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Another Chance: The Supreme Court Holds Out A Sliver Of Hope That Section 377 May Be Legally Diluted

Hope flickers again. The curative petition on the Supreme Court’s 2013 judgment upholding Section 377 has been referred to a larger five-judge constitutional bench. S...

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What Happened To These Young Girls From Bastar

Little did the girls imagine that the quiet slip out of the safe haven of their homes would end in tragedy? Between June to August last year, 12 girls, aged between 12 and ...

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PCPNDT Act Has Adequate Teeth, Say Experts

PCPNDT Act, Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques,  National Alliance for Maternal Health and Human Rights, Common Health, CEHAT (Centre for Enquiry into ...

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'War Of The Woods’ Over A Massive Canadian Rainforest Ends With A Peace Agreement

The brokered deal will protect most of the world's largest temperate rainforest, banning industrial logging in 85 per cent of the remote wilderness area, which stretches th...

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Budweiser And Helen Mirren Say No To Drunk Driving

Budweiser is using the bright lights of advertising’s biggest stage — Super Bowl 50 — to take on drunk driving in an unexpected, unorthodox and powerful w...

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CBFC A Cultural Police, Represents Backward Mindset: Hansal Mehta

Director Hansal Mehta on January 30 alleged that the Censor Board was acting like a cultural police and thwarting promotion of his upcoming film “Aligarh”, whic...

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Woman Can Be ‘Karta' Of A Family: Delhi High Court Gives Landmark Judgement

Every time someone mentions 'karta' in the context of an Indian family, you immediately think of a male member. That just changed in a landmark ruling by the Delhi High cou...

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‘Chhattisgarh Balloon’ To Bring Down Maternal Mortality

In a significant innovation, a team of doctors in Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College here has developed a device christened the Chhattisgarh Balloon, which promises to br...

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World Report 2016: ‘Politics Of Fear’ Threatens Rights

In the 659-page World Report 2016, its 26th edition, Human Rights Watch reviews human rights practices in more than 90 countries. In his introductory essay, Executive Direc...

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A Landmark Ruling Allows Gene Editing In Human Embryos

A group led by biologist Kathy Niakan at London’s new Francis Crick Institute plans to use the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technique on human embryos for research purp...

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