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NHRC to draft action plan for mental institutions

NEW DELHI

The Hindu

NHRC seeks report on harassment of Chakmas in Arunachal

The human rights panel acted on a complaint by an NGO

The Hindu

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

NEW DELHI

The Hindu

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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

The Hindu

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

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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

The Hindu

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.

The Hindu

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 Hindu

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.

The Times of India

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

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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

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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)

The Hindu

NHRC directs police to find missing Kashmiri medical student

Suhail, a Kashmiri student at AIIMS-Bhubaneswar, has been missing since Feb. 9.

The Hindu

EU human rights official says he raised communal violence, NGOs ban with Indian government

Official versions of the meetings have made no reference to contentious issues

The Hindu

Govt. needs to do more on social security of truck drivers: NHRC

Truck drivers are not recognised as an organised workforce, says Retd Justice Arun Mishra

The Hindu

NHRC seeks action on deprivation of karatekas

Guwahati-based rights activist said the contact sport athletes have been denied benefits due to non-recognition

The Hindu

1,902 families to join welfare schemes in Odisha on NHRC’s order

Nearly 2,000 applications cleared in a rare single session by the apex human rights body

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