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Srivatsan’s journey from Chennai to Toronto to find acceptance, find his partner Saravanan, and adopt their son Sendhan, highlights their struggles and triumphs as a gay couple.

Nine-year-old dog named Noorie is still fighting for survival after being brutally raped in Mumbai. Read on to know how this group of Mumbaikars saved her and brought the culprit to justice.

NEN is also trying to revive traditional farming practices like millet-based biodiverse agriculture in villages.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) has recently released a ‘Charter of Patients Rights’ that compiles the lawful rights as stated in the Constitution of India.

While the laws and rules regarding consumer protection and standards of service are robust, it is another matter that the systems administering the remedies are slow and inefficient, and in fact, intimidating for the common man.

When Lata made the decision to undergo a sex reassignment operation and requested a month's leave for the same in September 2017, her plea was insensitively rejected by her superiors the following month.

The Maternity Benefit Act passed in 1961, protects the right to employment of these women during the time of their maternity and entitles them a ‘maternity benefit.’

The Social Justice Department has already sent across its proposal and is yet to receive a reply from KSRTC for permissions.

Through this policy, counselling centres will be put up to address discrimination and exploitation cases against the community, along with identification and certification.

After passing out of school in 2015, she got admitted to Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, which is when she felt the most changes within her.