The 20-year-old student posted on X days before setting herself on fire outside her college in Odisha鈥檚 Balasore, that she would end her life if no action was taken against a faculty member she accused of sexual harassment, reports The Times of India on Monday...
The police recovered the blood-stained body of a Dhaka University student, Sanju Baraik, 23, from Jagannath Hall premises early Monday.
The Kremlin on Tuesday expressed shock over the apparent suicide of former transport minister Roman Starovoyt following his sacking by President Vladimir Putin a day earlier...
SUICIDE is the reflection of social Darwinism in society. Our excessive emphasis on economic surplus creates a vacuum among family members. Biological natural selection, deployed to construe social dynamics, gives rise to unhealthy competition in society. Outstanding performance is considered the only reason for our existence. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder to...
A suicide attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban killed 16 soldiers and wounded more than two dozen people, including civilians, local government officials and police officers told AFP...
A suicide attack in Nigeria鈥檚 Borno state by a woman allegedly acting for Boko Haram killed at least 20 anti-jihadist fighters, militia members told AFP on Saturday.
A writer suffering from Parkinson鈥檚 disease has become the first to die through medically assisted suicide under a fast-track regional law in Italy, campaigners said Wednesday...
A Dhaka University fine art faculty student allegedly committed suicide in Manikganj early Tuesday after being threatened over a social media comment.
A couple from Ashuganj upazila of Brahmanbaria committed suicide on Sunday night due to poverty.
A suspected suicide bomber targeted a school bus in southwestern Pakistan killing at least four children and two adults on Wednesday, in an attack the government accused India of backing...
A teenage daughter of a deceased during the July-August mass uprising reportedly killed herself in the capital鈥檚 Adabor area Saturday night, 39 days after she was raped in Patuakhali district on March 18.
A pharmacy owner died after he had jumped under a moving train at Srimangal upazila in Moulvibazar on Saturday afternoon in an apparent act of suicide...
A police constable reportedly died by suicide at Joynagar International Checkpost in Darshana upazila of Chuadanga district early Friday.
A teenage girl allegedly committed suicide after being resisted from using mobile phone by her mother in Sylhet on Sunday...
At least 27 Nigerian soldiers were killed in a jihadist suicide attack in the northeast, two army sources said on Sunday....
EVERY 40 seconds, someone dies by suicide. According to the World Health Organisation, over 700,000 people take their own lives every year. While suicide is often the result of untreated mental health conditions such as depression, schizophrenia, or addiction, it is not inevitable. It is preventable. Yet, for many, suicide appears to be the only escape from...
A LACK of initiatives to arrest student suicide is deplorable. When a few hundred students commit suicides and many more attempt it every year, it is worrying that authorities and educational institutions fail to take programmes that could contain such incidents. A report by the Aachol Foundation says that at least 310 students committed suicide...
Nearly 58 per cent were schoolchildren among those who allegedly committed suicide in the past year, according to a report of volunteer organisation Aachol Foundation.
A female student found dead at Jahangirnagar University鈥檚 Bir Pratik Taramon Bibi Hall early Sunday...
The Afghan minister for refugees was killed on Wednesday in a suicide bombing at the ministry鈥檚 offices in the capital Kabul, government sources said, blaming the Islamic State group for the attack which has not been claimed...
A prominent Iranian activist has sewn his lips together and is holding daily protests in Tehran following the apparent suicide last week of a fellow campaigner, he posted on social media on Thursday...
A 38-year-old man killed his two sons by slitting their throats before attempting to commit suicide at Baigartek in the capital鈥檚 Pallabi area on Saturday.
A prisoner reportedly committed suicide in Brahmanbaria Jail on Thursday night.
THE escalating suicide rates among students in Bangladesh present a grave and complex issue, influenced by a host of socio-economic and psychological factors. Media reported that 513 students took their own lives in 2023, of which 227 are school students.聽Contributing factors include family discord, mental health struggles, academic stress, high expectations from parents and educators, sexual harassment, substance abuse, romantic disappointments, hormonal imbalances in teenagers, and internet addiction...
A 19-year-old Islamic State sympathiser planned a suicide attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna designed to kill many people, the country鈥檚 intelligence agency said on Thursday...
An accused in a robbery case was found hanging at Chandgaon Police Station in Chattogram port on city early Wednesday...
At least 18 people were killed and 19 seriously wounded in suicide attacks targeting a wedding, a hospital and a funeral in northeastern Nigeria on Saturday, authorities...
Three teenage girls tried to commit suicide by jumping from the third floor of Sheikh Rasel Children鈥檚 Training and Rehabilitation Centre in Sylhet on Tuesday night to get relief from the alleged torture by the officials....
A female physician committed suicide by setting herself on fire after posting a Facebook post on Tuesday...
A doctor of the surgery department of the 250-bed Bogura Government Muhammad Ali Hospital committed suicide by consuming sleeping pills in...