Tag: Visva Bharati University

Rajnath hopes India will become world’s top economy by 2047

Rajnath calls upon youth to innovate, develop the latest technologies and set up new companies, research establishments and start-ups.

February 24, 2023

100-year journey~I

Interestingly, in the 21st century, the publication of two books strongly advocating the need for liberal arts and humanities studies as essential curriculum in university courses, was a crusading call.

June 13, 2021

PM Modi asks Visva Bharati students to help farmers, artisans in becoming ‘Atmanirbhar’

PM Modi asserted that Guru Rabindranath Tagore had not envisioned the Visva Bharati University as one of the typical educational institutions.

February 19, 2021

PM Modi to address Visva-Bharati University centenary celebrations on 24 December

Founded by Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore in 1921, Visva-Bharati is also the oldest Central University in the country.

December 23, 2020

Amit Shah pays homage to Rabindranath Tagore at Visva Bharati University

Amit Shah, who is on a two-day visit to West Bengal, paid floral tributes to Gurudev Tagore at Rabindra Bhavan in the Visva Bharati University campus.

December 20, 2020

VBU boundary wall row: CM against any construction

Trouble erupts in varsity as mob ransacks properties

August 18, 2020

Amader Santiniketan

It was an oblique swipe at the Union HRD and Finance ministries, one that has little or no connection with an occasion that is as solemn as Language Day. It was scarcely the occasion for Prof Bidyut Chakraborty to bare his angst against the Centre’s running of the institution.

February 23, 2020

Bengal sees most peaceful polls, said Guv

This comes amidst the alleged assault on SFI activists by ABVP at Viswa Bharati University; Guv had earlier slammed state over poor law & order

January 17, 2020

PMO comes to VBU’s rescue for 125th Poush Mela

The mela kicks off the 7th day of the month of Poush, which is usually on the last week of December.

November 7, 2019

PM Modi apologises for water paucity at Visva Bharati University

A youth of Chandannagar in Hooghly district allegedly broke the security cordon for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to give him a portrait of Rabindranath Tagore at the podium of the convocation ceremony of Visva Bharati University (VBU) in Amrakunja here on Friday. The incident occurred after the convocation ceremony got over and Bangladesh Prime Minister...

May 26, 2018

Planning new varsity on lines of Visva Bharati: Mamata

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said the state government is planning to set up a new varsity near the centrally-funded Visva Bharati University (VBU) in Shantiniketan. "We are planning to set up a new national standard university named 'Biswa-Bangla Biswabidyalaya' within three minute's distance from the VBU in Shantiniketan," Banerjee said at...

January 7, 2017