Last week, about 500 Nepali students at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology claimed they had been evicted for having protested their batchmate’s death.

BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha government on Saturday said all those responsible for the death of a Nepalese student of a private engineering institute KIIT and the alleged assault on the pupils from the Himalayan country would not be spared.

Nepali students return home after alleged suicide at Odisha university, sparking protests and diplomatic resolution.

Angry scenes were witnessed in Nepal’s Parliament on Tuesday when lawmakers raised concerns over the death of Nepali national Prakriti Lamsal, a third-year computer science student in KIIT, Odisha, demanding diplomatic efforts for proper security.

Responding to a query on KIIT student death row, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal on Friday said that India accords high priority to the safety, security, and well-being of all international students in the country.

KIIT founder Achyuta Samanta and top officials testified before a government committee investigating a Nepalese student's alleged suicide and related violence. The incident sparked political uproar, with demands for a judicial inquiry.

Odisha chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi assured that peace and normalcy would be restored on the campus, and urged Nepali students to return to campus and resume their studies

The Nepalese government warned yesterday, Tuesday, January 18, that if the situation surrounding the death of a student at a Bhubaneswar university is not resolved properly and legally, it may discontinue granting no-objection certificates to students seeking to study in educational establishments in India's Odisha.

Describing the deceased engineering student as a "daughter of Odisha," the state government on Wednesday assured Nepal that justice would be done to the victim and other students allegedly tortured by