State human rights commissions asked to join common NHRC portalNHRC Chairman HL Dattu on Thursday asked all state human rights commissions to join its common portal to avoid duplication of complaint reg...
20 Feb, 2020, 01.26 PM IST
NHRC taking up Rohingya issue on humanitarian ground: H L DattuHis comments came minutes after Home Minister Rajnath Singh said at the seminar that Rohingyas were illegal immigrants and not refugees and...
21 Sep, 2017, 03.19 PM IST
BJP VP may not take up NHRC assignmentAvinash Rai Khanna's name for appointment as a member of NHRC was cleared by a high-level selection panel headed by PM Narendra Modi in Oct...
13 Dec, 2016, 08.28 PM IST
SC asks Centre to furnish Income Tax details of kin of ex-CJI KG BalakrishnanAdvocate Prashant Bhushan had alleged that around 21 properties have been acquired in the names of son, daughter and brother of the former ...
14 Mar, 2016, 04.28 PM IST
Demolition drives: NHRC sends notices to Delhi government, Railway board chairmanNHRC said it had sent the notices after taking suo motu cognisance of media reports regarding the demolition of slum dwellings at two place...
15 Dec, 2015, 03.37 PM IST
- Chittoor police firing: NCST team to visit to ascertain facts
National Commission for Scheduled Tribes will send a team, led its vice chairman, to Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh to "ascertain facts", where...
14 Apr, 2015, 04.00 PM IST
NHRC to record statements of 2 witnesses in Chittoor firingNHRC directed recording of statements of two people who claim to be part of a group of woodcutters of which 20 were killed in police firing...
13 Apr, 2015, 08.12 PM IST
NHRC to record statements of 2 witnesses in Chittoor firingTwenty people from Tamil Nadu were gunned down in a police operation in Seshachalam hill ranges of Chittoor district on April 7.
13 Apr, 2015, 03.54 PM IST
National Human Rights Commission will continue to strengthen human rights defenders: KG BalakrishnanThe National Human Rights Commission will strengthen the human rights defenders in its strategy to firm up human rights culture in India an...
09 Dec, 2014, 05.36 PM IST
National Commission Women to get teeth, can probe, fine accusedThe government has decided to enable the National Commission for Women Act with almost all the provisions of the National Human Rights Comm...
30 Nov, 2014, 11.38 AM IST
NHRC to meet UP officials on Jan 17 over Muzaffarnagar riotsNHRC will meet senior Uttar Pradesh government officials on January 17 to share its findings after making three visits to violence-hit Muza...
15 Jan, 2014, 06.53 PM IST
- Lot needs to be done for human rights in India: NHRC chief
"Despite the laws in place and the best efforts of NHRC, the situation of human rights in the country does not present a colourful picture ...
15 Jan, 2014, 06.46 PM IST
Supreme Court objects over naming former CJI KG Balakrishnan as "KGB"The bench said that a similar petition is pending in the apex court and there is no need to multiply the number of petitions on the same is...
09 Sep, 2013, 06.30 PM IST
- Supreme Court refuses Presidential reference against ex-CJI Balakrishnan
SC, however, asked the competent authority of the Centre to look into the allegation of judicial misconduct against the former Chief Justic...
10 May, 2012, 12.06 PM IST
- Supreme Court asks government about action taken against ex-CJI Balakrishnan
A bench headed by CJI Kapadia directed the govt to respond within a month on action taken against fmr CJI for amassing assets disproportion...
13 Feb, 2012, 02.29 PM IST
- Don't have a single paise of blackmoney: Balakrishnan
Former Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan today termed as "baseless" allegations that he and his relatives possessed blackmoney, sayin...
08 May, 2011, 05.09 PM IST
- Justice Balakrishnan appointed NHRC Chairman
Former Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan has been appointed as Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission.
03 Jun, 2010, 03.22 PM IST