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Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi to deliver centenary lecture at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad

Dhanbad, March 16 (UNI) Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kailash Satyarthi will deliver the first centenary lecture of the Abanish Chandra & Binapani Sinha Memorial Lecture Series at the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad on March 21.
The lecture will be held at 11 am at the Penman Auditorium of the institute and is expected to bring together faculty members, researchers, students and staff.
According to the institute, the lecture series has been instituted through an endowment by distinguished alumnus Mihir Sinha of the 1966 batch of Petroleum Engineering in memory of his parents, Abanish Chandra Sinha and Binapani Sinha.
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