Updated Jan 09, 2021 | 22:14 IST
Adjudicating a petition filed by Supreme Court Lawyer and seasoned human rights activist, Radhakanta Tripathy, the NHRC sought the reports by 16th January 2021. The transgenders in India have been deprived of the bare necessities of life and benefits of welfare schemes of the government. | Photo Credit: PTI
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has expressed serious displeasure and has warned coercive action against the Chief Secretaries of all the States and Union Territories (UT) of India for their failure to submit Action Taken Reports (ATRs) on the plight of transgender.
Adjudicating a petition filed by Supreme Court Lawyer and seasoned human rights activist, Radhakanta Tripathy, the NHRC sought the reports by 16th January 2021.
NHRC warn States, UT Govts over plight of transgender in India ANI | Updated: Jan 09, 2021 21:05 IST
New Delhi [India], January 9 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has expressed serious displeasure and has warned coercive action against the Chief Secretaries of all the States and Union Territories (UT) of India for their failure to submit Action Taken Reports (ATRs) on the plight of transgender.
Adjudicating a petition filed by Supreme Court Lawyer and seasoned human rights activist, Radhakanta Tripathy, the NHRC sought the reports by 16th January 2021.
The transgenders in India have been deprived of the bare necessities of life and benefits of welfare schemes of the Government due to failure on part of the Center, States and UT Government. The Governments also fail to implement the NALSA judgment of the Supreme Court for safeguarding the rights of transgender persons, Tripathy alleged.
updated: Dec 27 2020, 07:00 ist
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) is planning to train one lakh volunteers in 350 districts prone to natural disasters by this March by extending the Aapda Mitra scheme, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has informed a Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home.
This is aimed at having a pool of volunteers who can respond to their community s immediate needs in the aftermath of a disaster thereby enabling them to undertake basic relief and rescue tasks during emergencies like floods, flash-floods and urban flooding among other disasters.
The NDMA had initiated the pilot project of Aapda Mitra (friends in times of disaster) in 30 project districts in 25 states by training 200 volunteers. Volunteers were selected from the community, including students residing in flood-prone districts. Preference is given to ex-servicemen, Civil Defence and Home Guards among others.
PIL in Supreme Court seeks ‘free, safe, fair’ Bengal polls
The petition, filed through advocate Vineet Dhanda, also sought to draw the court’s attention to the attack on BJP president J P Nadda’s cavalcade in Bengal. December 24, 2020 1:48:39 am
A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar, by a majority of 4:1, rejected the review pleas against the apex court s September 26, 2018 verdict. (file)
Alleging that the violation of fundamental rights has reached its peak in West Bengal, a PIL filed in the Supreme Court Wednesday sought its intervention to ensure that the forthcoming assembly polls in the state are held in a “free, peaceful, safe and fair” manner.
The Netaji Mystery: Marking the End of Another âBabaâ Story
Gumnami-baba was not the first or only sadhu who was portrayed as Netaji by claimants who believed that Bose did not die in a plane crash at Formosa in 1945.
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Photo: Public domain image
History20/Dec/2020
It is not surprising that among the stories mystifying Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s death, the ‘Baba’ stories appealed more to the people than any others. India being the land of sadhus and mystics it is but natural that people would like to believe that their immortal Netaji would lead an eternal life in the form of a sadhu.