Bhubaneswar, Feb. 21 -- Amid unrest on the premises of KIIT in Bhubaneswar over the alleged suicide of Nepali student Prakriti Lamsal (20) at the hostel of the university, Odisha Higher Education Minister Suryabanshi Suraj today said mid-semester exams of the university will be postponed.

Informing this during a discussion on the adjournment motion over the matter in the Odisha Assembly, Suraj also said that remedial classes will be conducted for the affected students.

He added that the Odisha government will bear the travel expenses of the students returning to the KIIT campus.

Prakriti, a third-year Computer Science student at KIIT, was found dead in a hostel room of the university on the evening of February 16. Following a complaint...