INDIA : Mamata Banerjee lays the Foundation Stone to St. Xavier's New campus (The Telegraph via CNUA) The Chief Minister of West Bengal along with the Archbishop of Calcutta, Thomas D'Souza, Jesuit Provincial and the Principal of the College, Father Felix Raj, laid the foundation for the second campus of St. Xavier's College and the proposed Unversity of St. Xavier's Kolkata.

The gift of a blue Alumni blazer on the occasion turned Mamata Banerjee into someone she "never got the opportunity" to become as a student of Xavier's: a Xaverian. "We never got the opportunity to study in a good school or college. So what? We have worked hard and come up to where we are. I still managed to work my way through Calcutta University, law college and BEd. But I feel for it (the need for quality education)," the chief minister said with characteristic candour at the second campus at Rajarhat, New Town.