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
AU multi-purpose hall ? a tale of neglect!
IT'S A sad tale of neglect. The 50x25 metres Allahabad University (AU) Multi-Purpose Hall? built with great hopes of taking sporting activities on the campus to great heights? is lying in sheer neglect for the past two decades thanks to the callous attitude of the varsity officials. While pigeons freely fly in and out and the wild weeds grow on the rooftops, sporting goods worth lakhs remains unused and rotting in the hall at a time when varsity's sports enthusiasts are crying for better facilities and equipment on the campus.
Published on Nov 04, 2006 12:02 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
TAKE FIVE
Arts Faculty has been made a vehicle-free zone and we have undertaken identity-card checking drives with gusto. Security guards are on duty 24 hours a day on all our campuses with a shift change taking place every eight hours. We are also considering closing the science faculty gate located near the Nehru Science Complex to better manage security of the science faculty campus that has witnessed some incidents during the recent weeks.
Published on Oct 28, 2006 12:06 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar
Expert demands cause analysis for future safety
THE DEATH of an employee due to serious burn injuries on October 20 as a result of blast a week earlier at Kalyani Devi power sub-station in Allahabad has prompted an expert of Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) Dr HS Goyal to demand an investigation into the possible reasons of the blast and the resulting fire for future safety against similar tragedies.
Published on Oct 25, 2006 12:02 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Unveiling secrets of sludge treatment
SECRETS OF waste water treatment as well as sludge treatment to keep our environment clean and pollution free will soon be revealed to a select group of engineers by well-known experts courtesy Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT).
Published on Oct 21, 2006 09:53 PM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
IIIT-A to help set up S&T digital library in ASEAN countries
AFTER SPREADING its wings in North Canada, Allahabad's Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-A) is now all set to make its presence felt in the ASEAN countries .
Published on Oct 21, 2006 12:23 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Food cooked in copper alloy utensils far better for health
THIS YEAR when you decide to buy utensils to celebrate the traditional Dhanvantri Jayanti?Dhanteras? better opt for Copper, Nickel and Zinc alloy based utensils that your grandma always preferred.
Published on Oct 19, 2006 12:27 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
GBPSSI?s autonomy: Ball in AU EC court
MEMBERS OF Allahabad University (AU) Executive Council, the apex decision making body of the varsity, will consider whether to retain or do away with the autonomous character of Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute (GBPSSI) when they meet on Wednesday.
Published on Oct 18, 2006 12:09 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Review of power poles? design a must: Study
FREQUENT TUMBLING of electricity poles in the city as well as in the state are due to stress corrosion crackings and defective design selection of the poles themselves.
Published on Oct 16, 2006 01:11 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Leading geographers to discuss ways to manage natural resources
ALLAHABAD UNIVERSITY'S Geography Department is gearing up to host the three-day XXVIIIth Indian Geographers Meet from November 16. The conference will address problems of 'Managing our Natural Resources: With a Focus on Land and Water' as its focal theme, besides holding a number of technical sessions on different branches of Geography.
Published on Oct 15, 2006 12:47 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Faulty designs causing tractor-trolley mishaps
A STUDY by an assistant professor of Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) has found that majority of tractor-trolley accidents taking place in the city as well as in the state are due to their faulty designs. The study found that lack of knowledge of the iron-smiths who use empirical design rules to connect the tractors to the trolleys are leading to their overturning and causing death and injuries to thousands every year.
Published on Oct 14, 2006 12:05 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
University nameplates to become more informative
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN a Central, State and a Deemed University will now be known by a simple glance at their nameplates.In an attempt to remove the confusion created in the minds of the common man following the University Grants Commission's (UGC) latest decision to allow deemed-to-be-universities also to call themselves universities, the UGC has now issued some fresh directions that will force all of India's universities to modify their nameplates and make them more informative.
Published on Oct 09, 2006 01:14 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Every shining gem is not real
FORMER HEAD of the Geology Department of MS University of Baroda Prof RV Karanth? a leading expert on gems and gemmology? says that majority of precious stones being sold as 'real' in the country are man-made and artificial. He says that it is time that people become aware of this fact and start to get the stones scientifically checked before investing their hard-earned money in them.
Published on Oct 08, 2006 12:57 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
AU offered ?gift? worth Rs 100 cr
THE MADAN Mohan Malviya University College (Hindu Hostel) Trust has put forth a unique 'Rs 100-crore gift' proposal before the Allahabad University (AU) officials.
Published on Oct 06, 2006 12:06 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
AU accepts donation but ?forgets? hostel project
A GIFT given with noble intentions and for the benefit of the students seems to have been 'forgotten' by Allahabad University (AU). Even an year after duly accepting demand draft worth Rs 25 lakh from a former AU Executive Council member, the varsity officials have not only failed to turn his dream of a hostel exclusively for the research scholars a reality but has even failed to include it in any of the university's immediate future plans!
Published on Oct 05, 2006 12:19 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Unravelling mysteries of elementary particles
HARISH-CHANDRA Research Institute (HRI) is gearing up to host a six-day 'Topical Meeting on Physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)' from December 16.
Published on Oct 04, 2006 12:16 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
AU order fails to deter students
IT'S A contempt staring on their faces that the Allahabad University (AU) authorities seem uninterested or incapable of reacting to. Despite express orders and public notices issued by the AU officials, varsity's aspiring student leaders are refusing to pull down their banners, posters and placards put up at the gates and the boundary walls of almost all AU campuses in their bid to woo the newcomers.
Published on Oct 02, 2006 12:30 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
AU submits Rs 13.65 crore plan for cricket promotion
ALLAHABAD UNIVERSITY (AU) has forwarded an ambitious proposal of Rs 13.65 crore to the Inter-University Sports Board of India, a body of Association of Indian Universities (AIU), for promotion of cricket on the varsity as well as college campuses of the city. The proposal will be considered under a special Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI) Infrastructure Subsidy Scheme that the BCCI plans to implement in 10 universities, two from each zone, for promotion of cricket in universities and colleges of India.
Published on Oct 01, 2006 12:29 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Region?s first energy park at MNNIT soon
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) is soon going to set-up a state-of-the-art 'Innovation, Environment and Energy Park' on its premises. The initiative is aimed at creating awareness and popularising amongst people in general and the students in particular about the use and benefits of renewable energy technologies,To be constructed on a plot of around 2.5 acres, the park would be the first in the region and would take inspiration from the Kolkata's Energy Education Park.
Published on Sep 30, 2006 12:30 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
IIIT-A gears up for cultural extravaganza?Effervescence-MMVI
PREPARATIONS HAVE begun for the annual technical and cultural extravaganza of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad (IIIT-A) ? Effervescence-MMVI ? that is all set to begin from October 26.
Published on Sep 29, 2006 12:20 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
IIIT-A to hold SAARC meet on IT
REPOSING FAITH in technical excellence and mettle in the field of Information Technology of Allahabad's Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-A), Union Ministry of Science and Technology has entrusted the Deemed University with the task of organising SAARC meet on 'Information Technology: Area of Strategic Collaborations.
Published on Sep 28, 2006 12:11 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
IIIT-A all set to develop software for 4 languages
COMPUTING AND reading in languages like Sanskrit, Nepali, Tibetan and Urdu will no more be a utopian thought for persons of different lingual backgrounds with Allahabad's Indian Institute of Information of Technology (IIIT-A) all set to take on the task of developing a software and Optical Character Reader (OCR) for the four languages.
Published on Sep 27, 2006 12:11 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Students design, launch SMS website
WITH AN aim to interweave management diaspora spread across the world, the budding managers of the School of Management Studies (SMS) of Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) have designed an interactive and informative website? www.mbamnnit.net.
Published on Sep 25, 2006 12:41 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
IIIT-A gears up for first-ever ?reunion meet?
ALLAHABAD'S INDIAN Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-A) is gearing up to host the first ever alumni meet of the Deemed University from October 27.
Published on Sep 24, 2006 12:00 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
AU wants its premises back from IIIT-A
ALLAHABAD'S INDIAN Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-A) owes around Rs 50 lakh to Allahabad University (AU) as rent for the rooms and space that the Deemed University occupies in AU's Nehru Science Complex. AU officials have now begun renewed efforts to realise the arrears and get the IIIT-A to vacate its premises so that some of the proposed new departments envisioned in AU's expansion plans can be accommodated in their place.
Published on Sep 21, 2006 12:26 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
NITNet to connect tech institutes
TAKING A step ahead in fostering and forging better relations and co-ordination at institutional level, all National Institutes of Technology (NITs) of the country have together decided to establish a highly sophisticated and dedicated communication channel dubbed NITNet and also set up a NITs Directors? Conclave. A consensus in this regard has been reached in a meeting of NIT directors held at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology-Bhopal, recently.
Published on Sep 17, 2006 12:53 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
AU plan to rope in foreign teachers
PLANNING IS afoot to invite top notch teachers, admired for their command in their chosen field of subject all over the world, to come and teach the students of Allahabad University (AU). A high-level delegation of Tampere University of Finland is all set to arrive in India this autumn and will be visiting Allahabad University (AU) to explore opportunities of starting academic exchange programmes between the two universities in this regard.
Published on Sep 17, 2006 12:29 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
AU experts to help evolve accurate weather forecasting
A TEAM of Allahabad University (AU) experts is likely to soon join in an international effort to evolve better and more accurate seasonal weather forecasting that has the potential to usher in yet another green revolution in the country.
Published on Sep 13, 2006 12:17 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
MNNIT Prof?s novel plan to tackle disasters
AT A time when cities and its citizens are facing flood hazards, threat of terrorism and fear of earthquakes, an expert of Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) is all set to take on and defy disasters with fundas of management.
Published on Sep 09, 2006 12:11 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
Science City project on revival path
AFTER THREE years in the cold storage, the much hyped Allahabad Science City project is on the verge of kicking-off once again. Union Ministry of HRD has now entrusted the task of developing the project to the Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology. Following the development, the Officer on Special Duty (OSD) YK Upadhaya?posted here to co-ordinate the project? has handed over the charge to MNNIT officials on August 31 and has joined back at his earlier post at the Rural Development Department.
Published on Sep 07, 2006 12:12 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad
AU mulls starting dual degree and honours programmes
ALLAHABAD UNIVERSITY (AU) is mulling over introducing dual degree as well as honours programmes in the next five years. As per the proposal under consideration, the varsity is also exploring ways to start five-year integrated courses in the Arts and the Science Faculties besides beginning the already cleared five-year integrated law course.
Published on Sep 06, 2006 12:29 AM IST
None | K Sandeep Kumar, Allahabad