PRAYAGRAJ: Observing that a person has a constitutional right to change their gender through surgical intervention, the Allahabad high court has directed the UP DGP to dispose of an application filed by a female police constable seeking permission to undergo sex reassignment surgery (SRS).While passing the directive, Justice Ajit Kumar observed that if a person…

CHENNAI: In a yet another extraordinary stroke, the Madras high court has decided to conduct a suo motu revision of the discharge of two more DMK ministers – Thangam Thennarasu and KKSSR Ramachandran – from disproportionate assets cases against them.On August 10, in a first, Justice N Anand Venkatesh had invoked CrPC Section 397 and…

HYDERABAD: Ruth John Koyyala, a 29-year-old from Telangana, has scripted a first by qualifying for a postgraduate degree in medicine under the transgender category. The doctor’s perseverance and determination led her to secure a seat in emergency medicine at ESI Hospital, Sanathnagar, after navigating a rigorous two-year legal battle to assert her rights.The achievement not…

CHENNAI: In a yet another extraordinary stroke, the Madras high court has decided to conduct a suo motu revision of the discharge of two more DMK ministers – Thangam Thennarasu and KKSSR Ramachandran – from disproportionate assets cases against them.On August 10, in a first, Justice N Anand Venkatesh had invoked CrPC Section 397 and…

NAGPUR: Asked to decide whether a woman who has three children, including a stepchild, could contest panchayat polls, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has ruled that stepchildren would be excluded from the legal limit of two children.“When the member of the panchayat is a male, he would be disqualified if he is…

NEW DELHI: The Gujarat HC once again came under criticism from the Supreme Court for passing an order to “counterblast” the order of the apex court that had disapproved of the HC’s lackadaisical approach in dealing with the plea of a 25-year-old woman for medical termination of pregnancy.A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and…

NAGPUR: Asked to decide whether a woman who has three children, including a stepchild, could contest panchayat polls, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has ruled that stepchildren would be excluded from the legal limit of two children.“When the member of the panchayat is a male, he would be disqualified if he is…

DEHRADUN: The Uttarakhand government on Saturday removed six government counsels from its panel for their “vacillating attitude while appearing for the state in the high court”. The decision follows chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami’s instructions and the government said new appointments will be made on the basis of merit.The order was issued by additional secretary…

DEHRADUN: The Uttarakhand government on Saturday removed six government counsels from its panel for their “vacillating attitude while appearing for the state in the high court”. The decision follows chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami’s instructions and the government said new appointments will be made on the basis of merit.The order was issued by additional secretary…

AHMEDABAD: A determined single mother found herself at odds with the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) over the entry of her child’s father’s name on the birth certificate. Unwilling to comply with her request for a blank entry, the AMC inserted the child’s grandfather’s name instead. Frustrated by this action, the woman took her protest to…