In the on-going case on GM Mustard in the Supreme Court of India the bench has taken the very appropriate stand that the court cannot get involved beyond a
Karnataka stands fifth in the country in the number of suicides. The state is fifth after Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal according to official statistics. It recorded 13,056 suicide cases in 2021.
The aspirations of middle-class parents, NRIs, government servants, middle-level business people are to make their children reach the top with both engineering and medicine being the most sought after professions.
The latest data shows that compared to 2020, the number increased by nearly 4.5 per cent in 2021. Nearly half of them were reported from the five states Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Odisha.
The parents of students as well as local residents are terming Kota a suicide factory, alleging that the health of lakhs of students has deteriorated due to the pathetic conditions they have been living in to become IITians and Doctors.