Supreme Court directs HCs, states to ensure separate toilets for males, females, PwDs, transgendersThe Supreme Court emphasized the urgent need for adequate and separate public toilet facilities accessible to all genders, including PwDs a...
15 Jan, 2025, 08.48 PM IST
Bengaluru: Restaurants, hotels will now have to open toilets for allThe Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has submitted a status report to the High Court outlining the measures being taken to improve...
25 Jan, 2024, 01.28 PM IST
MoHUA to organise review-cum-workshop to accelerate Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0The ministry said over the last eight years, the Swachh Bharat Mission has revolutionised sanitation in urban India by building nearly 70 l...
09 Jul, 2023, 08.21 PM IST
Transgenders get separate toilets at Delhi Metro"In its efforts to provide safe space and prevent gender discrimination against transgenders, Delhi Metro on a priority basis has designate...
29 Aug, 2021, 01.18 PM IST
Transgenders get right to self-perceived identity as Centre notifies rules to TG ActThe Centre and state governments would bring about changes in the educational curriculum to foster respect for gender diversity, sensitise ...
15 Jul, 2020, 08.58 AM IST
Tackling transgender toilet troubles fairly: Is making gender neutral restrooms the only solution?Female urinals have been proposed as a solution, but the problem is that few women can use them.
14 Dec, 2019, 12.08 PM IST
Transgender bill highlight of social justice ministry in 2018All 34 international airports and 48 domestic airports in the country have been provided with accessible features such as ramps, accessible...
23 Dec, 2018, 01.05 PM IST
If Modi wins again, this could be his plan for India@75Modi govt has got a blueprint from NITI Aayog to take the country's economy to $4 trillion in the next 5 years
20 Dec, 2018, 06.17 PM IST
India Inc is not creating inclusive workplace for LGBT employeesColleagues with disabilities and LGBTQ communities usually find little space in companies' HR strategies.
24 Nov, 2018, 06.50 AM IST
How startup staffing is getting a rainbow hueThe startup, founded in 2015 by four alumni of NIT Surathkal, changed a number of its policies last year to include more LGBTQ people in th...
09 Sep, 2018, 12.32 PM IST
RK Nagar bypoll ends peacefully, record turnout at 77.68 %Election officials here said there may be some variation in the figure after taking into consideration the polling percentage at some booth...
21 Dec, 2017, 11.02 PM IST
#Steelflyoverbeda: A Community Carnival to raise civic issuesUrban infrastructure expert V Ravichandar said that getting the government to consult people need not be a number game. “ All it takes is a...
16 Oct, 2017, 10.37 AM IST
Transgender Bill falls short of estranged community's expectationsThe bill came in the wake of a 2014 Supreme Court judgment, which said those apart from the binary gender should be treated as the third ge...
06 Aug, 2017, 10.02 AM IST
Following pressure from BJP, Karnataka government pulls out caste data from websiteThe Congress government in Karnataka has taken down details of a caste survey from its department’s website following pressure from the BJP.
22 Jul, 2015, 02.31 AM IST
Caste census in Karnataka ends with some surprising trendsThe first caste census in the country since the British-held one in 1931 has shown that transgenders are identifying themselves without fea...
29 May, 2015, 08.55 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee gives top marks to her own government's four yearsMamata herself has assessed performance of her govt and claimed that she had achieved success in many, sectors which included an internatio...
20 May, 2015, 05.03 PM IST
Number of women in workforce on the rise, but toilet facilities for them not keeping paceNumber of women in workforce is rising, but toilet facilities for them at workplaces are not keeping pace with the rise in number.
23 Aug, 2014, 04.00 AM IST