Mangaluru: NITK student ends life; protest by students, professor blamed for death
Mangaluru, Nov 18: A 20-year old student of the National Institute of Technology-Karnataka (NITK) here jumped to death from his department building, sparking off a protest by other students who alleged constant nagging by a professor forced him to take his life, police said.
After the suicide Saturday, students in the institute gathered on the campus in large numbers and raised slogans against the professor who had allegedly humiliated the third year mechanical engineering student Anand Pathak, they said.
Pathak was running short of attendance and was often pulled up by the professor who had told him that he would fail in the semester examination, the students alleged.
The protesting students demanded suspension of the professor and setting up of a committee to enquire into the issue, police said adding investigations were on.
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PM Modi, myself don't have 'wife issue': Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi (PTI): In a friendly banter, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and he didn’t have "the wife issue", as the Congress MP emphasised that everyone has learnt from women in their lives.
Participating in a debate in the Lok Sabha on the three bills introduced for amendments to the women's quota law and setting up a delimitation commission, Gandhi said women are a driving force in the national imagination and national perspective.
"All of us in this room have been influenced, taught, and have learnt a lot from women in our lives – from mothers, sisters, wives," Gandhi said.
"Of course, the prime minister and myself don't have the wife issue, so we don't get that input, but we have our mothers and sisters," he said while referring to Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju's light-hearted remark that he got a scolding at home as he did not pen a poem for his wife like Union minister Arjun Ram Meghwal did.
Gandhi also lauded his sister and Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi's speech in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
"Yesterday, I was watching my sister achieve in five minutes what I have not been able to do in 20 years of my political career – make Amit Shah Ji smile," Gandhi said to peals of laughter.
