Paris, February 25 – A leading international human rights organization strongly condemned the recent "misconduct" by lawyers at the Court of the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate in Barishal district, Bangladesh, over the granting of bail to several leaders of the Awami League...
awami league
bangladesh
bangladesh nationalist party
barishal district
contempt of court
court of the additional chief metropolitan magistrate
high court division
human rights
judicial independence
judicialinquiry
lawyers
legal proceedings
rule of law
s. m. shariat ullah
supreme court of bangladesh
Jaipur, February 24 The Rajasthan government informed the assembly on Tuesday that 21 cases of deaths in police custody were reported in the state between January 1, 2024, and December 31, 2025.In a written reply to a question by MLA Shanti Dhariwal, the government said that 21 custodial...
Indore, February 24 Six people have been admitted to a hospital after consuming contaminated food in Indore's Bhagirathpura area, which had been the epicenter of a diarrhea outbreak caused by polluted drinking water that claimed 22 lives, officials said.Nearly 60 people had eaten food at a...
bhagirathpura
compensation
diarrhea outbreak
disease surveillance
drinking water
food contamination
government maharaja yashwantrao hospital
health minister
hospitalization
indore
judicialinquiry
madhya pradesh
outbreak investigation
public health
waterborne illness
Shillong, February 22 The Meghalaya Police have seized over 17,000 metric tonnes of coal and 25.5 kg of explosive material in the East Jaintia Hills district, as part of a crackdown on illegal mining and transportation, officials said.The action comes after the February 5 blast at an illegal...
arrests
coal mining
east jaintia hills district
enforcement drives
explosive materials
firs
illegal mining
judicialinquiry
law enforcement
meghalaya
meghalaya high court
mining regulation
police operations
special investigation team
thangsku
Chennai, February 21 A judicial inquiry has been ordered into the death of a 29-year-old man who was taken into custody for questioning, police said on Saturday, even as the victim's family and a human rights activist claimed he was subjected to police torture.The Punithan, who was picked up...
chennai
criminal investigation
custodial death
death investigation
family protest
human rights
judicialinquiry
people's watch
police investigation
post-mortem examination
sankar nagar police
scheduled caste
tambaram commissionerate
theft case
torture allegations
Speaking during the Budget Session, Governor C. H. Vijayashankar stated that the recruitment process for almost 3,000 police positions is nearing completion, with significant investments in police infrastructure, housing, and counter-insurgency training facilities to enhance internal security...
border demarcation
digital expansion
east jaintia hills
education
governance reforms
government infrastructure
internal security
judicialinquiry
mining
national green tribunal
police recruitment
renewable energy
road connectivity
supreme court of india
tourism
Jaipur, February 16 – A judicial inquiry has been ordered following a devastating fire at a chemical and firecracker factory in the Khushkheda Industrial Area of Bhiwadi, in Rajasthan's Alwar district, which claimed seven lives on Monday, leaving the state in shock.The fire, which broke out...
alwar district
ashok gehlot
bhiwadi
casualty
chemical factory
chief minister bhajan lal sharma
firecracker factory
industrial fire
judicialinquiry
khushkheda industrial area
loss of life
rajasthan
rajendra
rescue operations
safety compliance
Shillong, February 16 Meghalaya Governor C H Vijayashankar said on Monday that the state is on track to triple its economy by 2032, as he called for a collective commitment from legislators to ensure that growth translates into better service delivery, sustainable infrastructure, and wider...
broadband connectivity
budget session
c h vijayashankar
coal mining
economic growth
green meghalaya
infrastructure projects
judicialinquiry
meghalaya
road development
shillong-silchar corridor
state economy
sustainable development goals
tap water connections
tourism
Shillong, February 15 Retired High Court Judge, Justice RS Chauhan, has been appointed as the head of the three-member judicial panel that will investigate the February 5 explosion at an illegal coal mine in the East Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya, in which 31 people were killed, according...
anti-narcotics task force
coal mine explosion
commission of inquiry act 1952
conrad k sangma
east jaintia hills district
h nongpluh
illegal coal mining
judicialinquiry
justice rs chauhan
meghalaya
mynsngat village
national green tribunal
ps dkhar
thangsku village
vikash kumar
Indore, February 13 "How can we forget the moments we spent with our child?" asks the grieving father of Siya Prajapati, one of the youngest patients to die during the vomiting and diarrhoea outbreak caused by contaminated drinking water in Indore's Bhagirathpura area.The family of Siya is...
Shillong, February 9 Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma announced on Monday the formation of a judicial inquiry into the blast at the illegal coal mine in the East Jaintia Hills district, which claimed the lives of 27 people.The explosion occurred last week at the illegal mine in the...