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New Delhi: Revisiting its own verdict of 2013 which had reversed a 2009 Delhi High Court judgement decriminalizing homosexuality in India, a five-member Supreme Court bench on Tuesday started hearing the pleas against section 377 which holds gay sex as an offence in the eyes of law. more
Lawyer-activist to stage India's first all transgender dance drama in Kolkata

Come this Sunday, Kolkata will be host to India's first all transgender dance drama, Aami Chitrangada (I am Chitrangada), choreographed and helmed by lawyer-activist Megh Sayantan Gho ...

As many as 330,000 displaced by heavy fighting in south-west Syria – UN agency

New York: Intense air and ground-based strikes at multiple locations in Syria’s south-western Dara’a governorate has resulted in the “largest displacement” in the ...

Palestinian Bedouin community faces demolition after Israeli court ruling, warns UN rights office

New York: A Palestinian Bedouin community is under threat from a demolition order within days, to make way for Israeli settlement expansion, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, warned on T ...

Yemen: ‘No justification for this carnage,’ says UNICEF chief, as children in need now outnumber population of Switzerland

New York: The relentless conflict in Yemen has pushed a nation already on the brink “deep into the abyss,” said the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) chief on Tues ...

Afghanistan: Bring ‘architects’ of latest ‘appalling’ suicide bombing to justice, says deputy UN mission chief

New York: In the wake of dozens of civilian deaths – the most recent, a suicide attack in Jalalabad on Sunday – a high-level United Nations representative on the ground called ...

Two shipwrecks add to ‘alarming increase’ in migrant deaths off Libya coast: IOM

New York: More than 200 migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean in the past three days, bringing the overall death toll so far this year to more than 1,000, the International Organizat ...

UN chief hears ‘heartbreaking accounts’ of suffering from Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh; urges international community to ‘step up support’

New York: United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres visited Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh on Monday, declaring that “nothing could have prepared me for the sca ...

UN chief applauds Bangladesh for ‘opening borders’ to Rohingya refugees in need

New York: United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has applauded Bangladesh for giving a safe haven to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees driven from their homes i ...

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) now root cause of rape and genocide in Balochistan: Naela Quadri Baloch

Vancouver: Naela Quadri Baloch, the Vancouver-based activist for a free Balochistan, said never in the history of the region and its resistance to outsiders were their women abducted ...