Political parties should be held accountable like a government and they must be answerable to people for all their actions, decisions and policies, a professor of social development said last week whi...

Judicial work in different courts of Jharkhand was paralysed on Monday as nearly 35,000 lawyers and advocates went on pen-down strike sporting black badges to protest hike in court fee of state govern...

In 1948, B.R. Ambedkar, while quoting George Grote, an English historian, invoked the phrase, ‘constitutional morality’, in the Constituent Assembly. Constitutional morality, Ambedkar said...

The Jharkhand unit of People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) on Saturday wrote to governor Ramesh Bais to consider the plight of an orthopaedically disabled UGC NET-qualified candidate agitat...

A human rights outfit has written to the secretary of Jharkhand home department over denial of state and Centre compensation to two victims of Maoist violence in different parts of the state last mont...

Chaibasa: A three-week-old infant was on Monday allegedly drowned by his father in a water-filled utensil in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district, a police officer said. In a fit of rage after a...

Lawyer and civil rights activist Sudha Bharadwaj was granted default bail by Bombay High Court on Wednesday in the Elgaar Parishad case because of the police delay in completing the probe. However, t...

The Jharkhand unit of human rights body People’s Union for Civil Liberties has demanded a judicial probe into the death of Dhaneshwar Mehta, a resident of Ranchi who allegedly died because of la...

A human rights outfit has urged the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to intervene into the increasing cases of alleged custodial torture in Jharkhand. Arvind Avinash, secretary of the Jharkhan...

Three civil liberties defenders have issued legal notices to all chief ministers, telling them contempt proceedings would be sought against them if they failed to comply in two weeks with a Supreme Co...