New Delhi: IIT Kharagpur, has revoked the suspension of whistleblower Professor Rajeev Kumar who had exposed flaws in JEE and other irregularities in the institute.
The action came after a probe report by a one-member inquiry committee which went into the charges levelled against him, which was accepted by the IIT Kharagpur's Board of Governors.
"Prof Kumar has been reinstated," said sources in the HRD ministry adding, the direction was given to the institute to revoke his suspension with immediate effect.
Kumar was suspended in May, 2011, on the charge of bringing disrepute to the institute and misrepresentation of the facts about the institute. IIT Kharagpur has in recent times been dogged by several controversies including the indictment of its top officials....
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01:42 PM, Jun 11, 2012
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Ranchi: An Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) engineer has been arrested for sending a threat mail to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P. Chidambaram, police said on Sunday. Anurag Kashyap was arrested on Saturday from Hazaribagh district in Jharkhand. "Anurag has been arrested for sending a threat mail, he send the mail by creating an account in name of his neighbour Manish Sharma," a police official said. The...
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New Delhi: The faculty of IIT Kharagpur have rejected the proposed format for a Common Entrance Test into IITs and centrally aided engineering colleges. "IITs have become what they are because they have been allowed to function independently, and set appropriate standards in carrying out their academic responsibilities. The IIT Council proposal, if implemented, will seriously compromise the autonomy so essential for IITs to remain what they are," IIT Kharagpur...
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