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Transgenders celebrate with a cake after the Supreme Court'­s verdict recognizing third gender category, in Mumbai, India, April 15, 2014. April 15, 2014, 9:38 PM EDT / Updated April 15, 2014, 9: ...
SRINAGAR, India — India’s top court on Monday upheld a 2019 decision by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to strip disputed Jammu and Kashmir’s special status as a semi-autonomous ...
India’s Supreme Court refused to legalize same-sex marriage on Tuesday, saying Parliament should make the decision, but said queer couples have the right to choose their partners and should not ...
AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: In India, the Supreme Court says the question of same-sex marriage is up to the country's parliament to decide. The move shocked millions of same-sex couples who were hoping ...
Scholars have hailed India's Supreme Court as the most powerful in the world - and not without reason. The 73-year-old court can nullify executive acts, parliamentary laws and amendments to the ...
When India’s Supreme Court this week legalized same-sex intercourse between consenting adults, it buried, most likely forever, a 157-year-old law introduced during British colonial rule.