Suicide

Delhi: Boy dies imitating TV suicide scene

New Delhi: A 12-year-old boy died in New Delhi when he reportedly tried to imitate a suicide scene he had seen in a movie, police said on Thursday. The Class 5 student of a Sarvodaya school, Suhail, was found hanging from a ceiling fan at his Jafrabad home in east Delhi on Tuesday. His mother made the shocking discovery. The incident took place when the boy's parents Mohammad Salim and...

TN: Medical expenses force couple to commit suicide

Ramanathapuram: Unable to raise money for a surgery, a 57-year-old man and his wife allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison in Ramanathapuram on Saturday. G Murugesan, a local beverage unit owner, and his wife Jothilakshmi, 54, took the extreme step as they did not want to be a burden on their two sons, who were not economically well off, police said. The couple had even bought materials required for their...

Farmer suicide reports a malicious campaign: Mamata

Kolkata: Dismissing reports of farmers committing suicide due to agricultural mismanagement as a "malicious political campaign", West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday reiterated that only one farmer had taken his life since she came to power last May. "They (the opposition and media) are saying that many farmers have committed suicide. This is not right. Only one farmer has died during my tenure and that too is sad....

We don't want to defame Trinamool: WB Congress

Malda: Days after blaming the West Bengal government for farmer suicides in the state, Congress said on Monday it did not want to bring disrepute to the ruling Trinamool Congress. "Our intention is not to defame them. We will be very happy if the government works properly," West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee president Pradip Bhattacharya told reporters in Malda. Relations between the two allies have soured in the last few...

Allow me to kill myself: cop begs senior officer

Mumbai: A police constable attached to Bandra Government Railway Police (GRP), attempted suicide by consuming phenyl inside the police station in front of his senior who he accuses of persecuting him for no reason. Constable Ganesh Bharat Kamble (34) alleged that he couldn't take the mental torture Senior Inspector Vijay Dhopavkar would inflict on him routinely. About 7.30 pm on January 25, Kamble met Dhopavkar in his cabin and gave...

Four Vidarbha farmers commit suicide in 72 hours

Yavatmal: Four cotton growers here committed suicide in the last three days as the local administration stopping relief aid to crisis-ridden farmers because of the code of conduct in place for coming local bodies elections, a local organisation fighting for farmers' cause alleged on Saturday. "All the officials are busy because of the ensuing local body election and the State Election Commission has stopped relief aids for farmers which has...

4 of a family commit suicide in Secunderabad

Secunderabad: Unable to cope with financial problems, four members of a family committed suicide here, police said on Saturday. The bodies of K. Balaji, his wife and parents were found on Saturday morning at their house in R.K. Nagar neighborhood of Malkajgiri area of Secunderabad. Balaji, 32, was found hanging in one room while the bodies of his wife K. Prasanna (24), father A. Nageswara Rao (60) and mother Vijayalakshmi...

Suicide bomber kills 32 at Baghdad funeral march

Baghdad: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car near a funeral procession in southeastern Baghdad today, killing at least 32 people half of them policemen who were guarding the march in the latest brazen attack since the US troop withdrawal from Iraq. Police officials said the blast occurred at 11:00 am in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Zafaraniyah, where mourners had gathered for the funeral of a person killed the...

Farmers' suicides: Cong asks TMC to help families

Howrah: The Congress, an ally of the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal, on Tuesday demanded that the state government should pay compensation to the families of farmers who had committed suicide. "The state government should not only pay compensation to the families of farmers who committed suicide, but should also take steps to prevent such recurrences," WBPCC president Pradip Bhattacharya said. "It is the duty of the state government...

WB: Mamata rejects probe into farmer suicides

Kolkata: Terming the reports of farmers' suicides incorrect, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday rejected a proposal of a probe by an all-party team into the matter. Communist Party of India (CPI) legislator from Midnapore Prabodh Panda who met Banerjee at the secretariat with his proposal, said she had rejected his proposal as the reports of suicide were "untrue". "Banerjee said that after inquiring the matter she found...

Only one farmer death during my tenure: Mamata

Kolkata: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday accused the CPI(M) of launching a false campaign against her government over the issue of farmers' death. "Whenever anyone is committing suicide, he is being claimed to be a farmer. If anyone commits suicide, can it be called a farmer's suicide. As per the reports I have during the tenure of the present government only one farmer had died, the rest...

4th death in NRHM scam; Maya govt in trouble?

Lucknow: Sunil Verma, a project manager responsible for the upgradation of primary health centres under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), shot himself to death on Monday morning at his residence in Vikas Nagar. Verma is apparently the fourth official allegedly involved in the NRHM scam to kill himself. Three other UP government officials embroiled in the multi-crore scam - BP Singh, VK Arya and VS Sachan - are already...

WB Governor counters Mamata on farmers' suicide

New Delhi: West Bengal Governor MK Naryanan has refuted Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's claim that no farmers have committed suicides. He said the matter needs to be addressed urgently. "There is no denying the fact that farmers have committed suicide and that they are in debt. We need to do something about it," Narayanan said. He was outspoken on the issue of crib deaths too, calling them a matter of...

NRHM scam accused kills self, Cong seeks probe

Lucknow: One of the key official involved in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam in Uttar Pradesh committed suicide at his residence in Lucknow on Monday morning. Project Manager Sunil Verma shot himself at his Vikas Nagar residence at around 8:30 AM. The 52-year-old official was taken to a hospital where the doctors declared him dead. Verma was a project manager associated with the construction and design division of...

Mamata govt perpetrates misrule in WB: Karat

Kolkata: Expressing concern over recurring suicide of farmers in West Bengal, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said on Friday these were pointer to the "misrule" of the Trinamool Congress-led government in the state. "The TC-led government in West Bengal has perpetrated misrule and our party's central committee has expressed serious concern over farmers' suicide which rose to 24," Karat told reporters at the end of the party's 4-day central committee...