{"id":254715,"date":"2025-01-04T00:05:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T18:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=254715"},"modified":"2025-01-04T00:05:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T18:35:53","slug":"rgu-mourns-demise-of-dr-raju","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/rgu-mourns-demise-of-dr-raju\/","title":{"rendered":"RGU mourns demise of Dr Raju"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RONO HILLS, 3 Jan:<\/strong> The Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) fraternity on Thursday mourned the untimely demise of Associate Professor Dr Manjunath Bangalore Govinda Raju.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was 43, and is survived by his wife and a daughter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Raju had joined the university in February, 2024.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prior to joining RGU, he had served as an assistant professor at the University of Hyderabad from 2017 to 2024.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0During his illustrious career, he received two international awards and fellowships and was invited to deliver 13 lectures\/presentations at esteemed academic and professional forums.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All the statutory officers, deans of faculties, directors, heads of departments and institutes, coordinators, faculty members, officers, and non-teaching employees of the university gathered in front of the administrative block and observed two minutes of silence as a mark of respect to the departed soul on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a mark of respect to late Dr Raju, the university remained closed for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RONO HILLS, 3 Jan: The Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) fraternity on Thursday mourned the untimely demise of Associate Professor Dr Manjunath Bangalore Govinda Raju. He was 43, and is survived by his wife and a daughter. Dr Raju had joined the university in February, 2024. Prior to joining RGU, he had served as an assistant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-254715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}