Education

Preventive policies crucial

By SANDHYA MENON

THE rise in youth suicide is an alarming trend.

Tragic reports of a teenage girl who committed suicide – after her social media followers voted “yes’’ in a poll where she asked if she should take her own life – shocked the nation in 2019.

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