-PTI MUMBAI: Social activist Medha Patkar called off her over a week-long fast following an assurance by Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan that an inquiry would be conducted into the demolition of a slum here. She ended her fast after midnight on Friday night, an associate of the veteran activist said. Patkar was fasting since April 4 after 43 houses of the Ganesh Krupa Housing Society in Mumbai's Golibar slum area were razed...
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Sordid tale of Odisha migrants-Suresh Krishnamoorthy
-The Hindu About two lakh from Odisha working in brick kilns live in sub-human conditions Ranga Reddy district: Birubak and his wife Varanasi, together with their five-year-old daughter Seema are paid just Rs. 600 to Rs. 800 a week. Hailing from Odisha, they have a 14-hour work-day that starts at 4 a.m. They just have time to eat the little food that Varanasi can prepare, wash utensils and grab just two to four...
More »NHRC seeks proper action against HC Registrar General-J Venkatesan
-The Hindu Taking a serious view of the inordinate delay in disbursal of the amount that led to the suicide of the parents of one of the engineers of a ship ‘Pratibha Cauvery,' the National Human Rights Commission has asked the acting Chief Justice of the Madras High Court to take appropriate action against Registrar General G. Chockalingam for his failure to perform his duty. In early March, the National Commission for...
More »Rights panel to hold full commission sitting in Raipur-Suvojit Bagchi
-The Hindu Raipur: For the first time since the formation of Chhattisgarh in 2000, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) will hold a "full commission" sitting in State capital Raipur. NHRC chairperson Justice K. G. Balakrishnan and its members, Justice B. C. Patel and retired diplomat Satyabrat Pal, will hold several sessions till Friday. According to sources in the NHRC, investigating officers and the special rapporteur of the commission had visited the State,...
More »Manipur encounter killings fake, says panel; SC 'distressed' -Utkarsh Anand
-The Indian Express A committee appointed by the Supreme Court to probe six cases of alleged extra-judicial killings in Manipur informed the court on Thursday that all the encounters were fake. The committee, comprising retired judge Santosh Hegde, former chief election commissioner J M Lyngdoh and former Karnataka police chief A K Singh, held that all the seven victims, including a 12-year-old boy, did not have any criminal background and had not...
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