Failed Suicide Bid

An electrician working in a hospital has been arrested in Kerala's Thrissur for allegedly sexually abusing a woman, who was admitted to Thrissur Government Medical College Hospital following a failed suicide bid, police said on Monday.

In a narrow escape, a man tried to commit suicide but fell on a car and only suffered injuries.

Government's move to do away with a colonial penal law that prosecutes a person for a failed suicide bid has evoked sympathetic views from legal experts, who favoured its abolition saying the provision is "archaic and outdated" and has led to no conviction in 156 years.

A 28-year-old woman today allegedly hanged herself at a police station in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur, hours after she was prevented from committing suicide by a forest guard.

A Japanese travel agent who forgot to book a fleet of buses for a school trip tried to cover his tracks by forging a student's suicide note in a failed bid to get the excursion cancelled.

Upset over the absence of a child, an Indian national allegedly murdered his wife before slashing his own throat, but failed in his suicide bid after it turned out to be too painful.

Depressed over failing in an exam, a student of Delhi University's Zakir Hussain College jumped to his death from the third floor of a hospital where he was being treated after slashing his wrists in an unsuccessful suicide bid, police said on Thursday.

Firing rockets and carrying out a suicide attack, the Taliban have made a failed bid to disrupt a conference of tribal leaders.

An electrician working in a hospital has been arrested in Kerala's Thrissur for allegedly sexually abusing a woman, who was admitted to Thrissur Government Medical College Hospital following a failed suicide bid, police said on Monday.

In a narrow escape, a man tried to commit suicide but fell on a car and only suffered injuries.

Government's move to do away with a colonial penal law that prosecutes a person for a failed suicide bid has evoked sympathetic views from legal experts, who favoured its abolition saying the provision is "archaic and outdated" and has led to no conviction in 156 years.

A 28-year-old woman today allegedly hanged herself at a police station in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur, hours after she was prevented from committing suicide by a forest guard.

A Japanese travel agent who forgot to book a fleet of buses for a school trip tried to cover his tracks by forging a student's suicide note in a failed bid to get the excursion cancelled.

Upset over the absence of a child, an Indian national allegedly murdered his wife before slashing his own throat, but failed in his suicide bid after it turned out to be too painful.

Depressed over failing in an exam, a student of Delhi University's Zakir Hussain College jumped to his death from the third floor of a hospital where he was being treated after slashing his wrists in an unsuccessful suicide bid, police said on Thursday.

Firing rockets and carrying out a suicide attack, the Taliban have made a failed bid to disrupt a conference of tribal leaders.