- 17-year-old IIT aspirant Nirmal Yogi, studying at a coaching institute in Kota, committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan in his rented room in Kota. This becomes the 10th such incident in the coaching hub this year.
- Nirmal hung himself using a towel, police said. The body was sent to a hospital for postmortem Tuesday morning. No suicide note was left behind. A probe has been launched to find the reason for his suicide.
- Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh recently said a body has been formed to regulate and monitor these coaching institutes.
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(With inputs from PTI)
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