Cong leaders pay tributes to former party chief Sitaram Kesri
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New Delhi (PTI): Congress leaders on Friday paid tributes to former party president Sitaram Kesri on his 25th death anniversary.
Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi along with other leaders paid floral tributes to Kesri at the party's 24, Akbar Road headquarters.
It was the same place from where Kesri was removed as Congress president by the Congress Working Committee to pave the way for Sonia Gandhi to take over the party in 1998.
Kesri served as Congress president from 1996 to 1998. He passed away in 2000.
He hailed from Bihar and had worked with stalwart leaders who went on to become state chief ministers, including Bhagwat Jha Azad.
Kesri was the president of the Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee in 1973 and treasurer of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) in 1980. He remained as AICC treasurer for a decade.
Bihar assembly elections are due in two phases on November 6 and 11.
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NEET student hangs self in Rajasthan's Sikar
Jaipur (PTI): A student preparing for the NEET examination allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in a rented room in Rajasthan's Sikar on Friday, police said.
According to the police, the student allegedly hanged himself from a ceiling fan using his sister's scarf while one sister was attending coaching classes and the other was in the bathroom.
He had appeared in the NEET UG exam 2026, which was cancelled due to paper leak, they said.
Udyog Nagar SHO Rajesh Kumar said that the deceased, identified as Pradeep Meghwal, was a resident of Kanika ki Dhani village in Jhunjhunu's Gudha Gaudji area.
He had been living in a rented room in Sikar's Jaldhari Nagar area with his two sisters while preparing for NEET over the last three years.
His elder sister later found him hanging and informed the landlord and police after bringing him down, officials said.
The SHO said the body was kept at SK Hospital mortuary, and a postmortem had not been conducted.
The student's father, Rajesh Kumar Meghwal, told police that Pradeep's NEET examination had gone well and the family was expecting him to score around 650 marks.
Former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot expressed grief over the incident and linked it to anxiety among students after reports of irregularities and paper leaks in NEET 2026.
Pilot said repeated paper leak incidents and cancellation of examinations were affecting students' mental health and demanded a time-bound investigation and strict action against those responsible.
