India, March 27 -- Citing an ongoing fuel crisis due the US-Iran war in West Asia, the government-run Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI) in Delhi, popularly known as Pusa Institute, has asked students of undergraduate batches, master's degree first year, and PhD first year, to leave the campus for their homes, and their classes will be conducted online from April 6, 2026. In all, nearly 2,200 students would be affected.

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The IARI is one of India's premier national institutions; it is financed and administered by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).

The official notice dated March 25, by Suresh Kumar, senior registrar, cited "the current energy crisis being fa...