There have already been 71 drowning cases in Goa this year. The state govt has done what they can be expected to do. But the rest of us have to take on some responsibility.
The NCRB report, 'Accidental Deaths & Suicides in India 2024', released Wednesday, said that the suicide rate had dropped marginally from 12.3 percent in 2023 to 12.2 percent in 2024.
At least 15 deaths have been reported over the past decade, in which
occupants or rescuers were unable to open the doors of a Tesla that had crashed and caught fire.
Yuvraj Mehta, a 27-year-old techie, fell into an excavated, water-filled pit in a construction site and struggled for his life for 90 minutes before he died. His rescuers were too late to do anything.
Perhaps newspapers could dedicate a separate column to report daily road accidents and fatalities, similar to how death tolls were reported during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rajeev Pratap Singh's pregnant wife says that in the days before his death, he appeared disturbed & frustrated after getting threat calls to pull down videos from his YouTube channel.
While the country aspires to be an economic powerhouse, these aspirations are hollow without a fundamental commitment to the safety and well-being of its people.
IIT Delhi study published on 31 January shows between 2017 and 2019, for same distance travelled, 20.8 cyclist deaths were reported annually, compared to 9.5 motorcyclists & 0.53 car occupants.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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