TCS employee suicide: Manav Sharma's father reflects on son's 'troubled' marriage; wife Nikita claims she had 'saved him many times'Manav Sharma, a TCS employee, committed suicide after recording a distressing video holding his wife responsible for his decision. The vide...
01 Mar, 2025, 09.10 AM IST
Rahul Gandhi expresses concern over 'rising' suicide rate among youths, urges govt to ensure supportThe "rising" suicide rate among the youth in the country is very sad and worrying, the former Congress chief said in a post on his WhatsApp...
31 Aug, 2024, 09.42 PM IST
India's student suicide rate has surpassed overall trend, population growth rate: ReportStudent suicides in India are rising alarmingly, outpacing both population growth rates and overall suicide trends. The report notes that m...
28 Aug, 2024, 04.55 PM IST
Mental health matters: Looking at psychological well-being with a gender-less lensMental health issues affecting men require more attention than they currently get due to social stigma, gender dynamics and inaccurate ster...
21 Aug, 2023, 05.55 PM IST
Study: U.S. gun death rates hit highest levels in decadesThe increase among women - most dramatically, in Black women - is playing a tragic and under-recognized role in a tally that skews overwhel...
30 Nov, 2022, 08.45 AM IST
Daily wagers top people in India who committed suicide in 2020: NCRB“Among the total numbers of male suicides, maximum suicides were committed by daily wage earners (33,164) followed by self-employed persons...
29 Oct, 2021, 10.17 AM IST
NCRB data shows 42,480 farmers and daily wagers committed suicide in 2019According to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data on accidental deaths and suicides, 10,281 farmers committed suicide in 20...
01 Sep, 2020, 10.44 PM IST
Average 381 suicides daily in India in 2019; 50 per cent cases from just 5 states: NCRBThe rate of suicide (incidents per 1 lakh population) rose by 0.2 per cent in 2019 over 2018, as per the data. According to the statistics ...
01 Sep, 2020, 08.58 PM IST
Shashi Tharoor is the victim of a flawed law: Swaminathan S Anklesaria AiyarSince suicide is a crime, the law also makes abetment to suicide a crime.
10 Jun, 2018, 11.08 AM IST
Over 5 crore people are hit by depression in IndiaChina and India account for nearly 50% of the total 322 million people living with depression across the world.
24 Feb, 2017, 10.04 AM IST
Suicide's no crime, and you can't drive someone to itOn average, only 0.01% of people commit suicide in countries across the globe. They do so not because harassment is commoner in their cases...
21 Aug, 2016, 05.01 PM IST
Sachin Tendulkar adopts village in Osmanabad under Sansad Adarsh Gram YojnaOsmanabad has been reeling under a serve drought over the last few years and has also recorded a steep rise in incidents of farmers suicide.
18 Aug, 2016, 04.18 PM IST
Why more people have been committing suicide in Chennai than in any other metro for the past four yearsExperts agree that young adults, who are the most vulnerable to suicide, must be trained on handling emotional issues and anger management.
02 Aug, 2015, 10.47 AM IST
15 persons ended life every hour in India during 2014: NCRBMaharashtra saw 16,307 suicide cases in 2014 followed by Tamil Nadu (16,122) and West Bengal (14,310), the data said.
19 Jul, 2015, 04.40 PM IST
Black Americans disproportionately killed by police: ReportA new investigation shows how "disproportionately" black Americans, who make up just 13 per cent of US' total population, are killed by pol...
01 Jun, 2015, 10.37 PM IST
Lack of political will to address complex health issues: Vikram PatelPsychiatrist, listed by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people, rues issues like suicide are not seen as health issues but...
20 Apr, 2015, 07.21 PM IST
- Indian women start rulling the sky
At 11%, the strength of Indian women pilots is twice the global average, which stands at 5.8%.
07 Sep, 2006, 02.39 AM IST