SC considering broadening scope of Gender Sensitization & Internal Complaints Committee. Changes come after lawyer Rohin Bhatt wrote to CJI to end 'discrimination against queer community'.
While South Korea does not legally recognise same-sex marriage, the court's verdict is the 'first recognition of the legal status of a same-sex couple', the plaintiff's lawyer said.
Mumbai’s Color Positive Foundation is holding its first pride march on 28 January. But other top LGBTQI+ organisations like Humsafar Trust and Azaadi Mumbai have kept a distance.
The panel at the launch of book Queer Sapien had Supreme Court lawyer Saurabh Kirpal. He talked about lengthy judgments, which are never translated in India languages.
The ruling called the ban constitutional, but said the lack of legal protection for same-sex families violated their human rights. Japan is the only G7 nation to not allow same-sex marriage.
Conversion therapy is a practice that queer people are subjected to in order to ‘cure them’. NMC told Madras HC it had issued a notification banning the practice last month.
Matters of defence and foreign policy are important, but the new government must address widespread discontent in the country. This begins with investing in the rural sector.
Bibek Debroy, chairman of Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, also suggested that analysing inequality at the state level might provide a clearer picture of inequality, as a national estimate could be misleading.
Pictures had emerged of Chinese soldiers carrying rifles and iron rods with machete-like heads in the vicinity of India’s forward locations on the southern bank of Pangong Tso in 2020.
Occasional lovers’ tiffs have marked history of RSS-BJP relations. To think that Nagpur will bring about any change in leadership is a misreading of both its intent and its power.
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