Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman faces backlash for suggesting spirituality and inner strength as stress management tools following the death of a young Chartered Accountant. Opposition leaders criticize her remarks as insensitive,

In the wake of a young EY employee’s death, allegedly due to extreme work pressure, FM Sitharaman stirred up a controversy when she opined that families should teach children to cope with stress.

India is investigating the work environment at Big Four accounting firm EY, the labour minister said on Thursday, after the death of a 26-year-old associate worker was blamed on stress by her mother who demanded accountability.

Here's everything you need to know about the 26-year-old chartered accountant, Anna Sebastian Perail's death due to work pressure in her office, EY India.

EY India Chairman Rajiv Memani expressed regret for not attending the 26-year-old employee's funeral, whose death is alleged to be the stress caused by work, reported the news agency PTI on Friday.

Anna Sebastian Perayil died in July and was overworked with a “backbreaking” load as a new employee, which affected her “physically, emotionally, and mentally”, her mother Anita Augustine wrote in a letter to EY’s India chairman which went viral on social media.

In the wake of death of a 26-year-old CA professional employed with Ernst & Young (EY), Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has called for stress management lessons by colleges and universities to help increase the students' inner strength.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's comments on handling work stress through spirituality, following Ernst & Young employee Anna Sebastian's death due to work pressure, sparked backlash on Reddit.

Addressing an event at a college in Chennai, Sitharaman said that even if educational institutions impart good education and ensure jobs to students through campus recruitment, they should teach certain things,