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Dealing with a suicide crisis

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Keeping a suicide crisis under check will need the nation to think beyond suicide helplines. These helplines are certainly important, but accessed as they are at a much later stage in the progression of suicidal behaviour, a comprehensive prevention outlook is needed. (HT Archive)
editorials
Updated on Sept 30, 2025 09:05 pm IST

US suicides recorded at alarming all-time high in 2022: Govt data

The new data indicates that suicide became the second leading cause of death in the age group 25 to 44 in 2022, up from No. 4 in 2021.
world news
Published on Aug 13, 2023 03:29 am IST

Mental health might get affected by natural disasters

Study finds mental health gets strained by disaster
health
Updated on Dec 20, 2020 11:31 am IST

US study reveals people who purchased firearms during pandemic more likely to be suicidal

The study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
lifestyle
Updated on Nov 17, 2020 07:39 pm IST

Higher poverty linked to increased youth suicide risk

In this study, researchers collected information from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Compressed Mortality File, which includes data on all US deaths, including cause of death.
lifestyle
Updated on Feb 03, 2020 02:58 pm IST

Suicides: Chandigarh saw 41% jump in suicide cases in 2018, second-highest in country

In 2018, there were 160 suicides in the city, while in 2017 there were only 113 cases.
chandigarh news
Updated on Jan 12, 2020 12:48 am IST

South Koreans lie inside closed coffins for 10 minutes for life lessons

A South Korean service is offering free funerals - but only to the living. (Representative Image)
world news
Updated on Nov 06, 2019 09:39 am IST

Suicide claims one life every 40 seconds, deadlier than war, homicide and breast cancer: WHO

The global suicide rate in 2016 -- the last year for which data was available -- stood at 10.5 per 100,000 people.
world news
Updated on Sept 10, 2019 06:11 am IST

Guruvani: ‘Students should choose to excel’

Nikita Kothari, principal, Narayana e-Techno School, Kalyan
ht school
Updated on Jul 01, 2019 10:48 am IST

Reducing suicide deaths: a collective responsibility

As we close out the mental health awareness month in India, it is our collective responsibility to plan and work together to end these tragic and preventable deaths
analysis
Published on May 29, 2019 07:26 pm IST

‘13 Reasons Why’ associated with increase in youth suicide rates: Study

‘13 Reasons Why’ associated with increase in youth suicide rates says study.
health
Updated on May 01, 2019 10:54 am IST

Mental health drive brings down suicides in Tihar to one in a year

Mental health drive brings down suicides in Tihar to one in a year (Sonu Mehta/HT File Photo)
delhi news
Published on Apr 13, 2019 04:39 am IST

Why the farmer suicide debate is counter-productive to understanding India’s agrarian crisis?

In the discourse on agriculture, fo farmer suicides are cited as the biggest proof of the agrarian crisis in the country by a large section
india news
Updated on Dec 27, 2018 07:46 am IST

CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan orders probe into MP farmer’s ‘suicide’ over unpaid dues

Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday ordered an inquiry by an IG-rank police officer into the alleged suicide by a 32-year old farmer in Seoni district on September 29.
india news
Updated on Oct 06, 2018 12:04 am IST

Suicides by young adults a ‘growing concern’

The National Health Profile 2018 report said that suicide rates were increasing significantly for young adults including male, female and transgenders in a wider population.
india news
Updated on Jun 24, 2018 10:56 pm IST

The BJP is oblivious to farmer distress

Congress president Rahul Gandhi consoles the family member of a farmer killed in the police firing during 2017 farmers' agitation in Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh
analysis
Published on Jun 13, 2018 12:33 pm IST
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