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  Calcutta University announces dates for students union elections

  Politics | December 23, 2016 14:27 IST

  The University of Calcutta on Friday announced the date for the college union elections, scheduled to be held in January 2017.

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  Calcutta University Professors' assault: VC asks state government to take action

  India | July 03, 2015 16:35 IST

  Kolkata:  Calcutta University Vice chancellor Suranjan Das today urged West Bengal government to take action against the assault of professors allegedly by TMC Chhatra Parishad activists, stating that it would be tough for him to

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  Nehru and Bose: Tension-fraught and passing friendship

  Politics | December 09, 2014 15:03 IST

  New Delhi: Subhash Chandra Bose, a revolutionary; Jawaharlal Nehru, the quintessential democrat. Could the twain ever meet? Sadly not says a new book by historian and educationist Rudrangshu Mukherjee on the parallel lives of two

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  Take forward government's model village scheme: President tells universities

  India | November 29, 2014 11:34 IST

  Kolkata: President Pranab Mukherjee has called on higher education institutions to adopt at least five villages each and transform them into model villages.Addressing the convocation of over 150-year-old Calcutta University here, Mukherjee said educational institutes

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  After Jadavpur, Calcutta University students gherao VC

  India | September 24, 2013 7:04 IST

  Kolkata: Close on the heels of gherao of the Jadavpur University vice chancellor by students for 51-hours, B-Tech students of a college of Calcutta University yesterday gheroed the varsity's VC and pro-VC alleging that the