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Higher education in India is suffering from a mental health crisis we can no longer ignore
September 15, 2025 3:29 pm
Just as athletes need time off to recover from injuries, students too need safe, stigma-free space to recover from mental health crises
Express View on student suicides: India needs kinder, gentler campuses
February 20, 2025 6:55 am
Inclusion doesn’t only benefit students from marginalised or foreign backgrounds -- the entire community stands to gain.
Not Rajasthan (Kota), these are the states with highest student suicides
August 29, 2024 9:11 am
Maharashtra has the highest number of student suicides, making up 14 per cent of the total, which is the highest percentage among the listed states.
'Pressure' from parents behind student suicides, says Supreme Court
November 22, 2023 9:35 am
Hearing a plea that sought regulation of the mushrooming coaching institutes and cited the data on student suicides, a bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna and SVN Bhatti, however, expressed helplessness and said the judiciary cannot pass directions in such a scenario.
Tackling the ‘left-behind syndrome’: Student suicides cannot be addressed without talking about young people’s isolation
September 12, 2023 5:00 pm
Suicide rates may be reduced if no student feels left out. Prioritising inclusion and support is the key to suicide prevention
'Let's pull an all-nighter': Is IIT's late night culture is affecting students' mental health
September 08, 2023 5:04 pm
From celebrating small wins, birthdays to relying on all-night canteen food for late night study sessions, the culture of staying up late is very popular in IIT, but is it healthy? Students, faculty opine
Through counselling, IITs plan to tackle rising issue of poor mental health
August 17, 2023 10:10 am
As per the data revealed by the government, in 2018 and 2019, IITs recorded 8 such cases, which then decreased to 3 and 4 in 2020 and 2021. The number increased to 9 in 2022, and till now there have been at least 7 cases this year.
IIT Madras to introduce facial recognition attendance system, app coordinating parent visits as part of suicide prevention initiative
August 03, 2023 2:33 pm
The institute saw four cases of student suicides between February and July 2023.
98 student suicide cases reported in past 5 years in IITs, NITs, CUs, IIMs, IISERs: MoS
July 29, 2023 9:38 am
The government revealed that as per the recorded data, 21 students died by suicide in 2018 (who were enrolled in Central universities, IITs, NITs, IIITs, IIMs and IISERs), which decreased to 19 in 2019, 7 in 2020 and 7 in 2021.
How homesickness, skewed teacher-student ratio and gender disparity shadow IIT students' big dreams
April 24, 2023 8:33 am
The recent case of Darshan Solanki’s suicide at IIT Bombay once again raises the question whether the excruciating hard work put in by IIT aspirants is even worth it. What forces these brightest minds to lose hope in life?
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