It Workers Suicide

On Tuesday,a 24-year-old software professional committed suicide in Hyderabad after being told she could be laid off by her employers. She left a note in her diary before she killed herself, asking for her organs to be donated

Sand shortage and resultant slump in construction activity in Andhra Pradesh led to suicide of another worker while main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) declared its support to the actor-politician Pawan Kalyan's rally scheduled on November 3.

Even as Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) employees' strike continues and reports of several protestors committing suicide, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has washed his hands off the matter stating that it is not his responsibility.

Bill Gates during one of his several visits to India as part of the AIDS prevention programme of the Gates Foundation couldn't hold back his tears on hearing the story of a sex worker whose daughter committed suicide after being harassed and ostracised by her schoolmates, says a new book.

A 27-year-old IT worker jumped off the ninth floor of her office in Chennai on Monday. R Priyanka, who was from Andhra Pradesh, was reportedly upset about her family arranging a match for her.

A 30-year-old BJP worker who was found hanging from an electric pylon yesterday in West Bengal's Purulia committed suicide, doctors at a government hospital have said in the post-mortem report. The death, second in four days -- a BJP worker was found hanging from a tree in the same district on Wednesday -- has sparked a heated political blame game ...

A panicked phone call about a man believed to be suicidal led police in China to discover a drunk man taking a nap on the narrow ledge of a building roof - a staggering 29 floors off the ground. Photos of the man lying down precariously on the edge of the building were shared online by Chinese-language website. Though the man was eventually carried...

If the software detects a potential suicide, it alerts a team of Facebook workers who specialise in handling such reports.

Facebook Inc will hire 3,000 more people over the next year to speed up the removal of videos showing murder, suicide and other violent acts, in its most dramatic move yet to combat the biggest threat to its valuable public image.

An Amazon.com Inc. employee was injured when he leaped off a building at the company's Seattle headquarters in what police characterized as a suicide attempt.

Yet another Aam Aadmi Party lawmaker was arrested by the Delhi Police on Saturday night, taking the total number of AAP leaders arrested in the last one year to 12.

Two more Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) lawmakers are in trouble in Delhi even as the party seethes at the criminal cases piling up against its members.

Apple admitted on Friday that some of its suppliers continued to overwork and underpay employees, as it threw open its factory doors to monitors after a spate of suicides at a Chinese plant.

Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, shaken by a spate of suicides at its China plants, said Wednesday it is raising the pay of workers by 30 percent, a greater increase than first planned.

On Tuesday,a 24-year-old software professional committed suicide in Hyderabad after being told she could be laid off by her employers. She left a note in her diary before she killed herself, asking for her organs to be donated

Sand shortage and resultant slump in construction activity in Andhra Pradesh led to suicide of another worker while main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) declared its support to the actor-politician Pawan Kalyan's rally scheduled on November 3.

Even as Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) employees' strike continues and reports of several protestors committing suicide, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has washed his hands off the matter stating that it is not his responsibility.

Bill Gates during one of his several visits to India as part of the AIDS prevention programme of the Gates Foundation couldn't hold back his tears on hearing the story of a sex worker whose daughter committed suicide after being harassed and ostracised by her schoolmates, says a new book.

A 27-year-old IT worker jumped off the ninth floor of her office in Chennai on Monday. R Priyanka, who was from Andhra Pradesh, was reportedly upset about her family arranging a match for her.

A 30-year-old BJP worker who was found hanging from an electric pylon yesterday in West Bengal's Purulia committed suicide, doctors at a government hospital have said in the post-mortem report. The death, second in four days -- a BJP worker was found hanging from a tree in the same district on Wednesday -- has sparked a heated political blame game ...

A panicked phone call about a man believed to be suicidal led police in China to discover a drunk man taking a nap on the narrow ledge of a building roof - a staggering 29 floors off the ground. Photos of the man lying down precariously on the edge of the building were shared online by Chinese-language website. Though the man was eventually carried...

If the software detects a potential suicide, it alerts a team of Facebook workers who specialise in handling such reports.

Facebook Inc will hire 3,000 more people over the next year to speed up the removal of videos showing murder, suicide and other violent acts, in its most dramatic move yet to combat the biggest threat to its valuable public image.

An Amazon.com Inc. employee was injured when he leaped off a building at the company's Seattle headquarters in what police characterized as a suicide attempt.

Yet another Aam Aadmi Party lawmaker was arrested by the Delhi Police on Saturday night, taking the total number of AAP leaders arrested in the last one year to 12.

Two more Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) lawmakers are in trouble in Delhi even as the party seethes at the criminal cases piling up against its members.

Apple admitted on Friday that some of its suppliers continued to overwork and underpay employees, as it threw open its factory doors to monitors after a spate of suicides at a Chinese plant.

Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, shaken by a spate of suicides at its China plants, said Wednesday it is raising the pay of workers by 30 percent, a greater increase than first planned.