Suicide Over Debt

Harassed by the bank officials and other people owing a debt of Rs 60 lakh, three members of a family, including a girl aged seven died by suicide in Bikaner on Tuesday.

In a shocking incident, three members of a family were found dead at their home in Agra, cops said. While the circumstances around the deaths are still unknown, police suspect that the family may have committed suicide.

Expressing concern over the increase in student suicides in Kota, a Rajasthan minister on Monday said the burden of education loans on parents is one of the causes of stress among aspirants.

Expressing concern over the increase in student suicides in Kota, a Rajasthan minister on Monday said the education loan burden on parents is one of the causes of stress among the aspirants and the Centre must formulate a policy.

A 30-year-old man attempted to commit suicide after allegedly killing his wife and son over a financial debt Jaipur on Sunday, police said.

Nine members of a family of two brothers were found dead in Maharashtra's Sangli district on Monday. Police suspect a case of suicide and according to preliminary probe, the family was in serious debt.

When Vaishali Yede was newly married, her husband walked into these fields one October afternoon and drank pesticide. The crop was poor, and he had debts he could not repay. He became one of tens of thousands of farmers to die by suicide in India over the past decade, a grim trend that shows no signs of abating.

Apparently distressed by mounting debts and damage to crops due to the August floods, a 49-year-old farmer from Thrissur district allegedly killed himself on Friday, taking the total number of farmer deaths in Kerala in the last two months to nine.

The government has no data on farmer suicides in the last three years, the agriculture minister has said in parliament at a time a farm crisis over debts and poor crop prices has hit several states.

A 50-year-old potato farmer in Uttar Pradesh's Kannauj allegedly killed himself by hanging, police said. He had a debt of over Rs 3 lakh, they added.

A 26-year-old youth committed suicide at the Vailankanni Church in New Delhi, with his family claiming he was forced to take the step due to tension over borrowed money, police said on Monday.

Depressed over mounting debts, a 36-year-old farmer allegedly committed suicide in Rajasthan's Nagaur district, the police said on Sunday.

The body of a 32-year-old farmer was found near a canal in a village in Punjab, with family members claiming that he killed himself unable to bear his debt burden

Cartoonist Bala G was on Sunday arrested in Chennai for a "demeaning caricature" that blamed top government functionaries including Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami of not acting against loan sharks who had driven four people to suicide last month.

Three farmers allegedly committed suicide over the last 24 hours in Madhya Pradesh - one of them in Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's hometown Sehore. While the families claim they ended their lives under the pressure of huge debt, state home minister Bhupendra Singh had advocated a wait and watch policy.

Harassed by the bank officials and other people owing a debt of Rs 60 lakh, three members of a family, including a girl aged seven died by suicide in Bikaner on Tuesday.

In a shocking incident, three members of a family were found dead at their home in Agra, cops said. While the circumstances around the deaths are still unknown, police suspect that the family may have committed suicide.

Expressing concern over the increase in student suicides in Kota, a Rajasthan minister on Monday said the burden of education loans on parents is one of the causes of stress among aspirants.

Expressing concern over the increase in student suicides in Kota, a Rajasthan minister on Monday said the education loan burden on parents is one of the causes of stress among the aspirants and the Centre must formulate a policy.

A 30-year-old man attempted to commit suicide after allegedly killing his wife and son over a financial debt Jaipur on Sunday, police said.

Nine members of a family of two brothers were found dead in Maharashtra's Sangli district on Monday. Police suspect a case of suicide and according to preliminary probe, the family was in serious debt.

When Vaishali Yede was newly married, her husband walked into these fields one October afternoon and drank pesticide. The crop was poor, and he had debts he could not repay. He became one of tens of thousands of farmers to die by suicide in India over the past decade, a grim trend that shows no signs of abating.

Apparently distressed by mounting debts and damage to crops due to the August floods, a 49-year-old farmer from Thrissur district allegedly killed himself on Friday, taking the total number of farmer deaths in Kerala in the last two months to nine.

The government has no data on farmer suicides in the last three years, the agriculture minister has said in parliament at a time a farm crisis over debts and poor crop prices has hit several states.

A 50-year-old potato farmer in Uttar Pradesh's Kannauj allegedly killed himself by hanging, police said. He had a debt of over Rs 3 lakh, they added.

A 26-year-old youth committed suicide at the Vailankanni Church in New Delhi, with his family claiming he was forced to take the step due to tension over borrowed money, police said on Monday.

Depressed over mounting debts, a 36-year-old farmer allegedly committed suicide in Rajasthan's Nagaur district, the police said on Sunday.

The body of a 32-year-old farmer was found near a canal in a village in Punjab, with family members claiming that he killed himself unable to bear his debt burden

Cartoonist Bala G was on Sunday arrested in Chennai for a "demeaning caricature" that blamed top government functionaries including Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami of not acting against loan sharks who had driven four people to suicide last month.

Three farmers allegedly committed suicide over the last 24 hours in Madhya Pradesh - one of them in Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's hometown Sehore. While the families claim they ended their lives under the pressure of huge debt, state home minister Bhupendra Singh had advocated a wait and watch policy.