Gender

Girls in their hijabs turned up to their university campuses on Wednesday only to be blocked and turned away by Taliban guards.

New Delhi: Coming down heavily on the state administration over a curfew for girls studying at a government-run medical college in Kozhikode, the Kerala High Court has demanded to know...

New Delhi: More boys than girls with cancer in India are being diagnosed with the disease and the probable cause for this is gender bias in society, according to a...

New Delhi: Ever since the ‘Nirbhaya’ gang rape in Delhi, various amendments have been made to India’s rape laws, making them stricter and more severe than ever before. But such...

Bharatpur: In an unheard-of but heartwarming incident, a schoolteacher in Rajasthan changed her gender and married one of her students on Sunday. Meera, a physical education teacher at Bharatpur, fell...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday slammed the use of the "two-finger test" in cases of rape and sexual assault and asked the centre to ensure the practice is...

New Delhi: Delhi Commission for Women chairperson Swati Maliwal on Tuesday sent notices to Delhi Police and Twitter over child pornography and its trade on the microblogging site. She said...

Bengaluru: Dejected with life Rihana Irfan, 29, a trans woman from Karnataka’s Madikeri has sought permission for “euthanasia". Her decision to seek mercy killing came after several failed attempts to...

Damoh: The husband of a newly elected woman sarpanch allegedly took the oath of office instead of his wife in a gram panchayat in Madhya Pradesh's Damoh district, news agency...

Nashik: A tribal girl student at a state-run boarding facility in Maharashtra's Nashik district has alleged that a male teacher stopped her and other girls having menstruation from planting trees...