State Violence is not the Answer: NCHRO condemns excessive force against CAA and NRC protests. State Violence is not the Answer: NCHRO condemns excessive force against CAA and NRC protests. New Delhi 23-Dec-2019 NCHRO condemns…
Rights panel issues notice on burqa ban
Student suspended from college for wearing headscarfBantwal (Dakshin Kannada): In the present generation, where the numbers of students are ever increasing in the schools and colleges, Dress code has been one of the highly debated…
Actress arrested for burning her 10 year old…
New Delhi - Indian police Saturday arrested a television actress in Mumbai for allegedly beating and injuring her 10-year-old maid, news reports said. Urvashi Dhanorkar was accused of brutally assaulting Rameshwari, locking up the child…
Tribal struggle against displacement in Jharkhand
Jharkhand is known as the abode of Adivasis (the indigenous people, constitutionally they are called as scheduled tribe), the land of struggle and mineral rich state in India. “Jharkhand” literally means ‘the land of forests’…
Around 40 custodial deaths in 3 years
CHENNAI: Rights outfits have identified the ‘pervasive regime of impunity’ as the single most important factor for widespread use of torture by the police in India. The men in khaki are rarely punished for their…
Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak honoured with Stockholm water prize
New Delhi based "Action Sociologist", Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak received the 2009 Stockholm Water Prize at a Royal Award Ceremony and Banquet during the World Water Week in Stockholm on August 20. As the founder of…