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 Sen A 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 on January 31, 2024
V-B gets new plaque with Tagore name Two 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 on December 6, 2023
Visva-Bharati plaque row at cops door as cross, FIRs filed The 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 on November 6, 2023

Visva-Bharati VC's letter to Mamata Banerjee stokes fresh row Visva-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 on October 29, 2023
Vishva Bharti University clarifies on row over Unesco plaques, says they're temporary Visva-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 on October 25, 2023
Visva Bharati University tells Amartya Sen to vacate 13 decimals of land by May 6 Visva 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 on April 20, 2023

Amid encroachment row, Didi gives Amartya land deed Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday handed over land record documents of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s residence in Santiniketan to the economist, dismissing claims of the current Visva-Bharati.. IndiaTimes - Published on January 30, 2023
Return 'illegally occupied' land, Visva-Bharati tells Nobel laureate Amartya IndiaTimes - Published on January 25, 2023
Restore normalcy at Visva-Bharati, TMC MP Jawhar Sircar tells Centre in RS IndiaTimes - Published on March 25, 2022
Calcutta HC bars protests at key spots in Visva-Bharati IndiaTimes - Published on September 4, 2021

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