The increase in the total number of suicides committed in India during 2020 in comparison to the previous years has hit the headlines recently. While some media commentators have stated that the economic distress (caused by job loss, income loss, failure of business, and growing hunger, among other things) in 2020 could have led to more suicides being committed, others have said that home isolation and deteriorating mental health (associated...

-NDTV.com Six cops were suspended on Tuesday night and a murder case has been filed against four of them earlier after nationwide outrage over the incident. Lucknow: A widely shared video on social media shows top officials in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur allegedly trying to dissuade the family of Businessman Manish Gupta, who died during a late-night police raid at a city hotel on Monday, from filing a police case in the matter. Six...

-IANS/ The New Indian Express The Pegasus Project, a consortium of international news organisations, believes the leaked data is indicative of potential targets identified in advance of possible surveillance attempts. NEW DELHI: The Pegasus snoop list has 40 Indian journalists and forensic tests confirm presence of Pegasus spyware on some devices, The Wire reported. Those on leaked list of potential targets include journalists at Hindustan Times, The Hindu, The Wire, Indian Express,...

-Twocircles.net Pyare Khan from Nagpur has spent around Rs 1 crore for procuring oxygen tankers, oxygen concentrators and cylinders. Through newspapers, he learnt about the severe shortage of oxygen in hospitals and wanted to contribute to addressing the shortage of oxygen in his city. Everyone can recognize an entrepreneur when seeing one, but no one knows how they became one. Was it in their nature – they were just born to build...

-The Telegraph 'Wish there were announcements on government spending' Kolkata: Like many Indians, a young Businessman keenly awaiting the fine print of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan (Self-reliant India Mission) placed himself before a television screen around 4pm on Wednesday. The Businessman did not have to brush up his language skills to understand finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman but he came away with a sense of déjà vu. “I heard that I will...