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The government is likely to appoint former Supreme Court judge Cyriac Joseph as member of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) despite dissent notes by both the leaders of Opposition in Parliament- Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley against the former ...

Leaders of opposition in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley on Thursday submitted dissenting notes over the government's decision to appoint retired Supreme Court judge Cyriac Joseph as a member of the National Human Rights Commission.

had reported on April 10 how upper caste farmers, who have their own borewells and don't need Narmada water as much, don't let the dalits use this crucial resource. The complaint was accepted after dalit rights activist Kirit Rathod wrote to NHRC.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has questioned the genuineness of an encounter that took place in Assam about three years back and directed the State Government to pay Rs5 lakh to the next of kin of the victim as monetary relief. The ...

The High Court on Monday pulled up National Human Rights Commission chairman Md Nizamur Rahman for his failure to provide to it names of eminent citizens it sought for constituting an independent committee for probing into the fire at Tazreen ...

The SP of Sundergarh district of Odisha has admitted before the NHRC that a tribal senior citizen and three women were forced to walk nude in a procession to all the nearby hamlets of Kiralaga, a village under Talsara police station.The SP submitted ...

The writer has posted comments on this article TNN | May 10, 2013, 03.35 AM IST RELATED GUWAHATI: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday asked the state government to pay Rs 5 lakh as monetary relief to the next of kin of one Rajib ...