Sandeep Pandey

A massive fire engulfed eight flats across five floors of a Ghaziabad residential tower, trapping residents and causing minor injuries. Firefighters battled the blaze for two hours, facing access issues and initial equipment limitations. The fire, suspected to be from a short circuit in a renovated flat, spread rapidly, leaving a trail of destruction and prompting a swift rescue operation.

Magsaysay award winner and social activist Sandeep Pandey is disappointed with the working of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and has said that AAP is turning out to be like other political parties.

While the activists of Swaraj Abhiyan went for a signature campaign near the main gate of Banaras Hindu University in Lanka area on Friday in support of Magsaysay Award winner Sandeep Pandey, the National Alliance of People’s Movement (NAPM) has begun an online petition to the President Pranab Mukherjee with an appeal to set up an enquiry into termination of Pandey’s teaching contract by IIT-BHU.

The Ramon Magsaysay awardee said that Ramdev should first speak about black money being pumped into the hands of 'babas' in the country.

LUCKNOW: Sandeep Pandey, a former professor of IIT Kanpur and the brain behind Asha -- a voluntary organisation working for the upliftment of the poor and downtrodden has been awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award 2002 in the Emergent Leader category.

ALLAHABAD: A division bench of the Allahabad High Court has stayed the criminal proceeding pending in the court of chief metropolitan magistrate (CMM) Kanpur Nagar, against Magsaysay award winner Sandeep Pandey.

The termination of Magsaysay Award winner Sandeep Pandey’s services as visiting faculty in the department of Chemical Engineering, IIT-BHU evoked sharp criticism from different quarters.

Following continuous protests by activists, the district administration on Thursday issued notices to 21 city schools for not implementing the provision of 25% admission to poor children under the Right to Education (RTE) Act.

The stir for saving Gandhian Institute of Studies (GIS) Rajghat was intensified on Saturday with Magsaysay awardee Sandeep Pandey joining hands with GIS Bachao Sangharsh Samiti (GISBSS).

HYDERABAD: Magsaysay awardee Sandeep Pandey called upon the people to fight communal forces which were trying to damage the secular fabric of the country.

LUCKNOW: “It is not me but the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) that is anti-national,” shot back Sandeep Pandey, the Magsaysay Award winner, here on Saturday.

Ramon Magsaysay awardee and social activist Sandeep Pandey on Wednesday blamed the Congress for playing the game of opportunism on the issue of land acquisition.

Magsaysay award winner and noted social activist Sandeep Pandey has threatened to launch an intensive agitation if the Nitish Kumar government failed to withdraw the the amendment to RTI rules which tends to curb the number of questions asked by a person.

The termination of Magsaysay Award winner Sandeep Pandey's services as visiting faculty in the department of Chemical Engineering, IIT-BHU on Wednesday evoked sharp criticism from different quarters, with some even saying "it's the beginning of saffronisation of the prestigious academic institution.

Tribals angry with activists fighting for human rights of Naxals while ignoring poor ‘adivasis’ threw rotten eggs and tomatoes at Magsaysay award winner Medha Patkar and Sandeep Pandey as they reached Dantewada town in Chhattisgarh on Wednesday.

Social activists Sandeep Pandey and Teesta Setalvad on the final day of Lucknow Literature Festival appealed to all to come forward and exercise their freedom of speech.

Magsaysay Award winner Sandeep Pandey filed an RTI with IIT-BHU seeking details of the meeting which decided to terminate his contract as visiting faculty in the department of chemical engineering. The decesion was taken during a meeting of IIT-BHU's Board of Governors held on December 21.

Social activist Sandeep Pandey on Tuesday said he has decided to return the Ramon Magsaysay award conferred on him in 2002 in protest against the role of the US in the Israeli attack in Gaza. Pandey, who has been associated with the Socialist Party (India), has also decided to return the dual Masters of Science degrees earned from US universities. The activist said Magsaysay Award was primarily funded by Rockefeller Foundation and the category in which he had received the honour was funded by Ford Foundation, both American foundations.

The district police cane charged medical interns at Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University here on Tuesday.

The Allahabad High Court on Friday asked the BHU authorities to file a counter affidavit on a petition filed by Magsaysay Award-winning social activist Sandeep Pandey, who was recently sacked as a visiting faculty member for alleged "anti-national activities"

Sandeep Pandey, 33, has been arrested by Pachpaoli police for allegedly abusing a 14-year-old boy from his neighbourhood at Motibagh.

A row has erupted following IIT-BHU’s decision to dis-empanel social activist and Magsaysay Award winner Sandeep Pandey from the list of its guest faculty.

Magsaysay award winner and social worker Sandeep Pandey has returned the Employment Awareness Award to protest against the alleged political patronage to corrupt and criminal elements in gram panchayats.