India, March 25 -- A 17-year-old student preparing for National Entrance Eligibility Test (NEET) for admission to undergraduate medical courses allegedly died by suicide in Rajasthan's Kota on Tuesday. The incident occurred hours after a 19-year-old NEET student allegedly died by suicide in a hostel in Jodhpur.

With this incident, the toll of such cases rose to 10 this year across the state- of which nine were in Kota while one was in Jodhpur, said officials. Last year, at least 23 students died by suicide in Rajasthan, of which 20 were in Kota, down from 27 a year ago.

The station house officer (SHO) of Kota's Jawahar Nagar police station, Ram Laxman Gurjar said, "The student in the latest incident, a native of Bihar's Nalanda, arrived...