Five achievers to be conferred with Social Welfare Dept’s ‘Dr. Ambedkar Award’ on April 14
Bengaluru: The Social Welfare Department has announced the names of the five achievers who will be conferred with the ‘Dr. BR Ambedkar Award’ for this year.
The selection committee members decided on the awardees during a meeting held on March 27.
The list of awardees is as follows:
* Mangaluru Vijay (Organized struggle/Literature)
* CM Muniyappa (Organized struggle/Journalism)
* HN Annayya (Organized struggle)
* Hanumantha Rao Doddamani (Literature/Organization)
* Shobha Gasti (Liberation of Devadasis)
The awardees will be felicitated and conferred with the award by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah during a programme to be held on Tuesday, April 14 at the Banquet Hall of the Vidhana Soudha, Bengaluru, on the occasion of Ambedkar Jayanti.
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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.
