Tag: Suicide

Koraput: Almost a month after a teacher was found hanging in the official quarter of district education officer (DEO) in Koraput, a special squad of police have arrested the DEO Pramod Panda from Cuttack in connection with the case. Earlier, two persons were arrested by Koraput police over the incident. On December 8, Chittaranjan, a […]

Mumbai: TV actress Sejal Sharma committed suicide on Friday. She was known for her role of Simmy Khosla in the show ‘Dil Toh Happy Hai Ji’. “Yes, this is true. I am shocked to hear the news. It’s very difficult for me to believe as I had met her just 10 days ago and we […]

Pune/Bhubaneswar: The Railway Protection Force (RPF) has started an investigation into the alleged suicide of a 57-year-old Army officer of Brigadier rank at the Pune railway station in Maharashtra on…

New York: A “Master Chef: India” finalist Garima Kothari, whose restaurant had closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and her husband have died “in an apparent murder-suicide,” according to a prosecutor in New Jersey. Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said that police found Garima, 35, who was five-months pregnant, dead in her residence in Jersey […]

Bhubaneswar: A migrant worker from Kendrapara district stranded in Haryana since enforcement of lockdown in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak, allegedly committed suicide after his desperate pleas failed to make any impact on the government or the construction company he was engaged with. The deceased Gangadhar Biswal, working with the firm in Haryana for some […]

Baripada: A migrant worker, who was lodged at a quarantine centre in Mayurbhanj district following his return from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, allegedly committed suicide on Friday outside the facility, police said. Surendra Behera (38), a resident of Raikama village in the district, was found hanging from a tree with a lungi around his neck near […]

London: The vast majority of young people who self-harm or experience suicidal thoughts appear to have only mild or moderate mental distress, according to researchers. Measures to reduce suicide risk in young people should focus on the whole population, not just those who are most distressed, depressed or anxious, said Cambridge University researchers during Mental […]

London: It looks like we have now one more reason to drink plenty of water as scientists, including one of Indian-origin, found that naturally occurring lithium in public drinking water may have an anti-suicidal effect and linked with lower suicide rates. Lithium, sometimes referred to as the ‘Magic Ion’, is widely and effectively used as […]

Kendrapara/Bhadrak: Two school girls in the state committed suicide after allegedly receiving false news of their failure in Class-10 examinations the results of which were published on Wednesday. As per reports, a girl student from Balipadar village under Pattamundai Municipality in Kendrapara district hanged herself in her home hours after a friend told her that […]

Muzaffarnagar (Uttar Pradesh): In a shocking incident, a family lined up outside a window to shoot a video even as their daughter-in-law hanged herself to death inside. The family even…

Hyderabad: Telugu television actress Kondapalli Sravani allegedly committed suicide at her house in Hyderabad, the police said on Wednesday. The 26-year-old artiste was found hanging at her residence in Madhuranagar on Tuesday. The family members said she went to her bedroom and closed the door. They thought she was taking a bath but when she […]

Kalahandi: Bodies of a woman and a youth were recovered from a forest near Salebheta village of Kalahandi district on Tuesday. The deceased have been identified as Bobby Parabhoe and Lingaraji Majhi. Bobby, who happens to be a married woman, was reportedly missing for past few days. Her husband M. Prabhoe had lodged a police […]

Bolangir: The bodies of two sisters, who allegedly had jumped into Tel river in Bolangir district two days back, were recovered from two different spots on Saturday. It was alleged that both the girls, identified as daughters of Ramatar Agarwal, had jumped into the river for reasons unknown on October 15. While the body of […]

Bhubaneswar: Police today recovered the body of a college Professor from inside a locked house in Ghatikia area of the capital city. The deceased Bhagabat Prasad Rath was a resident of Sunabeda in Koraput district and staying at a rented house in Ghatikia. He was reportedly working as a Professor in a private engineering college […]

Rourkela: Fire department personnel rescued a man who climbed atop a tree and threatened to commit suicide at Rourkela on Thursday morning. Reportedly, the drama unfolded when the man, perched atop a tree, in the Munda market area of 19 Sector, threatened to commit suicide in the morning hours. The Fire Brigade was subsequently informed […]