Amit Banerjee

An award-winning doctor, who was appointed vice-chancellor of West Bengal University of Health Sciences (WBUHS) was removed from his post after only two days. Amit Banerjee, a cardio-thoracic surgeon, says he was stunned when he was informed via email that the government had not "accepted his assuming charge as V-C".

Calcutta High Court on Monday granted bail to the company’s agent Amit Banerjee in connection to the case lodged by the Enforcement Directorate.

Nandita, the Gold Medalist of Rabindra Bharati University and Research scholar at Viswabharati recently released her new Rabindra Sangeet album “Birohi”.

Private universities, deemed to be universities, engineering colleges and private colleges in the state do not have the provision to hold students' union election on their campuses.

Revenue divisional commissioner A B Ota probing the October 17 SUM Hospital fire mishap, on Monday sought information about the tragedy from persons who had witnessed it.

The department of Economics of Allahabad University organised a blood donation camp commemorating the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav. The department had set the goal of collecting 75 units of blood which they did successfully.

The in-vitro fertilisation experts cannot oblige them till the Indian Council of Medical Research issues proper guidelines.

Executing the court order, a large team from Chandannagore Police reached the area to evict the club, which had encroached a field in Hatirkul.

ALLAHABAD: Voluntary Blood Donors Forum (VBDF) will be participating in the October 1 bicycle rally between Allahabad and Lucknow, to coincide with the all India Blood Donation Day, according to the unanimous decision reached by city based NGOs meeting here on Tuesday.

The West Bengal University of Health Sciences (WBUHS) has finally got a vice-chancellor (VC) after a gap of nearly two years.

Now that the monsoon has arrived in the city, people are at a graver risk than that posed by potholes: open manholes.

Hours ahead of the curtain going up on the 31st Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the state emboldened by the record participants of six women on Friday heightened the sound of cheer.

Nearly 50% people suffering from burn injuries in India die against 2% to 4% in developed countries.

Booksellers A H Wheeler, which has been a part of railway history in the country, is back in business. The chain of book stores, which had 500 outlets and spread across 258 railway stations in north and central India was discontinued from October 2004 by the then railway minister Lalu Prasad during the UPA-I regime.

After a long gap of 7 years, Tenida and his merry band of goons are returning to the big screen. Directed by Rajsekhar Soam, the upcoming comedy flick is based on Narayan Gangopadhyay’s famous story ‘Kambal Niruddesh’.

The SOA University on Sunday announced launching of a pan-Odisha project to address oral cancer in the state.

A 23-year-old man from Memnagar committed suicide by ostensibly strangling himself with a bedsheet in his bedroom on Wednesday, according to a complaint for accidental death registered at Vastrapur police station.

A Howrah court on Monday charged Biswajyoti Basu, an expelled CPM leader, along with eight others in the murder case of Dr Sushil Pal.

'It is tougher for a man to want to be a single parent because neither does he have the egg nor the uterus to carry the baby.'

The Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (SOA), a deemed to be university, was adjudged as third cleanest campuses among technical institutions (residential) category in the country in the Swachh Campus Rankings, 2018.

In an affidavit filed at Jharkhand High Court on Friday, the vigilance department said former chief minister Madhu Koda had undertaken a tour of Bangkok, Thailand, with his close associates, Binod Sinha and Sanjay Choudhary.

Even as the hysteria over masks escalated in the market with more people flocking to chemists to buy one, doctors in government hospitals said they were ensuring the N95 masks were used only by designated medical staff and no wastage occurs.

A host of acclaimed Bengali singers have joined hands for a Bengali original song ‘cholche Tori’ paying tribute to legendary composer-lyricist Abhijit Bandyopadhyay. The entire planning and management has been done by Amit Bandyopadhyay, son of Abhijit Bandyopadhyay. This is a musical version of the poem ‘Durer Palla’ penned by Satyendranath Dutt.

The Enforcement Directorate questioned Rujira Banerjee, wife of Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, for over eight hours in connection with the primary teacher recruitment case. Banerjee, a former director of Leaps & Bounds Pvt Ltd, had sought protection from the Calcutta High Court, claiming that media leaks during the investigation were affecting her right to privacy. The agency asked her about her role in the company and inquired about her contact with the company's chief operating officer, Sujay Krishna Bhadra. Banerjee was allowed to leave after her recorded statement was discussed with officials in New Delhi.

Health minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak flagged off a tribal-centric hepatitis mission aiming at building awareness, prevention and eradication of viral hepatitis here on Thursday.

The SOA University here has announced to set up an intellectual property rights (IPR) cell.