Earlier, a commission team had visited four government mental hospitals in Gwalior, Agra and Ranchi, while its special rapporteurs had inspected the 42 other institutions...

A delegation of the Mahasabha on Monday met home secretary Rajiv Arun Ekka who also doubles as principal secretary to the chief minister and submitted a letter detailing various cases of human rights ...

‘Bharatiya Janata Party-led government continued its systematic discrimination and stigmatisation of religious and other minorities, particularly Muslims’...

Ukraine uncovers widespread abuse...

The order was issued on December 30 following a petition filed by the Brahmapur-based human right activist Rabindra Mishra...

The investigating agency has also collected the burnt remnants of Antov and Bidenov from a cremation ground near Rayagada, according to an official statement...

The NHRC at first sent notices to the Bihar government in the wake of the incident and later decided to depute its team to conduct an on-the-spot enquiry into the incident...

Altogether 302 families were evicted and four religious structures — two temples and two mosques — were dismantled in the eviction drive...

In the Lok Sabha, JDU MP Rajiv Ranjan alias Lalan Singh brought up the issue and asked why the commission didn’t investigate the Morbi bridge collapse in Gujarat that resulted in the death of over 1...

Advocate Sabyasachi Chatterjee says investigation into Bogtui carnage is getting hampered in the ongoing tussle...