The move aligns with broader efforts by Trump administration to regulate transgender participation in athletics & follows similar policies enacted at state level across the country.
In a collaborative effort, the Rawalpindi police and the district government started regular classes for transgender people in Islamia Higher Secondary School Liaquat Bagh on Tuesday.
The Vatican's doctrinal office said transgender people could be godparents at baptism as well as wedding witnesses, but the local priest should exercise 'pastoral prudence' in his decision.
NCERT manual was to sensitise teachers about transgender students but has since been removed after a rap from the NCPCR, the national child rights body.
For decades, policy-making in India has treated transgenders as invisible while allocating funds for creation of public facilities. But inclusivity can't be reduced to a token exercise.
Of the successful candidates, eight belong to Raipur district, two are from Rajnandgaon and one each hail from Bilaspur, Korba and Surguja districts, Chhattisgarh's DGP said.
The so-called TERFs think the term is inaccurate too: they insist that they’re not trans-exclusionary because they include trans men in the category of women.
India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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