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TopicMental health

Topic: mental health

Gross underspend cripples India’s community-level mental health battle. States spent 50% funds for 5 yrs

States have consistently underspent funds under District Mental Health Programme, which involves OPD, community outreach, awareness & training of healthcare workers in districts. 

Budget and Economic Survey signal clearer mental health crisis recognition

Vulnerability has often been compounded by poverty, geography, gender, disability, and limited access to care. Mental health challenges rarely exist in isolation.

Why banning social media for kids risks misdiagnosing the problem

A blanket ban treats young people as a single homogeneous group, ignoring the diversity of their experiences, needs, and circumstances.

Higher education institutions must immediately report student suicides, unnatural deaths to police—SC

Supreme Court bench issues guidelines to tighten higher education institutions' response to student suicides, invoking its power to do absolute justice.

UGC’s draft mental health norms call for standardised student-counselor ratio, well-being centres

UGC moves to standardise mental health support in colleges after Supreme Court push, calls for 24x7 helplines, peer support programmes, and crisis protocols. 

4 dead children, Haryana’s ‘killer mom’, a confession, and many questions

Only one autopsy, shifting statements, and delayed forensics complicate an investigation now unfolding alongside rumours, stigma, and deeply gendered assumptions about women’s violence.

Mental health conditions are over-diagnosed, say UK doctors

Of the 752 doctors surveyed by the BBC, 442 found over-diagnosis of mental health conditions to be a problem.

HC quashes ‘discriminatory’ action against CRPF man with mental illness, restores full service benefits

Chhattar Singh was dismissed from service on two grounds: ‘absent from service’ and ‘insubordination’. The court has called his punishment ‘discriminatory, unfair’.

What is ADHD diagnosis actually based on? ‘Functional impairment’ is the keyword

Some popular social media channels provide online 'tests' for ADHD and are sponsored by private clinics. This has raised concern about potential overdiagnosis.

Can college bar student from exams over low attendance? Delhi HC answers question in landmark order

Starting with Sushant Rohilla suicide, HC continued inquiry into systemic failures in higher education institutions. Now court wants reforms on mandatory attendance, students' mental health.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.