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Topic: NHRC

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.

Speak against Modi govt’s revenge on activists before there is no one left to speak for us

Human rights defenders keep the flame of our Constitution alive. Right now, it is flickering, writes Shashi Tharoor.

On Camera

Rahul’s ‘vote chori’ attack on EC is a political dead-end. He still has a point

The ECI needs to respond to Rahul Gandhi’s accusations professionally and transparently. Else, it will end up giving him the ammunition he is desperately seeking.

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

‘Next war may come sooner than expected, will require whole-of-nation approach’—Army chief

Gen Dwivedi framed Op Sindoor not just as retaliation to Pahalgam, but as demonstration of India’s capability to fight multi-domain conflicts with integration between services & agencies.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.