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Transgender law must retain self-identification: Trans activist Maya ThakurA new law amends transgender rights, replacing self-identification with medical board approval. Maya Thakur, a transgender icon, argues thi...
Lok Sabha passes bill to amend law on protection and rights of transgenders amid protestsThe Lok Sabha passed the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, facing strong opposition from trans rights activists. C...
Lok Sabha Bill redefines transgender, excludes sexual orientationA new bill introduced in the Lok Sabha aims to legally define transgender persons, excluding those with different sexual orientations or se...
Escaped murderous assault from Tihar inmates, alleges LS MP Engineer RashidEngineer Rashid, a jailed Lok Sabha member, claims he survived an attack in Tihar jail. He alleges a plot against Kashmiri inmates. Rashid'...
Calcutta HC directs WB govt to ensure 1 pc reservation for transgender persons in public employmentThe Calcutta High Court has instructed the West Bengal government to implement a one percent reservation for transgender persons in all pub...
Himachal Pradesh: Education, jobs and ending discrimination main issues, says transgender iconMaya Thakur, the transgender icon from Kothi village in Kunihar area of Solan district under Shimla parliamentary constituency, advocates f...
62 Foreigners apprehended by RPF of Northeast Frontier Railway in last one monthContinuing the fight to detect illegal migrants, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) of Northeast Frontier Railway, in the month of June, 20...
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.
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...
Third gender yet to get proper representation in voters' listElection Commission officials said they have been trying their best to ensure that all voters from the category enlist themselves in a sepa...
Four municipal councils and six nagar panchayats go to polls in Chhattisgarh tomorrowPolling for eleven urban bodies, including one municipal corporation, four municipal councils and six nagar panchayats in Chhattisgarh, wil...
Voluntary castration not an offence, says Delhi courtThe court said that while acquitting two persons of the charges of forcibly castrating a man as the victim had himself opted for emasculati...
- 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.
Election Commission rejects demand for 'transgender' on voter IDThe Election Commission had introduced an 'others' column along with 'male' and 'female' in electoral rolls for the recent Lok Sabha polls.
National Commission for Backward Classes recommends transgenders for reservationThe NCBC's decision follows a SC order, which has directed the Centre and state govts to treat transgenders as socially and educationally b...
LS Polls 2014: : Eunuch turnout dismal in Madhya PradeshEunuchs showed distinct lack of voting during recent LS elections in Madhya Pradesh with only 95 of them exercising their right to franchis...
Lok Sabha polls 2014: Transgenders feel rejected as voters list reduces them to 513It is for the first time in India that transgenders and eunuchs are voting as the third gender after Election Commission recognised them as...
Lok Sabha polls 2014: Eunuchs cast votes in BhubaneswarThe apex body of eunuchs in the state, asked all its 1,300 members spread across the state to cast their votes and exercise their democrati...
Rajasthan polls: Electioneering ends, assembly polls on December 1Polling will be held in 199 out of 200 assembly constituencies where 2,087 candidates including those of ruling Cong, Opposition BJP, BSP, ...
UP Assembly election: Rain spoils the show on first day of pollsRain played spoilsport during polling as only 5.17 per cent of the over 1.70 lakh electorate exercised their franchise in the first two hou...