Tag: Partha Chatterjee
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Bengal not to celebrate Surgical Strike Day, Education Minister Partha Chatterjee terms it BJP agenda
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has directed universities and higher educational institutions to observe September 29 as Surgical Strike Day.
September 21, 2018 -
Partha critical of Bagree traders
State parliamentary affairs minister Partha Chatterjee on Thursday criticised the traders of the Bagree market over the devastating fire there and said an inquiry will be held as to why fire incidents occur only during the weekends. “The issue that fire incidents are occurring particularly on Saturdays and Sundays was discussed at the GoM meeting …
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September 21, 2018 -
Partha asks all TMCP student leaders to resign, yet to name president
The state education minister, Mr Partha Chatterjee, said on Saturday that the state government is “dead against” the practice of gherao in higher educational institutions. In the last few months, the vice-chancellor of Jadavpur University and the registrar of Presidency University have been gheraoed for days by students over admission issues. “We are dead against …
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September 9, 2018 -
Dormant schools
The slip is showing from schools to universities, arguably a testament to the potential centres of excellence that are based on a fragile foundation. Over the past few months ~ which in itself is a long enough period ~ the search of learning has been hampered in both Presidency and Jadavpur Universities. If it was …
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August 30, 2018 -
TMC using Rakhi festival as a political tool: Ghosh
Ghosh says BJP does not appease people of any community to attract votes.
August 27, 2018 -
Mamata likely to announce name of TMCP state president on 28 August
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to announce the name of the state president of Trinamul Congress Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) on 28 August, on Trinamul Chhatra Parishad day, sources at Trinamul Bhawan said on Sunday. The state education minister, Mr Partha Chatterjee, along with party’s youth wing president Abhishek Banerjee, held a meeting on Saturday …
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August 6, 2018 -
NRC row | Trinamool Congress to observe black day in Bengal today, tomorrow
To protest against the detention and “manhandling” of its leaders at Silchar airport in Assam; a 6-member TMC delegation wanted to assess the ground reality in Assam's Cachar district in the wake of the release of final draft of the National Register of Citizens
August 4, 2018 -
Partha tables 5 varsity Bills
Twenty-three per cent seats of Jadavpur University (JU) are vacant on account of students’ unrest, said education minister Partha Chatterjee in the state Assembly on Tuesday. Tabling five Bills, including for setting up four new universities and renaming one, Mr Chatterjee said that one university is being set up in each district on the instruction …
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August 1, 2018 -
NRC: House resolution slams Centre
A delegation of six MPs and minister Firhad Hakim from TMC will visit Assam on 2 and 3 August.
August 1, 2018 -
JU undermined
Jadavpur University has shot itself in the foot and the authorities have flunked the entrance exam. This is quite the most charitable construct that can be placed upon last Wednesday’s decision to scrap the admission test for as many as six subjects in the humanities stream. Helmed by an Oxford-trained historian, it strains credulity that …
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July 8, 2018 -
JU admission row: VC Suranjan Das meets Governor, no solution yet
Decision of direct admission yet to be fully implemented as students continue to mount pressure on authorities.
July 7, 2018 -
Admission without counselling, says education minister
Declaration puts transparency of the process in question. Cops nab Surendra Nath College student for seeking money from fresher.
July 4, 2018 -
JU’s halfway-house
The imbroglio at Kolkata’s Jadavpur University on as fundamental an issue as undergraduate admissions is mercifully over. And with it yet another gherao ~ this time stretching for 44 hours ~ of the Vice-Chancellor (beleaguered at the best of times) and other worthies. But if the state’s Advocate-General needs to be consulted on the basics …
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June 30, 2018 -
Partha says Trinamul won’t sit idle if BJP continues attack
State education minister and Trinamul Congress secretary general Partha Chatterjee on Monday cautioned the Opposition BJP leaders that they will no longer sit idle if they continue attack on them (read Trinamul Congress). Slamming the BJP state president Dilip Ghosh for threatening the party leaders with ‘direct encounter’, Mr Chatterjee said: “There is a limit …
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June 26, 2018 -
Partha meets tribal leaders in Jhargram to discuss measures for 2019 Lok Sabha polls
Mr Chatterjee attended a meeting held in the community hall at Bachurdoba in Jhargram where all block leaders, tribal leaders and a few dignitaries participated.
June 16, 2018 -
Trinamool tried its best to maintain peace: Partha
Refuting allegations of violence against the Trinamool Congress ahead of the rural polls in the state, party’s secretary general Partha Chatterjee on Friday said that the party has tried its best to maintain peace. “We are the ruling party, why should we indulge in violence?” he retorted. The rural polls will be held on 14 …
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May 12, 2018 -
HC raps SEC; poll panel chief denies life threat
Making stinging observations on the state election commission’s (SEC) conduct of the poll process so far, the Division Bench of Justice Biswanath Somaddar and Justice Aniruddha Mukherjee of Calcutta High Court on Monday asked the SEC counsel whether the commission had woken up after the court had given the “wake-up call” last week. The commission …
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May 8, 2018