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NHRC issues Covid advisory, urges privacy for patient info, free treatment for health staff

The advisory — titled the Human Rights Advisory on Right to Health in the Context of Covid — has been sent to all states and union territories.

NHRC asks Chhattisgarh to pay Rs 1 lakh each to DU professor, activists 4 yrs after false FIR

The human rights panel has ruled that an FIR lodged in 2016 at Bastar caused the 13 activists, among them Delhi University professor Nandini Sundar, ‘mental harassment’. 

Ajay Maken moves NHRC to seek reservation of 70% hospital beds in Delhi for Covid patients

The former Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee chief said Delhi should be opened up only after its Covid positivity rate comes down to 10 per cent from the current 27 per cent.

NHRC chief HL Dattu will quit office this year. With him, the rights body must wind up too

NHRC has selectively issued notices, carefully kept Modi government out of its glare, and left the poor to be tortured by the apathy of the administration.

NHRC sends notice to Maharashtra police chief over Palghar lynching

National Human Rights Commission said it has called for a detailed report in 4 weeks, on action taken against culprits and relief granted to kin of the deceased.

4 deaths, no job, no medical care — the ‘malnutrition’-hit family behind NHRC notice to UP

After UP media highlighted plight of Harishchandra, a daily wager who lost 4 members of his family to 'malnutrition', NHRC sent the state govt a notice.

NHRC team visits Jamia campus to record statements of students injured in December violence

The human rights panel had earlier recorded statements of around 35-40 students on what happened on 15 December.

Human rights supreme, these officers said to counter rhetoric by CRPF’s Khushboo Chauhan

At NHRC’s annual debate to sensitise CAPF personnel to human rights, most officers didn’t make comments as provocative as Chauhan did.

NHRC flags ‘sheer lawlessness’ in Bihar, state police question gang rape victim’s claim

A former inmate of the Muzaffarpur shelter where a sexual abuse scandal was uncovered last year has claimed she was gang-raped.

Sanjoy Hazarika on NRC & Ira Pande on how opposition is behaving like Ottoman Sultans

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

On Camera

What the key political events of 2025 tell us about Narendra Modi and India’s future

From Operation Sindoor to India-US tensions to the EC controversies, a clear understanding has emerged about where the politics is headed now.

Antitrust watchdog Competition Commission to probe IndiGo flight disruptions

While the commission didn’t mention provisions under which IndiGo's market domination would be examined, Competition Act 2002 prohibits abuse of dominant position by any enterprise.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.