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Second Nepal student suicide at KIIT prompts UGC to announce fact-finding panel
May 03, 2025 3:49 am
The development comes a day after a first-year B Tech computer science engineering student from Nepal was found dead in a hostel room at the institute Thursday evening – the institute’s second suicide by a Nepal student this year.
Another Nepal student found dead in Odisha’s KIIT over 2 months after similar incident rocked institute
May 02, 2025 9:37 am
Nepal Student Death: Sources the hostel warden found the girl dead in her room at around 8 pm and informed the police. She was a first-year engineering student of the institute and hailed from Birgunj in Nepal.
‘Gross negligence’: NHRC holds KIIT responsible for student’s suicide
March 29, 2025 4:26 am
During the probe, the NHRC team found that the deceased had lodged a complaint with the KIIT’s International Relations Office (IRO) on March 12 last year that the suspect was allegedly "blackmailing" her, even writing about how it was affecting her mental state.
11 months before she died by suicide, Nepal student had filed harassment complaint with KIIT authorities: Odisha minister
March 21, 2025 6:24 pm
The minister was responding in the Assembly to a query from a Congress MLA.
1,000 Nepalese students returned to campus amid NHRC probe: KIIT
March 08, 2025 2:23 pm
The Nepalese students were allegedly evicted from the campus by KIIT employees after they demanded justice for 20-year-old Prakriti Lamsal, who died by suicide in her hostel room on February 16.
Odisha govt summons 4 more KIIT officials in Nepalese student's suicide case
February 26, 2025 9:22 am
They were asked to appear before the panel headed by Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Satyabrata Sahu on February 27, separate notifications said on Tuesday.
KIIT founder to BJD stint to centre of Nepalese student death storm: Who is Achyuta Samanta
February 24, 2025 2:06 am
The row, which set off a diplomatic crisis between two countries, has severely dented Samanta’s image of a social entrepreneur, who claims to have helped thousands of Odisha tribal kids by giving them access to free education
Around 40 goons beat us... we are afraid to go back to campus, say KIIT students who returned to Nepal
February 22, 2025 7:53 am
The students appeal to Nepali government ensure their safe return and conducive atmosphere for their studies.
KIIT suicide row | Deeply saddened by the tragic death; safety of international students high priority: MEA
May 20, 2025 3:46 pm
The Ministry of External Affairs said it has been in constant touch with the Odisha government since the matter came to light.
Nepal student death at KIIT: Why we need to rethink residential education in India
February 21, 2025 5:46 pm
These are trying times for residential higher education in India, which has only known the largely male hostel population across engineering colleges unified by more or less homogenous career goals. As residential higher education expands beyond the technical and the professional, the challenges of residential education rise to new planes
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KIIT suicide: Protests erupt on campus, over 500 Nepali students asked to leave
February 19, 2025 12:16 pm
KIIT released a statement suggesting that the deceased might have taken the step due to a personal dispute with the detained male student.
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