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Topic: student death

News of the day: 17 July, 2025

ThePrint’s round-up of the major news events from India.

Kerala Police arrest 6 in connection with Wayanad student death, one more taken into custody

20-yr-old JS Siddharth was found hanging in his hostel room on 18 February. His relative says this was a case of 'murder', alleging Siddharth was attacked by group of students on campus.

Student’s death: Jadavpur University’s 1st report generic, 2nd unsatisfactory, says UGC

UGC Chairman M. Jagadesh Kumar said Monday that the statutory body would seek another explanation on the alleged ragging death and details of action taken.

Kolkata Police make six more arrests in Jadavpur University student death case

A first-year student of Jadavpur University, Swarnodip Kundu, died on 10 August after allegedly falling from the balcony of the university's hostel on the night of 9 August.

2 more students arrested in connection with death of Jadavpur University student

In FIR registered in the case, deceased’s father alleged that a few boarders of the hostel were responsible for his son’s death. A former student of the university was apprehended Friday.

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Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.