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The Supreme Court of India refuses to legalize same-sex marriage, saying that this is a decision that needs to be made by parliament.
2023-10-17

An Indian juvenile court is due to deliver its verdict on a seventeen-year-old boy accused of participating in the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman in the New Delhi suburb of Munirka.
2013-07-11

Six men accused of raping a Swiss woman tourist appear in an Indian court.
2013-03-18

Seven prisoners from Amasya Prison in Turkey say that they began "indefinite and irreversible" hunger strikes on October 5, and their health is at serious risk.
2012-10-11

The Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of the Parliament of India, adjourns for the year without voting on the Lokpal anti-corruption bill advocated by Anna Hazare and his followers.
2011-12-29

Indian anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare begins a three day fast in protest as legislation creating an anti-corruption watchdog excluding the Central Bureau of Investigation goes before the Parliament of India.
2011-12-27

The Parliament of India debates the Jan Lokpal anti-corruption legislation, prompted in part by an ongoing hunger strike by social activist Anna Hazare.
2011-08-27

At least 10,000 people gather in the Indian capital New Delhi to support a hunger strike by social activist Anna Hazare in support of tougher anti-corruption legislation.
2011-08-20

Indian social activist Anna Hazare is arrested in New Delhi ahead of a proposed fast against corruption.
2011-08-16

Another group of asylum seekers starts a new protest at the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney, Australia, while other detainees continue a hunger strike.
2010-09-22