Supreme Court bench issues guidelines to tighten higher education institutions' response to student suicides, invoking its power to do absolute justice.
UGC moves to standardise mental health support in colleges after Supreme Court push, calls for 24x7 helplines, peer support programmes, and crisis protocols.
While schools in Delhi and Rajasthan announce sensitisation drives, analysts say the root problem—severe counsellor shortages and fragile support structures—demands long-term systemic reform.
Amicus curiae Aparna Bhatt, who submitted the report, compared two alleged suicides that happened the same day, at Sharda University & IIT Kharagpur, and how the institutions responded.
Justices Vikram Nath & Sandeep Mehta issued the guidelines, while hearing a petition by the father of a student who died by suicide in Andhra Pradesh, seeking a CBI probe.
The incident has once again put the spotlight on the university, racked with students' allegations of rape, hate speech & queerphobia over the last two years.
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.
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.
DMK govt accuses Centre of withholding funds, tightening borrowing, unilateral deductions from state accounts. Says Centre's accounting & funding decisions have 'artificially inflated' debt burden.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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