Bengaluru, Oct 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) Harish Iyer is one of the most well known LGBTQI activists in India. He was one of the petitioners in the Supreme Court who sought equal marriage rights. A professor and…
Kolkata, Oct 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) Her journey of transformation from Deb Barua to Debika Barua was not easy. In her own words, the path was tough because it was riddled by the thorns of discrimination. After…
Bengaluru, Oct 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court announced a 3:2 verdict on the petition seeking marital rights for members of the LGBTQ+ community, declining to legalise same-sex marriage in India. This…
Bengaluru, Oct 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) Noting the discrimination in determining compensation given for the land acquisition process for the expansion of the airbase being built by the Seabird Naval Base and the construction of a civil…
Imphal, Oct 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) An organisation of Manipur riot victims on Friday urged the state government to provide monetary allowances to those who are living in the relief camps for the past over five months…
New Delhi, Oct 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Friday ordered enhancement of compensation to be paid in cases of death and disablement of persons engaged in manual scavenging work. A bench of Justices S….
New Delhi, Oct 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind has moved an application before Supreme Court against alarming increase in the cases of mob lynching, particularly by cow protection vigilante groups. A bench of Justices B.R. Gavai,…
Kolkata, Oct 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Calcutta High Court has expressed concern over the issues of sexual abuses and consensual sex among adults getting conflated in the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. A…
New Delhi, Oct 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Delhi High Court on Thursday permitted a woman to terminate her 23-week pregnancy, noting that the medical board of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has said that…
New Delhi, Oct 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Women and Child Department in every state and Union Territory to ensure appointment of district officers under the anti-sexual harassment law within a…
Mumbai, Oct 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Aggrieved at being denied wheelchairs after landing, two women passengers with mobility issues, who recently travelled by Tata’s Vistara Airlines, have slapped separate lawsuits of Rs 10 crore each against the…
Toronto, Oct 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) A judge in Canada has dismissed a challenge by a Sikh law student, who had sued the Edmonton city in Alberta and law society in the province over mandatory oath to…
New Delhi, Oct 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice on petitions filed by the affected passengers seeking compensation for their losses in the tragic Air India Express Flight IX-1344 crash at the…
Kochi, Oct 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Kerala High Court has held that a wife not preparing food for her husband due to a lack of cooking skills cannot be termed as cruelty for the purpose of…
New Delhi, Oct 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Delhi High Court has, prima facie, observed that individuals who have already initiated or undergone the Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) process should not be disqualified based on the age…
New Delhi, Oct 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) A five-judge Constitution Bench, headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud, on Tuesday refused to grant any legal sanction to same-sex marriage. The Supreme Court gave decision with a…
New Delhi, Oct 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that a marriage entered into by a transgender person is in the nature of a heterosexual relationship and must be recognised by the law….
New Delhi, October 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Centre, state governments and union territory administrations to ensure that queer community is not discriminated against on the basis of their sexual orientation….
New Delhi, Oct 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court is set to deliver its verdict on Tuesday on pleas seeking legal sanction for same-sex marriage. As per the causelist published on the website of the apex…
New Delhi, Oct 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea challenging the decision of the Bihar government to classify transgender community as “caste” and not under the category of “gender”…