The camp sitting was organised to hear the pending cases of human rights violations in eight North Eastern (NE) states and to spread awareness amongst the officials of state governments, parastatal organisations, and NGOs.
Justice Mishra, inaugurating the camp sitting, said, "The Commission has a wide-ranging mandate for the promotion and protection of human rights in diverse areas and the Commission's camp sitting in the concerned States is a unique concept aimed at reaching out to the doorsteps of the victim
Explaining the delay in the ongoing rescue operation for 40 labourers trapped inside the under-construction tunnel which collapsed in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi, NHIDCL Director Anshu Manish Khalkho said the delay was due to the fragile nature of the location.
Relief and rescue operations are underway for the sixth day on a war footing at Silkyara Tunnel, where 40 labourers were trapped following the collapse of the under-construction tunnel.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Thursday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is reviewing the rescue operation and is continuously in contact.
"This is an unfortunate and unprecedented incident. One bus coming from Calcutta and going to Odisha caught fire and one person died due to burn injuries while others were injured. Our SP came on the spot along with his force. Fire brigades rushed to the spot and fire was controlled," the We
NHAI (National Highways Authority of India) is building a 2.200-kilometer-long Dhalwas NH44 flyover at a cost of Rs 371 crore that will bypass the sinking stretch in Ramban.
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairperson Justice Arun Mishra on Wednesday addressed the concluding session of the 14th International Conference of NHRIs on Torture and other ill-treatment in Copenhagen.
The session, titled 'Practical perspective on protection: Complaints, investigations, access to justice, and reparations,' drew significant interest from NHRIs representing various countries.
The ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal came down heavily on the BJP over a letter from the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, threatening to halt the grant under the Centre's National Health Mission (NHM) to the state government until it fulfils all the conditions for the sam
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday announced the completion of the construction of the 1.08-kilometer-long, four-lane Ramban viaduct on the Udhampur-Ramban section of National Highway-44.
The National Human Rights Commission( NHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of media reports that a five-year-old boy died after a damaged entry gate fell on him at a colony of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) in Siraspur, an official statement said.