The tinkling of handbells rang out across Xavier University’s Gert Town campus on Friday morning to mark the 100th anniversary of the nation’s only Catholic historically Black university.

Co-founder and CEO of HIAL Gitanjali JB, who also happens to be an alumna of Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, 1996-batch, was also present at the convocation. XIM University VC Antony ...