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Fourth student death at NIT Kurukshetra sparks protests over campus mental health support

Friday, 17 April 2026, 10:20 · 1 min read

A second-year student at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Kurukshetra — a prestigious public engineering college in the northern Indian state of Haryana — was found dead in her hostel room, marking the fourth suspected student suicide on campus in two months. The deceased, Diksha Dubey, was from Bihar and was enrolled in a B.Tech programme in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. The string of deaths has triggered protests, raising urgent questions about the adequacy of mental health support provided to students at the institution.

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The HinduNIT Kurukshetra student ends life; fourth case in two months triggers protests ↗︎
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