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A 21-year-old student died after allegedly falling from a hostel building in north Bengaluru in the early hours of Tuesday, raising suspicions of foul play. The deceased has been identified as Laksh Mishra, a second-year B. Tech. student and a native of Ranchi in Jharkhand. He was pursuing his studies at a private college in Yelahanka. According to police, the incident occurred around 3 a.m., when the student reportedly fell from the ninth floor of a hostel building located within the limits of
New Delhi: Delhi Police have questioned nearly 100 people, among them 67 guards on the South Asian University (SAU) campus, where an 18-year-old female student has alleged that four men tried to gangrape her. Police have also spoken to the girl to record the exact sequence of events. The student has alleged that one of her attackers was a campus guard.Investigators have matched the locations of the guards at the time of the alleged attack. Staff and students too were questioned. The cops have fou ...Read More >
Noida, March 30: A 21-year-old BTech student died after allegedly jumping from the 28th floor of a high-rise residential building in Noida's Sector 32 in the early hours of Sunday, police said. Preliminary findings suggest the incident occurred shortly after she was scolded by her parents over an undisclosed issue. According to police, the student jumped from the balcony of her family's apartment in a Wave Amore Society under the Sector 24 police station limits. She was declared dead at the scene. Officials said the incident took place late Saturday night or early Sunday morning. The body has ...Read More >
New Delhi: A marine engineering student was crushed under the backboard of a basketball court in Pune. He sustained severe head injuries in the accident. The teachers and other students of the college rushed him to hospital, but he could not survive. The incident has sent shockwaves across the campus. Student dies while doing pull ups on basketball court: Eyewitnesses According to a report in NDTV, the deceased was identified as Vishal Verma, who hailed from Uttar Pradesh's Basti. He was a second-year student at Tolani Maritime Institute in Pune. On Sunday morning he had stepped out of his h ...Read More >
Mumbai, Apr 6 (PTI) The Congress on Monday hit out at the Shiv Sena (UBT) over the latter's accusation that the grand old party was using regional outfits as "crutches", and not treating them as "equal stakeholders" in the Opposition alliance. Maharashtra Congress spokesperson Sachin Sawant criticised the editorial in the Sena (UBT) mouthpiece 'Saamana', alleging that the newspaper's executive editor, MP Sanjay Raut, appears confused on several occasions between his roles as a politician and journalist. In a strongly-worded post on X, he noted that while a journalist's duty is to point out s ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 16 (PTI) Police have found that the email address used to send explicit and threatening messages to an 18-year-old South Asian University female student who has alleged sexual assault was being accessed by one of her friends, an officer said on Thursday. The first-year BTech student, who lives in the varsity hostel, has accused four people, including a security guard, of sexually assaulting her on the campus premises. She was found injured with her clothes torn on October 13, a day after being reported missing. An FIR was registered on Tuesday on her complaint, in which she al ...Read More >
Mumbai : Tesla's long awaited India debut finally took place with chief minister Devendra Fadnavis inaugurating its showroom in Mumbai on Tuesday. The Elon Musk-led car maker unveiled its Model Y compact all-electric SUV at its 'Experience Centre' in Bandra-Kurla Complex with the CM describing it as the "right city and the right state" for the launch."Mumbai stands for innovation and sustainability. In 2015, when I went to the US, I had my first ride in a Tesla, and then I thought we need such a vehicle for mobility in India. But it took 10 years for it to come to India. But we are very happy ...Read More >
Lucknow: An FIR was registered against five persons, including a woman and her father and brother, on Friday on charges of abetment to suicide, extortion, and criminal intimidation after a 19-year-old BTech student was found dead at his home in Barabanki.Tushar Verma allgedy died by suicide on July 16.Police said the FIR was lodged on the complaint by Tushar's mother Sushma, who alleged that the accused had been harassing her son for the past three months and demanding Rs 30 lakh under threats of ...Read More >
Noida, Jul 19 (PTI) A second-year student of a private university in Greater Noida hanged herself in her hostel room, police said. The incident took place Friday night, and a case has been filed at the Knowledge Park Police Station in Gautam Budh Nagar. Police have arrested two staffers of Sharda University, where she studied, in connection with the death, an officer said. Jyoti Sharma was a BDS student and hailed from Gurugram, he said. "Two staff members from the management of the university have been arrested on the basis of the complaint lodged by the family members of the student," Ad ...Read More >
Dimapur, Jul 18 (PTI) Two persons have died of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in Nagaland, a health department official said on Friday. Chief Medical Officer, Dimapur, Dr Yartenla Jamir, said that of the seven JE cases detected in Dimapur, Chumoukedima, and Niuland districts, two persons have died so far. She expressed concern over the rise in Japanese encephalitis (JE) cases in the three districts, especially during the monsoon season, which increases the risk of transmission. The Health department has urged district administrations to issue a public advisory on JE prevention measures and to i ...Read More >
Mathura, July 19 (UNI) Six people died and two others are in critical condition after a car overturned when it was hit by an unknown vehicle on the Yamuna Expressway in Mathura. The car occupants were going from Delhi to Agra. The accident happened in the Baldev police station area early Saturday morning, police said. After the accident, passersby informed the police. As soon as the information was received, the police reached the spot, rescued the occupants from the car, and sent them to the hospital, where doctors declared six people dead. Treatment of the two injured is underway. ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jul 18 (PTI) A fourth-year B Tech student was found hanging in his hostel room at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur campus on Friday, the fourth such unnatural death case at the campus since January this year. Ritam Mondal (21), a student of mechanical engineering, was found hanging in his room at Rajendra Prasad (RP) Hall hostel building, an institute official told PTI. The student, who hailed from Kolkata, had retired to his room after dinner on Thursday night, and there was no abnormality in his behaviour, one of his hostel mates said. The IIT KGP official said ...Read More >
Kolkata: A fourth-year undergraduate student of the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) was found dead in his hostel room on Friday morning. Ritam Mondal was a student of Mechanical Engineering. He was found dead in his hostel room this morning. The administration has initiated the process of filing an FIR and the necessary actions as per law. The police have initiated an investigation into the incident, and the Institute is extending full cooperation to facilitate the process, th ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: There will be no immediate increase in engineering colleges' fee in the state. The first phase of counselling, starting Saturday for admission to BE/B Tech courses, will proceed as per the existing fee structure.Chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Friday decided to set up a high-level official committee to fix parameters for fee hike. A separate GO constituting the committee and terms of reference, including the time frame to submit its report, is expected to be issued within a week.The revised fee for engineering colleges was scheduled to come into effect from the current academic ye ...Read More >
Vishal Verma was a second-year student at Tolani Maritime Institute ShowQuick Read Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed * A 20-year-old cadet died after a basketball backboard fell on him in Pune * Vishal Verma was doing pull-ups on the hoop when the frame collapsed * He suffered severe head injuries and was declared dead at the hospital Did our AI summary help? Let us know. Switch To Beeps Mode Pune: A 20-year-old cadet at a marine engineering institute in Pune died after a baske ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 8 (ANI): A 25-year-old vegetable seller from Bihar was arrested by the Delhi Police on Wednesday for allegedly molesting an 11-year-old girl in the Nihal Vihar area. According to police, the incident occurred on April 3, 2026, in front of the victim's residence. The girl's uncle contacted the police station the following day and informed them that an unknown man had molested his niece before fleeing from the spot. Also Read | Delhi Water Cut: Parts of National Capital Face Major Supply Disruption on April 8-9; Check Affected Areas. Acting swiftly, officers at PS Nih ...Read More >
New Delhi: Despite the fierce competition for a Delhi University (DU) seat, hundreds of undergraduate spots lie vacant every year, mostly in off-campus colleges. This year, the university is trying something new: allocating up to 100% more students to these colleges to ensure fewer empty seats.But why do these institutions fail to attract enough students in the first place? Is it the branding gap between North Campus and the rest of DU, or do deeper concerns like poor infrastructure and lack of visibility drive students away? TOI spoke to stakeholders to understand what keeps aspirants from op ...Read More >
Gangtok, Jul 19 (PTI) Vehicular movement on a stretch of National Highway-10 connecting Sevoke in West Bengal and Sikkim's Rangpo has been temporarily halted due to landslides and rockfall, officials said on Saturday. Clearance activities are underway on the stretch following landslides at Birik Dara in Kalimpong district of West Bengal, they said. The road is closed for all vehicular movement along the stretch since 11 am on Friday, the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd (NHIDCL) said. A statement from the Siliguri office of NHIDCL said that adequate machinery ...Read More >
A 20-year-old cadet at Tolani Maritime Institute (TMI) in Pune died on Sunday morning after the rim of a basketball hoop collapsed on his head while he was hanging from it. The deceased, Vishal Verma, a native of Ayodhya district in Uttar Pradesh, was a national-level athlete and one of the most decorated cadets on campus. According to cadets on campus, prior complaints had been made about the basketball pole that killed him. Also the ambulance did not respond for nearly 30 minutes, raising the question of whether his death could have been prevented. The Induri police station's investigating ...Read More >
Police said a probe is underway. A second-year Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) student of a Greater University student allegedly died by suicide late Friday night in the girls' hostel located at the university campus, police said on Saturday. The student was found hanging in her room. Upon receiving the information, the police reached the spot and sent the body for postmortem. The incident sent shockwaves across the university campus, especially within the hostel premises. According to polic ...Read More >