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Kerala: Jawahar Balajanavedi chief protests against Child Rights Commissio
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], June 27 (ANI): Dr GV Hari, Chairman of Jawahar Balajanavedi on Friday protested outside Kerala Social Justice Department's office against the appointment of Advocate KV Manojkumar as the new Chairman of the Child Rights Commission.
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NHRC issues notice to UP govt over killing of journo by sand mafias
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 26 (ANI): National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that a journalist was allegedly killed by sand mafias in the Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh on June 19.
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UN experts call for decisive measures to protect fundamental freedoms in C
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 26 (ANI): Independent experts from the United Nations have called for decisive measures to protect fundamental freedoms in China as they raised deep concerns over treatment of Uighur Muslim minority in Xinjiang and said the impending national security law concernin
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Carole Baskin pitches big cat-centric smartphone game
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 26 (ANI): Big cat rights activist Carole Baskin is trading in on her 'Tiger King' lineage to promote a smartphone game about big cats.
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Booked over video of minor children painting on her body, Rehana Fathima s
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], June 26 (ANI): Women rights activist Rehana Fathima on Friday moved the Kerala High Court seeking anticipatory bail in a case registered against her for posting a video on social media of her minor children painting on her half-naked body.
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Kanimozhi writes to NHRC over 'custodial' death of two men in Tuticorin
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 26 (ANI): DMK MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi has written to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) over the alleged custodial deaths of a man and his son who were arrested for allegedly violating lockdown restrictions in Tuticorin district on June 19.
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UP govt wasting its time by threatening me through various depts: Priyanka
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 26 (ANI): A day after receiving a notice from Uttar Pradesh Commission for Protection of Child Rights (UPCPCR) in connection with Kanpur shelter home case, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday said that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath-led gover
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Pompeo releases Trafficking in Persons report, says US always stood in def
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], June 26 (ANI): US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on Thursday (local time) released the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report and said that the United States has "always stood" in defence of human rights "like no other nation".
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Kanpur shelter home case: UP Child Rights Commission issues notice to Priy
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Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 25 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Commission for Protection of Child Rights on Thursday issued a notice to Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, asking her to issue a corrigendum to her Facebook post regarding Kanpur shelter home case.
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NCPCR takes cognizance of Congress MLA's remark, seeks reply within 3 days
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 25 (ANI): National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has issued notice to Jitu Patwari, Congress MLA from Rau, Indore, asking him to apologise to 'children of the nation' for his remarks "five daughters for a son".
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BJP delegation meets OHRC over rape, death of Tribal woman in police cante
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], June 24 (ANI): A delegation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) met Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) and submitted a memorandum demanding justice in the case of "rape and consequent death" of a tribal woman in Malkangiri.
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Siddharth Roy Kapur nabs rights to William Dalrymple bestseller book 'The
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New Delhi [India], June 23 (ANI): Bollywood film producer Siddharth Roy Kapur's production house has acquired rights to the best-selling historical epic 'The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise Of The East India Company' by historian-writer William Dalrymple.
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