Chennai, April 16 -- Tamil Nadu's universities must become global hubs for research and innovation and should provide quality, inclusive, and empowering education without barriers, Chief Minister M K Stalin said on Wednesday.

"Let us move forward together with determination on this visionary path and elevate Tamil Nadu's higher education to international standards", he said in his first meeting with Vice-Chancellors and Registrars of State-run varsities days after the Supreme Court indicted Governor R N Ravi for withholding assent to 10 Bills adopted in the State Assembly and in a landmark judgement ruled that all the Bills were deemed to have received his assent.

Armed with the Supreme Court order, the Law government had notified a...