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
How India continues to punish those who attempt suicide
Despite having the law on their side, people who attempted suicide in India are continually harassed by authorities and don't receive appropriate help
Infographic: 29 farmers, farm labourers die by suicide daily
Over 5,500 farmers, 5,000 labourers died in 2020
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
World not on track to reduce suicide mortality rate by 2030 : WHO
While COVID-19 has increased mental stress globally, a new WHO report shows a crisis was already in place in 2019
Why an American farmer commits suicide
Like their India counterparts, American farmers are losing income, piling up debt and nobody listens to them
Simply Put: Student suicides
India has the highest suicide rate in South-East Asia: WHO
India stands third in female suicide rate after Lesotho and Republic of Korea, according to a report released by the UN health agency a day …
Every 4th suicide in 2019 by daily wage earners: NCRB
National Crime Records Bureau report shows 2/3 of those who died by suicides earned less than Rs 278 a day
Over-emphasis on safety means kids are becoming more anxious and less resilient
Overprotected children are more likely to both internalise problems (anxiety, depression) and externalise them (delinquency, defiance or …
Illnesses were behind half the suicides in Punjab in 2021
Healthcare costs too high, farmers at risk due to pesticide use says expert
The impregnable fortress of Telangana government
Are the chief minister and his government turning a deaf ear to the people of the state?
Drinking and suicide: How alcohol use increases risks, and what can be done about it
Alcohol affects neurotransmitters, which are the chemical messengers such as GABA and serotonin that help regulate mood
`It is easy to die'
Depletion of particular brain tissue linked to chronic depression, suicide: Study
Astrocytes, a kind of supportive nerve cells, were found in much lower quantity in people who died by suicide
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
Water, Marathwada women’s woe: Inclement weather affecting farmers’ mental health, social standing
Market does not support the farmers even if they manage to harvest the crops
State of India’s environment: Why farmers kill themselves
The back of the Indian farmour is against the wall amid rising costs of inputs, climate change-induced risks and faulty market mechanisms
Pesticide consumption a leading cause of suicides worldwide: Report
Up to 168,000 people kill themselves by ingesting pesticides annually, it said
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
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 …
