Supreme Court refuses to legalise same-sex union, leaves it to ParliamentThe Supreme Court of India has refused to legalize same-sex marriages, ruling that the right to marriage is not an unqualified right under ...
18 Oct, 2023, 08.41 AM IST
Warts & all, marriage as choice for allThe Supreme Court in India has stated that it is not the role of the judiciary to expand the definition of marriage to include same-sex cou...
17 Oct, 2023, 11.24 PM IST
Same-Sex Marriage: What SC directed to Centre, States & Police regarding queer communityThe Supreme Court has issued directives to the government and police to prevent discrimination against the queer community. The directives ...
17 Oct, 2023, 02.49 PM IST
Greener pastures for more Indian womenThe increase in global flow of human capital is welcome. But does it point to an underlying paucity of opportunities and constraint of free...
30 May, 2023, 12.12 AM IST
Over 120 eminent citizens write to President Droupadi Murmu opposing legal sanction for same-sex marriagesMore than 120 eminent citizens, including retired high court judges and former bureaucrats, have written to President Droupadi Murmu opposi...
28 Apr, 2023, 06.19 PM IST
Times face-off: Do we need population control measures?The UP Population Bill will only disproportionately impact the most deprived and vulnerable, as they are the ones most dependent on governm...
23 Jul, 2021, 10.22 AM IST
COVID-19 second wave has pushed vulnerable groups into debt traps, impacted livelihoods, says studyThe economic distress brought by the pandemic seems to have a long-lasting impact on people belonging to vulnerable and economically weaker...
02 Jul, 2021, 11.40 PM IST
SC raps UP for delay in identifying sex workers for providing them rations amid pandemicThe Supreme Court on Wednesday pulled up the Uttar Pradesh government for "delay" in identifying sex workers for providing them dry rations...
28 Oct, 2020, 07.14 PM IST
Apology pending, in former colonies of British empireBritish bureaucrats did modify the code. Almost uniquely in Sudan, some allowance for consent was allowed to Section 377.
08 Sep, 2018, 10.03 AM IST
SC leaves it to government to regulate ads on pre-natal sex tests on internetThe case had begun in 2008, when an activist filed a PIL to get the search engines to abide by local law which bans such tests to arrest th...
14 Dec, 2017, 12.52 AM IST
Sex ratio dips in Gujarat; ranks 22nd in IndiaThe Review stated that migration from within and outside the state to urban areas was the key reason for the decline in sex ration there.
07 Mar, 2016, 10.15 AM IST
'Despite Supreme Court order, transgenders still feel discriminated'Several participants said the SC's last year verdict was not being implemented in several states and felt that the society still misunderst...
27 Aug, 2015, 05.00 PM IST
Why Supreme Court's verdict on Section 377 is wrongSC has actually told the LGBT community that they are second-class citizens; they cannot exercise freedom expressing the core of their pers...
15 Dec, 2013, 06.49 AM IST
- Census of India 2011: Gujarat puts brakes on declining child sex ratio
Gujarat has managed to halt the speedy decline in child sex ratio, but it still has a long way to go.
18 Apr, 2011, 10.51 AM IST
- 'Mining industry needs an image makeover'
NAC member and former bureaucrat N C Saxena headed four member panel which recommended that Orissa Mining Corporation not be permitted on N...
25 Aug, 2010, 03.12 AM IST
- Remedying gender injustice
As the finance minister prepares his budget for 2010-11 , we hope he will go beyond conventional lip service to gender justice.
16 Feb, 2010, 06.09 AM IST
- Third sex gets official status in Tamil Nadu
So far Pooja, a 25-year-old transsexual from Salem in Tamil Nadu, had nothing to prove her existence in government records because she had ...
16 Mar, 2008, 03.15 AM IST