{"id":289953,"date":"2025-04-25T08:27:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T08:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/former-isro-chief-k-kasturirangan-passes-away-in-bengaluru\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T08:27:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T08:27:05","slug":"former-isro-chief-k-kasturirangan-passes-away-in-bengaluru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/former-isro-chief-k-kasturirangan-passes-away-in-bengaluru\/","title":{"rendered":"Former ISRO chief K Kasturirangan passes away in Bengaluru"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-120612339,imgsize-34400.cms?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Former ISRO chief K Kasturirangan passes away in Bengaluru\" title=\"Former ISRO chief K Kasturirangan passes away in Bengaluru\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"8\"><a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/former-isro-chief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Former ISRO chief<\/a> and chairperson of drafting committee behind the ambitious new National Education Policy (NEP) <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/k-kasturirangan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">K Kasturirangan<\/a> passed away in Bengaluru on Friday, officials said. He was 84. <!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=toppotime:1--> &#8220;He left for heavenly abode this morning at his residence in Bengaluru. His body will be kept at Raman Research Institute (RRI) for paying last respects on April 27,&#8221; the officials said. <\/p>\n<p> Known as the man behind education reforms listed in NEP, Kasturirangan had served as chancellor of the Jawaharlal Nehru University and chairman of the Karnataka Knowledge Commission. <\/p>\n<p> He had also served as a member of the Rajya Sabha (2003-09) and as member of then Planning Commission of India. <\/p>\n<p>Kasturirangan was also the Director of the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore from April 2004 to 2009.<!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=botpotime:1--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/former-isro-chief-k-kasturirangan-passes-away-in-bengaluru\/articleshow\/120612339.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former ISRO chief and chairperson of drafting committee behind the ambitious new National Education Policy (NEP) K Kasturirangan passed away in Bengaluru on Friday, officials said. He was 84. &#8220;He left for heavenly abode this morning at his residence in Bengaluru. His body will be kept at Raman Research Institute (RRI) for paying last respects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-120612339,imgsize-34400.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[3849,302,225542,7279,225543,225544,225545,101753,228],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289953"}],"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=289953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289955,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289953\/revisions\/289955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}