The gay community demands repeal of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which provides imprisonment of 10 years for unnatural sex, including that of homosexual nature, even between two consenting adults.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/four-cities-say-gay-by-birth-proud-by-choice/95873-3.html
The Met department has forecast an early onset of the monsoon this year. According to the department the southwest monsoons are expected to hit the mainland a week ahead and so people can probably bid an early goodbye to the heat and dust.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/early-onset-of-monsoon-expected-this-year/93082-3.html
With less than 48 hours to go before the results to the big political battle surface, star gazers seem to be enjoying their work these days. From predictions on which party will win to even foretelling who will be the PM candidate, astrologers seem to have an answer to all the political riddles.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/astrologers-predict-polls-09-most-unpredictable/92568-37.html
Delhi is not always the flyover to a great destiny; it is also a stopover for the slums, the displaced and the migrant worker who can't afford a better home. But unlike a Mumbai or Kolkata, where they stare in your face, slums in Delhi are conveniently tucked away in the fringes of the city.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/delhi-slum-dwellers-to-vote-for-development/91941-37.html
Delhi votes on Thursday and the youth that make the majority of the electorate has been the target audience for the candidates contesting. But it is also the Election Commission that is going out to woo the young voters to go out and exercise their votes.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/ec-serenades-young-voters-please-do-vote-say-jingles/91932-37.html
Independents account for almost 50 percent of the candidates in every election. And yet less than one per cent of them make it to the Parliament. What is it that keeps them going? Perhaps it's the faith in world's largest democracy discovers CNN-IBN's Geetika Pokhriyal.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/independent-candidates-the-stepchildren-of-politics/91839-37.html
It's not just the government and the Election Commission that is urging people to vote. Now corporates and entrepreneurs are also trying to persuade people to come out and vote during the elections. Delhi-based designer and politician Jagdish Tytler's son Siddarth Tytler is all set to get politics back in vogue with a 10 per cent discount on showing the blue ink mark that is applied on the voters' fingers. The offer is valid for two weeks after voting date.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/delhi-electorates-being-induced-to-vote/91262-37.html
The parents of 17-year-old Akkriti Bhatia who died at her school of an asthma attack have now filed a police complaint against the school for negligence. However, the school maintains they did all they could.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/student-dies-of-asthma-attack-parents-blame-school/90888-3.html
She is one politician who is being wooed aggressively by all political fronts, from the Left to the Right. In fact, the Third Front and the Fourth Fronts are not far behind too.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/jaya-snubs-bjp-denies-talks-with-saffron-party/90179-37.html
An official working with a multi-national company in Gurgaon was killed on Monday night. The family reportedly received a call for ransom of Rs 50 lakh from his cellphone moments before his death.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/gurgaon-mnc-official-killed-motive-unclear/89707-3.html
Here is a valid reason to be good with numbers. Your new mobile numbers will not be 10 but 11 digits now. This will happen in January next year because of increasing number of service users in India.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/watch-get-ready-for-11-digit-mobile-numbers/89468-7.html
New Delhi: There were over 55,000 in Uttar Pradesh, 5616 in Delhi and 3816 in Gujarat in the past year. Figures that shout out the disregard, the ignorance to Human Rights. But the National Human Rights Commission, now wants to bring human rights from the limited domain of legalislation, to being a part of social ethic.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/ncert-to-introduce-human-rights-as-subject/88256-3.html
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