Press Release New Delhi May 16, 2021 Following complaint from NCHRO, NHRC ordered report in custodial death case in UP On March 26, 2021, in Ambedkar Nagar, UP, an inmate named Ziauddin had died in…
VHP leader was in touch with Modi's office…
Ahmedabad : Senior Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Jaideep Patel was in constant touch with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's office during the Godhra riots in the state, an affidavit filed by lawyer Mukul Sinha…
Civil group condemns attack on police and move…
New Delhi: While strongly condemning the attack on Hyderabad police on May 18 in which a Home Guard jawan was killed and a Head Constable seriously injured, the Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee took exception to…
Sikh Human rights activist receives Zeff Fellowship
Rice University senior, Sukhdeep Kaur, has received the Roy and Hazel Zeff Memorial Fellowship - a $25,000 grant, which will allow her to study issues of human rights and access to justice in areas around…
HRW Charges Abuse of Workers in Abu Dhabi
Migrant workers building a $27-billion "Island of Happiness" in the United Arab Emirates are being abused and exploited, a human rights watchdog revealed on Tuesday. More than 2,000 workers from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and other…
Kerala Police fires at fishing community, six dead
Six persons from the Muslim fishing community were killed when the Kerala police opened fire to end a clash between two groups in the Cheriyathura-Beemapally coastal area on the outskirts of the Thiruvananthapuram city on…
India top Green index; US consumers rank last
WASHINGTON—In their second annual survey to measure and monitor consumer behaviors that have an impact on the environment, the National Geographic Society and the international polling firm GlobeScan have found an increase in environmentally friendly…
Police crack Hindutva plot to build temple at…
HYDERABAD: Police cracked the mystery behind the sudden appearance of a Hanuman idol in a garbage heap at Jiyaguda and arrested four people, who allegedly placed it there, on Tuesday. On April 21, GHMC workers…
Shape up or ship out
‘Today she (India) swings blindly between a blind adherence to her old customs and a slavish imitation of foreign ways. In neither of these can she find relief or life or growth. We have to…