Islamabad, Aug 10 (IANS) Pakistan has introduced a legislation in parliament to protect the fundamental rights of transgenders, the authorities said on Thursday. “The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2017” was introduced by Naeema…
Washington, Aug 10 (IANS) Five active duty transgender service members have filed the first lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s directive to prohibit transgender individuals from serving in the armed forces. The unnamed plaintiffs filed the…
Berlin, Aug 10 (IANS) A German satirist who claims Twitter is failing to delete hate speech has captured the social media giant’s attention offline – by stencilling the offending messages outside its Hamburg office. The…
Washington, Aug 10 (IANS) FaceApp, the popular photo-filter application, said it was removing new “ethnicity filters” after angry users condemned the update as racist, the media reported. The feature prompted users to alter selfies with…
Geneva, Aug 10 (IANS) The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said that 50 teenage African migrants were “deliberately drowned” by their smuggler off the coast of Yemen. The UN agency said that some 120 Somali…
Washington, Aug 10 (IANS) The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has sued the Washington D.C. metro system for refusing ads on “political” topics including birth control, ethical treatment of animals and the text of the…
Washington, Aug 10 (IANS) Five US active-duty transgender troops on Wednesday sued President Donald Trump in a Washington federal court over Trump’s tweets about a possible ban on transgender people from serving in the US…
New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday imposed a restraining order on students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), prohibiting them from protesting within 100 metres of the administrative block. Justice…
New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) Jailed gangster Neeraj Bawana told a court here on Wednesday that he is being treated “worse than an animal” in Tihar jail. The plea was filed before Additional Sessions Judge…
Barwani (Madhya Pradesh), Aug 9 (IANS) Social activist Medha Patkar, who has demanding better rehabilitation of villagers displaced by the Sardar Sarovar dam project, was detained on Wednesday, hours after being discharged from a private…
Dhaka, Aug 9 (IANS) The High Court on Wednesday granted Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia permanent bail in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case. The Zia Orphanage Trust graft case was filed in…
New Delhi/Hyderabad, Aug 9 (IANS) The Congress on Wednesday urged the NHRC and the National Commission for Scheduled Castes to direct the Telangana government to take action against police officials allegedly responsible for committing atrocities…
Mumbai, Aug 9 (IANS) Mumbai was on Wednesday deluged by a mammoth ‘Maratha storm’ with lakhs of people from the politically powerful community began their first, biggest and final mammoth ‘mook morcha’ (silent procession), leading…
New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) The Election Commission on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that it will be able to use EVMs with Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines in the upcoming Gujarat Assembly…
Canberra, Aug 9 (IANS) The Australian Senate on Wednesday rejected a bill for a plebiscite to decide the future of same-sex marriage in the country. The legislation was introduced by the government but voted down…
San Francisco, Aug 9 (IANS) Days after an anti-diversity ‘manifesto’ went viral inside Google and infuriated thousands of its employees, over 60 current and former Google employees are now considering suing the company for sexism…
Canberra, Aug 9 (IANS) Immigration to Australia will dramatically drop after a crackdown on skilled migrant visas, a report said on Wednesday. The Australian government led by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in April abolished and…
New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) The Sahara Group on Wednesday approached the Supreme Court asking it to put on hold the auction of Aamby Valley. Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Sahara Group, mentioned the…
New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) A court here on Wednesday set September 4 to consider a supplementary chargesheet against the Chartered Accountant of RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s daughter Misa Bharti in connection with an alleged…
San Francisco, Aug 9 (IANS) To find a solution to the protracted legal battle between Apple and Qualcomm, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) will start an investigation into the chip-maker’s claims that Apple violated…