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Shankar IAS Academy founder commits suicide after fight with wife

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October 12, 2018

Chennai, Oct 12: Shankar Devarajan, founder and CEO of Shankar IAS Academy, was found dead Friday morning at his home in Mylapore, Chennai. Shankar allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself due to some personal issues.

Police said Shankaran committed suicide after a fight with his wife Vaishnavi. The couple had had some issues for the last few months, police said.

The 45-year-old professor founded the civil services coaching institute in Tamil Nadu that has produced more than 900 civil servants since 2004.

Shankar, who was found hanging from a fan at his home, was rushed to St. Isabel's Hospital in Mylapore but declared dead there. His body has been taken for post-mortem to the Royapettah government hospital.

Shankar IAS academy was the first-of-its-kind academy in Tamil Nadu, where civil service aspirants were trained at a time when such coaching institutes had propped up predominantly only in Delhi and Kolkata.

The news of Shankar committing suicide has sent shock waves among the people who knew him.

Shankar came from a farming family in Krishnagiri. His father passed away when he was a child but he went on to study agriculture. He wanted to appear for the UPSC exam but could not as he did not fit in the age criteria. He then started his own academy to train aspirants.

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zahoor ahmed
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Saturday, 13 Oct 2018

Bad news for Civil Service aspirants.

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February 17,2020

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The encounter took place around 5 am, they said.

Raja Qureshi and Ramesh Bahadur, who were injured during the encounter, were rushed to a nearby hospital, where they were declared brought dead by doctors, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) P S Kushwah said.

According to police, the two men were involved in multiple cases of murder and robbery.

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June 27,2020

LGeneva, Jun 27:: The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide has risen by over 177,000 in the past 24 hours to 9.4 million and the death toll has topped 480,000, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday (local time).

On Thursday, the WHO reported 167,056 new cases and 5,336 related deaths.

The fresh daily situation report estimates the number of infections confirmed in the past 24 hours at 177,012. Further, 5,116 virus-related deaths were reported over the same period, taking the toll to 484,249.

The Americas lead the count with over 4.7 million cases, followed by Europe with more than 2.6 million.

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June 10,2020

New Delhi, Jun 10: India on Wednesday reported a spike of 9,985 more COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the country's COVID-19 count to 2,76,583, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

279 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours taking the total death toll to 7,745.

The total number of active cases has reached 1,33,632 while 1,35,205 patients have recovered. While one person has migrated.

With 90,787 cases, Maharashtra reported the highest number of coronavirus cases in the country followed by Tamil Nadu with 34,914 cases.

According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 1,45,216 samples were tested in the last 24 hours while overall 50,61,332 samples have been tested so far.

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