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MSHRC takes suo-motu action, summons Thane CP over video of ‘drunk’ policeman

MSHRC takes suo-motu action, summons Thane CP over video of ‘drunk’ policeman
Published on Jun 05, 2026 05:36 am IST

Borderlands 4: Release date, time, where to play, editions and more

Borderlands 4 release date, time and more
Published on Sept 08, 2025 09:20 pm IST

Assault on scribe: NHRC seeks report from Punjab DGP

The attack on the journalist took place on August 1, and the incident came to light when a video went viral on social media.
Published on Aug 19, 2025 07:14 am IST

Delhi HC upholds conviction of man accused of acid attack in 2009

Delhi HC upholds conviction of man accused of acid attack in 2009
Published on Aug 10, 2025 03:26 am IST

Faridabad police custody abuse: Haryana told to pay 50k to victim after 4 years

The commission highlighted that the Haryana home department failed to respond to the show cause notice issued against the police officials involved. (HT File)
Updated on Jul 24, 2025 07:55 am IST

SAD leaders stopped from meeting Rajoana: SGPC chief slams ‘autocratic attitude’ of govt

Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Harjinder Singh Dhami (HT file)
Updated on Dec 05, 2023 08:38 am IST

US lawmakers ask Biden to raise religious intolerance, press freedom with Modi

FILE - President Joe Biden meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Oval Office of the White House, Sept. 24, 2021, in Washington.
Updated on Jun 21, 2023 02:25 am IST

Former Pak PM Imran Khan’s Instagram head abducted in Lahore

Imran Khan on Thursday claimed on Twitter that the party’s Instagram lead Attaur Rehman was "picked up" on Thursday morning from Lahore.
Updated on Apr 21, 2023 12:18 am IST

Canada imposes sanctions on 4 Sri Lankan officials over human rights violations

Canada's foreign minister Melanie Joly.
Published on Jan 10, 2023 08:58 pm IST

China fumes over UN report citing ‘serious human rights violations’ in Xinjiang

Chinese flag in China's western Xinjiang region.
Published on Sept 06, 2022 12:18 pm IST

Saudi woman handed 34-year jail term for tweeting: Report

After promotion of MBS to crown prince, Saudi Arabia undertook many women centric reforms. Among them, the ban on woman drivers was lifted in 2018. (Photo by Fayez Nureldine / AFP)
Updated on Aug 18, 2022 10:10 am IST

Not even superman can fix Myanmar crisis, says Asean special envoy

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations foreign ministers issued their final communique criticizing Myanmar for its lack of progress in ending the violence there, but with weaker language than several countries had hoped for.
Published on Aug 06, 2022 12:14 pm IST

On human rights, India hits back at US

Indian external affairs minister S Jaishankar (right) and US secretary of state Antony Blinken in Washington on Wednesday. (ANI)
Updated on Apr 14, 2022 04:39 am IST

US monitoring ‘concerning’ human rights abuses in India: Blinken

“We regularly engage with our Indian partners on these shared values, and to that end we are monitoring some recent concerning developments in India, including a rise in human rights abuses by some government, police, and prison officials,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. (ANI)
Updated on Apr 13, 2022 06:08 am IST

Mehbooba Mufti is pro-separatist, shouldn’t talk about rights abuse: BJP leader

Former Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Kavinder Gupta flayed Mehbooba Mufti for her demanding a probe into an encounter.
Published on Jan 01, 2021 09:30 pm IST

Amid the scramble to contain coronavirus, a thought spared for mentally-ill wandering on streets

According to a complaint filed in NHRC, a large number of persons suffering from various mental illnesses are loitering on the streets
Published on Apr 10, 2020 05:50 pm IST

The Middle Kingdom frays on its borderlands

China remains the superpower-in-the-making, but the darkness in its periphery is unmistakable
Published on Nov 20, 2019 07:16 pm IST

Pakistan stops sending postal mails to India: report

Chandigarh-based Indo-Pak peace activist Chanchal Manohar Singh told IANS that the stopping of the postal service is a gross violation of human rights.
Published on Sept 28, 2019 05:56 pm IST

India must preserve the values it’s known for

Pakistan seeks to play up the restrictions placed in the state that have received greater focus than the scrapping of the special status in otherwise a muted international reaction hitherto. Given its extremely poor human rights record, Pakistani propaganda is not likely to add significantly to the criticism that may come our way on the human rights aspect
Updated on Sept 10, 2019 05:24 pm IST

‘Use of child soldiers a rights violation’: Indonesia military

An Indonesian military spokesman says any use of child soldiers by Papuan independence fighters would be a violation of human rights that implicates both the rebels and state institutions.
Updated on Jun 25, 2019 05:00 pm IST

‘Country passing through rising intolerance,’ says former President Pranab Mukherjee

Former President Pranab Mukherjee addressed the National Conference on 'Towards Peace, Harmony and Happiness: Transition to Transformation', in New Delhi on Friday, November 23, 2018.
Updated on Nov 24, 2018 01:42 pm IST

Terrorism one of the worst forms of human rights violation, but global response inadequate: India

A general view of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 13.
Updated on Nov 04, 2018 12:07 am IST

AFSPA extended for 6 months in Assam

The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 gives special rights and immunity to security forces in carrying out various operations in “disturbed” areas.
Updated on Aug 29, 2018 05:51 pm IST

India shouldn’t have any illusions about Imran Khan

That Imran Khan described Kashmir as a core issue that needed resolution before other positives set in, and spoke about the violation of human rights of Kashmiris, has been papered-over by pro-Pakistani lobbies here as simply enunciating Pakistan’s standard position.
Updated on Aug 17, 2018 07:55 pm IST

The right that makes us human is the right to love

Students from Delhi University , the AUD Queer Collective and Jawahar Lal Nehru University at a protest against campus violence against LGBTQ.
Updated on May 19, 2018 09:18 am IST

Maoists vow to avenge death of 40 comrades in Gadchiroli encounters

Maoists train in a forested area at Dumariya block in Gaya district recently.
Updated on May 03, 2018 08:37 pm IST

Pakistan raises Kashmir issue at UN Committee on Information; India objects

A protester runs for cover amid tear gas smoke as a policemen (left) fires pellet guns during a protest in Srinagar.
Updated on May 03, 2018 05:06 pm IST

Commonwealth lauds Bangladesh for sheltering Rohingya

Journalists put their hands up to ask questions during the closing press conference for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) at Marlborough House in London on Friday.
Updated on Apr 21, 2018 09:49 pm IST

‘SIMI operatives’ in Bhopal jail being mentally and physically tortured: NHRC

The surveillance on the alleged SIMI operatives increased significantly after eight of their colleagues escaped under controversial circumstances in October 2016, only to be killed in a police encounter soon afterwards
Updated on Mar 31, 2018 04:24 pm IST