Visva-Bharati University
Public university in West Bengal, India
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Visva-Bharati is a public central university and an Institute of National Importance located in Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India. It was founded by Rabindranath Tagore who called it Visva-Bharati, which means the communion of the world with India. Until independence it was a college. Soon after independence, the institution was given the status of a central university in 1951 by an act of the Parliament.
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Court quashes Visva-Bharati's eviction order against Amartya SenA Birbhum court has overturned Visva-Bharati University's order for Nobel laureate Amartya Sen to vacate a portion of land at his ancestral home in Santiniketan. The court deemed the university's..IndiaTimes - Published | |
V-B gets new plaque with Tagore nameTwo large steel and glass frames housing Unesco's World Heritage Site certification and acknowledging Rabindranath Tagore as the founder and guiding light of the Visva-Bharati campus replaced on..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Visva-Bharati plaque row at cops door as cross, FIRs filedThe dispute over plaques commemorating the Unesco heritage tag at Visva-Bharati has escalated, with both the Santiniketan Trust and the university filing complaints against each other. The trust..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Visva-Bharati VC's letter to Mamata Banerjee stokes fresh rowVisva-Bharati's Vice-Chancellor, Bidyut Chakrabarty, faced criticism and was likened to a "Class IV standard BJP cadre" by the Trinamool Congress after he sent a four-page letter to West Bengal CM..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Vishva Bharti University clarifies on row over Unesco plaques, says they're temporaryVisva-Bharati University in Kolkata clarified that the plaques recently installed to mark Santiniketan's UNESCO heritage status were temporary and would be replaced soon. The plaques had caused..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Visva Bharati University tells Amartya Sen to vacate 13 decimals of land by May 6Visva Bharati Univeristy, in an eviction order, has asked Nobel laureate Amartya Sen to vacate the 13 decimals of land which he has been allegedly occupying in an unauthorised manner by May 6 or within..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Amid encroachment row, Didi gives Amartya land deedBengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday handed over land record documents of Nobel laureate Amartya Senβs residence in Santiniketan to the economist, dismissing claims of the current Visva-Bharati..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Return 'illegally occupied' land, Visva-Bharati tells Nobel laureate AmartyaIndiaTimes - Published | |
Restore normalcy at Visva-Bharati, TMC MP Jawhar Sircar tells Centre in RSIndiaTimes - Published |
