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Quote of the day by Rabindranath Tagore: ‘I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism…’ – First non-European Nobel laureate on justice, humanity and empathyNobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore championed humanity over blind patriotism, warning against national interests eclipsing compassion and j...
Bengal government imposes ban on Holi celebrations in Santiniketan Sonajhuri HaatThe West Bengal government has banned Holi celebrations at Sonajhuri Haat near Santiniketan, citing potential environmental damage. The dec...
PM, Visva Bharati VC taking undue credit for Santiniketan's UNESCO heritage tag: TMC MP SircarTrinamool Congress MP Jawhar Sircar has accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Visva Bharati university Chancellor Biduyt Chakraborty of ...
TMC sit-in against Visva-Bharati's eviction notice to Amartya Sen continues for 3rd dayThe central university has claimed that Sen, who is now abroad, is illegally occupying 0.13 acres out of the total 1.38-acre plot in the Sa...
Amartya Sen moves Calcutta High Court against Visva-Bharati's eviction orderNobel laureate economist Amartya Sen has appealed against an eviction notice from Visva-Bharati University in Kolkata that asks him to vaca...
Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen's lawyers move court over eviction noticeSen's lawyer Gorachand Chakraborty told reporters Saturday, "We have drawn the attention of the court to the order issued by the Visva Bhar...
Visva-Bharati seeks to undertake joint survey of Amartya Sen's land"With reference to our earlier letters, this is to inform you that the university wants to survey/demarcate jointly the land mutated in you...
Mamata Banerjee hands over land documents to Amartya SenBanerjee said that the land amounting to 1.38 acre was given to the Nobel Laureate’s family and 13 decimal extra land was not “illegally” o...
Visva-Bharati issues fresh letter to Sen on land issue, second in 3 daysSen earlier asserted that most of the land he is holding in the Santiniketan campus was purchased from the market by his father while some ...
Don't know why Visva-Bharati trying to oust me, don't understand the politics: Amartya SenLashing out at the Visva-Bharati for asking him to hand over parts of a plot he was allegedly occupying "unauthorisedly" at Santiniketan, N...
Visva Bharati asks Amartya Sen to hand over parts of leased land in Bengal's SantiniketanThe Nobel laureate's father Asutosh Sen had taken 125 decimals of land on lease from the varsity in 1943, its spokesperson Mahua Banerjee s...
Visva Bharati appoints full-time registrar after gap of six yearsA senior faculty member said Dr D Gunasekaran was the last full-time registrar of Visva Bharati. He had stepped down on August 31, 2015 to ...
Amartya Sen asks Visva-Bharati to withdraw allegation that he is illegally holding landA controversy had erupted on December 24 last year, the day PM Narendra Modi addressed the centenary celebrations of Visva-Bharati, when me...
India only major country set to achieve targets of Paris Agreement: PM Modi"Our country is spreading the message emanating from Visva-Bharati to the whole world. India today is leading the world in environmental pr...
Rabindranath Tagore's vision, philosophy must be preserved: Mamata Banerjee on Visva-Bharati turning 100"Visva Bharati University turns 100. This temple of learning was Rabindranath Tagore's greatest experiment on creating the ideal human bein...
PM Modi to address centenary celebrations of Visva-Bharati University todayThe Governor of West Bengal and Union Education Minister will also participate in the event. Founded by Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore in 1921...
BJP MP, VC leave Visva Bharati as gherao by students endsBJP MP Swapan Dasgupta, Vice Chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty and others were confined for six hours in a building of the Visva Bharati in Wes...
SFI protests against BJP's Swapan Dasgupta at Visva Bharati, stalls lecture on CAAThe Rajya Sabha MP was to speak on "The CAA-2019: Understanding and Interpretation" as a part of the Visva Bharati Lecture Series at the va...
Five shortlisted for Visva-Bharati Varsity V-C post; Some have controversial pastWhile vigilance clearances are awaited in some cases following which the names will be sent for presidential approval, the choice of names ...
Visva Bharati: HRD Ministry sends VC file again to President Pranab MukherjeeThe President's office had sent back the file pertaining to Dattagupta asking whether denying the VC a "hearing in person" was legally tena...