Factchecker.in On March 6, 2023, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath claimed that no farmer had died by suicide in the last six years. But, 398 farmers and 731 farm labourers died by suicide between 2017 and 2021 in the state, official data show. “Sugarcane farmers in Uttar Pradesh were forced to burn their crops and attempt suicide but in the last six years, no farmer in Uttar Pradesh has died by...
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Deaths by suicide at their highest rate in 2021, shows NCRB data -Abhishek Jha
-Hindustan Times The fastest increase in deaths by suicide was observed among students and small entrepreneurs, much like what was observed in the 2020 edition of the reports. At 120 deaths per million population, the rate of deaths by suicide across India in 2021 soared to the highest level ever recorded, rising 6.1% from the previous year, new data from National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) shows, highlighting the toll the pandemic appears...
More »Modern India must have police force which meets democratic aspirations of people: Naidu
-PTI/ The New Indian Express Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu called for particularly strengthening the police units at the grassroots who are the first responders in most cases. NEW DELHI: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday asserted that a progressive, modern India must have a police force which meets the democratic aspirations of the people and called for a renewed thrust to implement police reforms. Addressing a gathering here after releasing a...
More »Around 3,400 communal riots took place from 2016-2020: Centre -Malavika Murali
-Hindustan Times MoS home affairs Nityanand Rai said 857 communal or religious riot cases were registered in 2020, 438 in 2019, 512 in 2018, 723 in 2017 and 869 in 2016 NEW DELHI: The central government on Tuesday informed the Parliament that India witnessed 3,399 cases of communal or religious rioting during the period 2016-2020. MoS home affairs Nityanand Rai made the disclosure in response to a question posed by Congress MP Shashi...
More »Understanding the NCRB data on suicides with caution
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...
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