In a landmark judgment, after months of deliberations, the Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalised homosexuality. A five-judge Constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and comprising Justices D Y Chandrachud, Rohinton Fali Nariman, A M Khanwilkar and Indu Malhotra in its verdict said, "Criminalising gay sex is irrational and indefensible." Following this historic judgment, reactions poured in on Twitter, celebrating the verdict. Here are some of them.
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Chetan Baboor, Mouma Das, Sharath Kamal and Montu Das scored their second wins to make the grade.
Bengal's Anustup Majumdar stood between Saurashtra and Ranji Trophy with a defiant unbeaten 58 as the summit clash entered a tantalising fifth and final day in Rajkot on Thursday with the visitors needing 72 runs more to clinch the domestic title. Bengal ended the fourth day at 354 for six as Majumdar added 91 runs for the unbroken seventh wicket stand with Arnab Nandi (28 not out), who showed a lot of courage despite getting hit on the finger by Jaydev Unadkat.
British journalist and television show host was heavily criticised on social media after he made fun of India's performance at the 2016 Rio Olympics. While India's medal winners, shuttler PV Sindhu and wrestler Sakshi Malik were felicitated, Morgan took to Twitter to call India's celebrations 'embarrassing' and 'exaggerated'.
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The dogs, who are fed regularly by the CRPF personnel, continued to bark, giving the personnel an idea that there were people hiding in a particular area.
Between April and August, it issued request seeking LoC against 147 individuals to prevent them from leaving the country, the bank said in response to a Right to Information query filed by Pune-based activist Vihar Durve.
A wise word from Mahendra Singh Dhoni inspired Mohammed Shami to bowl the delivery that earned his place in ICC Men's Cricket World Cup history.
India captain Virat Kohli said the hard-fought win over Afghanistan in the Word Cup was much-needed as it helped the two-time champions to show their character and clinch a victory from the jaws of defeat.
It was bowlers like Parvinder Awana, Bhuvenshwar Kumar, Rahul Sharma, Akshay Darekar who did bulk of the bowling in extremely hot conditions in Delhi.
Stars gather for yet another movie screening in the city.
Three persons have been booked for alleged cow slaughter in Madanpura area in Mumbai, police said on Tuesday.
Even though the Board of Control for Cricket in India is tightlipped about the recent allegations made by Vinod Kambli, former India opener Chetan Chauhan feels that the Board should seriously look into the matter.
The Delhi & Districts Cricket Association (DDCA) has decided to move court to get requisite compliance certificates which are mandatory for hosting the T20 International against Sri Lanka at the Feroz Shah Kotla on February 12.
When he ended his Test career, he held the following Test records: Most Tests (125). Most consecutive Tests (106). Most runs (10,122). Most hundreds (34). Most scores of 50 or more (79). Most hundred partnerships (58).
Narayana Murthy had some caustic comments regarding the academic standards of IITs across the country, following which IITian and celebrated author Chetan Bhagat hit back with his own opinion. Whose side are YOU on?
The Delhi High Court on Monday suspended the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA)'s decision to remove three selectors appointed by Justice Mukul Mudgal. The Delhi High Court also asked the DDCA to clear all dues within 48 hours to cricketers, who are presently active.
Following is the schedule of Indian contingent on the ninth day of the Asian Games, on Monday.
BCCI vice-president C K Khanna on Thursday claimed that tickets worth Rs 52.36 lakh for the recent ODI match between India and New Zealand went "unsold". "Tickets worth Rupees 52,36,000 were unsold. Why all the tickets were not sold-out? DDCA started online ticket sale quite late that too without proper advertisement," Khanna claimed in a media release.
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President of Rajput Karni Sena, Mahipal Singh Makrana, said the messages on the stones were written to provoke the outfit.
Mired in one controversy after another, the Delhi & Districts Cricket Association (DDCA) hit a new low after three top officials gave three separate probables list with one naming Gautam Gambhir as captain while another faction naming Madan Lal as 'mentor'.
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Bollywood fraternity is celebrating Sania Mirza's Wimbledon win as the celebs have flooded Twitter with their wishes.
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A Kolkata bound Air India flight from Delhi skidded just before take-off at the Kanpur airport, about 83 km from Lucknow on Wednesday afternoon.
Parvinder Awana was hurt after being initially ignored from the India A squad for the tour of West Indies but when Chetan Chauhan rang him on the telephone in the morning to inform him about his inclusion in place of an injured RP Singh, he was left speechless.
India openers Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir were on Monday named in the Delhi team for the Ranji Trophy starting in November.
Analysts are bullish on consumption and investment themes.
Indian ace Saina Nehwal started her campaign at the French Open Super Series on a positive note, thrashing Jie Yao of Holland in straight-games to reach the second round of the women's singles event at Paris on Wednesday.
Nearly 500 coaches of Mumbai local trains are on the tracks despite crossing their operational life of 25 years.
India cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who inspired the country to its first World Cup title in 28 years, found himself ranked above global football icon Lionel Messi and US President Barack Obama in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people in the world for the year 2010.
Mehuli Ghosh's effort will, however, not be considered as a world record, as the South Asian Games' results are not recognised by the international body (ISSF) for the purpose of records.
Yadav had also picked a hat-trick in the U-19 World Cup against Scotland in the 2014 edition of the tournament, becoming the first Indian to achieve the feat in the competition.
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