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Panaji: CM Pramod Sawant on Friday said that police are still investigating the supply and use of drugs that led to the death of a student at BITS Pilani's Goa campus. The CM's statement comes just after SP (South) Tikam Singh Verma said that narcotics were found in the blood of the dead student during preliminary tests."Investigation is on," was Sawant's terse reply when reporters asked him about govt's failure to prevent drugs from entering educational institutes.The opposition parties were qu ...Read More >
Panaji: Congress on Friday launched a scathing attack on BJP govt and BITS Pilani Goa campus management after toxicology reports allegedly confirmed the presence of narcotics and sedatives in the blood of Rishi Nair, the 19-year-old student who was found dead on campus on Sep 5.Citing a lack of CCTV surveillance and monitoring mechanisms, opposition leader Yuri Alemao said the institute's management must be booked for negligence. "We cannot allow our students to succumb to such deaths. This is a ...Read More >
Margao: The death of student Rishi Nair at BITS Pilani Goa campus turned out to be the first drug-related fatality among five student deaths that occurred since Dec 2024, police said on Friday. A Randox test revealed the presence of drugs in Nair's body.SP (South) Tikam Singh Verma said that investigations are under way to determine how, from where, and when Nair obtained the narcotics. "All angles will be probed," Verma said. The 19-year-old student was found dead in his hostel on Sep 4.The fin ...Read More >
Vasco: A 19-year-old student of BITS Pilani, Goa campus, Rishi Nair from Bengaluru was found dead in his hostel room on Thursday. This is the fifth student death recorded in 10 months on the campus and the second within a month.Police said Rishi went into a depression after his girlfriend had died by suicide two and a half months ago in Hyderabad, and his parents shifted him to the Goa campus. On Thursday morning, his parents who also shifted along with him to Goa, tried to get in touch with Ris ...Read More >
Panaji: Goa govt has constituted a council for artificial intelligence (AI) to advise state govt on a six-month AI roadmap for the state. The council, which includes chief executive officers of several international companies, will be formed over the next six months.Goa's AI roadmap will focus on skill development, funding requirements, govt policy and infrastructure requirements, and finally, a plan to attract other AI-first startups to Goa. "We want to introduce AI at the school level. The foc ...Read More >
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