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Thursday, August 21, 2025
TopicMental health

Topic: mental health

Violence and mental health are likely to get worse in a warming world

Research has shown that rising temperatures are associated with an increase in suicides and in violent behaviour, as well as exacerbating mood and anxiety disorders.

The horror in Netflix’s ‘Burari Deaths’ is that any of our homes can be a ‘house of secrets’

As journalists, police, neighbours, friends and even family try to make sense of what happened in the Delhi household in 2018, it’s clear that we’ll always ask ‘what if’.

The mentally ill were not ‘fit’ for national news until ’80s except for wrong reasons

In the book 'Asylum', Daman Singh provides an account of the history of mental healthcare and asylums in India since the early 20th century.

Alzheimer’s to anxiety, poor gut health has major say

Our gut shares a complicated relationship with our brain. It's important to keep it healthy for the sake of your mental health.

14% young Indians depressed in Covid times, most unwilling to talk about it: UNICEF report

UNICEF’s latest ‘State of the World’s Children’ report, first to focus on mental health, says social stigma makes children and young adults unwilling to share their problems.

Facebook whistleblower is ex-product manager who says it puts profit above users’ mental health

In first interview, Frances Haugen says she took thousands of documents from Facebook as it poses 'worse harms' than she saw at other social media networks.

Fruits, veggies, and breakfast better children’s mental health — new study

Our analyses looked at 1,253 primary school pupils aged 8-11 years and 7,570 secondary school pupils aged 12-18 years.

Covid and containment worsened women’s mental health, increased food insecurity in India

Researchers from California, Pennsylvania and Chicago universities surveyed households in Rajasthan, UP, Bihar, Jharkhand, MP, and Maharashtra to also find a drastic fall in monthly income.

YouTube ‘valuable’ for teen mental health, says Google as Instagram battles ‘toxic’ label

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said the platform takes mental health very seriously and underlined that a lot of content creators help destigmatise talk around the topic.

Bad mental health can be detrimental to adolescent growth. It’s not taken seriously enough

For far too many young people today, distress is negatively impacting their health and preventing them from thriving. Covid-19 has only worsened it.

On Camera

Tariffs, chips, and China — how Trump’s trade playbook affects India

Trump’s OBBB is framed to augment domestic semiconductor production and enhance trade protection, even at the expense of certain social programs such as Medicaid, food stamps, and student loans, as well as a projected ballooning federal deficit from US$2.8 to 3.3 trillion

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?