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Topic: Kota

How Rajasthan bank employee ‘duped’ 41 villagers of Rs 4.5 cr over 3 yrs, to fuel ‘stock trading addiction’

Sakshi Gupta, 26, a relationship manager at ICICI Bank’s Kota branch, turned financial inexperience of her mostly elderly customers into personal opportunity. She's now in judicial custody.

Home to Kota education hub, Rajasthan looks to regulate coaching centres. What its new bill mandates

State has introduced Rajasthan Coaching Centres (Control and Regulation) Bill. If passed, Rajasthan will become 1st state to have a comprehensive legislation regulating coaching centres.

Amid spate of suicides & low enrollment, Kota administration announces hostel reforms. What’s changing

Reforms, announced under ‘Kota Cares’ initiative launched last yr, aim to create a holistic ecosystem for students & have been developed through extensive stakeholder consultations.

‘Gift of Congress, ignored by BJP’, Chambal Riverfront a graveyard of businesses, ‘losing Rs 1 cr a month’

The scenic riverfront, meant to showcase Rajasthan's culture & boost commerce, has struggled due to NGT case over environmental clearances, political conflict, administrative neglect.

Schools where you enrol just to bunk…and go to coaching class instead. Inside India’s ‘dummy schools’

Despite violating regulations of education boards, dummy schooling has become popular among entrance exam aspirants. Coaching industry stakeholders say schools don't meet students' needs.

Kota is facing test for survival. It’s competing against edtech & struggling to lose ‘suicide city’ tag

Kota’s journey to becoming India’s most prominent coaching hub began in 1991. The coaching industry here and its related businesses have been valued at approximately Rs 6,000-10,000 cr.

How deleted WhatsApp messages on Ganesh Chaturthi led to a Muslim school principal’s arrest in Kota

Complainant says FIR was filed on advice of Rajasthan education minister’s assistant. School principal's family members argue he isn’t familiar with WhatsApp, deleted texts by mistake.

Face of Rajasthan’s coaching hub is changing. Everyone’s rushing to Sikar after NEET success

For decades, Kota coaching institutes were the ‘gold standard’ for competitive exam preparation. Now Sikar, the city known for its havelis, forts, and the Khatu Shyam temple, is emerging as Rajasthan's Coaching Nagri or Shiksha ki Kashi.

‘No abnormality’ in NEET results, but analysis shows coaching hubs like Kota, Sikar bred more toppers

An analysis of NEET 2024 results by IIT Madras showed an upward trend in number of top scorers from the heavily frequented coaching hubs of the country, compared to last year.

Police, politicians, parents, psychiatrists—everyone’s at work to stop the next Kota suicide

The face of competition has changed in the coaching hub of Kota: Who can spot and stop the next suicide of NEET or JEE aspirants.

On Camera

Indian judiciary must stop panicking over AI

To assume courts weigh every word committed to paper is to ignore reality. The Indian judiciary has long had a "Control+C" problem.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

India eyes 6th generation FCAS, looks at tying up with France for possible collaboration

Initial talks held on the possibility of India entering the programme that was started in 2017 between France, Germany and Spain to ensure European sovereignty in defence and security.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.