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India Is Facing A Mental Health Crisis – And Its Education System Is Ill Equipped To Handle It

The taboo surrounding mental health problems and the unwillingness of most colleges to take up the cost of professional counselling make India’s youth highly vulnerab...

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Human Rights Lawyer Ujwala Kadrekar To Share Insights With Scriptwriters On Domestic Violence And Abuse

Human Rights Lawyer Ujwala Kadrekar will addressing media and entertainment leaders, writers, producers, journalists and authors at The Third Eye program headquarters, for ...

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Health

India Wants To Be TB-free By 2025, But Patients Suffer Due To Stigma, Lack Of Counselling

Yasmeen (name changed) was freshly out of teens when her marriage was fixed with Shameem—a tall and handsome boy, just like she had imagined for herself. Elated and e...

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Festivals

Film On India's 93-Years-Old-Sexologist To Premiere At Hot Docs Festival

Three movies based in India and featuring an eclectic cast of characters, from a 93-year-old sexologist to a six-year-old reincarnated as a rinpoche, will feature in North ...

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Health

People Reveal Why It Is So Difficult To Seek Professional Help For Mental Health In India

There's a fair chance that you already know someone who needs help for mental health. According to one recent study, only one of five of the 150 million Indians with mental...

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Health

24-Year-Old's Suicide Is A Warning That The Mental Healthcare Bill Needs To Expand Its Scope

The provision that decriminalises suicide in the Mental Health Bill is welcome, however, the absence of a complementary provision requiring educational institutions and emp...

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FICCI Frames 2017: Maharashtra IG Police Gives A Clarion Call To Collaborate For Combatting Piracy & Counterfeiting

MUMBAI, March 21, 2017, At the session on ‘Decoding the pirate economy in interconnected world: From Noise to Action’ at FICCI FRAMES 2017, Mr. B...

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Gender

This Chennai NGO Helps Women Who Have Been Victims Of Violence With Counselling, Protection & More

There’s a story that Dr. Prasanna Poornachandra, the founder of The International Foundation for Crime Prevention and Victim Care (PCVC), likes to tell that is equal ...

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Health

Evidence From Vidarbha: Psychological First Aid Prevents Suicide Among Farmers

A suicide prevention programme in Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region involving community health workers has reduced the prevalence of depression and suicidal tendencies in...

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Health

Can India Promise Its Children HIV-Free Future? NACO Programme Gives Hope

Geeta, 24, is seven months pregnant and is grossly underweight. She and her husband are HIV positive. Her husband believes he got infected through blood transfusions during...

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