{"id":11506,"date":"2023-10-28T13:25:28","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T13:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/28\/addicted-to-gaming-odisha-teenager-ends-life-as-denied-smartphone-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2023-10-28T13:25:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T13:25:30","slug":"addicted-to-gaming-odisha-teenager-ends-life-as-denied-smartphone-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/28\/addicted-to-gaming-odisha-teenager-ends-life-as-denied-smartphone-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Addicted to gaming, Odisha teenager ends life as denied smartphone &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-501710\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-header post-tp-1-header\">\n<div class=\"single-featured\">\n<figure>\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pic for Representation<\/figcaption>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix single-post-content\">\n<p>Bhubaneswar: A 17-year-old boy allegedly died by suicide in Odisha\u2019s Balasore district yesterday night after his family did not buy a smartphone for him during Dussehra.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased is the only son of Sunil Swain of Shantinagar village under Bhograi block in Balasore.<\/p>\n<p>The boy reportedly got addicted to Free Fire mobile game soon after he completed his matriculation. He had earlier sought a costly smartphone from his parents, who work as labourers in Bangalore.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was staying with his parents in Karnataka capital and he had recently come to their native place for Dussehra celebration, villagers said.<\/p>\n<p>The boy allegedly died by hanging himself after his parents could not arrange the money to buy a good quality mobile phone, they added.<\/p>\n<p>The parents of the deceased boy along with the villagers, meanwhile, urged the government to ban the Free Fire mobile game for children in the state.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;\n\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n    if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n    js.src = \"\n    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n  }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] &#13; &#13;Pic for Representation&#13; &#13; &#13; Bhubaneswar: A 17-year-old boy allegedly died by suicide in Odisha\u2019s Balasore district yesterday night after his family did not buy a smartphone for him during Dussehra. The deceased is the only son of Sunil Swain of Shantinagar village under Bhograi block in Balasore. The boy reportedly got addicted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11508,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11506\/revisions\/11508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}