JU Campus…..Debobrata Shome Kolkata: Discussion on security lapses, suspension of ‘insiders’ who assisted the ‘outsiders’ to enter and attack Jadavpur University (JU) in the early hours on Thursday till the probe is complete, protecting autonomy and resisting saffronisation will be some of the demands from students and teachers that will be placed at the stakeholders’…
CCTV footage shows ABVP members and outsiders entering the university premises KOLKATA: More than 24 hours after Jadavpur University vice-chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharjee filed an FIR against “unknown outsiders/persons” for the violence and vandalism on campus, police on Saturday claimed they have identified some of those involved in the disturbance.They are, however, yet to make any…
CCTV footage showed a former vice-chancellor near the gate as a mob entered the campus KOLKATA: Students and faculty members at Jadavpur University (JU) pointed fingers at their ‘own’ who helped ‘outsiders’ to enter the campus and unleash violence and vandalism in the early hours of Thursday and demanded to bring them under the investigation…
Kolkata: Teachers of Presidency University issued a statement on Saturday, expressing their solidarity with Jadavpur University students and faculty over ABVP’s storming of the campus on Thursday.“As members of Presidency University, we are shocked and dismayed by the recent destruction of the institutional emblem of Jadavpur University, and the attack on the institution by outsiders,”…
Kids in Entally got access to the park back on Saturday. photo by Sayantan Chakraborty Kolkata: KMC officials on Saturday broke open the lock on the main gate of Padmapukur Park in Entally, restoring public access to the neighbourhood ground that had been shut since Aug 14 following a dispute between two local BJP factions…
Kolkata: The state higher education department has begun restructuring college governing bodies across the state-aided colleges by appointing local BJP MPs and MLAs as the presidents.The initiative follows an official directive issued on Saturday and covers an initial phase of 247 state-aided colleges. State higher education minister Jagannath Chattopadhyay said: “Graduate MPs and MLAs have…
Security check at a Jadavpur University gate on Saturday …..Debobrata Shome Kolkata: Jadavpur University plans to appoint additional ex-servicemen on the campus and equip them with body cameras in a bid to beef up their security arrangements after the midnight violence and vandalism by a right-wing mob in the early hours of Thursday and again…
Kolkata: The festive variety of sweet and confectionery items may shrink this Durga Puja if sugar prices do not cool down. With the festive season less than two months away, the rise in sugar price has left the traders in the lurch as many of them are retreating from their plans of elaborate puja-special sweet…
Kolkata: Even as Ayushman Bharat patient count has started rising across private hospitals in Kolkata, the first high-end procedure under the scheme was performed on Saturday. A 34-year-old Kolkata resident, admitted on Friday, underwent an aortic valve replacement — an expensive, life-saving and high-end cardiac procedure — at Charnock Hospital.Patient Dipankar Singh, admitted under cardiothoracic…
Entrance to the Shreeram Arcade was freed of encroachment on Saturday Kolkata: The entrance to Shreeram Arcade at Humayun Place was freed of encroachment on Friday evening after police stepped in and launched a pushback drive to end a tense stand-off between shopkeepers and hawkers.According to Shreeram Arcade president, Jacky Samtani, tension had been brewing…
