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Researchers found that suicide prevention was most effective when communities worked together through awareness, intervention and support systems.

Is suicide prevention finally working in India? Lancet study shows how suicide death rate went down by 30% from 1990 to 2021

February 20, 2025 8:14 am

Family problems and financial matters are key triggers in the 15-39 age group.

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Omnipresent but de-prioritised: Understanding the many faces of mental health and suicide in India

September 06, 2022 11:05 pm

The medicalised nature of suicide tends to override its sociocultural embeddedness, and this is why the community’s vital ability to control them is often forgotten. The representation of suicide in popular media is reductive and misleading

Demonising freedom to love in New India will contribute to growing suicide toll of young people

February 22, 2021 9:13 am

The recent passage of the so-called ‘love jihad’ laws in three states of the country, imposing harsh penalties on ‘forced conversions’ under the pretext of marriage, represents a new and daunting challenge to love in India.

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Suicide, a preventable cause of death

June 15, 2020 8:12 pm

Mental illness is real, hard, disabling and needs addressal and treatment.

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Family problems leading reason for suicides, says NCRB data; experts call for 'accessible' mental health help

February 07, 2020 11:11 am

Experts point out that lack of hope, help and self-worth leading to higher suicide rates. Over the alarming numbers, experts call for urgent attention to the burgeoning mental health crisis and the timely need to seek help.

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More unemployed, self-employed people committed suicides than farmers in 2018: NCRB data

January 18, 2020 4:51 pm

The report said that the majority of suicides were reported from Maharashtra (17,972), followed by Tamil Nadu (13,896), West Bengal (13,255), Madhya Pradesh (11,775), and Karnataka (11,561).

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India accounts for 37 per cent of global suicide deaths among women, marriage may be a cause: Study

September 14, 2018 5:17 pm

India is home to around 57 million people (nearly 18 per cent of the global estimate) suffering from depression, as per WHO. So it's not surprising that suicide is one of the leading causes of death in the country.

Around 40 per cent suicides committed by people aged between 21 and 30: Study

July 04, 2017 4:50 am

Most deaths were seen among the unemployed (21.65%), followed by labourers (20.35%) and housewives (20.38%) and the least among retired people (1.7%). The common reasons for such deaths among males were mental stress (37.75%), followed by chronic illness (25.51%)

In run for Vice-President, Radhakrishnan in pole position as numbers tilt in NDA favour

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While the numbers seem to be stacked in favour of the ruling BJP-led NDA in the Vice-Presidential election scheduled for Tuesday, in which the NDA’s candidate C P Radhakrishnan is pitted against the Opposition INDIA alliance’s nominee Justice (retired) P Sudershan Reddy, the decision of the BJD and the BRS to abstain from voting may further boost Radhakrishnan’s prospects.

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