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The English Literary Association (ELA) of the PG & Research Department of English, The American College is staging Maverick Theatre’s production of An Experiment with Truth, a celebrated play by Asif Currimbhoy.
28 August – 4 September 2025 | Venue: Auditorium, The American College | Public Show: 30 August, 6.30 PM

National Conference on Frontiers in Chemical Sciences-Innovations & Impact NCFCSII-2025
September 12 & 13, 2025 ORGANISED BY
Postgraduate Research Department of Chemistry

Exam Fee Notification for End of Semester Examinations-Nov 2025

REVALUATION-REPEAT EXAMINATIONS JUNE-2025

To Watch Graduation Day on Saturday ,26 July 2025

“Hands-on Training on Smartphone Service” three-day workshop organized by department of Physics (SF).

  • Scheduled to be held from 05.08.2025 to 07.08.2025
  • The workshop is limited to 25 Participants Only. Hence early registration is encouraged.
  • Registration link : https://forms.gle/ZeB3zVRiAHzmedGn7

Bc/MBc/DNc Scholarship 2025-2026
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SC/ST Scholarship 2025-2026
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PUDHUMAI PENN SCHEME 2025-2026

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TAMIL PUDHALVAN SCHEME 2025-2026

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2025-2026 SC-ST National Overseas Scholarship

Our College has been ranked 54 among colleges in India in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF 2024) released by the Ministry of HRD, Government of India.

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Campus Trees

Lawsonia inermis

மருதாணி

Family:  Lythraceae

Common Names: Henna plant, Pontalasi, Samphire

Flowering Period: December – May

Description

  • Henna, or Mehndi as it is called in Hindi, is a symbol of festivity in India. It is especially associated with marriage in north India.
  • Henna is a tall shrub or small tree, standing 6-25 ft tall. It is hairless and multi-branched, with spine-tipped branchlets.
  • The leaves grow opposite each other on the stem.
  • They are hairless, nearly-stalkless, elliptical, and lance shaped, tapering, and have depressed veins on the underside. Henna flowers have four sepals and a 2 mm sepal-cup tube, with 3 mm spread sepals.
  • Its petals are ovate, with white or red stamens. Henna fruits are small, brownish capsules, 4-8 mm in diameter.

Uses

  • Medicinal-Henna a well knownethnomedicinal plant used cosmetically and medicinally in the Indian traditional folk medicines for thousand years.
  • Root is used as abortifacient, to treat leprosy, skin diseases, dysmenorrhoea and premature greying of hair.
  • The leaves are used as an astringent or as a prophylactic against skin diseases and the bark is useful in the treatment of jaundice, enlargement of the spleen, calculus affection and skin diseases
  • The paste of ground leaves has been used to colour skin, hair, fingernails, leather, silk and wool. The flowers and fruits are used in perfumery.