♦ President of India Droupadi Murmu appointed retired Supreme Court Justice V. Ramasubramanian as the Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission on 23 December 2024. President also appointed Priyank Kanoongo and retired Justice Bidyut Ranjan Sarangi as Members of the NHRC-India.

♦ Justice Ramasubramanian was born on 30 June 1958. He was enrolled as a member of the Bar on February 16, 1983. He was sworn in as the Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court on June 22, 2019, and later appointed Judge of the Supreme Court on September 23, 2019.

♦ The post of NHRC chairperson had been lying vacant since Justice (retd) Arun Kumar Mishra completed his tenure on 1 June 2024. Mishra served as the eighth chairperson of the rights panel and was appointed to its top post in June 2021.