New Delhi, Oct 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Wednesday deferred hearing on a clutch of pleas relating to criminalisation of marital rape. CJI D.Y. Chandrachud, who headed the three-judge bench dealing with the marital…
Jaipur, Oct 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) Vijaya Kishore Rahatkar on Tuesday assumed charge as the Chairperson of the National Commission for Women (NCW), according to an official order. Rahatkar told IANS that taking up this position comes…
New Delhi, Oct 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice on a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the practice of declaring the sole candidate as duly elected in “uncontested” polls. A bench of…
New Delhi, Oct 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court, in an interim order passed on Monday, stayed a National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) recommendation asking all states and Union Territories to discontinue funding…
New York, Oct 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Indigenous Americans urged efforts against long-standing violence and sex trafficking of indigenous women during the third Annual National Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Parade here on Saturday. “We’re still going…
Agartala, Oct 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Tripura Human Rights Commission (THRC) has asked the Director General of Police Amitabh Ranjan to submit an interim report within 15 days on the death of a 34-year-old man, who…
New Delhi, Oct 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) Issuing a slew of directions for effective implementation of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, the Supreme Court on Friday said that child marriage deprives children of their agency,…
Kolkata, Oct 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Thousands of women on Thursday took out a protest rally to the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) Special Crime Unit office at the Central government office (CGO) office complex at Salt…
New Delhi, Oct 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Priyank Kanoongo, Chairman of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), expressed satisfaction upon the successful completion of his tenure. Speaking to IANS, Kanoongo reflected on both his…
Chandigarh, Oct 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) The farmers of Haryana have expressed happiness after the Union Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decided to increase the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for all essential Rabi crops for 2025-26. Sanjay…
New Delhi, Oct 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) In an initiative shedding the colonial imprint and traditional attributes, the statue of Lady Justice, in the judges’ library of the Supreme Court, now holds a copy of the Indian…
Kochi, Oct 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Kerala High Court has held that having sexual intercourse and exhibiting any part of the body with the intention that it would be seen by a child would amount to…
New Delhi, Oct 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that disability above 40 per cent should not disentitle a candidate from securing admission in a medical course under the PwD category. A bench,…
New Delhi, Oct 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has nominated a nodal officer to pull down the offending content revealing…
New Delhi, Oct 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking criminalisation of non-consensual unnatural sex and bestiality. A bench, headed by CJI D.Y. Chandrachud, said that…
New Delhi, Oct 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court will hear a plea on Monday against the “missing” protection in the newly enacted Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) about non-consensual unnatural sex against male, female, transgender and…
Kolkata, Oct 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) Anustup Mukhopadhyay, one of the eight junior doctors who were currently on a fast-unto-death protest at Esplanade in Kolkata in support of their demands over the horrific rape and murder of…
United Nations, Oct 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Aid entering Gaza is at its lowest level in months, and no one in Gaza has received food parcels this month due to constrained access to aid supplies, a UN…
Kolkata, Oct 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Two more junior doctors have joined the ongoing fast-unto-death protest by their colleagues at Esplanade in Kolkata after Friday midnight in support of their demands in connection with the horrific rape…
New Delhi/Agartala, Oct 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) A Delhi-based rights group on Friday claimed that the interim Bangladesh government led by Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus is excluding indigenous peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs) and religious…