Anaya Bangar urges ICC, BCCI to include transgender athletes in women's cricket, provides scientific reports in viral postAnaya Bangar, daughter of Sanjay Bangar, is advocating for transgender cricketers' inclusion by urging the ICC and BCCI to reconsider their...
19 Jun, 2025, 12.05 PM IST
National Medical Commission withdraws new MBBS curriculumThe National Medical Commission has withdrawn its recently issued Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) 2024 guidelines after facing ba...
05 Sep, 2024, 09.45 PM IST
Trans teen expelled from Assam school over bikini pics, Principal claims photos brought 'bad name' to institutionA letter shared by a Guwahati woman to Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma highlights a distressing incident involving her 17-year-old transgender...
01 Jul, 2024, 02.13 PM IST
Swearing-in ceremony of a coalition governmentIt was the fifth oath-taking ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan forecourt and was the largest. Besides Prime Minister Narendra Modi, leader...
11 Jun, 2024, 12.34 PM IST
Cricket to trial stop clocks to speed up play in ODIs, T20sIf the bowling team is not ready to bowl the next over within 60 seconds of the previous over being completed, a five-run penalty will be i...
22 Nov, 2023, 12.41 AM IST
LGBTQIA++ collectives of law school students condemn BCI resolution on same sex marriageThe resolution, which was issued by the Bar Council of India (BCI) after a joint meeting attended by representatives of all state bar counc...
27 Apr, 2023, 01.38 PM IST
Transgender-run menstrual cup manufacturing unit coming up in BiharThe state government must ensure that people belonging to this community get equal opportunities in every field, said Vidyarthi Vikas, Assi...
31 Jan, 2023, 02.53 PM IST
Devise policy to accommodate transgenders seeking jobs: SCThe top court said the policy should be devised within three months. A bench comprising Justices DY Chandrachud and Hima Kohli also directe...
08 Sep, 2022, 11.36 PM IST
Hunt on for divyang-like 'respectable' coinage for transgendersET gathers that discussions are ongoing in the government and among social groups over the right term to represent the transgender communit...
01 Apr, 2022, 11.41 PM IST
SC notice to Centre on plea against guidelines excluding transgenders from being blood donorsThe plea has also sought striking down of the clause of general criteria under blood donor selection criteria of the guidelines for blood d...
05 Mar, 2021, 07.30 PM IST
What are US President-Elect Joe Biden's LGBT+ policy plans?The former vice president has promised to appoint a cabinet that "looks like America", nominating former rival for the Democratic president...
19 Jan, 2021, 07.08 PM IST
Govt deliberating on making special card for transgender members to link them to welfare schemesThe government is deliberating on making a special identity card for transgender community members that will help in linking them with vari...
18 Oct, 2020, 08.09 PM IST
Seeking to ensure protection of rights of vulnerable groups, India to UNHRCWe have enacted a range of laws to address sexual assault and other gender based crimes. We have overhauled the legal framework, Attorney G...
06 May, 2017, 01.03 AM IST
Forcing transgenders into beggary may soon be treated as atrocityA chapter detailing a series of offences which shall be treated as atrocity and violence against trangender people has been added to the Ri...
07 Feb, 2016, 12.34 PM IST
Bill to empower transgenders in next Par session: GehlotThe government today said that it would introduce a bill in the next session of Parliament to bring transgenders in the mainstream of socie...
13 Jun, 2015, 07.31 PM IST
Indian-American Aditi Hardikar named new White House LGBT liasionAccording to a White House official, Hardikar yesterday started as the new Associate Director of Public Engagement in the Office of Public ...
11 Nov, 2014, 11.01 AM IST
'Socialist' Indian-American to join Seattle City CouncilA 41-year-old Indian-American woman has emerged as a rising star on Seattle's political landscape, having been elected to the City Council.
29 Dec, 2013, 01.26 PM IST