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07 Nov

OpenAI Hit with Multiple Law suits Alleging ChatGPT Drove Users to Suicide and Delusions

Rajeev Sharma0 CommentsWorld NewsChatGPT, delusions, emotional manipulation, GPT-4o, lawsuits, OpenAI, suicide

San Francisco, November 7, 2025 — OpenAI is facing seven separate law suits filed in California state courts that accuse its flagship chatbot, ChatGPT, of contributing to suicides and severe psychological harm in users who reportedly had no prior mental health conditions. The suits, brought on behalf of six adults and one teenager by the Social Media Victims Law Center and Tech Justice Law Project, allege wrongful death, assisted suicide, involuntary manslaughter and negligence. Plaintiffs claim OpenAI released its GPT-4o model prematurely, ignoring internal warnings that it was “emotionally manipulative” and “dangerously sycophantic.” One high-profile case involves a 17-year-old named…

26 Oct

Doctor suicide row: Cop accused of sexually assaulting doctor arrested

Gurpreet Singh0 CommentsIndiaDoctor, suicide

National Times Bureau :- Police sub-inspector Gopal Badane, accused of sexual assaulting a woman doctor who died by suicide in Maharashtra’s Satara district, was arrested on Saturday evening, hours after a co-accused was taken into custody. PSI Badane later surrendered at the Phaltan Rural Police Station, Satara SP Tushar Doshi said. Bankar, who has been accused of mentally harassing the victim and now faces charges of abetment to suicide, was presented before a Satara district court, which remanded him to four days of police custody. The victim, a doctor from Beed district in the Marathwada region who was working at…

25 Oct

Doctor suicide row: Four-page suicide note reveals chilling details, MP accused of pressuring her to issue fake certificates

Rajeev Sharma0 CommentsIndiaDoctor, Maharashtra, Mp, Police, Satara, suicide

National Times Bureau :- The doctor who died by suicide in Maharashtra’s Satara district and accused a police officer of raping her four times also left behind a four-page suicide note. In it, she alleged that she was pressured to issue fake fitness certificates for accused individuals in police cases and faced harassment when she refused. The letter further claims that the pressure came not only from police officials but also, in one instance, from a Member of Parliament and his two personal assistants. The 26-year-old medical officer, posted at the Phaltan sub-district hospital, had written on her palm that…

14 Oct

ASI posted at Ludhiana DIG office dies by suicide, shoots himself in head with service revolver

Gurpreet Singh0 CommentsBusinessASI, DIG Office, Ludhiana, suicide

National Times Bureau :- A jawan posted at DIG Range office in Ludhiana died by suicide after shooting himself in the head while he was on duty on Tuesday. He reportedly used his service revolver to shoot himself. The deceased has been identified as ASI (Assistant Sub-Inspector) Teerth Singh,50. He was a resident of Mullanpur Dakha (Ludhiana) and had been serving in the office for the past four to five years. Upon receiving information, the police reached the spot, collected evidence, and sent the body for post-mortem. The police are currently investigating the reasons behind the suicide. The deceased is…

08 Oct

Questions mount over senior Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar’s death as family alleges he was driven to suicide

Balwinder Singh0 CommentsHaryana, IndiaDeath, IPS Officer, Question, suicide

National Times Bureau :- A day after senior Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar was found dead in an apparent case of suicide, serious questions have surfaced over the circumstances leading to his death and the inclusion of his name in an FIR lodged in Rohtak. Kumar, a 2001-batch officer serving as Inspector General (IG) of Rohtak Range, was reportedly named in a bribery case without prior approval from the state government, sources close to his family said. According to officials, the Rohtak police had registered an FIR on Monday following a complaint from a local liquor contractor. The complainant…

07 Jul

Russia’s Transport Minister Found Dead After Dismissal Amid Travel Chaos and Escalating Strikes on Ukraine

Rajeev Sharma0 CommentsWorld NewsRoman Starovoyt, Russia Transport Minister, suicide, Vladimir Putin

Moscow, July 7, 2025: Russian Transport Minister Roman Starovoyt was found dead on Monday, just hours after being dismissed by President Vladimir Putin, in what authorities have described as an apparent suicide.Starovoyt, who had held the ministerial post since May 2024, was relieved of his duties in a presidential decree issued earlier the same day. His sudden removal followed a weekend of travel turmoil across Russia, when airports suspended hundreds of flights at the peak of vacation season amid heightened threats of attacks from Kyiv.Authorities have not disclosed details surrounding the circumstances of Starovoyt’s death. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov declined…