New Delhi: The recent cases of student suicides - one in Gurgaon and the other in Bangalore - once again highlights the bitter question: Are we giving a suitable environment for our loved ones to grow? Studies show that around twenty students take their lives in this country everyday, that every 10 minutes, someone in this country takes his own life. In fact, psychiatrists say that there is often an...
09:32 AM, May 07, 2012
Hyderabad: Life across Andhra Pradesh's Telangana region was affected on Tuesday due to the shutdown called by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) to protest the central government's insensitivity towards the demand for a separate Telangana state, which is driving youth to commit suicide. The shutdown had little impact in Hyderabad but was total in the nine other districts of the region. Barring attacks on a few shops in Khammam, the...
04:15 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Hyderabad: For the second day in a row, the Telangana statehood issue rocked the Andhra Pradesh Assembly leading to two adjournments this morning. When the House began at 9 AM, TDP and TRS legislators from the region stormed the Speaker's podium holding placards and raising slogans demanding that the House pass a resolution seeking creation of Telangana state. Speaker Nadendla Manohar rejected an adjournment motion moved by TRS, TDP, BJP...
12:43 PM, Mar 27, 2012
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...
12:11 AM, Jan 31, 2012
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...
10:59 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Nashville: US soldiers facing emotional problems and contemplating suicide may soon be able to use a smart phone application to connect them to help. The Tennessee National Guard, the state's reserve military force, launched a pilot program of the "Guard Your Buddy" app that was spearheaded by Clark Flatt, president and CEO of the Jason Foundation. Major General Terry "Max" Haston, the commander of the Tennessee National Guard, approached Flatt,...
01:51 PM, Dec 16, 2011
New Delhi: India's Silicon Valley Bangalore is by far the suicide capital of the country with 1,778 cases reported, according to the crime statistics for 2010 published by the National Crime Records Bureau. The figures show that 70 per cent of those who commit suicide in the country are married and there are 15 suicides taking place in the country every hour. West Bengal also leads the states with the...
05:33 PM, Oct 27, 2011
New Delhi: The Vidarbha farmer's widow whose plight was highlighted by Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi in Parliament, has complained about the Congress led-government in Maharashtra to BJP's Rajnath Singh. With Rahul Gandhi citing her example, Kalavati soon became the face of struggling widows of Vidharbha's suicide zone in Maharashtra where thousands of farmers have died in the last one decade. Kalavati's grouse is that 4,000 other widows have not...
08:19 AM, Jul 18, 2011
Bundelkhand: More than 500 debt ridden farmers have committed suicide in the last 5 months Bundelkhand despite a Rs 7000 crore special package from the Centre. The story has now become a part of Bundelkhand's folklore with eight years of drought, starvation and debt, due to which there have been 2945 farmer suicides in the last 10 years and 519 farmer suicides in the last five months alone. Veerpal Rajput,...
08:40 AM, Jul 15, 2011
Washington: Does misery really love company? An intriguing new study suggests that may be the case. Researchers who study how people's sense of well-being varies from place to place decided to compare their findings with suicide rates. The surprising result: The happiest places sometimes also have the highest suicide rates. "Discontented people in a happy place may feel particularly harshly treated by life," suggested Andrew Oswald of the University of...
01:32 PM, Apr 27, 2011
Delhi: Metro has become a part of life for Delhiites and the bond seems unbreakable even in death. Apart from past incidents, two people have committed suicide at Metro stations within the past week. Several other cases have been reported in the last two years. On Monday a 56-year-old man, the father of a local Congress leader allegedly committed suicide by leaping off the Paschim Vihar Metro Station in west...
01:12 PM, Apr 05, 2011
Mumbai: Just last month Vilasrao Deshmukh was pulled up by the Supreme Court for shielding private moneylenders accused of land grab in Vidarbha. While Deshmukh has defended the portfolio change, farmers and the opposition are seeing red. Vidarbha farmer Sarangdhar Singh Chavan is one of those farmers who are still waiting for justice after exploitation at the hands of moneylenders. In December, the Supreme Court held former Maharashtra chief minister...
10:28 PM, Jan 20, 2011
New Delhi: Some alarming revelations have surfaced from a new study. A record 2.5 lakh farmers have committed suicide in India over the last 13 years. Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar's home state Maharashtra tops the list. It has the worst record for the 10th consecutive year. According to The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data, more than 2,16, 000 farmers have committed suicide since 1997. P Sainath, Rural Affairs editor...
08:06 AM, Jan 18, 2011
Nagpur: A farmer's advocacy group in Vidarbha has objected to the content of the just-released Hindi film
Peepli Live, saying it is a wrong representation of the misery of the family members of farmers who committed suicide. "The farmers in any region of India commit suicide due to the wrong policies of the government, not because family members can live off the compensation they would get," Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti...
07:04 PM, Aug 14, 2010
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03:13 PM, Aug 10, 2010
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