Kolkata News: Universities, autonomous colleges to start UG admission process from next week

An estimated 88.44 per cent of 7,20,862 candidates passed the West Bengal higher secondary examinations (class 12) the results of which were declared on Friday.West Bengal council of higher secondary education president Chiranjib Bhattacharya told a press meet that the pass percentage of boys was 90.19 per cent while that of girls was 86.19 per cent. (PTI)

Several autonomous colleges in the city will start rolling out admission for undergraduate courses from next week onwards. St Xavier’s College will be opening its admission portal from Monday onwards while Ramakrishna Mission Colleges and JD Birla institute (not an autonomous college but affiliated to Jadavpur University) will share admission details and start inviting applications from the middle of next week. Other government and government-aided colleges will be admitting students through the centralised admission system to be rolled out from the 2022-2023 academic session. The education department, which will be conducting the entrance, is preparing the website for the purpose of centralised admission.

Several autonomous colleges in the city will start rolling out admission for undergraduate courses from next week onwards. St Xavier’s College will be opening its admission portal from Monday onwards while Ramakrishna Mission Colleges and JD Birla institute (not an autonomous college but affiliated to Jadavpur University) will share admission details and start inviting applications from the middle of next week. Other government and government-aided colleges will be admitting students through the centralised admission system to be rolled out from the 2022-2023 academic session. The education department, which will be conducting the entrance, is preparing the website for the purpose of centralised admission.

Seventeen Muslim women from different age groups and diverse fields, like media, education, medicine and the culinary arts, were feted on Thursday for breaking the stereotype and breaking the glass ceiling. Each is an achievers in her own right.Uzma Firoz, a costume jeweller, had a tough time breaking the mould. “My family was sceptical about how far it could go. When I started eight years ago, there was no Instagram, or other platform where we could connect with clients and display our work. There is also some stigma of working in a creative field by older members of our community. Many older relatives initially reacted negatively to me,” she said.Firoz started with a small exhibition and, over time, got more clients. Until recently, before her Instagram was hacked, she had over 55,000 followers. “The appreciation I received made me feel proudof myself for doing something different,” she said.

A team of psychiatrists will soon visit studios to help create awareness about mental health issues. A 24x7 helpline will also be provided for anyone in distress to call anonymously to seek help.In the wake of four suicides in Tollywood, these decisions were taken at a seminar organized by the West Bengal Commission for Women on Thursday.The seminar was attended by members of the Artists’ Forum, producers’ association, Federation of Cine Technicians & Workers of Eastern India, television channel representatives and psychiatrists. Chairperson of WBCW Leena Bandopadhyay said, “I am happy with the active participation of artists, including Sohini Halder, Manali Dey, Ambarish Bhattacharya, Shankar Chakraborty, Sudip Mukherjee and Diganta Bagchi. Many of them spoke about their own mental health issues.

With the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation planning to set up organic waste convertors (OWC) across Salt Lake and Rajarhat, officials from BMC solid waste manageme nt department visited two Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC)-run OWC units at Chetla to check how they functionsThe BMC officials said they had a first-hand knowledge on the functioning of an OWC that converts kitchen or wet waste into manure. So far, the KMC has been the only civic body in the state to have installed two such OWCs, officials s aid. The BMC is preparing estimates to set up at least seven organic waste converters (OWC) in different wards of Salt Lake and Rajarhat-Gopalpur areas.

BJP national president J P Nadda on Thursday warned state unit leaders against speaking openly on demands for carving up Bengal. Nadda’s warning came 48 hours after Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s statement that she was ready to “shed (her) blood” to prevent any further division of the state.Nadda’s statement was an indication of the party leadership’s belief that persistent demands for dividing Bengal would be “politically counter-productive”, state BJP leaders said.

West Bengal on Thursday reported 95 fresh Covid-19 cases, 10 more than the previous day, raising the tally to 20,19,927, the health department said.The death toll, however, remained at 21,205, it said.The state now has 517 active cases, while 19,98,205 people have recovered from the disease thus far, including 47 in the last 24 hours. (PTI)

The state government is planning to allow electric autos to operate as contract carriage with physical or app-based meters like taxis, only a lot cheaper for personalised trips from the doorstep to the destination. Apart from being friendly on the pocket, it will also be good for the environment.The transport department has already received 15,000 applications after the publication of the notification.The e-autos, unlike the LPG autos which operate across the length and breadth of the city on fixed routes, will not require any permit. The e-autos only need to get registered with the respective registration authority to ply.

The Kolkata Police on Thursday claimed to have cracked the Bhowanipore double-murder case with the arrest of three persons. Police teams have also left for other states to nab three others who are on the run, including the main accused and conspirator, a cousin of one of the sons-in-laws of the murdered couple. The motive, police said, was a dispute over repayment of loan.The investigation has so far revealed that at least six people were present at the address when the murder took place on Monday afternoon. The couple — Ashok Shah (56) and Rashmita Shah (52) — were killed between 1pm and 2pm.

Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday demanded the immediate arrest of the BJP leaders accused of making controversial comments about Prophet Muhammad. She also warned protesters against disrupting normal life and making people suffer in Bengal to voice their anger about statements made in Delhi.The CM’s statement came in the wake of the controversial statements about Prophet Muhammad made by Delhi BJP leaders last week and the protests that resulted in an 11-hour blockade of National Highway-6 in Howrah on Thursday. Banerjee appealed for peace and urged people not to be “instigated by a handful of people” before calling on governor Jagdeep Dhankhar at Raj Bhavan on Thursday evening.