Sounding the alarm over the rapid increase in the number of people struggling with mental health issues in the country, the  (WHO) has said that over five crore Indians are suffering from depression,a major contributor to global suicides occuring mainly in India and other low- and middle-income countries. In its new global health estimates on depression, WHO said that 322 million people are living with depression worldwide and nearly half of […]

She is the daughter of a daily labourer construction worker. Her foot were on ground but she wanted to gallop into the sky. She didn’t have money to buy shoes, but her legs yearned to fly. She won India most laurels, put India on the world map. Until one day, she was stripped off her dignity. She is Santhi Soundarajan. Recently, the media has been abuzz with the story of […]

A string of farmers have committed suicide in western India after freak hailstorms and rains destroyed winter crops worth millions of dollars, activists and politicians said Wednesday. The unusual weather struck parts of western Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital, from late February and went on to badly damage crops. A source from the Maharashtra chief minister’s office told AFP that seven suicides had been confirmed, with more killed by […]

Tom Mulcair urges Stephen Harper to make the issue of military suicides a personal priority. The Canadian military is dealing with another case of suspected suicide, the third sudden death in a week. The latest tragedy, which occurred Wednesday, involves a reservist belonging to The Princess of Wales’ Own Regiment, one of the country’s oldest military units, based in Kingston, Ont. Several defence sources identify the victim as Cpl. Camilo […]

As 15-year-old Fatima breathed her last late on Wednesday night, all those who had known her could not hold back their tears. The young girl was the life of the chaali where she lived. She had suffered enough in life, but the last thing that the residents of the chaali would have imagined was her committing suicide. Her only grouse was that all the attention and protests happened only when […]