As Delhi gears up for its Assembly election, transgender voters say they face a dilemma: choosing between their right to vote and their right to be recognised for who they are. While cisgender voters move smoothly through binary lines, trans, non-binary, and other genderqueer individuals say they often find themselves disenfranchised by a system that
A new set of draft regulations put out by the University Grants Commission (UGC) for the appointment of Vice Chancellors as well as for filling up academic and non-academic posts has stirred up a storm. On January 6, the Union Minister for Education, Dharmendra Pradhan, launched the draft version of the proposed UGC regulations (“Minimum
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LTIMindtree Ltd appointed former Randstad Digital chief executive as its CEO-designate on Friday to eventually replace Debashis Chatterjee, who has been leading the software services company since its formation three years ago. The country’s sixth-largest information technology (IT) services company announced Venugopal Lambu as its CEO-designate on Friday, as part of its filing to the
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Early in the Telugu film Gandhi Tatha Chettu, Ramachandraiah (Anand Chakrapani) tells his granddaughter Gandhi (Sukriti Veni Bandreddi), “Prema tho gelavalante time paduthundi” (it takes time to win through love). His statement follows her question about something she heard from her friends — that India’s independence took longer because of Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violent methods. As
Chikka Bore Gowda, a resident of Kengal Hanumanthaiya Nagar near Bhadravati in Shivamogga district of Karnataka, calls his son C. Devendra’s mobile phone every now and then only to hear a pre-recorded message saying that the call could not be connected. Gowda last saw his son four years ago. Sixty-year-old Gowda, a farmer, lost his
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Online travel agency MakeMyTrip has reported a revenue of $267.4 million for the quarter ended 31 December. In its filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the travel agency said it saw a 24.8% increase over the same period last year when revenue stood at $214.2 million. Also Read | MakeMyTrip to renew
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The RSS chief, Mohan Bhagwat, has been reported as saying that the consecration (pran pratishtha) of the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya on January 22, 2024, should be remembered as the “true independence” of India, a nation that has faced external attacks for centuries. The Ram Mandir movement, he said, was launched to awaken the “swa”
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Job aspirants talk with a hiring agent outside the Foxconn factory, where workers assemble iPhones for Apple, in Sriperumbudur, near Chennai, Tamil Nadu. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has admonished Labour Dept. officials for failure to adequately investigate evidence of employment discrimination at Foxconn, which makes Apple iPhones, and
In 2017 Elon Musk branded Donald Trump a “con man” and “one of the world’s best bullshitters”. Now he is known at Mar-a-Lago as Uncle Elon and is in the president-elect’s inner circle. This week they watched a rocket launch together. The alliance of the world’s leading politician and its richest man creates a concentration
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BJP leader Nitesh Rane. File | Photo Credit: PTI Maharashtra Minister Nitesh Rane has sparked another row after he made controversial remarks on the attack on Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan. In a fresh statement, the BJP leader has raised questions on the attack on Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan suspecting if the attack on
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