Nalanda News
L&T tightens its grip on Mindtree, buys out Nalanda Capital’s stake
If L&T achieves all its share purchase targets, it will end up holding 66% in Mindtree, worth at least ₹10,800 croreLast week, L&T launched its open offer to buy a 31% stake from the public shareholders of Mindtree
3 min read25 Jun 2019On Independence Day, India gets back its 12th century stolen Buddha statue
The bronze Buddha statue with silver inlay is one of the 14 statues stolen in 1961 from the ASI museum in Nalanda before surfacing at a London auction
2 min read15 Aug 2018An 'under the Bodhi tree' experience
Thoughts and images from a visit to Bodh Gaya
7 min read11 Feb 2018Nalanda University chancellor George Yeo resigns over autonomy issue
George Yeo said he had been kept out of the loop on an important decision to reconstitute the governing board, which makes key decisions for Nalanda university
1 min read25 Nov 2016The story of a suicide
Sriram Ayer’s ’The Story of a Suicide’ reaches out to the youth by giving a voice to their struggles, challenges and experiences
2 min read9 Aug 2016News in Numbers | Nalanda University to be part of UNESCO’s World Heritage list
In other news, 2,000 additional CRPF personnel have been rushed to the Kashmir valley in the wake of the raging violence
3 min read18 Jul 2016Removing constraints in higher education
The argument that foreign investment benefits only a minority is flawed
3 min read4 Feb 2016Nalanda University receives $1 million endowment
The endowment will be used to set up a professorial chair in the School of Historical Studies, said the Rajgir-based university which has a historical past
1 min read23 Sep 2015Tax benefits: Govt notifies 21 districts in Bihar as ‘backward’
Manufacturing units, which are set up between April 2015 to March 2020, will get benefits
1 min read20 Aug 2015Amartya Sen: Threat to secularism stronger than in the past
Sen believes the Modi government is nothing like the Vajpayee government, which as a coalition had ’many forces in the way’
11 min read8 Jul 2015Popular Topics
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