Institutions here want more foreign academicians. But pay and visa issues are emerging as tough hurdles.

The university will have new departments dedicated to physics, biology and environmental sciences, in addition to existing departments.

WB Governor M K Narayanan today apologised to the students and teachers of the Presidency University for the recent violence on its campus.

Mamata is still in a hospital and undergoing treatment and she had taken the trouble of calling up the VC to assure her all sorts of help f...

The Governor, also the Chancellor, would visit the university in the afternoon, Raj Bhavan sources said.

VC of Presidency University appealed to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to ensure that a serious probe was conducted to identify the attacke...