Government Official Suicide

The death toll from a suicide bombing in Pakistan that targeted a hard-line religious group's political rally has risen to 63 while 123 are still under treatment, a government official said on Wednesday.

A 57-year-old chief loco inspector of Western Railways committed suicide by lying on a railway track in front of an approaching local train at Vile Parle station in Mumbai, a Government Railway Police (GRP) official said on Tuesday.

The deputy general manager (DGM) of NTPC in Uttar Pradesh's Dadri was found dead last night in his office premises, officials said today.

The Taliban will officially recruit suicide bombers to become part of the army as the militant group tries to contain its biggest security threat from rival Islamic State since forming government in Afghanistan four months ago.

The Tripura government officials had to face major resistance from locals for the burial of coronavirus positive patient who allegedly committed suicide on Tuesday, sources said told NDTV.

A 78-year-old man admitted to a government hospital in Indore on suspicion of coronavirus infection committed suicide by jumping from the fourth floor on Wednesday morning, officials said.

A case has been registered against the principal of a school in Andhra Pradesh's Vizag district after he was filmed subjecting corporal punishment to a group of students, a senior government official told NDTV.

Amid fears that National Register of Citizens (NRC) could be implemented in West Bengal, hundreds of people today queued up at government and municipal offices in Kolkata and across the state for necessary documents, while two people allegedly committed suicide for failing to procure the requisite certificates to prove their citizenship, officials ...

A police complaint has been filed against nine people for allegedly abetting the suicide of a Dalit government officer in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur town. His body was found hanging from a ceiling fan at his residence on Thursday.

VG Siddhartha Dies: The apparent suicide of coffee baron VG Siddhartha, under investigation by tax authorities, has inflamed anger towards the government among business leaders who feel it is going too far in its crackdown on fraud and tax evasion.

Alleging harassment by a state government official, a flour-mill owner committed suicide in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar, police said on Wednesday.

A five-member team of the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) is in Mumbai to meet top government officials and the management of the BYL Nair Hospital regarding the Payal Tadvi suicide case.

Sri Lankan intelligence officials were tipped off by Indian intelligence officers about an imminent attack by terrorists hours before a series of suicide bombings killed more than 300 people on Easter Sunday, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.

Nearly two weeks after the Pulwama suicide bombing that killed 40 CRPF soldiers, the centre stepped up efforts to block the source of terror funding in Jammu and Kashmir. In a massive crackdown today, income tax officers raided four places in Kashmir valley and three in Delhi belonging to the "head of a prominent organisation and his associates" wh...

India has decided to fully utilise its share of unused water from rivers Ravi, Beas and Sutlej that has been flowing into Pakistan, Union minister Nitin Gadkari tweeted on Thursday, a week after a suicide bomber of Jaish-e Mohammad drove an explosive-filled car into a CRPF convoy in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama, killing 40 soldiers. The government's...

The death toll from a suicide bombing in Pakistan that targeted a hard-line religious group's political rally has risen to 63 while 123 are still under treatment, a government official said on Wednesday.

A 57-year-old chief loco inspector of Western Railways committed suicide by lying on a railway track in front of an approaching local train at Vile Parle station in Mumbai, a Government Railway Police (GRP) official said on Tuesday.

The deputy general manager (DGM) of NTPC in Uttar Pradesh's Dadri was found dead last night in his office premises, officials said today.

The Taliban will officially recruit suicide bombers to become part of the army as the militant group tries to contain its biggest security threat from rival Islamic State since forming government in Afghanistan four months ago.

The Tripura government officials had to face major resistance from locals for the burial of coronavirus positive patient who allegedly committed suicide on Tuesday, sources said told NDTV.

A 78-year-old man admitted to a government hospital in Indore on suspicion of coronavirus infection committed suicide by jumping from the fourth floor on Wednesday morning, officials said.

A case has been registered against the principal of a school in Andhra Pradesh's Vizag district after he was filmed subjecting corporal punishment to a group of students, a senior government official told NDTV.

Amid fears that National Register of Citizens (NRC) could be implemented in West Bengal, hundreds of people today queued up at government and municipal offices in Kolkata and across the state for necessary documents, while two people allegedly committed suicide for failing to procure the requisite certificates to prove their citizenship, officials ...

A police complaint has been filed against nine people for allegedly abetting the suicide of a Dalit government officer in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur town. His body was found hanging from a ceiling fan at his residence on Thursday.

VG Siddhartha Dies: The apparent suicide of coffee baron VG Siddhartha, under investigation by tax authorities, has inflamed anger towards the government among business leaders who feel it is going too far in its crackdown on fraud and tax evasion.

Alleging harassment by a state government official, a flour-mill owner committed suicide in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar, police said on Wednesday.

A five-member team of the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) is in Mumbai to meet top government officials and the management of the BYL Nair Hospital regarding the Payal Tadvi suicide case.

Sri Lankan intelligence officials were tipped off by Indian intelligence officers about an imminent attack by terrorists hours before a series of suicide bombings killed more than 300 people on Easter Sunday, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.

Nearly two weeks after the Pulwama suicide bombing that killed 40 CRPF soldiers, the centre stepped up efforts to block the source of terror funding in Jammu and Kashmir. In a massive crackdown today, income tax officers raided four places in Kashmir valley and three in Delhi belonging to the "head of a prominent organisation and his associates" wh...

India has decided to fully utilise its share of unused water from rivers Ravi, Beas and Sutlej that has been flowing into Pakistan, Union minister Nitin Gadkari tweeted on Thursday, a week after a suicide bomber of Jaish-e Mohammad drove an explosive-filled car into a CRPF convoy in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama, killing 40 soldiers. The government's...