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Protecting Women in India Is Not a Choice. It Is a Responsibility. Special Report  •  Women's Safety in India  •  May 2025 An Urgent Reckoning Protecting Women in India Is Not a Choice. It Is a Responsibility. In-depth analysis Based on NCRB data & verified reporting Long read · 15 min India, 2024 — A woman is raped approximately every 16 minutes. Most will never see justice. Think about the women you love. Your mother. Your sister. Your daughter. Your friend. Now imagine that every single day, they step outside and carry a quiet, private fear that you never think about. A fear of the dark staircase, the half-empty bus, the man who follows a little too close, the colleague who stands a little too near. This is not imagination. This is the daily reality for hundreds of millions of women in India right now. And while they carry this fear in silence, the numbers keep climbing. The ...

JKSSB Is Ruining the Dreams of Kashmir's Youth — Here's the Proof JKSSB Is Ruining the Dreams of Kashmir's Youth — Here's the Proof By a JKSSB Aspirant | Srinagar, April 2026 Let me start by telling you about myself. I was a good student. Not extraordinary — but sincere. I used to complete every assignment on time, attend classes regularly, and take my studies seriously. After finishing graduation, I stood at that age where you want to be independent. Stop asking parents for money. Stand on your own feet. Like almost every educated youth in Jammu and Kashmir, I had very limited options. Private sector barely exists here. Industries don't work the way they do in Bengaluru or Hyderabad. So I did what lakhs of others do — I turned to JKSSB. I thought the deal was simple: study the official syllabus, prepare honestly, appear in the exam, get selected on merit. Wrong. Completely wrong. When I sat in that exam hall, I felt something I had never ...

 The Slow Poison: America Left a 4.7 Billion Year Curse on Iraq's Children "You don't need a knife to kill someone. Sometimes you just need to poison their water and walk away." Imagine someone breaks into your house, shoots radioactive dust into every room, and then leaves. Your family starts getting sick — first slowly, then quickly. Your children are born with missing eyes. Your neighbours get cancer. You go to the hospital but there are not enough doctors. And when outside experts try to come and help you, the person who broke in tells them: "Don't go." That is, in simple terms, what the United States did to Iraq. This is not conspiracy theory. This is documented science. These are real children. Real bodies. Real numbers. Let's go through it  slowly, clearly, and honestly.  First, What Is Depleted Uranium? When countries make nuclear fuel, there is material left over. This leftover material is called depleted uranium, or DU. It is not as radioac...

The Cost of Power: A Critical Look at US and Israeli Policies and Their Global Impact There are moments in history when neutrality stops being a virtue and becomes a quiet form of surrender. This feels like one of those moments. What is unfolding across Gaza, and now echoing into Lebanon and Iran, is not random chaos. It is a pattern of power—one that stretches the limits of law, tests the patience of the world, and leaves ordinary people to absorb the cost. Call it out, but call it carefully. A number of legal scholars and human rights bodies have warned that the scale and nature of the destruction in Gaza may meet, or at least approach, the threshold of genocide. That word carries weight for a reason. It is not a slogan. It is a legal judgment about intent and consequence. And while experts argue over thresholds and definitions, the destruction continues in real time. Gaza: Where Destruction Became Systematic Gaza today looks less like a battlefield and more like a place systematical...