Kolkata: Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of RSS, is now trying to make a foray into Presidency University, the campus where Syama Prasad Mookerjee (to whom RSS traces its ideological lineage) and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (its nationalistic Vande Mataram poet) spent their college days.The university’s ABVP unit has organised a seminar on…

Kolkata: The sharp drop in the price of 543 cancer drugs will help a significant number of cancer patients — who may have been forced to discontinue treatment due to lack of funds — continue treatment, eventually resulting in better outcomes, said oncologists in Kolkata. The city and the state have one of the largest…

One of the campuses of Rabindra Bharati University Kolkata: Rabindra Bharati University (RBU) has declared all three of its campuses as tobacco-free zones following a notice issued by the university administration.The university issued an order on Friday designating its Salt Lake campus—which houses the directorate of distance education—as a ‘No Smoking’ zone. Interim vice-chancellor Sandip…