IITs focus more on mental health as suicides riseWhere intense competition to bag a seat is just the beginning of the battle, and students fight stress, academic performance pressure, depr...
29 Apr, 2023, 11.15 PM IST
IIT Madras BTech student dies by suicide, fourth case this yearThe student was a native of Madhya Pradesh. This is the fourth case of a student suicide reported this year from IIT Madras and the 12th si...
21 Apr, 2023, 06.40 PM IST
'Sorry, not good enough': IIT Madras student posts status before hanging selfA 32-year-old PhD student from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, committed suicide. Sachin Kumar Jain, from West Bengal and a Mec...
05 Apr, 2023, 10.08 AM IST
IIT-Madras student dies by suicide, second incident in a monthThe deceased was identified as Vaipu Pushpak Sree Sai native of Andhra Pradesh. He was found hanging in his Alakananda hostel room on the I...
15 Mar, 2023, 10.55 AM IST
The cost of protests at campusesEducationists and marketing pundits concur that expressing dissent on campuses by students through protests is normal, and acceptable. Howe...
21 Jan, 2020, 12.08 PM IST
The JNU story that protesters and mobs won’t tell youHeadlines frequently centre around protests, but the big story is that it’s one of India’s top institutes.
13 Jan, 2020, 10.24 AM IST
Student suicide: DMK holds protest, father meets TN CMAs opposition parties stepped up pressure, the student's father, who has earlier alleged that a faculty was responsible for his daughter's ...
15 Nov, 2019, 08.33 PM IST
Student suicide: IIT Madras says committed to fair play, DMK, Cong hold protestPolitical parties have demanded a thorough probe after the family of the student, who hailed from Kerala, accused a faculty member of the I...
15 Nov, 2019, 05.56 PM IST
Explore possibility of banning Blue Whale game: Madras HC to governmentA Madurai bench issued notice to the Union Information and Broadcasting Secretary and state Home Secretary and IT department and made sever...
04 Sep, 2017, 02.51 PM IST
IITs wake up to suicide threats, conduct parent-teacher meets & creative exercisesTo help students deal with stress, IIT Guwahati has set up a creativity centre where students dance, sing and play instruments.
21 Apr, 2017, 06.17 AM IST
JNU, HCU among top central varsities, IIT-M 1st in tech institutionsThe National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) covering 3,500 different institutes in four different categories was released by HRD mi...
04 Apr, 2016, 09.49 PM IST
JNU, HCU among top central universities; IIT-M 1st in tech instThe National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) covering 3,500 different institutes in four different categories was released by HRD mi...
04 Apr, 2016, 03.31 PM IST
Opposition targets govt over JNU, Vemula issue; BJP targets Rahul GandhiInitiating the debate, Congress' Chief whip Jyotiraditya Scindia alleged "undue interference" by Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani and Labour...
24 Feb, 2016, 08.29 PM IST
Rohith Vemula death: Students demand sacking of Smriti IraniOver a thousand students from various universities gathered at the University of Hyderabad campus demanding Smriti Irani's sacking.
26 Jan, 2016, 12.11 PM IST
Rohit Vemula's suicide an 'institutional murder': SatchidanandanPoet K Satchidanandan said the suicide by Rohit Velmula was not "accidental" and alleged "continued oppression" of Dalit students in variou...
23 Jan, 2016, 03.59 PM IST
IIT students crumble under study load, expectations from family and peersStress is part and parcel of college life, but for some students at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), it can get overwhelming.
05 May, 2015, 04.31 AM IST
IIT-M to introduce 'life skills course'IIT, Madras (IIT-M) today announced a series of student-related initiatives including helping them "process" failure and make them aware of...
12 Jul, 2013, 07.40 PM IST