West Bengal polls Phase 2: Mamata Banerjee vs Suvendu Adhikari in high-stakes Kolkata battleIn a crucial day for democracy, West Bengal is heading to the polls for the last round of assembly elections. Leading figures such as Mamat...
29 Apr, 2026, 03.54 PM IST
'Brazen attack on constitutional rights of transgender people': Rahul Gandhi slams govt on billCongress leader Rahul Gandhi has strongly opposed the government's Transgender Persons Amendment Bill, 2026. He calls it a direct attack on...
24 Mar, 2026, 04.09 PM IST
Transgender Passport Policy: MEA details steps for gender update after overseas surgeryThe MEA has detailed the procedure for transgender individuals who underwent gender affirmation surgery abroad to update their passports. I...
10 Jan, 2025, 03.14 PM IST
Pune Police bans transgenders from forcefully asking money during festivals, births, and at traffic signalsPune Police banned transgenders from demanding money to prevent harassment. Commissioner Amitesh Kumar issued the order under section 144 o...
10 Apr, 2024, 10.50 PM IST
A social barrier well transcendedIn recent years, laws have tried to change this reality. The Supreme Court's 2014 National Legal Services Authority (Nalsa) judgment recogn...
18 Sep, 2023, 11.01 PM IST
Can transgender women get uterus transplant surgery to give birth? Know medical, legal, ethical questions involvedA New Delhi-based doctor announced to carry out uterus transplant surgery on a transgender woman. It stirred a plethora of questions. Know ...
23 Aug, 2023, 08.55 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
Government to consider suggestion on giving separate facility to transgenders in prisonsPatnaik, while asking a supplementary question on transgenders, stressed that the government had passed the Transgender Persons (Protection...
17 Mar, 2021, 04.45 PM IST
Rejected by banks, transgender goes online for home loanAkkai Padmashali, who is the face of transgender rights in Karnataka, said banks have been turning down her home loan application without g...
21 Jun, 2018, 01.13 PM IST
Third gender: Railways, IRCTC include transgender in reservation formsThe decision which was taken on a representation made by a lawyer will include the facility for both online as well offline.
27 Nov, 2016, 10.32 AM IST
Railways, IRCTC include transgender as third genderThe ministry in its circular referred to the direction of the apex court of April 2014, which had said that hijras, eunuchs, apart from bin...
27 Nov, 2016, 10.04 AM IST
Thanks to a raft of pioneering efforts, transgenders in Tamil Nadu are better off than in most other statesTamil Nadu has seen a raft of pioneering efforts, both by members of the transgender community and by state governments, for the community.
27 Dec, 2015, 05.01 AM IST
- UGC opens all its scholarships for third gender candidates
The UGC notification follows the April 2014 SC judgment that carved out an independent status for the third gender.
03 Aug, 2014, 11.06 AM IST
UN hopes SC would review decision on homosexuality banThe Supreme Court had in December last year upheld the colonial-era law, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which punishes those found g...
17 Apr, 2014, 03.02 PM IST
United Nations hails India's Supreme Court ruling on transgendersThe Supreme Court recognised transgenders or eunuchs as the third category of gender and directed the centre and state governments to grant...
16 Apr, 2014, 03.16 PM IST
It’s official, Transgenders finally get formal identity from Supreme CourtIn a landmark judgement, the SC today recognised transgenders or eunuchs as 3rd category of gender and directed Centre to grant them all fa...
16 Apr, 2014, 02.51 AM IST
Over 30,000 transgenders in Tamil Nadu, yet only 2,996 are votersReflecting woes of transgenders who have remained social 'untouchables' with restricted access to education & jobs, only a minuscule 2,996 ...
28 Feb, 2014, 10.08 AM IST