The Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Act, 2021 has become operative from the 24th of September 2021. The amendment alters the parent legislation i.e., Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 (MTP Act 1971) which provides a legal framework regarding abortions in India. The amendment increases the gestation limit for abortions by amending Section 3 of the act.
The Apex Court set aside a Bombay HC judgement which held in January this year that skin-to-skin contact is necessary to claim sexual assault under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences 2012 (POSCO). The SC’s latest judgement is trivial to the rights of minors, whose cases of sexual assault are already severely under-reoprted.
Nobody defies traditional norms of gender and sexuality like trans people do. They are a beautiful embodiment of fluidity, and trans stories are breathtaking. It is also perhaps why they’re at the receiving end of extreme ostracization and/or violence, not just by their biological families, but also by the State itself. The irony of welfare legislations and/or policies aimed for trans people is that somehow it makes their life worse.
Two journalists were granted bail on November 15, 2021 by the Gomati District Court at Udaipur.
An FIR was registered on November 14 at the Kumarghat police station in Tripura against the two Journalists – Samridhi Sakunia and Swarna Jha, of the HW News Network. Following this, they were arrested on the same day because of their reportage on Tripura Violence.
Falguni Nayar, Founder of ‘Nykaa’ is one of two self-made female, Indian billionaires, after the enormous stock market listing of Nykaa’s parent company, FSN E-Commerce Ventures Limited. Falguni Nayar started Nykaa in 2012, months before she turned 50.
With the advancement in the world, India has seen a change in its working culture. Today, men are not the only breadwinners. Women also walk shoulder-to-shoulder with men when we talk about their earning capacity in a family. However, statistics reveal that a lot of women remain subject to sexual harassment which hinders their professional, social and economic growth.
While we look at the statistics of the dismal number of female judges in India at subordinate judiciary level, High Courts and Supreme Court, we rarely investigate into how the subjective worldview of our own judges with a limited role for women in it, has a deep impact on promoting, and encouraging more women to join judiciary.
The hero construct is very significant in our culture. A lot of the industry’s money is riding on that hero and therefore the whole attempt is to showcase that hero in the film, the trailer or the poster. We have in a sense normalized how skewed the system is.
Boasting of India’s long-held tradition and culture, these intricate patterns sitting gracefully on the floor of almost every other Indian household allude to an art form that has essentially been the domain of women. Traditionally passed down through generations, the women of India have kept the art of rangoli alive.
इंदिरा गांधी का जन्म भारत के प्रमुख स्वतंत्रता संग्रामी और प्रथम प्रधानमंत्री जवाहरलाल नेहरू के घर 19 नवंबर,1917 को हुआ। इनका बचपन राजनीतिक माहौल में गुजरा, जिस वजह से इन्होंने बहुत छोटी उम्र में ही राजनीति में रुचि लेना शुरू कर दिया और अपने प्रभावशाली व्यक्तित्व की बदौलत 1959 में कांग्रेस पार्टी की अध्यक्ष चुनी गई और 1964 में अपने पिता की मृत्यु उपरांत पहली बार संसद (राज्य सभा) में प्रवेश किया और लाल बहादुर शास्त्री के प्रधानमंत्री काल में सूचना और प्रसारण मंत्रालय में कैबिनेट मंत्री बनी।