Ebola virus in India? Here's the latest update on the Bengaluru scare, symptoms and precautions explainedEbola virus in Bangalore: A woman returning from Uganda was quarantined in Bengaluru with Ebola-like symptoms. Her tests have come back neg...
27 May, 2026, 10.43 AM IST
Delhi gang-rape case takes a new twist as accused claim money dispute. Here's what we know so farA woman alleged gangrape on a bus in Outer Delhi, claiming sexual assault by the driver and conductor. The accused, however, contend it was...
16 May, 2026, 02.41 PM IST
How ultrasound plays critical role in healthcare and why PC-PNDT Act deserves careful reformIndia's PC-PNDT Act, enacted to curb female foeticide, has had a modest impact on sex ratios over 30 years. While the law's intent is valid...
08 May, 2026, 11.48 PM IST
How India makes love: Men have their first experience at the age of 24, women at 19Indians have sex quite frequently, but not as often as the rest of the world.
02 Jun, 2023, 12.38 PM IST
View: Indian govt should not be weighed down by the moralities of missionaries on same-sex marriagesThe government has asserted the idea of an 'Indian family unit concept of a husband, a wife and children'. This may be the Western norm. Bu...
17 Mar, 2023, 11.25 PM IST
Same-sex marriage case: Supreme Court refers matter to 5-judge bench, hearing from April 18In a historic verdict in 2018, the Supreme Court had decrimalised homosexuality by scrapping a colonial-era ban on gay sex. The current cas...
13 Mar, 2023, 05.39 PM IST
Government opposes same-sex marriage, says it will wreak 'havoc' in societyThe Centre has argued that "Parliament has designed and framed the marriage laws which are governed by the personal laws/codified laws rela...
13 Mar, 2023, 12.28 AM IST
Sex Education, desi style: India’s 1st teen-only podcast deals with pimples, period and peer pressureInstead of being preachy, the tone of the podcast is friendly.
25 Jan, 2022, 12.52 PM IST
View: Mangalsutras, marriages and the conversation that really mattersWhat's missing is any real discussion of why some kind of legal recognition of same sex couples is urgently needed. Like the problems partn...
12 Nov, 2021, 11.42 PM IST
Section 377: A battle half wonNow that Section 377 is gone, are homosexuals finally equal citizens? Will landlords and employers accept same-sex couples? Will the law re...
08 Sep, 2018, 11.38 PM IST
Sex and the neta: In 24×7 media age, politicians can’t invoke the right to privacyThis is increasingly the price to be paid for being in politics: to open oneself up to public scrutiny all the time.
14 Sep, 2016, 11.30 AM IST
Dear men, Indian women want more sex!More and more women are coming out of the closet about their sexual dissatisfaction.
01 Sep, 2015, 09.05 AM IST
NRIs fare no better on sex ratio frontThe sex ratio at birth among Indians and other Asian communities in the US is much lower than among the white and the black communities.
07 Apr, 2011, 10.40 AM IST
- Census of India 2011: Sick culture of preferring sons
The consistently declining child sex ratio - i.e. the number of female children per 1000 male children in the 0 to 6 age group, is a testim...
01 Apr, 2011, 12.44 PM IST
- Live-in relationship, pre-marital sex not an offence: SC
The Supreme Court has opined that a man and woman living together without marriage cannot be construed as an offence.
23 Mar, 2010, 09.51 PM IST
- Cyber war over legalising gay sex
Netizens have given a mixed reaction to the court ruling legalising gay sex, with some terming it as a "great judgement" and some saying sa...
03 Jul, 2009, 10.04 AM IST
- Punjabi NRIs too killing girls
The hostility to the girl child that’s such a tragic feature of life in India doesn’t abate even abroad.
19 Aug, 2007, 05.51 AM IST