KOTA: A 16-year-old JEE aspirant allegedly died by suicide by consuming a poisonous substance in his PG room in the Vigyan Nagar police station area of Kota late Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Abhishek Mandal (16), a resident of Bhagalpur in Bihar, who had been preparing for the JEE in a coaching institute…

Hey Ira, Kaise ho? Into your second semester and loving Canada! Time is flying, truly. Back in India, the exam season looms. Stress is in the air. And the centrepiece of it all, as you know, is Kota . The city’s famous—or infamous—coaching industry, and the pressure-cooker environment in which thousands of youngsters prepare for…

Aryan Mitra, 17, from Siliguri in West Bengal, is preparing for the NEET exam alongside his XII Board exams. However, on February 21, he left his hostel and has not returned since, missing his Board exams scheduled for February 22. Jaipur: The spate of student disappearances from India’s coaching hub Kota appears to be posing…

नौ दिन से लापता स्टूडेंट का शव कोटा के गरडिया महादेव मंदिर इलाके में मिला है। वह टेस्ट देने के लिए बोलकर हॉस्टल से कोचिंग के लिए निकला था। शव चट्‌टान पर 2 पेड़ों के बीच में अटका हुआ है। परिवार के 40 से 50 लोग और निगम की गोताखोर टीम लगातार स्टूडेंट को तलाश…

A student from Uttar Pradesh, who was studying in Rajasthan’s Kota, has gone missing since February 13. This is the second such case to be reported this week from Kota, which is India’s coaching hub. Piyush Kapasia, a JEE aspirant from UP, was staying in a hostel in Kota’s Indra Vihar for the last two…

KOTA: : An eighteen-year-old girl, preparing for JEE and scheduled to appear at the JEE exam on Tuesday, committed suicide by hanging herself from a ventilation window in her own house in the Borekheda police station area on Monday late morning. ‘Mummy – Papa I can’t do JEE, so I suicide, I am looser, I…

In another tragic incident from the city of Kota, a 17-year-old JEE aspirant from Maharashtra died by suicide in his hostel room. This is the eleventh suspected suicide case among students attending classes at the coaching hub this year. The body of Bhargav Keshav was discovered hanging from the ceiling fan in his room at…

Police have registered a case of rape and abetment of suicide against a 17-year-old NEET aspirant and his mother in connection with the alleged suicide of a girl, also a NEET aspirant, here. The girl, 17, had jumped to death from the 10th floor of a multi-storey building in the Landmark City area of the…

Kota, the hub of private coaching centres, has made headlines once again with the alleged suicide of three students. Over the years, Kota has reported an alarming number of deaths by suicide and has seen students speak out about the extreme pressure they undergo in the preparations to qualify for India’s best colleges. With the…

JEE Mains Examination: A 17-year-old JEE aspirant commits suicide in Rajasthan’s Kota. He was found hanging from a ceiling fan in his hostel room. JEE Mains Examination: An spirant preparing for the JEE Mains examination commits suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan of his hostel room in Kota. As per the information received by…

Jaipur: Concerned over the rise in suicides by coaching students in Kota , the high court said the existing mechanism of counsellors seems to be insufficient and directed the government to seek the help of expert bodies like the Mental Health Foundation.The division bench of acting Chief Justice MM Shrivastava and Justice Anil Kumar Upman…

KOTA: A 16-year-old girl preparing to crack National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) in Kota allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan early on Saturday morning, taking the number of coaching students who took their own lives in the city this month to five.“No one is responsible for my death,” wrote the…

Jaipur, Feb 24 (IANS) Another coaching student in Rajasthan`s Kota committed suicide by hanging himself, police said on Friday. The incident took place in Kunhadi area of the city, which is a hub for students preparing for various competitive examinations, on Wednesday night. Abhishek, 17, a resident of UP`s Badaun, UP, was living in a…

JAIPUR: Kota police recorded 52 suicides by students, including 27 enrolled with different coaching centres, between January 2019 to December 2022. The maximum number of suicides in coaching centres, at 15, was in 2022.In response to a query in the state assembly by Pana Chand Meghwal MLA, seeking details of the number of suicides by…

KOTA: A 22-year-old NEET aspirant from Bengaluru allegedly fell from the balcony of his 10th floor apartment in Vigyan Nagar area of Kota, and died on the spot late Monday night. The incident happened a day after the medical entrance examination and police suspect it to be suicide.Mohammed Nasid had been studying at a coaching…

KOTA: A 22-year-old NEET aspirant from Bengaluru, Mohammed N .. KOTA: A 22-year-old NEET aspirant from Bengaluru, Mohammed Nasid, died on Monday after falling from the 10th floor of a multi-storey building in Rajasthan’s Kota, police said.The police suspect it to be a case of suicide. Nasid had appeared for the NEET-UG 2023 exam in Jaipur…

In a shocking incident, a medical aspirant was killed after falling from the sixth floor of a hostel in Rajasthan’s Kota. The incident was captured on CCTV camera. The Jawaharnagar police have launched a probe into the matter. The students expressed their anger after the incident against the authorities of the hostel. Source – https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/viral-videos/cctv-student-dies-after-falling-from-sixth-floor-of-hostel-in-rajasthans-kota/videoshow/97584339.cms

According to reports, 3 students preparing for competitive college entrance examinations in Kota allegedly died by suicide on December 12. The students were as young as 16. The reports says that two of the students who died by suicide were from Bihar. They were friends and were staying in the same hostel in adjacent rooms.…

Kota: Sitting in a park near his daughter’s hostel in Kota, Vivek Kumar basks in a relieved smile, congratulating himself on a mission accomplished. For the last few months, the police head constable, posted in Sitapur in Uttar Pradesh, has spent most evenings making phone calls to his daughter’s friends, checking about her attendance. Still suspicious,…

Two of the three students preparing for competitive exams at a private coaching institute in Rajasthan’s Kota, who allegedly died by suicide, were under stress and were not attending classes for sometime, police said. Two of the three students preparing for competitive exams at a private coaching institute in Rajasthan’s Kota, who allegedly died by…

Five students have died by suicide in Kota in just a month. Parents say students are not being counselled properly to deal with stress caused by the competitive environment. Five students died by suicide in just a month in Kota, a city in Rajasthan famous for its coaching institutes and now increasingly for student suicides.…

Kota in Rajasthan is famous for its coaching centres and now infamous for student suicides. Fourteen students have died by suicide in the first six months of this year. How does the coaching-hostel system function and what is it like to be a student in Kota. With a huge reception hall, grand chandeliers and luxurious…

Kota in Rajasthan is famous for its coaching centres and now infamous for student suicides. Why, despite helplines, counsellors and psychologists, are student suicides rising in Kota? And how the fear of students dying by suicide has spawned a new business in the city.   My son was excited and went on a shopping spree…

Kota in Rajasthan is famous for its coaching centres and now infamous for student suicides. NEET and JEE aspirants don’t have friends here and prefer to stay alone in hostel rooms. It seems Kota grooms children for loneliness. Those who are troubled are sent back home as soon as they are spotted. As I sit…

Kota, India’s coaching hub, is a city located in Rajasthan, is in news for the last few years. Two major reasons behind these are the production of toppers in various competitive exams like IIT-JEE, NEET, etc. and the other being the suicide of students due to exams and academic pressure. I had also spent a…