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Mental health is the foundation for emotions, thinking, communication, and building relationships. If mentally an individual is not stable then it not only affects the family of an individual but also the society.  Many people with mental illness do not want to talk about it, and it’s not something to be ashamed of. Anyone can suffer from it regardless of their age and it is treatable like any other illness. Because people do not take it seriously, there are many crimes involving mentally unstable criminals. It is hard for an individual to handle the emotions and thoughts running in the mind in case of mental illness which leads to some horrible incidents. One such incident took place because of mental illness in New York City on Saturday. A 60yr old man named Simon Martial with a history of mental illness shoved a 40yr old woman named Michelle Alyssa Go in front of the subway train in Times square after he thought that she stole his jacket leading to the death of the woman. Simon ...

On the 8th of January, Four friends from the LGBT community named Mohini, Sangam, Raj, and Tapas went to a part at the city’s hotel, and on their way back home at around 10:40 pm, they were stopped by a few police officials and a reporter only because they were trans. They were bullied and harassed for their appearance and dressing and later arrested for extorting people with fake identities. The arrest was made without any proof. They were later taken to the West Agartala police station where they were stripped naked in front of male officials to prove their gender. No human is liable to prove their gender to any police officials, this was clearly a violation of human rights as well as the violation of transgender rights. Even though Mohini and her friends repeatedly pled that they belonged to the LGBT community and what they were doing was against the rights of transgenders but the officials didn’t care about it. These officials who are not even aware of human rights are supposed to ...

It’s a historic breakthrough for scientists and researchers in the field of medicine to be able to transplant a pig’s heart into an adult human. Davit Bennett, a 57yrs old Maryland resident suffering from a life-threatening condition called Arrhythmia underwent a pig heart transplant in January 2022.  He had been hospitalized for weeks and was connected to a heart-lung bypass machine called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation to remain alive. He was deemed ineligible for an artificial heart pump due to his severe condition. The only choice left with the doctors of Maryland Medical center was to experiment with the pig's heart for Mr.Bennett to survive leading to a major breath through as Mr. Bennett after 3 days of transplant did not show any rejection to the pig’s heart. Transplantation of an animal’s heart is known as xenotransplantation which was previously performed in the 1980s on a newborn child named Stephanie Fae Beauclair who was born with a fatal heart condition. After a ...

In this new area of equality and literacy, it's shocking to see how people are still living with a backward mindset where they do not want a girl child. Is it too hard to understand that women are the makers of life, they have a special responsibility of bringing a new life into the world and still people think it's better to kill a girl child? We are living in the 21st century, the world is progressing with new developments and ideas where both women and men share an equal part. It is heart-wrenching to find out that even in 2022 incidents of female foeticide can take place. In Telangana, a 26yrs old woman killed herself solely because she feared she would give birth to a girl child. She was 9 months pregnant when she took this step of not just ending her life but also her unborn baby who didn’t even get a chance to come into this world. Yeggana Ramya, a resident of the NTR Nagar colony in Macherial town, was already a mother of 3 yr old baby girl and didn't wish for anoth...

One of the worst fire incidents took place in a housing apartment of Fairmount sending the waves of shock and chill in the minds and hearts of the people of Philadelphia on January 5th. Around 12 people were killed, 8 being children and 4 adults.  The fire broke out around 6:30 am in morning on the second floor of the three-story building owned by the Philadelphia Housing Authority, the fourth-largest housing authority in the United States. The firefighters faced heavy smoke and very little visibility while entering the building. Though they were able to rescue one child, sadly the child couldn't survive. Deputy Fire Commissioner Craig Murphy informed that eight people escaped from the burning building, while at least two people were rushed to the nearby hospital. The cause of the fire is still not found, investigations are underway. Officials believe that the cause of the fire might be due to overcrowding in the apartment. The apartment was meant to accommodate 2 families but 26 p...

Jharkhand has been in the headlines for its mob attacks and the reason why the state assembly had passed an Act in December 2021 to prevent such incidents. Under the prevention of mob violence and mob lynching act, individuals responsible can be imprisoned for life if found guilty. But this could not stop the residents of Besrajara village of Simdega district from carrying out another horrifying act. On Tuesday a 35yrs old man named Sanju Pradhan was attacked and dragged out from his home by the mob after which they took him to the weekly haat where he was beaten to death. The mob was so furious that they burnt the body of the individual after beating him to death. Sanju Pradhan’s wife Sapna Devi while reciting the incident also mentioned that the act was carried out in the presence of a few police officials, who were spectators to the incident and they didn't do anything to stop it. The villagers believed that Sanju Pradhan was involved in the illegal cutting and smuggling of wood...

While society is expecting great things from today’s generation, here is what we get, disgust in the name of an application invented purely to spread hate. Using an open-source platform GitHub, around 100 pictures of women were uploaded on the Bulli bai app for auction on January 1st. These images were taken from their social media platforms doctored and auctioned with a tag saying “ Your Bulli Bai of the day is (mentioning the name of the woman) Here we were thinking that people are changing, their mindset is progressing and then incidents such as this take place that shatters any expectations we could have from society. Such objectionable and harsh comments written on the internet about women are unacceptable.  If at all we had taken a step to do something about the similar incident of last year's "Sulli deal'', this wouldn't have happened in the first place. It's a drawback to our society and an irresponsible act on the hands of people responsible for making...