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Sivagangai (Tamil Nadu) [India], August 5 (ANI): The Special Court for Exclusive Trial under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention Act) here on Friday sentenced 27 people to life imprisonment in connection with the murder of three Dalits in the Kachanatham village in Tamil Nadu's Sivagangai district in 2018.

Chennai Oct 30 PTI Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi on Saturday asked the Vice Chancellors in the State to focus on academic excellence and quality research and advised them to ensure quality in recruitment of teaching faculty The Governor who is the Chancellor stressed the need for quality research and publication in peer-reviewed journals Addressing the Vice Chancellors during his first meeting with them at the Raj Bhavan here on Saturday Ravi appreciated Tamil Nadu for having 20 State universities and also the impressive gross enrolment ratio As the higher education of the State has expanded significantly the Governor urged the Vice Chancellors to focus on academic excellence and quality research a communique from the Raj Bhavan said He suggested the Vice Chancellors to have an honest appraisal of the strengths and weakness of their universities so as to harness the strengths and work on weaknesses it said He said universities should involve in knowledge dissemination through teaching and knowledge creation through research He insisted upon the need for continuous improvement of knowledge creation to assure quality in higher education and advised the Vice Chancellors to ensure quality in recruitment of teaching faculty The Governor lauded the State government for helping the varsities particularly in mitigating their financial distress and urged the government to nudge the universities for enhancing the quality of education and research The Vice Chancellors made a power-point presentation about their universities to the Governor-Chancellor Senior secretaries of the State government briefed him on the status of State universities and how the government has been helping them with resources including financial assistance Apart from Vice Chancellors registrars senior secretaries Anandrao V Patil secretary to Governor and C Muthukumaran deputy secretary to Governor universities participated PTI JSP BN BN