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Saturday, January 3, 2026
TopicStudent suicides

Topic: student suicides

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.

Sorry not enough—KIIT University’s Nepali students say after suicide

Students said they had to beg and borrow to return home to Nepal after KIIT University ordered their eviction, prompting Nepal’s Prime Minister to dispatch a two-member delegation to Bhubaneswar.

Devika, Faizan & now Shaon. IIT-Kharagpur students grapple with loss of all-rounder batchmate

A case of unnatural death was filed by Kharagpur Town Police on Sunday and investigation is underway. Cops have questioned Shaon's batchmates & previous roommates.

Student suicides spur changes at NLU Delhi. ‘No detention’ policy to compassionate leave

Last month, 3 university students allegedly died by suicide. Students say competitive atmosphere & academic pressure has led to a 'growing mental health crisis on campus'.

IIM-A student body wants independent probe into student ‘suicide’. ‘Grave concerns’ over police probe

Student body says management event-related stress led to Akshith Bhukya's death, alleges 'lack of seriousness' in admin's approach. Police say they found no proof of abetment to suicide.

Indraprastha University student suicide brings up a storm of anger and a long list of woes

Most of the students didn't know Gautam Kumar, as the new academic year had just begun a month ago. But his death has sparked an unprecedented protest at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University.

India is cultivating a demographic time bomb that no number of coaching centres can defuse

Coaching centres in India are an open wound that everyone sees festering but no one dares to stitch up. Meanwhile, the body count rises.

‘NEET took my nephew’s life’ — in Tamil Nadu, kin of candidates who died by suicide say exam must go

Amid countrywide protests over alleged paper leaks and mismanagement at testing centres, these families say the medical entrance test puts underprivileged students at a disadvantage.

18-year-old NEET-UG aspirant jumps to death in Kota a day after results declared

This is the 10th case of suspected suicide by a student in Kota, the country's coaching hub, since January this year.

Principal, teacher booked over student’s suicide on father’s complaint — ‘abused son, insulted wife’

Class 10 student of Army Public School died allegedly by suicide Monday. His father, an Army havildar, also says accused threatened to withhold son's admit card for board exam.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.