Saturday, May 18, 2024

Topic: Suicides

Union govt distributing jumlas: Priyanka Gandhi on unemployment suicides

Congress general secretary Priyanka Vadra Gandhi on Friday hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Union government over recent reports about a surge in number of deaths by suicide, triggered by unemployment.

Assam man fighting citizenship battle dies by suicide

The 60-year-old dry fish seller Manik Das was fighting a legal battle to prove his citizenship before a Foreigner’s Tribunal (FT) in Assam since December 2019, despite his name appearing in the National Register for Citizens (NRC) that was published a few months before that.

Lavanya suicide: DMK and allies accuse BJP of promoting ‘hate propaganda’

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader and Lok Sabha member Kanimozhi has accused Bharatiya Janata Party of using the death of Tamil Nadu student Lavanya to create disharmony in the state.

Human cost of farmers protest: 670 farmers died during year-long agitation

At least 670 farmers linked to the protests have lost their lives during one-year-long agitation against the Union government's three farm laws

Suicides, fratricides rising among soliders in Kashmir

On Thursday, Sepoy Deeraj Kumar of the Engineering Unit posted at Kralpora pointed the barrel of his service rifle towards him and died by...

Harassed by upper-caste Hindus, Dalit student kills himself in Rajasthan

Pradeep Meghwal, a Dalit student at a constituent college of Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University (SKRAU), allegedly ended his life by jumping in front of a moving train after facing constant casteist abuse from upper-caste Hindu classmates.