The Rajasthan High Court removed its remarks on the Transgender Amendment in a 2 April order, noting the law had not received assent when the 30 March ruling was finalised.
‘Kinnar and hijra communities usually don’t approach Garima Grehs. If this legislation is applied, we won’t be able to help most people who come to us,’ said activist Rudrani Chettri.
Rule of law requires that legislative and executive frameworks must align with constitutional values and not merely procedural legality, a division bench asserts.
The one thing that keeps the relentless beauty of trans people alive is their community. But for lawmakers, kinship is ‘deception’, ‘allurement’, and ‘undue influence’.
Protests erupt in various parts of the country as Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026 is passed without community consultation. SC panel seeks withdrawal.
The bill removes the right to self-identify one's gender—affirmed by the SC in its 2014 NALSA judgment & encoded in the 2019 Act—and replaces it with a medical board and the DM.
Introduced in LS Friday, Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill provides for graded punishments for abducting & forcibly altering the identities of adults & children.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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