UK PM Starmer 'takes responsibility' for Labour election lossesThe ballot was the biggest electoral test for Starmer since Labour ousted the Conservatives following 14 years in power in a landslide elec...
09 May, 2026, 12.37 AM IST
UK local elections test Starmer as Labour faces growing voter backlashUK polling stations opened Thursday in local elections set to heap more pressure on beleaguered Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer and show...
07 May, 2026, 02.39 PM IST
Semenya vows to fight against IOC's gene-screening policyThe International Olympic Committee has introduced a new gender testing policy for female athletes. Double Olympic champion Caster Semenya ...
01 Apr, 2026, 01.06 AM IST
Olympic gold medalist banned until sex-tested: The wild fight over Imane Khelif’s right to box as a womanWorld Boxing, the new Olympic boxing governing body, has implemented mandatory sex testing, impacting Algerian gold medalist Imane Khelif. ...
31 May, 2025, 04.18 AM IST
Delhi's sex ratio at birth drops for 3rd year, health experts warn of rising pre-natal sex testsDetails of the decline were disclosed in the recently released 'Annual Report on Registration of Births and Deaths in Delhi-2023' by the Di...
27 Aug, 2024, 03.08 PM IST
‘Women can have high testosterone. That doesn’t make them men, or transgender’Algerian boxer Imane Khelif encountered gender accusations despite lacking proper tests. Rights advocate Payoshni Mitra opposed the spread ...
05 Aug, 2024, 01.19 AM IST
Imane Khelif’s experience in Paris echoes Dutee Chand’s fight against global gender panicAlgerian boxer Imane Khelif faced disqualification over a controversial 'sex test' amid the Paris Olympic Games, raising issues of gender d...
04 Aug, 2024, 11.27 PM IST
SC notice to Centre on plea against guidelines excluding transgenders from being blood donorsThe plea has also sought striking down of the clause of general criteria under blood donor selection criteria of the guidelines for blood d...
05 Mar, 2021, 07.30 PM IST
Corona crisis putting women in danger? Females in India may have higher Covid-19 death risk than malesAccording to the scientists, elderly males and females both display high mortality risk.
13 Jun, 2020, 06.16 PM IST
Dr D's column: Nobel-winner drowned in gene pool controversyThe DNA scientist James Watson was stripped of the honour after racial remarks.
18 Jan, 2019, 01.36 PM IST
SC raps Google, Yahoo for failing to check pre-birth test adsDuring the hearing, Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar said that companies were violating the PCPNDT Act by displaying advertisements on sex de...
05 Jul, 2016, 07.07 PM IST
Asia-Pacific region faces epidemic of HIV among adolescents: UNIndia, China and Pakistan are among the 10 countries in the Asia-Pacific that account for 98% of youngsters aged 10 to 19 living with HIV.
01 Dec, 2015, 11.53 AM IST
Views on making sex determination tests legal are personal: Maneka GandhiGandhi said it was a fact that even a police constable has the clout to force pathologists to inform him whether a lady is giving birth to ...
07 May, 2015, 04.10 PM IST
The gender divide ruleIn the context of the Dutee Chand case, tests were seemingly conducted on her in India to probe whether there was excess androgen in the bo...
21 Jul, 2014, 04.36 AM IST
People most at risk of HIV not getting required treatment, warns World Health Organisation“In many countries they are left out of national HIV plans, and discriminatory laws and policies are major barriers to access,” the WHO sai...
11 Jul, 2014, 04.22 PM IST
Skewed sex-ratio may force Chinese men to marry foreignersThe skewed sex ratio was attributed to sex-selective abortion and preference for a male child as also seen elsewhere in Asia.
20 Jan, 2014, 02.25 PM IST
- Census of India 2011: Population rise slows, literacy rate grows
India has added another Brazil to its population in the last 10 years despite population growth slowing down.
01 Apr, 2011, 02.27 PM IST