No Poush Mela this year, help local artists sell their products online: Modi to Visva-Bharati University students
Visva-Bharati University completed 100 years today. PM Modi remembers Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore and says that the university continues to be an integral part of the Indian culture. Updated: December 24, 2020 4:52:27 pm
On January 1, PM Modi will also lay the foundation stone of the Light House Project in Agartala. (File)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday took part in the centenary celebrations of Visva-Bharati University through video conferencing and urged university officials and its students to help local artists sell their handicraft products online to the global market.
Skipping the Visva-Bharati centenary celebration, which was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi via videoconferencing on Thursday, Chief Minister Mamata Ba
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Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and Visva Bharati University engage in war of words over illegal land grab
In 2006, Prof Sen requested the then vice-chancellor for transfer of the 99-year-old lease-hold land to his name which was accepted by the Executive Council but the excess land was never returned to the university.
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In the latest row over illegal land grab in the Visva-Bharati, the varsity has accused Nobel laureate and eminent economist Prof Amartya Sen of wrongly occupying the land on the campus. In a letter written to the West Bengal government, Visva Bharati has contested that a number of plots present on the varsity have been erroneously recorded to favour private parties including Prof Amartya Sen.