BRS working president K T Rama Rao criticised the Congress-led Telangana government for organising beauty contests whilst neglecting the serious issue of farmer suicides in the region.During Tuesday’s assembly session, KTR questioned the government’s allocation of Rs 55 crore for events like Miss World, whilst farmers face water scarcity for both drinking and irrigation purposes,…
98 deaths since 2018, including At IITs, IIMs, NITs, IISERs. Supreme Court Monday set up a 10-member national task force under Justice (retd) Ravindra Bhat to analyse causes for student suicides and suggest measures to prevent such deaths on campuses. The team will include doctors and mental health experts. The directive came as the court…
NEW DELHI: Outlining a disturbing pattern of student suicides in educational institutions, the Supreme Court on Monday directed Delhi Police to register an FIR and probe the suicidal deaths of two IIT-Delhi students from the SC/ST community. A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan directed the DCP (south-west district) to register the…
KOTA: Rajasthan’s Kota, the coaching hub for medical and engineering aspirants that has been in headlines for student suicides in recent years, saw a 38% decline in such cases in 2024 compared to the previous year, with 16 cases documented this year as against 26 in 2023.The district administration attributed the dip in student suicides…