{"id":242142,"date":"2025-02-19T09:09:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T09:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/kiit-student-suicide-on-the-spur-of-the-moment-faculty-apologises-after-controversial-feeding-40k-students-for-free-remark\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T09:09:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T09:09:42","slug":"kiit-student-suicide-on-the-spur-of-the-moment-faculty-apologises-after-controversial-feeding-40k-students-for-free-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/kiit-student-suicide-on-the-spur-of-the-moment-faculty-apologises-after-controversial-feeding-40k-students-for-free-remark\/","title":{"rendered":"KIIT student suicide: \u2018On the spur of the moment\u2019: Faculty apologises after controversial &#8216;feeding 40k students for free&#8217; remark"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/thumb\/msid-118383315,width-1070,height-580,overlay-economictimes\/videoshow.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"KIIT student suicide: \u2018On the spur of the moment\u2019: Faculty apologises after controversial &#8216;feeding 40k students for free&#8217; remark\" title=\"KIIT student suicide: \u2018On the spur of the moment\u2019: Faculty apologises after controversial &#8216;feeding 40k students for free&#8217; remark\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Faculty members of KIIT apologised after a controversial video surfaced during campus protests triggered by Nepali student Prakriti Lamsal&#8217;s suicide. Allegations of evicting Nepali students fueled unrest. Staff members Manjusa Pandey and Jayanti Nath made remarks comparing the university&#8217;s budget to Nepal&#8217;s, sparking outrage. Both apologised, clarifying their comments were personal views. The incident led to clashes with security, and KIIT removed two officers, calling their actions \u2018extremely irresponsible\u2019<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"read_more\"> Show more<\/span><span class=\"read_less hidden\"> Show less<\/span><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/kiit-student-suicide-on-the-spur-of-the-moment-faculty-apologises-after-controversial-feeding-40k-students-for-free-remark\/videoshow\/118383315.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty members of KIIT apologised after a controversial video surfaced during campus protests triggered by Nepali student Prakriti Lamsal&#8217;s suicide. Allegations of evicting Nepali students fueled unrest. Staff members Manjusa Pandey and Jayanti Nath made remarks comparing the university&#8217;s budget to Nepal&#8217;s, sparking outrage. Both apologised, clarifying their comments were personal views. The incident led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/thumb\/msid-118383315,width-1070,height-580,overlay-economictimes\/videoshow.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[39057,2598,7466,152000,105821,188329,6364,508,187826,188331,188332,188328,5794,188330,5564,22396,2069,3928,6987],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242144,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242142\/revisions\/242144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}