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Thursday, November 6, 2025
TopicMental health

Topic: mental health

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’.

Indian govt won’t spend enough on mental healthcare. Impact investing could be the solution

The number of people suffering from mental health issues in India has grown from 125 million in 1990 to 197 million in 2017.

Alphabet technology that measures brain waves could help us monitor mental health and depression

Google parent company Alphabet is working on a mental health experiment & prototype device designed to monitor symptoms of depression more accurately over time.

Suicides among CRPF personnel up 55% since 2016, govt blames ‘personal problems’

CRPF has seen 45 suicides in 2020. Of these, 13 cases took place in J&K, 7 in the Northeast, 10 in areas affected by Left-Wing Extremism, and 15 in other parts of the country.

Gaming could be good for well-being, over regulation restricts human rights — Oxford study

Oxford research team finds that video games could have positive impact on one's mental health, and more data is needed to draft effective and accurate policy.

Reddit posts show that anxiety, talk of suicide spiked among users when Covid first hit

Researchers from MIT and Harvard University analyse language of over 8 lakh posts on forums to do with mental health and other concerns during the initial stages of the pandemic.

On Camera

Why Supreme Court’s AGR relief for Vodafone Idea can trigger questions of fair play in telecom

Uniformity of rules should be the playbook across sectors. Different rules, whether for telecom players, retail entities or online businesses, would invariably trigger the level-playing questions.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.