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Monami Sinha, associate professor at Kamala Nehru College and Academic Council member, said several parts of the syllabus were questioned, particularly for including western perspectives and politically-sensitive topics.
The protest started when Aligarh Nagar Nigam officials marked university land as government property. A memorandum to the district magistrate called for an inquiry into the "unilateral takeover."
Saif told the media that on, the IIT-K research scholar forcibly entered her room at her official residence in Rawatpur, where her parents and newborn were present. The woman allegedly locked the door and introduced herself as a PhD student.
Around 319 students were awarded degrees in MBA, 161 in MBA (Analytics), 34 in executive MBA, 72 in executive MBA Analytics (EMBAA), and 12 in PhD courses at the IIM Kashipur convocation ceremony.
KIIT Students Death: Prisa Sah, an eighteen-year-old student was found dead in the same floor of the institution where Prakriti Lamba, another Nepali student died by suicide in February 2025.
The campus will offer undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in computer science, business, economics, and creative industries, with a focus on AI and cyber security.
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Ramdas Sivanandan’ victory comes after a year-long court battle, first at the Bombay HC and then, SC. Meanwhile, TISS suspended the students’ union and banned his organisation, the PSF.
The incident comes barely two-and-a-half months after Prakriti Lamsal, another Nepalese student of the same institute, died by suicide on February 16. According to officials, there are around 1,000 Nepalese students in KIIT.
Deaths, protests, inquiries – nothing seems to change things for PhD scholars in India’s top science and tech institutions such as IIT Kanpur, Bombay, Madras, AIIMS, IISERs, IIIT Allahabad.
On March 4, a 20-year-old student was similarly found hanging inside his hostel room, and another case of suicide was reported on December 10, 2024.
