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Alarming suicides

On: September 3, 2022

In: Blog

By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Sept 3, 2022: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), close to 800,000 people die by suicide every year; that is one person every 40 seconds. For each suicide, there are more than 20 suicide attempts. While the link between suicide and mental disorders (inContinue Reading

Government blames ‘ghosts’ for farmer suicides in Madhya Pradesh

By: Matters India

On: July 20, 2016

In: National

Bhopal: Some of the 418 farmers who committed suicide in Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s home district Sehore in the last three years took the extreme step because they were “possessed by ghosts”, according to the state government. It, however, made it clear that this was as perContinue Reading