Three consecutive deaths in Kolkata’s showbiz industry have got many people worried in the city. Various stakeholders of the showbiz industry and psychologists have expressed concern over the r...

Choudhury used to stay in a first-floor apartment with his wife Sikha. Preliminary investigation has revealed that the couple used to stay alone and both their sons were settled abroad. “Choudh...

Heard about brain gym? The concept that compares brain function with that of muscles. Just as regular systematic exercise and supervised training can lead to six packs and a sound physique, keeping on...

The isolation because of Covid is taking a toll on the mental health of adolescents, said psychiatrists who are seeing them in the current wave. The anxiety is getting aggravated amongst children who...

Dystopia-dependent depression is too easy a mode in which to start a new year. Perhaps we should attempt to do the far more difficult, counter-intuitive thing by reaching instead for mad optimism &mda...

A 23-year-old youth whose father lost his job amid the Covid pandemic last year and whose mother had to start working as an ayah to sustain the family, allegedly stabbed himself to death at their Bans...

“Such a minimal difference between the maximum and minimum temperatures is unusual. The Celsius has not fallen according to December standards. But the low temperature lent a feeling of chill,&r...

Dr Jai Ranjan Ram is a senior consultant psychiatrist and co-founder of Mental Health Foundation (www.mhfkolkata.com). Find him on Facebook @Jai R Ram ...

A 32-year-old prisoner, under trial for murder, allegedly committed suicide in a cell at the hospital of  the Birsa Munda Central Jail in Ranchi on Saturday, but a message written on his foot has...

Even as businesses grapple with the ‘new normal’ of work from home, another phenomenon has taken the world by storm. In several Western countries, employees are resigning from their jobs i...