Tamil Nadu governor RN Ravi has turned the domain of higher education in the state into a virtual turf war with the government of MK Stalin, leaving many state-run universities headless without a Vice-Chancellor.
Faculty members, officers, non-teaching staff, research scholars, and students gathered to welcome the newly appointed vice-chancellor.
The vice-chancellor of VisvaBharati University, professor Bidyut Chakraborty has sent a written complaint through email to Santiniketan police station
A single bench of Justice Devan Ramachandran in an interim order restricted the governor from taking a final decision on the show-cause notices served to the vice chancellors until the court decides on the petition filed by the vice-chancellors.
The court expressed its reservations regarding the Governor's communiqué issued on 23 October which asked the VCs to resign by 11.30 am on Monday.
A section of educationists have raised several questions against the University authorities and has sought NBU's internal departmental inquiry, along with the police probe
The Vice-Chancellor said that all Krishi Vigyan Kendras and Research Stations scattered all over the state will be strengthened.
Offensive slogans were allegedly raised and the controversy assumed a political colour. In the left versus right binary, the ‘nationalists’ took on the ‘anti-nationals’ in a debate fuelled by a strident media, that has for the most part lost touch with objectivity, and the social media troll army.
Visva-Bharati University grapples with a cruel irony yet again. The legacy of Tagore is in tatters with the five-year jail terms awarded to a former Vice-Chancellor, a former Registrar, and a former lady lecturer of the Mathematics department.
Raja Ram Yadav, the Vice-Chancellor of Purvanchal University, triggered a major controversy when he told a gathering of students to murder their opponents at a public meeting in Ghazipur.
