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TopicStudent suicides

Topic: student suicides

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.

Class 10 student of Delhi’s Army Public School dies by suicide, no suicide note found

The 16-year-old, son of Army personnel, hanged himself from a ceiling fan with a ‘dupatta’ in his Delhi Cantonment home, say cops.

BTech student hangs himself, third such suicide in 2 weeks in Rajasthan’s Kota

DSP Dharmveer Singh said Noor Mohammed, 27, studied in coaching institutes from 2016 to 2019 and after being admitted to SRM University, he used to take online classes at his PG.

On Camera

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.