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Parents Of LGBT Persons Hail Right To Privacy Judgement

The recent Supreme Court judgment on right to privacy has broughta ray of hope not only for the LGBTQ community, but also their parents. It has raised their anticipation th...

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No more ‘talaq, talaq, talaq’!

The Supreme Court on 22nd August 2017 struck down the Muslim practice of triple talaq, which allows men to instantly divorce their wives, as unconstitutional.

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Sneha Mathur, A New Role Model

In the early 1990s, at the then nascent MIFF (Mumbai International Festival for Documentary, Animation and Short Films), the package from Canada included a public interest ...

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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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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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Water on an urban planet: Urbanization and the reach of urban water infrastructure

Delhi with fast-growing rate of urbanisation is the second most water-stressed cities in the world according to this new research published in Global Environmental Change J...

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Over & Underground

Overheard – “These are times of political opportunism, religious intolerance and scholastic Puritanism – and they can be construed as provocative ...

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Domestic violence in India: Women’s existence ‘privatized’

As domestic violence and women’s rights matters in India continue to make headlines in the international press, one woman is working to elevate the issues in a troubl...

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