Monday 23 November '09
Unlike previous years, placement process in various private engineering colleges in the state would now begin in the fourth year from the next academic year.Friday 20 November '09
Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee wrote a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday urging him to allocate funds for renovating Jorasanko Thakurbari, the home of Rabindranath Tagore on the occasion of his 150th birth anniversary.Wednesday
11 November '09Even as the state information commission is in the process of appointing a second information commissioner, there is growing discontent among rights organisations against the alleged secrecy being maintained by the government in the matter.Monday
9 November '09After an impasse that lasted almost two weeks, employees of Visva Bharati University finally called off their strike last Thursday....Sunday
8 November '09They attend high school in the morning and become teachers in the evening, educating children up to class 8. With almost no resources, India’s youngest teachers and headmasters are successfully running schools in rural West Bengal....Thursday
5 November '09The impasse at the Visva Bharati University finally came to an end today with the Karmi Sabha and the Teacher’s Association calling off the strike after 12 days.Thursday
5 November '09Kaustav Chatterjee is only 30 years old but the CPM has chosen him to end the Trinamool and Congress party’s 20-year-dominance in the Alipore constituency, where bypolls will be held on November 7.Tuesday
3 November '09Lack of a full-time hostel superintendent and additional burden on teachers with meagre remuneration could be the reason behind the tragic death of three students of Kalyani Government Engineering College.Tuesday
27 October '09NOT all seem to be elated with the Union HRD Ministry’s idea of making the Class X examinations optional.Saturday
24 October '09Amid the post-Nano depression that shrouds the industrial climate in the state, Friday brought some good news for Bengal’s petrochemical industry as the MCC PTA India Corporation Private Limited...Friday
23 October '09Aliah University, the first university for minorities in the state, has been able to attract very few students in its second year. This despite the university starting a number of integrated courses.Thursday
22 October '09In an attempt to modernise the madrasa system of education, the Left Front government has decided to open government English-medium madrasahs in the state.Wednesday
21 October '09Targeting the unemployed youth in the Maoist-hit tribal areas of eastern India, the Indira Gandhi National Open University...Wednesday
21 October '09Confusion prevailed in the state academic circles on Tuesday over reports claiming that the cut-off marks needed for an IIT berth was set to increase to 80 per cent.Tuesday
20 October '09The Indira Gandhi National Open University has plans afoot to launch a training programme for youths belonging to the Below the Poverty Line category in the Maoist-hit areas of eastern India.Monday
19 October '09Over the last two months, three instances of ragging were reported from different colleges and academic institutes across Bengal.Thursday
15 October '09It seems the state government’s effort to stop the culture of private tuitions and instead making school-learning efficient doesn’t seem to be paying off.Wednesday
14 October '09Even as the All India Council of Technical Education prescribes a minimum 10 acres of land to start a polytechnic institute, the Council has given the state government its nod to set up a polytechnic with only half the land size.Monday
12 October '09With an aim to open the vast repository of Sanskrit literature to the world, the Sanskrit department in the University of Burdwan plans to come up with the an encyclopedia on Sanskrit literary works.Friday
9 October '09The state Higher Secondary Board has expressed their reservations over the national syllabus for science subjects in Higher Secondary classes as proposed by the Union HRD Ministry.Thursday
8 October '09In a miraculous escape, a newborn baby, delivered inside a train toilet slipped through the toilet hole of an express train and was found unhurt.Thursday
8 October '09A newborn baby, delivered in a train toilet on Tuesday night, slipped through the outlet. The desperate mother jumped off the moving train within seconds and later, both were found alive and unhurt.Wednesday
7 October '09With increase in the cases of violence during examinations in the colleges, authorities of the Calcutta University are considering the option of taking action against students who have been identified of attacking teachers and disrupting the examination process.Wednesday
7 October '09It seems that West Bengal is not keeping up with the pace of improving primary education in the state as compared to the rest of India.Monday
5 October '09After nearly six weeks of protests at the IITs, it had seemed that the impasse over pay hike was sorted out.
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