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NHRC directs Centre, Arunachal Pradesh govt to ensure basic human rights o
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 11 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has recently directed the Chief Secretary, Government of Arunachal Pradesh as well as the Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Government of India (GOI), to ensure basic human rights of six hundred villagers l
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NHRC seeks comprehensive report on prevention of sorcery, witchcraft from
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 10 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in its recent order has sought compiled comprehensive reports from the Chief Secretary and DGP, Odisha with a compilation of reports from all the thirty District Collectors of the state for the prevention of sorcer
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NHRC seeks action-taken reports on rights denial of teachers
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 9 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the Secretaries of Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, and Principal Secretary, Directo
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COVID-19: NHRC directs Centre to take appropriate action within 8 weeks to
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 8 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday quizzed the Secretaries of various Central Ministries including Home, Health and Family Welfare, and Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, over the plight of millions of homeless people and street childr
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NHRC directs Odisha DM to act against official flouting Covid norms at wed
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 6 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Sunday directed the district magistrate and collector of Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district to act on a petition alleging a state bureaucrat violated Covid-guidelines by participating in a dance procession during he
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NHRC seeks action-taken report from Assam govt in doctor assault case
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 4 (ANI): Taking cognisance of a complaint about the assault on a doctor by the relatives of a COVID patient who died at a hospital in Hojai district of Assam, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday called for the action taken report from Assam governmen
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NHRC seeks case details, compensation over farmer activist rape at Tikri b
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 3 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had directed the Superintendent of Police, Jhajjar in Haryana, to submit a factual report on the alleged rape and subsequent death of a woman farmer activist from West Bengal who joined the farmers protest at Delhi-
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Former SC judge Arun Kumar Mishra to take charge as NHRC chairman today
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 2 (ANI): Former Supreme Court judge Arun Kumar Mishra will take charge as the chairman of the National Human Rights Commission on Wednesday.
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NHRC issues advisories to Centre on issues of mental health, bonded labour
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 1 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) issued three more advisories to the Centre, States and Union Territories (UT) administrations calling for specific action within four weeks on the issues of mental health, bonded labourers and migrant informal secto
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Compensation for COVID-19 deaths: NHRC asks Union Home Ministry to act in
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 31 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has in its order directed the Union Home Secretary to act on the issue of addressing the plight of families after the death of family members due to COVID-19 in two particular cases.
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NHRC seeks personal appearance of Odisha DGP, Power Secretary over electro
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 30 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued conditional summons against DGP Odisha and Principal Secretary Department of Energy Government of Odisha to personally appear before the Commission on June 08, along with the requisite reports in a case r
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Act on deaths in Cooch Behar during polls, NHRC asks DGP of West Bengal
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 29 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked the Director-General of Police (DGP) of West Bengal to act over the issue of death of four persons and injury of other few in firing by CISF at Sitalkuchi (Amtali Madhyamik Siksha Kendra) in Cooch Behar
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