Trinamool MP Satabdi Roy removed as SSDA chairperson

Last Updated: Thursday, November 21, 2013, 18:05

Trinamool Congress MP Satabdi Roy, who had shared the dais with some dissident party leaders two months ago, was today removed from the post of the chairperson of Sriniketan Santiniketan Development Authority (SSDA).

Two feared drowned in canal, mob damages fire tender

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 09:48

Two persons were feared drowned in a canal following which locals turned their ire on fire brigade personnel damaging a vehicle for their alleged failure to rescue the duo at Santiniketan in Birbhum district late tonight.

Santiniketan through a historic photographers` lens

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 11, 2011, 18:34

Visva Bharati University in Santiniketan set up by Tagore in the heart of rural West Bengal is a photographers` dream.

Tagore memorabilia to get new home

Last Updated: Sunday, March 20, 2011, 08:25

The Visva-Bharati University has received 19 blueprints for a new museum.

Santiniketan named for Unesco listings

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 09:42

India has nominated Santiniketan in Unesco`s World Heritage list.

Santiniketan, Western Ghats named for Unesco listin

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 16:15

India has nominated Santiniketan, the university town where Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore founded Visva Bharati, and the mountain range of Western Ghats for a place in Unesco`s World Heritage list.

CBI probe into Tagore Nobel medal theft closed

Last Updated: Friday, August 6, 2010, 12:43

The five-year-old probe by the CBI into the theft of Rabindranath Tagore`s Nobel medal and other memorabilia from Rabindra Bhavan museum in Santiniketan, has been officially closed.

Visva Bharati University to reopen Saturday

Last Updated: Friday, July 23, 2010, 23:00

Visva Bharati University which was closed since Sunday last following a strike called by a group of students protesting against fee hike would reopen tomorrow varsity sources said today.