Jaipur, April 1 -- An 18-year-old student preparing for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for admission to undergraduate engineering courses was found dead in Kota district of Rajasthan in the 10th such incident of suspected suicide in the coaching hub this year, police said on Monday.
Last year, 20 students preparing for various competitive examinations died by suicide in the district.
Kota GRP police station assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Dharma Singh said that the student's body was found on a railway track near the Kota railway station on Sunday night. The victim, a resident of Kanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, had arrived in Kota two years ago to prepare for JEE and was staying at a hostel in the city's Rajeev Gandhi Nagar area. "P...