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Friday, August 22, 2025
TopicMental health

Topic: mental health

This toll-free helpline is helping people in Maharashtra cope with Covid fatigue, anger, panic

Samvad, supported by Maharashtra govt & run by NGO Project Mumbai, has been helping people deal with mental health issues triggered by the pandemic since last year.

Companies will thrive only if they recognise mental health is not an individual issue

One legacy of Covid-19 could be a revolution in how we measure mental health & the recognition that our own mental health depends on groups we are part of.

Covid pandemic taught me the importance of resilience and facing fears

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

Delhi HC says all insurance companies liable to give effect to Mental Healthcare Act from 2018

Insurance regulator IRDAI is duty bound to supervise the insurance companies and ensure that they comply with the Act and cannot turn a blind eye' to non-implementation of the same.

Principal scientific advisor launches MANAS mobile app to promote mental health, wellbeing

MANAS, which stands for Mental Health and Normalcy Augmentation System, is a comprehensive, scalable, and national digital wellbeing platform, K VijayRaghavan's office said.

Street trees can reduce people’s need for antidepressants, says study

An experiment in Germany suggests that simply living within 100 metres of a tree can be enough to reduce the need for antidepressant drugs.

1 in 3 Covid patients who recovered have neurological, mental health disorders: Study in Lancet

Published in The Lancet Psychiatry, the study was led by Oxford University researchers and involved over 2 lakh Covid patients who recovered from the disease.

Drastic changes in diet, increase in anxiety, loneliness — how Covid altered lifestyles

New Delhi: The Covid-19 pandemic has drastically altered everyone’s lives. After the nationwide lockdown was imposed in March in India, people were confined to their...

‘Should I send my kids to school, should I travel?’ Top Covid concerns on NIMHANS helpline

NIMHANS director G. Gururaj says helpline set up on 25 March has received over 3 lakh calls, though numbers have reduced significantly in recent months.

Haryana woman accused by husband of slitting 4 daughters’ throats ‘was tortured for male child’

Farmeena’s family claims husband Khurshid’s family committed the murders and also slit her throat, but they claim she was ‘mentally unstable’.

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Aurangzeb’s redemption is built on a scholarly empire of shaky citations

The considerable weight of claims about Aurangzeb’s religious tolerance rest heavily on one obscure scholar's writings. We know him merely as 'Jnan Chandra, Bombay.'

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.

Indian firm joins hands with US manufacturer to locally develop all-terrain vehicles for armed forces

Under joint venture, JSW Sarbloh Motors will indigenise and manufacture TX range ATVs in Chandigarh. The first India-assembled unit is expected by early 2026.

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?