Kumar's tenure will be till completion of four years as chairperson, Board of Governors at IIM Calcutta, or seventy years of age, whichever is earlier, a senior MoE official said.
Around 300 activists of the students' wing of CPI(M) tried to breach police barricades and enter the varsity campus in the Purba Bardhaman district, a senior officer said.
Nagaland University confers degrees across disciplines, including ug, pg, phd courses; highlights expanding research output with 53 externally funded projects.
Ashoka University says the move will strengthen interdisciplinary and data-driven research on human behaviour, learning, and brain processes; Nandini Chatterjee Singh will head the department
The project includes two government, two PPP, and three private or minority-run medical colleges, with construction in Hoshiarpur set to begin on March 20.
The vice-chancellor of APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, Ciza Thomas, has been given additional charge of Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit until further orders.
IIT Mandi scientists said the technology was deployed in three landslide-prone areas in Mandi district, and claimed that the model, based on machine learning and advanced analytics, achieved over 90% accuracy in prediction.