India is confronting a devastating public health emergency that threatens its demographic dividend: the sharp and relentless rise in student suicides. Every year, thousands of young people burdened by crushing academic pressure, systemic shortcomings and insufficient mental health support, choose to end their lives. Data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) paints a harrowing picture. Behind the statistics are grieving families and an education system urgently in nee

Missing children cannot be reduced to numbers — every statistic represents a child, a family, and a future at risk. The recently released National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) 2024 report should serve as a national wake-up call – one that disturbs every citizen, policymaker and institution in India. Behind the statistics lies a far graver reality: thousands of children disappearing from homes, schools, streets and communities, often into situations of trafficking, exploitation