Share Tweet Plus One Pin It Email Print By: Akanksha Jain March 28, 2018 7:10 pm Change Font Size Faced with mounting protest from students stirred by a review commission report on West Bengal’s National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) Kolkata’s falling academic standards, its Vice-Chancellor Prof P Ishwara Bhat resigned on Wednesday. In his letter to Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, Bhat cited “health and family reasons” for his inability to continue to serve the varsity in the capacity of VC. “…It has been a great honour and privilege to serve this university which I have done with full sincerity, in accordance with law and to the best of my ability. I thank my Lordship for all the support and cooperation you have extended to me in this regard. “However, due to health and family reasons, I would be unable to serve the University in the capacity of Vice-Chancellor,” Bhat says in his letter to the CJI. … [Read more...] about NUJS Kolkata VC Resigns After Long-Searing Student Dissatisfaction Over Falling Academic Standards
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Weekly Standard: Mueller Using ‘Fairness and Admirable Restraint’
President Donald Trump has repeatedly torn into Robert Mueller's Russia probe as a "witch hunt" — but The Weekly Standard says the special counsel is acting responsibly. "Mueller in our view has so far conducted himself with fairness and admirable restraint …" the leading conservative magazine said in an editorial published Friday. The opinion came as the publication's editors praised Trump following reports he plans to pardon I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, who was indicted in 2005 and convicted of obstruction of justice. "It's years overdue … Libby was the first and only victim of special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald's mission — to find the source who had 'outed' CIA officer Valerie Plame to journalists. Fitzgerald had been named special counsel by none other than Deputy Attorney General James Comey," the editors write. "The president's many critics will contend that this has less to do with Libby than with … [Read more...] about Weekly Standard: Mueller Using ‘Fairness and Admirable Restraint’
Jim Jordan: ‘Double Standard’ on McCabe Making ‘Americans Crazy’
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said Tuesday that there’s a double standard in how former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe has been treated. On Fox News’ "Fox & Friends," Jordan compared McCabe, whom Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz alleged lied to investigators, to former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who was indicted for making a false statement to the FBI. "That's the kind of stuff that drives Americans crazy," he said. "I look forward to questioning Mr. Horowitz, [but] more importantly I look forward to getting the report and [finding] out what he's discovered over the last year," Jordan said. He added that former FBI Director James Comey “messed up” the agency’s investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server. "[Comey] is at the urging of the attorney general, [and] calls the Clinton investigation a 'matter' and not an 'investigation' when everyone knew it was an … [Read more...] about Jim Jordan: ‘Double Standard’ on McCabe Making ‘Americans Crazy’
Weekly Standard to Trump: Don’t Be Delusional Kim Will Scrap Nukes
President Donald Trump must not delude himself into believing that Kim Jong Un will ever willingly divest himself of nuclear weapons, The Weekly Standard says in an editorial published Monday, following reports that CIA Director Mike Pompeo secretly met with the North Korea strongman. "By agreeing to a meeting between President Trump himself and Kim Jong Un, the U.S. is giving the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) even more of what it wants. Kim will see himself as the dominant partner in the exchange, not the United States," the conservative publication writes. "Moreover, by engaging in this diplomatic endgame, premised as it is on the idea that North Korea might willingly ‘denuclearize,' the administration implicitly signals that it might actually take the Kim regime at its word ... "We hope the administration has not bought the delusion that Kim Jong Un would ever willingly divest himself of nuclear weapons. The whole self-identity of North Korean totalitarianism is … [Read more...] about Weekly Standard to Trump: Don’t Be Delusional Kim Will Scrap Nukes
Weekly Standard: Haley Debacle Makes US Seem ‘Indecisive and Incompetent’
The Weekly Standard has come out swinging at President Donald Trump and his handling of U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and her preemptive announcement about new Russian sanctions. "The problem can be located in the Oval Office: When President Trump makes a decision, or reverses one, he doesn't always tell the relevant people," the conservative political magazine said in an editorial published Thursday. The Standard notes that FBI Director James Comey found out he was fired in the media and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was axed by tweet. "This week, it was U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley's turn. Haley wasn't fired but reprimanded— wrongly,'' the editorial says. The imbroglio occurred Sunday when Haley said on CBS News's "Face the Nation," that new Russian sanctions would be announced Monday against companies dealing with equipment related to Syrian President Bashar Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons. That prompted Larry Kudlow, the president's national economic adviser, to say … [Read more...] about Weekly Standard: Haley Debacle Makes US Seem ‘Indecisive and Incompetent’
