Vulnerability has often been compounded by poverty, geography, gender, disability, and limited access to care. Mental health challenges rarely exist in isolation.
Supreme Court bench issues guidelines to tighten higher education institutions' response to student suicides, invoking its power to do absolute justice.
UGC moves to standardise mental health support in colleges after Supreme Court push, calls for 24x7 helplines, peer support programmes, and crisis protocols.
Only one autopsy, shifting statements, and delayed forensics complicate an investigation now unfolding alongside rumours, stigma, and deeply gendered assumptions about women’s violence.
Chhattar Singh was dismissed from service on two grounds: ‘absent from service’ and ‘insubordination’. The court has called his punishment ‘discriminatory, unfair’.
Some popular social media channels provide online 'tests' for ADHD and are sponsored by private clinics. This has raised concern about potential overdiagnosis.
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.
When an athlete or a cultural icon speaks openly about these challenges, it goes beyond personal healing; it becomes an act of public good, breaking stigma and inspiring others to seek help.
Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.
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