ऐसे रुक सकती हैं किसानों की आत्महत्याएं

मनोवैज्ञानिक किसानों को आत्महत्या करने से रोक सकते हैं,…

India needs a comprehensive approach to prevent pesticide related suicides

Most persons who engage in suicidal behaviour don't want to die but the government lacks proper data on the incidence of pesticide poisoning …

Limited access to pesticides reduced suicides in Tamil Nadu villages: WHO report

In rural India, poisoning accounts for four in 10 suicides due to swallowing of pesticides

सुकून भरी मौत का स्विस मॉडल

स्विट्जरलैंड में आत्महत्या के लिए मदद को नागरिक का अधिक…

In almost 4 decades, 400 US veternarians killed themselves, says study

It also reveals that veternarians are up to 3.5 times more likely to die by suicide than the general population with different occupations

दी ग्रेट इंडियन लाफ्टर चैलेन्ज

कोई हंस नहीं रहा था। जज खामोश थे। एंकर भी चुप बैठा था। प्�…

बीमारियां हैं खुदकुशी का बड़ा कारण!

15 वर्षों के दौरान देश में 3.85 लाख लोग विभिन्न बीमािरयों के…

The impregnable fortress of Telangana government

Are the chief minister and his government turning a deaf ear to the people of the state?

`It is easy to die'

It's time we shift farmers' economic burden

Assured net income, including assured minimum support price for crops, can put an end to farmer suicide cases in India

50 debt-ridden weavers in Varanasi committed suicide since Modi became PM

Conditions of weavers community got worse during Modi regime, reveal experts’ findings

Modi back to ‘vikaas’ hardline

Prime Minister seems to have gone back on promises to farmers

Increase in temperature will cause more suicides in US, Mexico: study

Climate change could be linked to a total of 14,020 excess suicides in the US and 7,460 excess suicides in Mexico by 2050, says a new study

Cautionary tales

Jean Dreze argues that we should not leave the making of an equitable society to experts alone

कैसे दोगुनी होगी किसानों की आय?

मोदी ने दो साल पहले भी 2022 तक आमदनी को दोगुना करने का वादा क…

Zoonotic diseases: interview with Sarman Singh of AIIMS

A zoonotic disease is a disease that can be spread from animals to humans. Scientists estimate that more than six out of every 10 infectious …

Farmers demand better crop prices, loan waiver and relief

A memorandum has been addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi containing a list of farmers' demands

Heart disease, stroke among top killers in India

The prevalence of heart disease, stroke increased by over 50% in the past 25 years, with the highest in Kerala, Punjab & Tamil Nadu, …

Why India continues to use lethal pesticides

Death of cotton farmers due to pesticide poisoning in the Vidarbha region raises vital questions about the government's attitude towards …

Farmer suicides increase for every 1°C rise in temperature during growing season: study

Temperature and precipitation deviations during the growing season have a distinct impact on suicide rates in the country

Farmers don’t commit suicide, they make sacrifice

In India, 34 farmers commit suicide every day; but the question is what drives them to do it?

Ensure no coercive action taken against defaulting farmers: Supreme Court to Tamil Nadu

Petitioners argued that rise in suicide cases was due to punitive action taken by bank officias against drought-hit farmers who are not able to …

'I am a farmer about to commit suicide. Can you help me? My Aadhaar number is...'

Psychologists are now intervening to help distressed farmers

Odisha’s deadly farmlands: Another farmer commits suicides due to crop loss

Between 2001 and 2010, over 2,600 farmers committed suicide in Odisha and this year, drought has already broken their economic backbone

Scrap laws banning cattle slaughter, farm exports: Farmers

Farmer organisations say these laws and several others ensure farmers do not get their rightful pay