorate has written to university V-C, Birbhum administration and Bengal DGP, asking for copies of all FIRs lodged in connection with the vandalism.

Tagore’s Visva-Bharati shuts down indefinitely after mob goes on rampage at Poush Mela ground

Residents vandalised university gates to protest against building of a wall around mela ground. CM Mamata Banerjee says any construction there is against Tagore’s idea of Visva-Bharati.

Hold convocations every year, HRD ministry tells universities after Kovind nudge

Universities have pointed out financial and time constraints behind their decision not to hold annual convocations.

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Indian govt is scrambling to manage LPG shortage while denying it exists

LPG shortage threatens to push poorer Indian households back to coal days—exactly what the Modi govt phased out.

Red carpet for industry honchos as AAP kicks off Punjab investors summit. Rs 10,000 cr pledged on Day 1

At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.