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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
TopicLGBTQ rights

Topic: LGBTQ rights

Judge lays down rules for LGBTQ protection after counselling to get ‘woke’ on same-sex couples

Justice N. Anand Venkatesh of Madras High Court took up counselling sessions as he heard a case pertaining to a lesbian couple from TN who sought protection from their families.

Delhi HC asks Centre to respond to plea to recognise same sex marriages under law

Petitioner Abhijit Iyer Mitra has contended that same sex marriages are not possible despite the Supreme Court decriminalising consensual homosexual acts.

‘Same-sex marriage not a part of our culture’, says top govt lawyer, opposes plea in Delhi HC

The Delhi High Court is hearing a PIL that seeks marriage rights for the gay community under the Hindu Marriage Act 1955.

Taiwan celebrates Pride Month with world’s only public parade

Taiwan has kept the Covid crisis largely in check, and the parade on 28 June comes just over a year after it became the first nation in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage.

Can’t marry, but same sex couples have right to live together: Uttarakhand High Court

Emphasising on an individual’s freedom to choose a partner, the high court also asserted that it has to safeguard a consensual relationship.

Fight for LGBTQ rights is more important than ever during Covid-19 pandemic

Research shows the coronavirus crisis will disproportionately affect LGBTQ persons in many ways.

People’s verdict on homosexuality moved us, say IITians who petitioned against Section 377

But achieving wider social acceptance to same sex relations is still "a very big challenge", warns PhD student at IISC.

Supreme Court’s nearly 500-page order on Sec 377: Are India’s judges most erudite or too verbose?

It took the Supreme Court nearly 500 pages to decriminalise homosexuality in the Section 377 verdict. The judges quoted heavily from Shakespeare, John Stuart...

On Camera

What does India owe Rhea Chakraborty? Don’t stop at just an apology

Rhea Chakraborty’s steadfastness is real, but so is the wreckage. She might have made peace with it, but her life was stolen from her.

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.