As per media reports, the deceased 20-year-old NNET aspirant was identified as Faureed Hussain, hailing from West Bengal. He lived in an rented accommodation in the Wakf Nagar area of Rajasthan's Kota.
One significant recommendation likely to be put forward by the committee is to limit the admission age for students in coaching centers to class 8, typically around 13 to 14 years old.
With the recent death by suicide of a 16-year-old NEET aspirant, the ‘coaching hub’ of India is in the news again.
Minister Pradhan acknowledged the significance of addressing the issue of dummy schools and encouraged serious discussions on the matter.
As Kota suicides rise, Outlook spoke with Avijit Pathak, a former professor of Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, to understand what it means to live in an age of quantification; a fetish for numbers....
Kota became the country's first and world's second 'traffic light free city' after Bhutan's Thimpu, with no traffic lights for smooth and accident-free commutation.
The incident occurred on Saturday afternoon when three people took a swim in the overflowing water of the river, catching fish. The victims have been identified by the police and the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and...
Top coaching institutes also claim that majority parents refuse to accept feedback provided to them and want their children to continue anyway in their preparation for engineering and medical entrance exams.
Lakhs of young students arrive in Kota every year with dreams in their eyes. These dreams turn into nightmares for many students and their families
The Kota police department has asked mess workers and tiffin service providers to report when a student is habitually absent from the cafeteria, or when...
The meeting convened by the principal secretary (higher and technical education), Bhawani Singh Detha, was attended by representatives of coaching institutes...
The bereaved families received the bodies of the two students, Adarsh Raj and Avishkar Sambhaji Kasle, who tragically lost their lives on Sunday.
Among the attendees were prominent figures like Kota Collector O P Bunkar, SP Sharad Chaudhary, Additional Collector (Administration) Rajkumar Singh, and...
The NEET aspirant from Bihar has told the police officials that he consumed overdose of tablets meant for fever by mistake, the report said.
Rajasthan's educational hub Kota, which is known for housing the best coaching centers in country for NEET and JEE, this year witnessed an unprecedented...
An 18-year-old IIT-JEE aspirant from Bihar's Gaya allegedly hanged himself in his PG room, in the fourth such case of suicide by a coaching student, said the...
In recent days, several other similar incidents in Rajasthan's Kota have grabbed headlines and today's incident has once again highlighted the disturbing...
Mali was rushed to a local hospital, where he was declared brought dead, Chand said, adding that the body was handed over to family members after post-mortem.
Five suicide cases of medical aspirants were reported in the month of May while four other are reported in June, this year. Considering the increasing...
The teenager, preparing for National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), allegedly hanged himself sometime in the intervening nights of Monday and Tuesday,...
Police said no suicide note has been recovered from Roshan's room in Mahaveer Nagar Police station area, but they believe he hanged himself from the ceiling...
Bhargav Keshav's body was found hanging from the ceiling fan of his room at Rajiv Gandhi Nagar in the Jawahar Nagar area here, they added.
The deceased has been identified as Sakshi Choudhary, a class 11 student, they said.
On Sunday, Parts of Rajasthan received light to moderate rains, triggered by a western disturbance, for the second day the meteorological department said.
In Kota, Police on Wednesday lodged a case after a video showed a group of people allegedly indulging in celebratory firing during Eid prayers at an Eidgah in...
