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As many as 55 students of IIM Calcutta have tested positive and are being quarantined at a special facility on the campus, an official of the B-school said on Sunday. Most of the students are from the two-year MBA programme and the rest are from the one-year executive course. “They have been lodged in Tata Hall and are under observation. No one has yet been hospitalised,” said the official, who is part of the Joka institute’s Covid response team. Although classes are being held online because of the pandemic, students have been brought back to the campus in phases so they could use the ...

IIM Calcutta will hold its convocation online on May 15. According to an official of the institute, a meeting of the academic council on Wednesday discussed the possibility of holding the event on the campus but ruled against it eventually. A member of the council said that as students would leave the hostels after completion of their final-term exams in April, holding the ceremony on the campus would have meant recalling the outgoing batch to the campus amid the pandemic. “We wanted to avoid the situation and settled for the online mode,” said the member. Last year, the institute did not...