India, May 2 -- The Nepal government is in contact with Indian diplomats to ensure a thorough investigation into the death of an 18-year-old Nepalese undergraduate student at the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), foreign minister Arzu Rana Deuba has said.

The student was found dead in her hostel room in Bhubaneswar's KIIT on Thursday evening, the second such case in less than three months.

"The incident of a Nepali student studying at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology University in Odisha being found dead in her hostel room has left us deeply saddened. Discussions are ongoing with the Government of India and the Government of Odisha," Deuba wrote on X.

The deceased was studying computer science and hails from ...