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National Human Rights Commission asks Assam to submit report on custodial death of Nagaland man

E. Henveih Phom died in Sivasagar district’s Gelekey allegedly due to torture by the police on August 21.

The Hindu

Andhra Pradesh: TDP alleges custodial torture of party sympathisers

It urges NHRC to intervene and ensure justice to the ‘victims’

The Hindu

Seames faces ableism claim

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is urging the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Secretariat (Seames) to compensate a job applicant who was denied a position due to his disability.

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Andhra Pradesh: Resolve pending cases, NHRC Chairman tells Tirupati administration

It also seeks report on the action taken in the cases already addressed

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Delhi Metro Rail Corporation removes misleading transgender signage for toilets

NEW DELHI: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has informed National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) that the transgender signage for toilets, which was considered not acceptable by the community, has been removed.

The Times of India

NHRC to draft action plan for mental institutions

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NHRC seeks report on harassment of Chakmas in Arunachal

The human rights panel acted on a complaint by an NGO

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India’s nuclear policy reflects its past ideology: NHRC chief

NEW DELHI

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UAPA necessary to act against terrorists: Union Minister R. K. Singh

Minister R. K. Singh was speaking at the National Human Rights Commission’s conference on rights in the Indian context

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Opposition files National Human Rights Commission plaint over worker’s suicide

Vijayawada: Opposition parties in AP have lodged a plaint with National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) alleging that one Udayagiri Narayana (38), a Dalit man from Kandamooru village in Nellore rural, committed suicide following police harassment after a theft plaint was lodged against him.

The Times of India

Restore cancelled ration cards: Bandi

TS BJP chief writes to NHRC, says govt. blocking fresh applications

The Hindu

NHRC issues notice to Centre on “air pollution cutting life expectancy”

Takes suo motu cognisance of media reports quoting a study by Energy Policy Institute at Chicago varsity

The Hindu

NHRC notice to Environment Ministry on air pollution impacting life expectancy

The rights panel has issued notice to the Secretary of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, seeking a report within four weeks.

The Hindu

NHRC directs DGP to probe Dalit maid’s alleged torture by police

Rights panel responds to complaint by TDP leader

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NHRC issues notice to Haryana govt over landfill site

The Central Pollution Control Board had in 2017 found that the groundwater of three villages near the landfill was contaminated.

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NHRC issues notices over reported harassment of cyclist

The commission has asked to respond within four weeks

The Hindu

Explained | Police encounters in India: cases, convictions and court orders

The debate over India’s police ‘encounters’ has stirred up again as a Supreme Court-appointed Commission concluded that the encounter of Disha gang-rape accused was fake.

The Times of India

NHRC notice to Delhi govt, police chief in Mustafabad fire case

NEW DELHI: The NHRC has issued a notice to the Delhi government and the city's police commissioner in connection with a major fire that broke out in the Mustafabad area recently, killing a man and injuring six others, officials said on Monday.

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Make citizenship to Chakma, Hajongs in Arunachal final: NHRC

Displaced from the erstwhile East Pakistan, members of the two communities were settled in the country’s easternmost State in the 1960s

The Times of India

Stone pelting on dalit’s baraat in MP: 48 houses razed in Rajgarh district

BHOPAL: More than 48 houses, 18 of them belonging to people against whom FIR has been lodged for stone pelting on a dalit’s wedding procession were bulldozed by government authorities in Rajgarh district of Madhya Pradesh on Friday.

The Hindu

NHRC flags pollution effect on human rights

In advisory, it urges Centre and States to take action

The Times of India

Delhi: Specify what norms violated by owner, police tell agencies

NEW DELHI: Police have written to Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (DSIIDC) and Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to place on record the norms flouted by the building owner in Mundka, where a blaze claimed 27 lives on Friday.

The Hindu

Mundka fire | NHRC issues notice to Delhi government, sends probe team to site

The Commission also asked its director-general to immediately send a team for an on-the-spot investigation

The Hindu

NHRC notice to Telangana govt, DGP in suspected honour killing case

The NHRC has taken suo motu cognisance of media reports that a 25-year-old man was brutally killed in broad public view in Hyderabad

The Hindu

Data | Tamil Nadu records most custodial deaths in South India

Despite a large number of custodial deaths being recorded in India, the National Human Rights Commission has not recommended prosecution in even one such case between 2016-17 and 2021-22 (up to Feb. 28)

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