The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued notice on journalist Omar Rashid's plea seeking the takedown of anonymous social media posts by two women lawyers who accused him of sexual harassment. Justice…
Seven years after Tamil Nadu banned sex-reassignment surgeries on intersex infants, basic karyotyping tests to diagnose variations in sex development remain unavailable in most government hospitals. Of the state's 38 medical college…
M. Geethanandan, the social activist sentenced to five years for attempting to murder a police officer during the 2003 Muthanga agitation, has said the eviction was a bid to crush the Adivasi…
A review of media reports has documented at least 195 deaths in India during the coronavirus lockdown, with causes ranging from starvation and exhaustion to suicide and accidents. The analysis, cited by…
Viral videos from the Niwas Community Health Centre in Madhya Pradesh's Singrauli district show a sweeper and sanitation staff member, Ram Lakhan Saket, administering injections to male and female patients in the…
Greenpeace India has submitted community-led 'Heat Stories' to the National Human Rights Commission, documenting how extreme heat affects daily life beyond temperature readings. The stories, recorded in the Garmi Khata or Heat…
Madhya Pradesh authorities seized 25 quintals of analogue paneer from Rudransh Dairy in Sehore during a late-night raid on Wednesday, weeks after Chief Minister Mohan Yadav banned the product. The packets had…
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday said threats to Kashmiri Pandit employees in the Valley must be taken seriously, even as the divisional commissioner denied any work-from-home order. The…
Delhi authorities on Monday rescued four children aged 14-16 from YY Harness, a small wiring unit that supplied Eureka Forbes, Havells and Hindustan Unilever. The National Human Rights Commission has asked all…
The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report on the rising number of suicides in the Central Reserve Police Force. It said 19 personnel died by…
