Thursday, April 18, 2024

Topic: suicide

“Worse human rights violation than murder”: How an aspiring wildlife photographer was tortured to death in Kerala university

The torture to death case of JS Sidharthan, a second year student inside the Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University’s men’s hostel has become a center point of news in Kerala. 

Breaking silence: Suicide as a radical confrontation with injustice

How can Aaron Bushnell's suicide be explained when it occurs in the face of genocidal states? It becomes an act of resistance, an attack, and a slap to racial states.

Ragging death of college student: SFI leaders arrested in Kerala

Six students affiliated with the Students Federation of India (SFI), including the college unit president and secretary, have been arrested by Kerala police regarding the alleged suicide of JS Sidharth, a second-year student at the College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences in Pookode, Wayanad.

Doctor in Kerala takes own life as colleague’s ‘exorbitant dowry demand’ scuttles marriage plans; colleague arrested

A young doctor at a government medical college died by suicide after another doctor from the same institute, with whom she had made plans for marriage, backed out because her family could not meet his exorbitant dowry demands.

IIT-Madras suspends professor over research scholar’s suicide

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) has suspended a professor following an inquiry into the suicide of a research scholar of the institute in March.

Gujarat: Five caste-Hindus booked after Dalit principal dies by suicide due to casteism

A Dalit school principal died by suicide on Friday in Gujarat’s Amreli district following he was subjected to casteist violence from caste-Hindus.