The city of Kota in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan is a popular education hub for aspiring students preparing for competitive exams. However, upon their arrival in the city, these students are unaware that some of them will have to face relentless pressure of exams and expectations from their families and having their lives cut short on failing to sustain extreme stress and inability to succeed.

Data Lab | Inside Kota, India’s coaching hub and ‘factory of suicides’

China has some of the most polluted cities in the world. However, the launch of air pollution mitigation policies helped in a big way, and that is a sizeable decline in suicide rates.

Chinese study shows link between bad air quality and a spike in suicide rates

There’s a sharp spike in student suicides in India. Is family pressure, coaching culture to blame?

Gravitas Plus: Kota factory of suicides

There has been another suicide in India's coaching district of Kota. Why are students taking their own lives? How do we suicide-proof the education system?

Gravitas | Kota factory of suicides: what's happening in India’s coaching district

USA's Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said on Thursday (August 10) that a total of 49,449 Americans committed suicide in the year 2022. This is an increase of 2.

USA sees increase in suicides again, highest ever number recorded

Three students have taken their lives in India's premier engineering college Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. What explains these deaths? Are they a part of a larger problem? Molly Gambhir tells you.

Gravitas: What explains the student suicides in IIT-Madras?

The Narendra Modi government blocked 232 apps with Chinese links. An official familiar with developments told the news agency PTI on Sunday (February 5) that these apps were blocked for gambling and unauthorised loan service.

Indian govt blocks more than 230 betting, loan apps linked to China: Report

The soldiers were driving back to the South Korean air force base after dinner and drinks on March 2. In the back seat, Master Sgt. Lee Ye-ram could be heard repeatedly begging her male colleague, Master Sgt.

Suicides pressure South Korea to confront sex assault within military 

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