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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

UP Assembly passes anti-religious conversion Bill amid opposition

This 2021 Bill seeks to replace the Ordinance promulgated in November last year that makes conversion a non bailable and cognisable offence

Delhi HC seeks response in plea seeking quashing of DMC’s report on Delhi riots

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta representing the Centre said that these reports need to be examined

Battleground Bengal: Communal hues grow darker

From rath yatras, to pitting deities, there’s nothing the BJP won’t do to consolidate its vote bank of supremacists

Truth has been hijacked to serve political interests: Brinda Karat on Delhi violence 

On Tuesday, the Left organisation remembered the atrocities suffered by residents of Northeast Delhi and condemned the central government for stifling dissent.

Mob Lynching in 2020: Misleading Exception than a Norm

Excerpts from a piece that appeared originally in Secular Perspective, February 16-28, 2021 edition

I have no regrets, if need be, I’d do it again: Kapil Mishra

One year after the anti-Muslim communal riots raged in North-east Delhi, the BJP politcian continues his propaganda

19-year-old woman abducted, gangraped in MP, no arrests yet

A local leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is one of the four accused of the crime, the party has announced that the man has been sacked from his membership 

How to turn a city ‘right wing’ friendly?

Take a 'bad', and rename it to a 'puram’; Madhya Pradesh’s Hoshangabad will soon be renamed Narmadapuram

NHRC directs Centre to pay compensation to Tribal rights activist for offloading him

In 2016, Gladson Dungdung’s passport was seized by immigration officers, barring him from traveling abroad

Mosque vandalised in UP village

Books of religious significance burnt, police deployed to curb tension

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