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The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the Chief Secretary and the Police Commissioner of Gurugram, Haryana, in connection with a media report detailing the death of seven workers and the injuries of three others in a wall collapse at a construction site near Bilaspur...

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the Secretary, Department of Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare, Ranchi, and the Deputy Commissioner, West Singhbhum, Jharkhand, in connection with a media report regarding the death of a newborn due to inadequate...

Raisen, March 12 – Member of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Priyank Kanoongo, met with senior officials of the Raisen District Magistrate, Superintendent of Police (SP), and the Regional Director on Thursday regarding a case involving illegal cannon firing from Raisen Fort.During...

Dhaka, March 12. Bangladesh has the opportunity to establish a National Human Rights Commission fully aligned with the Paris Principles — an independent, pluralistic body with a broad mandate, transparent selection processes, and active engagement with civil society.The commission would meet...

New Delhi, March 10 – The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the District Magistrate and Superintendent of Police of Raisen, the Regional Director of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in Bhopal, and the Secretary of the Union Ministry of Culture over allegations...

New Delhi, March 10 – The Supreme Court issued a notice on Tuesday regarding a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking the implementation of the "cream layer" principle within reservations for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs).A bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant, and...

New Delhi, March 7 The NHRC said on Saturday that its intervention in a case involving six Indian workers who were allegedly "tortured while in captivity" by their employer in Thailand over the past several months has resulted in their rescue.The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had...

New Delhi, March 7 – The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said on Saturday that its independent intervention has resulted in the swift rescue of six Indian workers from Kendrapara district in Odisha, who were allegedly being held captive by their employer in Thailand for several months...

Bhopal, March 7 – National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) member, Priyank Kanoongo, expressed strong displeasure on Saturday over the incident of miscreants firing illegal homemade cannons from the side of an Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)-protected fort in the Raisen district of Madhya...

New Delhi, March 5 – The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the Union Ministry of Health, the Director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Bhopal, and the Commissioner of Police, Bhopal, over allegations that an assistant professor at the institute died...

New Delhi, February 27 The National Human Rights Commission has issued notices to all states and Union territories, as well as certain central government departments, over alleged risks to children's privacy arising from a collaboration between a US-based artificial intelligence company and an...

New Delhi, February 27 – The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, the Department of School Education and Literacy, the Department of Higher Education, and all states and union territories, regarding concerns...

Raipur, February 26 The Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly was in disarray on Thursday after the government disclosed that 66 inmates had died in the state's prisons over the past 13 months, with the Congress demanding a House committee investigation into the death of a tribal leader while in...

New Delhi, February 24 A 62-year-old man died after developing medical complications at the Pul Prahladpur police station in southeast Delhi, where he was taken after a quarrel with his relatives over a long-standing property dispute, officials said on Tuesday.The deceased has been identified...

New Delhi, February 23 The NHRC said on Monday that it has taken cognizance of reports that at least six Indian workers were allegedly being held captive by their employer near Bangkok for the last six months, and has sought comments from the Ministry of External Affairs.The National Human...

Bhubaneswar, February 23 The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought comments from the Ministry of External Affairs regarding six workers from Odisha who were held captive by their employer in Thailand, according to a statement released here on Monday.The NHRC took suo motu...

New Delhi, February 23 – The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken cognizance of a media report that at least six Indian workers from Kendrapara district in Odisha have been held captive by their employer without pay and proper food for the past six months in Thailand.The incident...

Raipur, February 19 Senior Congress leader Charandas Mahant has written to the National Human Rights Commission seeking an independent inquiry into the death of a tribal villager in Balrampur district, Chhattisgarh.On February 15, Ram alias Ramnaresh (62) died, and two others, identified as...

New Delhi, February 19 – The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) warned on Thursday of action against individuals and NGOs that have registered themselves under names deceptively similar to its own, and directed all states to take action against them, an official said.The NHRC has...

New Delhi, February 19 The NHRC said on Thursday that it has taken cognizance of "misuse of its name and logo" by some NGOs registered under nomenclatures which are "deceptively similar" to it, and has issued notices to authorities in all states and UTs to take action within two weeks.The...