The Supreme Court has agreed to take up on November 19 (Monday) a petition filed by Zakia Jafri, the widow of slain former MP Ahsan Jafri, challenging the clean chit given to Narendra Modi, the then c...

The Union health ministry has asked the states to adopt a list of “dos and don’ts” for hospitals and patients extracted from a charter of patients’ rights adopted by an apex statutory body ove...

Justice H.L. Dattu, the National Human Rights Commission chairperson and former Chief Justice of India, has said the panel is “always open to the suggestions from civil society, NGOs and human right...

The National Human Rights Commission on Wednesday directed the Assam director-general of police to submit an action taken report against guilty police personnel within six weeks on allegations that a ...

Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy on Monday lauded his Telangana counterpart K. Chandrashekar Rao and his police over the “encounter” killing of four suspects in the gang rape an...

The National Human Rights Commission on Friday directed its director-general (investigation) to send a fact-finding team to Hyderabad to probe the encounter killing of four gang-rape suspects by the l...

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A Congress delegation that included Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi on Monday pleaded with the National Human Rights Commission to rein in the Yogi Adityanath government, which it said had “gone to war ag...

South Korea’s military decided Wednesday to discharge a soldier who recently undertook gender reassignment surgery, a ruling expected to draw strong criticism from human rights groups.It was the fir...

How did we reach a point where a section of society has started to consider it a fundamental right to take the law into their own hands and mishandle a doctor following the death of a moribund patient...