K Sandeep Kumar is Senior Assistant Editor and Prayagraj Bureau in-charge of Hindustan Times. A journalist for over two decades, he has written extensively on politics, education, science and technology research, defence and human interest issues in Uttar Pradesh.
Articles by K. Sandeep Kumar
One website for info on all educational institutions
All higher education institutions of the country and authentic information about them are soon going to become available on an official single Web portal.
Updated on May 25, 2010 02:22 AM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Animation, cartoons to help make better engineers
Rancho and his friends may have struggled with the complex technical stuff to get through their engineering college in the hit Bollywood flick 3 Idiots, but the country's budding engineers of tomorrow would be spared of this torture.
Updated on Apr 03, 2010 10:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Turmeric-based drug to cure Parkinson's disease
IIIT-A, NIMHANS experts design, develop compound effective in treating neurological disorders.
Updated on Mar 28, 2010 08:01 AM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
After crush, a desperate search
Bloodstains and broken bangles. A pile of slippers. Screams. The scene at Jagatguru Kripalu Chikitsalaya, a hospital 100 metres from the ashram where the stampede took place, resembled a disaster zone on Thursday.
Updated on Mar 05, 2010 12:42 AM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Mangarh
63 die in UP ashram stampede
About 25,000 people gathering in a narrow lane for a feast, with no crowd control, at an ashram in Kunda town in Uttar Pradesh’s Pratapgarh district on Thursday was a disaster in the making, K Sandeep Kumar reports. See map | Listen to podcast | Fatal attraction
Updated on Mar 05, 2010 07:57 AM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Kunda
Apples, onions good for diabetics
Next time you visit a diabetic friend, gift him/her apples and onions. It might just help your friend fight and delay the usual medical complications related to heart, eyes and nerves.
Updated on Jan 13, 2010 02:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Chilli bombs to smoke out terrorists from hiding places
Indian herbs and spices— renowned for their medicinal powers — would now also battle terrorists during peace times and shield the people from effects of any nuclear, biological or chemical weapons attacks during war, reports K Sandeep Kumar.
Updated on Dec 15, 2009 08:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
19 students fined Rs 50,000 each for ragging juniors
In the first stringent action since the introduction of anti-ragging measures in the country, 19 girl students of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad (IIIT-A) were on Tuesday fined Rs 50,000 each.
Updated on Jul 29, 2009 12:11 AM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
I will give Maya a jhappi and a pappi: Sanjay
Actor and SP leader Sanjay Dutt was in further trouble with an FIR lodged against him today for allegedly making objectionable remarks against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati during an election rally in Pratapgarh. Dutt had said that given a chance he will give jaadu ki jhappi and pappi to the chief minister.
Updated on Apr 19, 2009 01:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Hindus opt for a madrasa education in UP
Twelve-year-old Vineet Kumar, a devout Hindu, never misses his Tuesday visit to the Hanuman temple, but the rest of the week he spends at a madrasa (Islamic religious school) studying Urdu. Vineet is among dozens of Hindu students in Allahabad attending such schools. In this Hindi heartland, madrasa are emerging as beacons of communal harmony. K Sandeep Kumar reports.
Updated on Feb 08, 2009 11:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Attempt to develop a chemical fingerprint of uranium
The effort aims to analyse uranium and single out traces of unique compounds found in the ore that are trademark of the presence of uranium in a particular ore sample reports K Sandeep Kumar.
Updated on Mar 04, 2008 01:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
IIIT-A to speed up ASEAN-India S&T Digital Library project
IIIT-A is going to facilitate another giant step towards making the proposed ASEAN-India Science and Technology Digital Library a reality, reports K Sandeep Kumar.
Updated on Apr 25, 2007 04:00 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Excavation near IERT yields idol, rare pottery
An excavation site near IERT by an AU History professor has yielded rare pottery, terra-cotta toys, animal bones, reports K Sandeep Kumar.
Updated on Apr 23, 2007 05:11 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
NIC refuses to conduct UGAT-2007
The NIC's refusal is believed to have taken the AU officials completely by surprise, reports K Sandeep Kumar.
Updated on Apr 14, 2007 05:53 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Allahabad Univ to go with negative evaluation
As per the deductible (negative) evaluation system, for every correct answer, 2 marks will be awarded to a student but for every wrong answer he would end up losing 2/3 marks.
Updated on Apr 11, 2007 03:16 PM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
UGC tells GBPSSI chief to relinquish post
The University Grants Commission (UGC) asked the Director of GB Pant Social Science Institute (GBPSSI) Prof RC Tripathi, to immediately relinquish the post, reports K Sandeep Kumar.
Updated on Apr 06, 2007 02:49 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
AU VC?s rider on inviting dignitaries
THE DAYS of inviting dignitaries from the State and Central government at one's own will are over for the Allahabad University (AU) departments, institutes, centres and even constituent colleges.
Published on Dec 16, 2006 12:07 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Recreating the ancient art on walls
WITH JUST a week left for the four-day cultural extravaganza of Allahabad University (AU)? Kala Kumbh scheduled to kick off from December 20? the walls of the varsity Delegacy have started to represent the diverse yet beautiful folk arts of the country that would greet the artists and students who congregate here for the mega event from all over the country.
Published on Dec 14, 2006 12:11 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
AU students go back in time
ARTISTS AND students descending on the Allahabad University (AU) campus for the four-day cultural extravaganza? Kala Kumbh all set to kick off at AU Delegacy from December 20? would get a rare chance to admire a true-copy model of the ancient villages belonging to the Neolithic Age. The villages' model is painstakingly being recreated by varsity students under the guidance of AU's history and archaeology experts.
Published on Dec 13, 2006 12:13 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Special ?flexes? to showcase heritage
ALLAHABAD UNIVERSITY (AU) is all set to make a unique new beginning of preserving and showcasing the rich cultural, archaeological and literary heritage of Allahabad? on a scale never done before.
Published on Dec 10, 2006 10:55 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
MNNIT bags Rs 5 cr DST project
IN A major breakthrough in its endeavour to undertake advanced researches in the field of nanotechnology and biotechnology, the Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) has bagged a Rs 5 crore project from the Department of Science and Technology (DST) under its Fund for Improvement of Science and Technology (FIST) programme.
Published on Dec 04, 2006 12:23 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
AU, IIT-K join hands, to begin new courses
TAKING A landmark step in the field of inter-disciplinary studies, the University of Allahabad and the Indian Institute of Kanpur (IIT-K) have decided to begin joint certificate and diploma courses in the field of archaeological science and application of technology.
Published on Dec 01, 2006 12:06 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Modernity taking its toll on tribals
SUDDEN EXPOSURE to the modern world is causing great stress on the tribal population of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and making the tribals vulnerable to contracting dangerous diseases that could even result in the tribes becoming extinct.
Published on Nov 29, 2006 12:13 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Breathing roofs for Rly platforms a must: Study
A STUDY of the railway platforms? with a special focus on Allahabad railway stations?by an expert from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) has established that minor design changes of the roofs can significantly help improve air quality and the environment of the platforms besides making the entire station more comfortable for the rail passengers. The findings of the study and a set of recommendations have now been forwarded to the General Manager of North Central Railway (NCR) for consideration.
Published on Nov 26, 2006 12:04 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Fund shortage hits AU dept functioning
ALLAHABAD UNIVERSITY'S renowned department of Ancient History, Culture and Archaeology is facing an acute financial crunch. The department, which is member of an elite club of teaching departments of varsities in the country authorised to carry out archaeological excavations and explorations by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and credited with making many an important find in the past, has sent an SOS to the AU Vice-Chancellor, informing them that it has no funds to carry out the research activities. It has also requested the VC to immediately release funds to enable it to carry out excavations and explorations already approved by the ASI.
Published on Nov 24, 2006 12:02 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
AU demands security for Rajen Harshe
ALLAHABAD UNIVERSITY (AU) administration has made a formal request to the district police chief to take measures to provide adequate security cover to the varsity's Vice-Chancellor Prof Rajen Harshe.
Published on Nov 17, 2006 12:05 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
New system for guest lecturers? selection
ALLAHABAD UNIVERSITY (AU) and all its constituent colleges will henceforth engage guest lecturers through a newly introduced transparent process of selection only. Under the new initiative, all the departments of the varsity as well as those of the colleges would have guest lecturers who have been selected and recommended by special committees appointed for the purpose and whose names are then duly approved by the AU Vice-Chancellor personally.
Published on Nov 16, 2006 12:04 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
NET aspirants ignore UGC-promoted subjects!
BUDDHIST, JAIN, Gandhian and Peace Studies? all areas in which India and Indians have made a mark world-wide and earned the respect of one and all? seem to be at the bottom of the list of our educated youngsters.
Published on Nov 09, 2006 12:19 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
?Pontoon bridges need design improvement ?
A SPOT visit to the Ardh Kumbh mela site by a Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) expert and the study of the recent pontoon bridge on Ganga that got washed away has established that the design of make-shift pontoon bridges being built urgently need to be improved.
Published on Nov 06, 2006 12:17 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
UGC for drive against sale of tobacco products
UNIVERSITY GRANTS Commission (UGC) has declared war on the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco related products near educational institutions. In a latest missive to all universities, including Allahabad University (AU), the commission has instructed the varsities to up its ante in stopping the sale of tobacco products near their respective campuses as well as the campuses of colleges associated or affiliated to them.
Published on Nov 05, 2006 12:04 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad