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IIT Kanpur alumnus and IndiGo co-founder Rakesh Gangwal | Photo Credit: By Special Arrangement IIT Kanpur alumnus and IndiGo co-founder Rakesh Gangwal has committed an additional ₹300 crore towards the development of the Gangwal School of Medical Sciences and Technology at IIT Kanpur. The contribution follows his earlier donation of ₹100 crore in 2022, which…
Expressing concern over recurring student suicides across Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the Central Information Commission (CIC) has directed the institutions to constitute high-level committees to recommend measures for preventing such deaths and mitigating the factors that contribute to them. The direction came while disposing of appeals filed by Dheeraj Kumar Singh, an alumnus of…
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The police said a forensic team was called to collect the forensic evidences. (Representational) Kanpur: A 28-year-old PhD student at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur ended her life by hanging herself from the ceiling hook here on Thursday, the fourth such case in the last one year, police said. Pragati Kharya, a resident of…
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At Rajiv Sinha’s laboratory in IIT Kanpur lie soil, sand, and rocks drilled out from across thousands of metres under the Karnali, Ganga, and Kosi rivers. Each sample, called a “sedimentary core” is held in a container 7.6 cm wide; together, they create snapshots of the rivers’ ancient history. Every centimetre of these cores reveals…
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