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IIT alumnus seeks impartial probe, opposes action against Prof Doolla MUMBAI: Socio-political activist and columnist Sudheendra Kulkarni, an IIT Bombay alumnus, has called for an impartial probe into the death of student Sahil Ravindra Wakode and opposed any action against Prof Suryanarayana Doolla unless his guilt is established through an investigation.In a post on X,…

IIT Bombay students clarified their recent campus protests focused on institutional systems and student welfare MUMBAI: Student representatives at IIT Bombay have sought to distance the recent campus protests from any suggestion that students were defending academic misconduct, saying their agitation was instead aimed at raising larger concerns about institutional systems, accountability and student welfare.In…

The student said Prof Doolla’s removal as Dean was “completely wrong”, asserting that he was only doing his job. MUMBAI: Students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay have demanded changes to the institute’s student welfare system and greater focus on mental health, following concerns raised in the wake of the Sahil Wakode suicide…

The Mumbai Police Crime Branch is scrutinising CCTV footage in connection with the death by suicide of IIT Bombay student Sahil Ravindra Wakode MUMBAI: The Mumbai Police Crime Branch is piecing together CCTV footage from IIT Bombay‘s examination hall, campus and hostel to reconstruct student Sahil Ravindra Wakode’s movements on the day he died by…

Mumbai Costal road incident on Sunday MUMBAI: Shanay Gajjar, the 21-year-old student who was driving the BMW that plunged 70 feet down from the Coastal Road flyover early Sunday near Lotus Jetty, and who died in the fatal mishap along with two others, previously faced two cases registered by the city police. In March, Gamdevi…

(Representative image) Following the death of a IIT-Bombay student, education experts are raising concerns about the inconsistencies in reported accounts MUMBAI: As events at IIT Bombay’s Powai campus have unfolded following the death by suicide of second-year student Sahil Wakode, educationists across the country say they have been disturbed not only by the tragedy, but…

The road tests for recalibrating auto and taxi meters with revised fares started Monday. A road test is the final step for meters to be sealed and approved by RTO, after which the autos and taxis will display meters with minimum new fares of Rs 27 and Rs 33 respectively. Mumbai: The road tests for…

Mumbai: A 24-year-old man, Rohan Parikh, arrested for allegedly entering Jio World Plaza at BKC with a fake Prime Minister’s Office identity card while prohibitory orders were in force, was granted bail by 37th Metropolitan Magistrate Dattatray Khedekar on Sept 21.Parikh was granted bail on the execution of a personal bond of Rs 50,000. “The…

Mumbai: Nearly three months after Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis announced in the state assembly a Rs 13,000 crore integrated flood control master plan to tackle Mumbai’s chronic flooding problem, mainly in low-lying areas, BMC has drawn up a Rs 7,345.9 crore plan to be implemented under Urban Flood Risk Management Programme (UFRMP).Additional municipal commissioner…

BMC’s high-level inquiry committee has recommended a vigilance probe into officials involved in the work of installing nets on sewage-channel manholes since 2024. Mumbai: Nearly three months after the death of Aslam Isak Shaikh, who fell into an open manhole on Khairani Road in Sakinaka on July 2 amid a wet spell, the BMC’s high-level…