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Environment

Brutal Heat Wave In India Puts 330 Million To Risk

India is in the grips of a monstrous pre-monsoon heat wave that has killed more than 160 people in recent weeks. The majority of the deaths have been in the southern states...

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Human Rights

Supreme Court Questions Centre Over Human Rights Panel In Delhi

The Supreme Court today rejected the Centre's submission that the national capital does not need a State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) as it was a union territory (UT), as...

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Gender

Inside Pakistan's Gender-Fluid Hijra Community

In conservative Pakistan, where religious extremists wage continuous battles against the government in the name of a strict interpretation of Islam, male cross-dressers, tr...

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Trending

Interest Of Child Comes First: SC

Noting that the interests should be kept “first and foremost” during adoption, the Supreme Court on Monday directed the Centre and the States to frame regulatio...

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Retroscope

Retroscope - Salaam Women

Many of you are familiar with the question of being born female in India. But it will be nice to go through the exercise together –imagine you are a daughter in India...

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Human Rights

Sleep Is A Fundamental Human Right, India’s Supreme Court Rules

Their reasoning is that it comes under the right to life, as to be able to live people need access to peaceful sleep.
Giving their judgement on Thursday, judges said &...

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Human Rights

Gay Rights Are Human Rights

The human rights of LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer) people have reached centre stage. Curative petitions have been referred to a Constitution Bench w...

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Gender

SC: Economic Empowerment Is Must For Gender Equality

The Constitutional right to gender equality still remains a dream and women continue to face various kinds of discrimination which can be removed only with economic empower...

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Bollywood

Karan Johar, Sonam Kapoor Come Out In Support For LGBT Rights!

The Supreme Court’s decision of reviewing the Section 377 of Constitution which criminalises homosexuality in India, was welcomed by the LGBT groups in the country. O...

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Human Rights

India: Supreme Court Revisits “Sodomy” Law

India’s Supreme Court agreed on February 2, 2016, to hear an appeal of its2013 decision that upheld a discriminatory law criminalizing same-sex relations, Human Right...

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