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Delhi fruit vendor killed: NHRC issues notice to Commissioner
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 2 (ANI): A day after it was reported that a fruit vendor has allegedly died in police custody and his body was later dumped, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) took suo motu cognizance of the incident and issued a notice to the Delhi Police Commissioner, aski
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Telangana: NHRC issues notice over child's death after falling in hot
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 28 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that five-year-old child Jayawardhan tumbled into a vat filled to the brim with hot sambar at the time of serving the mid-day meal in a primary school at Nalgonda in Telanga
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Create society which respects, protects human rights: Dattu
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 9 (ANI): On the eve of Human Rights Day, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairperson Justice H.L. Dattu called on the people of the nation to join hands to create a society in which human rights of every individual are respected and protected in our quest for
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ACHR welcomes NHRC recommendation in Bara massacre case
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov.29 (ANI): The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today welcomed the recommendation of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to commute the death sentence of four death row convicts i.e. Krishna Mochi, Nanhe Lal Mochi, Bir K
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HRC issues notice to TN Govt. over hospital diagnosing false pregnancy
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Tamil Nadu [India], Nov. 26 (ANI): The Human Rights Commission (HRC) has issued a notice to the Tamil Nadu government after a government hospital wrongly diagnosing a woman with tumor as pregnant.
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AHRC demands global probe of WANA business centre demolition by Pakistan A
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Hong Kong [China], Nov.11 (ANI): The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has urged the international community, particularly the Human Rights Commission of UN, to probe the killings of citizens of South Waziristan in the name of the military-backed Operation Zarb-e-Azb.
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NHRC organises two-day workshop on 'Good Governance in Meghalaya
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov. 3 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday organised a two day regional workshop on 'Good Governance, Development and Human Rights' in collaboration with the Government of Meghalaya at State Convention Centre in Shillong starting today,
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You can't kill people with steel plates, says SC lawyer Tulsi
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov.2 (ANI): Describing the encounter killing of eight SIMI terrorists as "fake", senior supreme court lawyer K.T.S. Tulsi has urged the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to leave no stone unturned in probing the matter.
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NHRC issue notices to MP Govt., DGP over killing of eight SIMI terrorists
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Nov. 1 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the Madhya Pradesh Government, Chief Secretary and state police after eight activists of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI,) who had escaped from the Central Jai
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NHRC says it has disposed 111, 295 cases in last year
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct.21 (ANI): National Human Rights Commission Chairman Justice H.L. Dattu on Friday said that the institution has disposed of 111, 295 cases, out of which 59,924 had to be dismissed in limini, as these were not in line with the provisions of the protection of the PHR Act
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Hospital inferno: NHRC issues notice to Odisha Govt., says hospital '
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct. 19 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday issued a notice to the Odisha government over the massive at the SUM hospital in which at least 20 people were killed, adding that the hospital in question was reportedly warned as early as in 2013 for
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Pakistan put to death 324 persons having no terror links: Pakistan Human R
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Islamabad [Pakistan], Oct. 15 (ANI): As many as 324 people, most of them having no links to terrorism, were put to death in Pakistan, while another 8,000 prisoners stayed on death row as the 21st constitutional and corresponding amendments to the Army Act 1952, has given the military courts
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