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New Delhi: Setting up a platform for educating the masses, specially kids at a younger age, about the pride community, a prominent FM channel has launched a brand new initiative – ‘Pride Ki Side’ to celebrate the first anniversary of the repeal of Section 377. The initiative will provide a platform to share the stories […]

Bhubaneswar: After Odisha athlete and India’s fastest sprinter Dutee Chand came out of the closet regarding her same-sex relationship, it has received support from other noted athletes of the State. Athletes extended their support saying it is Dutee’s personal decision and nobody should interfere in the matter. “If she (Dutee) feels that it will be […]

Bhubaneswar: As they say, ‘Love is Love’. For Odisha’s first gazetted government officer from the transgender community, the fight against social stigma and domination finally ended with a triumph after the Supreme Court decriminalised Section 377 of the IPC ruling that consensual gay sex is not a crime. Through the darkness, a ray of hope […]

New Delhi: A five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court Thursday unanimously decriminalised part of the 158-year-old colonial law under Section 377 of the IPC which criminalises consensual unnatural sex. A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra termed the part of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which crimiminalises unnatural sex […]

New Delhi: Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Thursday said that with the Supreme Court ruling that right to privacy is a fundamental right it would be possible to ask the apex court to take a second look at Section 377, which criminalises gay sex. “In my view, it (Section 377) was rightly struck down or read […]