Can Donald Trump really ban transgender athletes? Does US President have such powers?US President-elect Donald Trump has talked about banning transgender athletes.
18 Dec, 2024, 11.37 PM IST
Parliamentary panel reports on bills to replace IPC, CrPC, Evidence Act submitted to DhankharSoon after Home Minister Amit Shah had introduced the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sak...
10 Nov, 2023, 03.55 PM IST
Parliamentary panel suggests steps to encourage women to join CAPFs, reservation for transgendersThe panel also emphasised the filling up of all vacancies on mission mode in central armed police forces and Assam Rifles. There were 83,12...
06 Aug, 2023, 03.36 PM IST
The real consequence of world athletics’ transgender ban will go untoldElite athletics won’t feel any sweeping change as a result of a new ruling which prioritises competitive fairness over inclusion, but life ...
25 Mar, 2023, 11.18 PM IST
SC notice to Centre, others on plea raising issue of discrimination against transgendersA bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde agreed to hear the plea filed by a Mumbai-based organisation which has said that transgenders sho...
12 Apr, 2021, 09.37 PM IST
Plea in SC raises issue of discrimination against transgendersThe petition filed by a Mumbai-based organisation said that transgenders should be treated with the same dignity and respect as others, cla...
02 Mar, 2021, 02.31 PM IST
Delaware and Vermont elect first American transgender legislators to the US SenateSarah McBride, 30, became Delaware's first trans senator, taking 86 percent of the vote in the state's first Senate district. She is also t...
04 Nov, 2020, 09.56 AM IST
Sending bills to panels only a practice: Bhupender YadavThe letter by the Opposition leaders stated that in the ongoing session, 14 bills have been passed .
29 Jul, 2019, 08.38 AM IST
Parliament's winter session on, but parties more in election modeThe government is concerned about the passage of the Aadhaar amendment bill that seeks to amend the Telegraph Act and the Prevention of Mon...
20 Dec, 2018, 09.00 AM IST
Cabinet passes reworked Transgender Bill with 27 changesThe Bill had earlier made it mandatory for any organisation employing 100 or more persons to designate an official to examine complaints of...
03 Aug, 2018, 07.30 AM IST
Transgender bill may offer gender choiceCentre plans to tweak the clause in the bill to shift the focus from "biological test" to an individual's exclusive freedom to choose gende...
11 Dec, 2017, 10.55 AM IST
Railway forms will now carry `T' option for transgendersIn a letter to all zonal railways, the board has said that ticket booking and cancellation forms will be modified from the current option o...
31 Oct, 2017, 11.20 AM IST
Government may not give transgenders exemption from Section 377 of IPCThe parliamentary standing committee on social justice and empowerment noted, "Transgender persons remain at risk of criminalisation under ...
17 Aug, 2017, 11.01 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
Transgender transits from begging to national Lok AdalatAs a transgender forced to beg for a living to a social worker chosen to be on the bench for a National Lok Adalat, it is a new beginning f...
10 Jul, 2017, 11.12 AM IST
Parliamentary panel favours reservations for transgendersThe committee is examining the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016, which seeks to define the term "transgender" and proh...
26 Apr, 2017, 08.20 PM IST
Universal ID cards for persons with disabilities envisaged in 2014The year witnessed the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment envisaging universal ID cards to persons with disabilities in the coming ...
30 Dec, 2014, 12.32 PM IST