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Expert committee to gauge Bhullar’s mental health status?

April 17, 2013
Faced with a tough stand from the Punjab State government, the Union Home Ministry is likely to set-up a medical board to assess Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar’s mental health status. Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal and deputy CM …

Hidden Pictures – a documentary that battles schizophrenia stigma

April 16, 2013
Schizophrenia is a mental illness that we don’t fully understand and we have a tendency to marginalise and stigmatise anything that we can’t comprehend. Most people seem to think that it’s a disease that leads to …

SC verdict on Bhullar: Isn’t it wrong to hang the mentally ill?

April 13, 2013
On Friday, the SC rejected Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar’s plea to commute his death penalty to life sentence on the grounds that he has undergone great agony for 11 years while waiting for the President’s decision for the mercy …

Bhullar undergoing treatment for depression and suicidal behaviour

April 13, 2013
Khalistani terrorist Devender Pal Singh Bhullar, whose petition against the president's rejection of his mercy plea in the 1993 Delhi bomb blast case was dismissed by the Supreme Court, needs more mental health treatment and …

Bhullar can’t be hanged till he’s mentally and physically fit: Tihar Jail

April 13, 2013
Khalistani terrorist Devenderpal Singh Bhullar, convicted and given the death penalty in the Delhi blast of 1993 that killed nine people, cannot be hanged till he is declared fit, Sunil Gupta, Tihar Central Jail spokesperson said …

Telemedicine services launched by AIIMS

April 3, 2013
AIIMS, Raipur has collaborated with the CRPF, and has formally launched a telemedicine unit at the Maoist hit area of Chhattisgarh. The service will be used to treat and provide consultation to patients, including civilians. The …

Ram Singh suicide update: Family thinks he was murdered

March 11, 2013
Ram Singh, the man who was believed to be the principal perpetrator of the Dec 16 gang-rape in the capital, reportedly committed suicide in Delhi's high security Tihar Jail Monday, police said. His family alleged he was murdered. …

How to handle exam-related stress

April 17, 2013
The recent incidences of school going children committing suicide, fearing bad marks or failing in an exam had me thinking about the time when I was a student. The pressure both amongst peers and family to be a top ranking …

Delhi rapist suicide: Experts believe it won’t affect trial

March 11, 2013
Lawyers and experts are of the view that trial would proceed in the Dec 16 gang-rape case, largely unaffected by the suicide Monday morning of Ram Singh, prime accused in the case. Experts, however, point out that the suicide …

Sad he can’t be hung publicly now: Delhi rape victim’s brother

March 11, 2013
The brother of the 23-year-old physiotherapist, who was brutally gang-raped inside a moving bus here Dec 16, 2012, expressed shock on hearing of the suicide of the prime accused, Ram Singh, inside Tihar Jail on Monday. The …

Delhi rape: Was Ram Singh capable of suicide?

March 12, 2013
  Ram Singh, the main accused of the Delhi rape case and the man who was driving the bus on December 16 was found hanging from his Tihar Jail cell in the wee hours of Monday morning. It seems too convenient that the main …

Delhi gang-rape: Main accused Ram Singh commits suicide

March 11, 2013
The main accused in the Dec 16 gang-rape of a 23-year-old has committed suicide in Delhi's Tihar Jail Monday morning, police said. According to a police official, Ram Singh, 33, the prime accused in the case committed suicide …

Medico legal cases: Top facts you should know

April 30, 2013
In a country where 130,000 deaths occur annually due to road traffic accidents and 53% women suffer from domestic violence leading to grave injuries, it is important that hospitals and the law work hand in hand to help the …

Bullied children likelier to commit suicide

February 12, 2013
Children who are subjected to cyber and physical bullying may skip school and even consider suicide, says an American research. ‘We should not ignore one form of bullying for the sake of the other,’ says Thomas Holt, …