Narrow escape for school children
August 19th, 2012 - 4:44 pm ICT by IANS
Gurgaon, Aug 19 (IANS) Several students, including foreigners, of an international school had a narrow escape here Sunday when their hostel room caught fire, an official said.The fire was reported ... Read more...
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Student hangs herself over obscene Facebook comments
August 16th, 2012 - 2:06 pm ICT by IANS
Jalandhar, Aug 16 (IANS) A young woman from Jammu committed suicide in her college's hostel room here after two boys allegedly posted obscene comments on her Facebook page, police ... Read more...
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Andhra college girl loses voice after ragging by seniors
July 22nd, 2012 - 8:25 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, July 22 (IANS) In a shocking incident, a college girl student in Andhra Pradesh lost her voice after ragging by her seniors.The incident took place at the hostel of ... Read more...
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Probe Dana Sangma’s death, family urges CBI (Lead, superseding previous story)
May 18th, 2012 - 7:12 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) Accusing the Haryana Police of a shoddy probe into the suicide of Meghalaya student Dana Sangma at Gurgaon's Amity University last month, her family ... Read more...
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CBI should probe Dana Sangma’s death, says Family
May 18th, 2012 - 4:54 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) Accusing Haryana Police of a shoddy probe into the suicide of Manipuri student Dana Sangma at Amity University last month, her family members have ... Read more...
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Northeast students want CBI to probe deaths of Loitam, Sangma
May 13th, 2012 - 9:38 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, May 13 (IANS) More than 200 students from Manipur, Nagaland and Tripura studying here Sunday held a protest against the death of two northeastern students in Gurgaon and Bangalore ... Read more...
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Suicides in Gurgaon: Over 100 cases in four months
May 11th, 2012 - 5:36 pm ICT by IANS
Gurgaon, May 11 (IANS) When Dana Sangma, an MBA student and niece of Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma, committed suicide in her hostel room April 24, she was following in ... Read more...
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PM assures justice for dead northeast students
May 10th, 2012 - 8:58 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday assured a delegation from the northeast of maximum efforts by the government to deliver justice in the death of ... Read more...
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Manipuri student commits suicide in Bangalore
May 4th, 2012 - 7:27 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, May 4 (IANS) A 24-year-old student from Manipur allegedly committed suicide after a spat with his girlfriend, who hails from the same state, in his house in the south-east ... Read more...
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Chidambaram denies discrimination against northeast students (Lead)
May 4th, 2012 - 7:03 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram Friday denied that students from the northeast were rampantly discriminated against and said the government had taken steps to curb ... Read more...
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MPs raise issue of attacks on northeast students
April 30th, 2012 - 4:07 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) Members of parliament from the northeast Monday raised in the Lok Sabha the issue of attacks on students from the region and demanded an inquiry ... Read more...
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Northeast students protest Manipuri student’s death (Lead)
April 29th, 2012 - 11:29 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi/Banglaore, April 29 (IANS) More than 200 students from Manipur and other northeastern states, studying in the capital, came together Sunday at India Gate for a silent candlelight ... Read more...
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Rally in Bangalore for quick probe into Manipuri student’s death
April 29th, 2012 - 10:13 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, April 29 (IANS) A large number of students, mainly from northeastern states, Sunday staged a rally here demanding a speedy probe into the April 18 death in Bangalore ... Read more...
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Case under SC/ST act against Amity
April 26th, 2012 - 10:26 pm ICT by IANS
Gurgaon, April 26 (IANS) A case has been registered against the Amity University administration here under the stringent SC/ST act following an alleged suicide by a close kin of the ... Read more...
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Accused of cheating MBA student hangs herself
April 24th, 2012 - 10:00 pm ICT by IANS
Gurgaon, April 24 (IANS) A MBA student Tuesday committed suicide by hanging herself in her hostel room in the Amity University Pachgaon here after a teacher accused her of cheating ... Read more...
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Horrible week for Karnataka students: Girl made to beg, two dead
March 28th, 2012 - 6:22 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, March 28 (IANS) A father forced his daughter to beg on streets for not studying well, another girl committed suicide as a question paper leak led to an exam ... Read more...
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AIIMS students to resume agitation if demands not met
March 10th, 2012 - 8:21 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) A day after suspending their relay hunger strike to demand a judicial inquiry into the suicide of an undergraduate student at the All India Institute ... Read more...
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Panel to probe AIIMS suicide
March 6th, 2012 - 10:36 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 6 (IANS) The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Tuesday constituted a committee of senior faculty members to probe into the academic performance of an MBBS ... Read more...
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AIIMS mourns death of medical student
March 5th, 2012 - 2:09 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) A day after a student allegedly committed suicide as he was disturbed over his academic performance, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Monday ... Read more...
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Medical student commits suicide in AIIMS
March 4th, 2012 - 10:18 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) A medical student, who was disturbed over his academic performance, committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan in his hostel room in All ... Read more...
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Student kills self in BHU
February 22nd, 2012 - 9:53 pm ICT by IANS
Varanasi, Feb 22 (IANS) A medical student committed suicide at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) here Wednesday, after taking an overdose of anaesthetic drugs, police said.Sumit Garg was a second ... Read more...
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Seven ex-students get three-year jail for junior’s death
November 29th, 2011 - 10:40 pm ICT by IANS
Jalandhar (Punjab), Nov 29 (IANS) Seven former students of the B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology (NIT) here were Tuesday awarded three years' imprisonment by a Punjab court for driving ... Read more...
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Engineering student kills self
November 5th, 2011 - 8:40 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Nov 5 (IANS) In the second such incident in two days, a 20-year-old engineering student committed suicide by hanging herself in her home here Saturday, police said.Mala Singh, a ... Read more...
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IIT Kanpur student commits suicide
September 23rd, 2011 - 12:07 pm ICT by IANS
Kanpur, Sep 23 (IANS) A student of Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (IIT-K) was found hanging from his hostel room, police in this Uttar Pradesh town said Friday, suspecting that he ... Read more...
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Police hunt for Facebook lover for girlfriend’s suicide
September 22nd, 2011 - 8:41 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Sep 22 (IANS) Police are looking for a Facebook lover charged with abetting the suicide of his girlfriend studying at the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIM-B) here, an ... Read more...
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Nepal’s strong Chandigarh connections
August 30th, 2011 - 1:37 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Aug 30 (IANS) It is not usual for the head of a state and the leader of the government of that country to have a strong bond with a ... Read more...
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Medical student commits suicide
July 2nd, 2011 - 12:45 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, July 2 (IANS) A 24-year-old MBBS student from Ghaziabad committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan of her hostel room in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district, police said ... Read more...
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JNU MMS accused arrested from Bihar
May 22nd, 2011 - 1:43 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 22 (IANS) Over two months after the police complaint was filed in the sensational Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) MMS case, where an obscene clip was circulated in ... Read more...
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Class 7 boy commits suicide, four colleagues detained
April 7th, 2011 - 9:10 pm ICT by IANS
Bhilwara, April 7 (IANS) A Class 7 student, beaten up by four classmates over a dispute involving Rs.100, Thursday committed suicide by hanging himself in his hostel room in Rajasthan's ... Read more...
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Engineering student commits suicide
March 9th, 2011 - 8:24 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, March 9 (IANS) A fourth-year engineering student committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan of his hostel room in Seraikela-Kharsawa district of Jharkhand Wednesday, police said.Vinay Pant, ... Read more...
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Mujibur’s hostel room now a museum
February 24th, 2011 - 12:33 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Feb 23 (IANS) The room in the hostel where Sheikh Mujibur Rahman stayed while studying in a college here 65 years back was Wednesday turned into a museum in the ... Read more...
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Class 3 tribal girl branded with iron rods in hostel
January 12th, 2011 - 8:42 pm ICT by IANS
Bhopal, Jan 12 (IANS) An eight-year-old tribal girl was allegedly branded with iron rods several times by a hostel superintendent in Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol district, officials said Wednesday.Shushila, a Class 3 student, ... Read more...
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Student assaulted by seniors in Uttar Pradesh polytechnic
November 26th, 2010 - 1:29 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Nov 26 (IANS) A first year engineering student of a government-run polytechnic here was allegedly assaulted by a group of senior students on the institute's campus after he refused to bow ... Read more...
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IIT Kanpur mulls steps to prevent student suicides
November 22nd, 2010 - 5:16 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Nov 22 (IANS) Alarmed by a spate of on-campus suicides, the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur is toying with the idea of restricting round-the-clock internet access, which it says is one ... Read more...
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IIT Kanpur girl commits suicide (Lead)
November 17th, 2010 - 10:56 pm ICT by IANS
Kanpur, Nov 17 (IANS) A final year engineering student of the premiere Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K), Wednesday committed suicide in her hostel room on the campus, police said."The girl, aged ... Read more...
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