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Countries where same-sex marriage is legal; will India enter the list?

Till now, Taiwan is the only Asian country that has legalised gay marriage

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Once again, the debate over the legitimacy of homosexuality law has revived in the country as the top court has started hearing a bunch of pleas regarding Section 377.  

Six years ago, on December 2012, the Supreme Court of India quashed Delhi High Court's order that decriminalised homosexuality. At that time, the top court had categorically said that the Centre was free to amend it. In the year 2014, the Naz Foundation, challenging the SC order, filed a review petition. 

Now once again, India's top court has begun hearing the petition challenging the 158-year-old colonial-era law led by the chief

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