Two children die due to fire at shed in Bengaluru
Bengaluru (PTI): Two children died as a fire broke out at a makeshift shed at Kothanur in the north eastern part of Bengaluru, police said.
According to police, the incident happened on Monday as the siblings were playing at the shed.
The deceased are a girl and a boy of three and five years of age respectively. Their parents -- daily wage workers from Raichur district -- had gone out to work and the children were left behind with their grandmother as usual, police said.
The grandmother had reportedly stepped out to use the toilet when the fire broke, they said, adding that efforts by neighbours and others to save the children were in vain.
The children suffered from asphyxiation due to heavy smoke and burn injuries, police said.
While the boy died on the spot, the girl succumbed on the way to hospital, they said.
Police said the cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. The burning of clothes inside the shed had resulted in dense smoke. Investigation will be conducted, they added.
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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.
