Abhijit Chakraborty

The Steel Stripes team won the team event title at the National Bridge Championships. The duo of Abhijit Chakraborty and Parsua Mukhapadhyay emerged champions in the pairs group.

Students of Jadavpur University gheraoed vice-chancellor Abhijit Chakraborty on Tuesday afternoon demanding that two external juries be included in the team that is probing the complaint of molestation of a history student during the institute’s fest in last month.

The Calcutta high court registrar of insolvency, Abhijit Chakraborty, was arrested on Monday night in a case pertaining to fudging of insolvency decrees issued by the court. The arrest takes the total number of people held in the case to eight, deputy commissioner of police (detective department II) Dilip Adak said.

Instances of patients' relatives heckling doctors over negligence are pretty common.

Vice-chancellor Abhijit Chakraborty was greeted with a volley of slogans on his way to Aurobindo Bhavan in Jadavpur University on Wednesday.

Bengal finally got a win under the belt in the Vijay Hazare Trophy (one-day) meet when they subdued Tripura by 109 runs in a Group B match at the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Amtar, on Tuesday.

Maharashtra pair Raju Bhiwandkar and Subhash Dhakras are maintaining their lead in the field with 85.80 VPs at the end of the 6th round of All India Sir Padampat Singhania Bridge tournament being held here virtually.

Governor Keshri Nath Tripathi has shortlisted three candidates for the post of a full-time VC. TOI looks at the options

After a grading from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) and University Grants Commission (UGC), it may be time for another assessment by the state government.

A BJP camp office near Kalighat Metro station was ransacked, allegedly by Trinamool-backed men, aro-und 12.30pm on Friday when there was a membership drive in progress.

The father of the August 28 molestation %survivor at Jadavpur University blames vice-chancellor Abhijit Chakraborty for the brutal assault on %students and wants chief minister Mamata Banerjee to intervene.

Kolkata's eateries face a severe crisis as LPG supply for commercial use halts, forcing closures and menu cuts. Businesses like Modern Foods and Mio Amore are switching to costly diesel, while Arsalan considers suburban coal ovens. Restaurants warn of collapse without urgent government intervention to restore supply.

Jadavpur University girls were dragged by the hair and groped, and male students were kicked and punched in a barbaric, dead-of-the-night police assault to break up a peaceful gherao of the vice-chancellor on Wednesday. Girls say the cops — most of whom were in plainclothes — deliberately hit them on the breasts and trampled on the boys’ chests and necks with boots during 10 minutes of terror.

Education minister Partha Chatterjee called on governor Keshari Nath Tripathi (the JU chancellor) on Sunday, in a last-ditch attempt to nudge him towards Abhijit Chakraborti while appointing the full-time VC.

Jadavpur University will not be able to maintain its high standards of academic excellence unless immediate steps are taken to right some ongoing wrongs, feel some of the best known emeritus teachers of the university. On Monday afternoon, they met Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi with this message on their lips and an appeal that he investigates their complaints and saves the academic fabric of the institution. Tripathi promised to look into the problems in both his capacities as governor and as chancellor of the university.

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