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Beyond mere Recognition: The Jane Kaushik judgment and the next frontier of transgender equality

In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court acknowledged the dignity and rights of employment of transgender individuals, ordered monetary compensation for a transwoman teacher who had been terminated from her position, and ordered that a model Equal Opportunity Policy be made mandatory in all institutions, going further than the Constitution's promise of equality in private employment

Gyanvapi controversy just a distraction: Ramakant Yadav 

The veteran politician from SP reminded people of real issues such as economy, electricity and education

Gyanvapi case: Varanasi district court to hear application on maintainability of suit on May 26

Court gives both parties seven days to file objections to the Commission report on the video survey

Using children to chant communal hate slogans fosters hate 

A video showing the small boy raising hate slogans in a PFI rally in Alappuzha, Kerala, has raised serious concerns

Meet Devnath, the yogi from Gujarat who claims Delhi’s Jama Masjid is ‘Jamuna Mandir’

Devnath probably aspires to be Gujarat’s Adityanath, however, he only ends up ‘recycling’ old controversies

Hate Watch: Propaganda website Kreately, was first to mock ‘Shivling’

The right-wing website, once heavily promoted by Kapil Mishra, had made many unproven claims about shivlings, stated fact checkers

Madhya Pradesh: Disabled senior citizen ‘suspected of being Muslim’ thrashed, found dead

Bhanwarlal Jain was attacked in Neemuch, allegedly by BJP affiliated Dinesh Kushwaha

Delhi professor arrested for post about “Shivling”

Students and professors staged a protest outside police station at midnight demanding the release of Hindu College professor Rattan Lal

Gyanvapi case: SC transfers the case from Trial Court to District Court

Earlier SC order protecting the right to worship in mosque to stay in effect; District court to make arrangements for Wuzu

Open letter to Sharda University Vice Chancellor

Discarding a question on linkages of Hindutva with Nazism/Fascism is blatant Academic Dishonesty!

When and How Ram Vilas Paswan made a strong pitch for the Places of Worship Act, 1991

A powerful leader from Bihar, unkindly known as the shrewd weatherman of Indian politics, Ram Vilas Paswan, then a member of the National Front, spoke powerfully from the Opposition benches, in support of the proposed law and scathingly of the BJP’s destructive politics of demolishing places of worship (Babri masjid, December 6, 1991) while not sparing the Congress either

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