Visitors: 353 Appeal by: Dr. V. Pugazhenthi MBBS, 1/187, Mudhaliyar Street,Sadras, Kanchipuram District,Tamil Nadu, India 603 102Ph: 8870578769 Sub: False Charges filed on me to curtail my professional and democratic duty to warn the people I am serving about the ill effects of the nuclear radiation around the Kalpakkam Nuclear Power PlantI am a medical […]
Visitors: 272 Name of the victim–Mr. Gautam Tudu, son of Mr.Surendranath Tudu, a resident of Laxmanpur village, P0-Korkora,Police Station-Binpur, in Jhargram, in the district of West Midnapur, West Bengal, India. Perpetrators– The involved police personnel of Jhargram police station and the involved jawans of the Joint Force operating in Jhargram. Date and time of the […]
Visitors: 350 The Global Water Partnership together with IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, under the auspices of UNESCO, at the University of Dundee, is looking to build on their successful 2011 International Water Law Programme (http://www.dundee.ac.uk/water/workshop), and offer scholarships for 30 participants to undertake a module in International Water Law, in Dundee […]
Visitors: 363 Report by: Advocate H.C. Arora, Petitioner In Person. He is a practicing Lawyer at Punjab & Haryana High Court at Chandigarh. Chandigarh, 29 November: On a PIL filed by local lawyer, H.C. Arora, a Division Bench of the HC comprising CJ Ranjan Gagoi and Justice Surya Kant today issued notices for […]
Visitors: 319Concept: The Ground Report India has arisen out of our concerns and awareness for a balanced media representation of the ground realities of present day India. We presently feel that the Indian media does not provide sufficient attention to the situation of the “common man”. We believe that the Ground Report India is timely, […]
Visitors: 373 New Delhi, 15th October, 2011. Dr Udit Raj National President, Indian Justice Party Today, a National Seminar was organized by All India Confederation of SC/ST Organisations and other like minded organizations in Speaker Hall, Constitution Club, New Delhi. This was participated by Dr. Udit Raj, D. Raja, Swami Agnivesh,Mast Ram Kapur, Ibrahim Qureshi, […]
Visitors: 412There has been much excitement in the Ground Report India team as we move from a monthly eJournal (which will still continue) and bring to you this detailed quarterly journal. This print magazine has arisen out of our concerns and awareness for a balanced media representation of the ground realities of present day India. […]
Visitors: 349 Janta TV is a national Hindi TV news channel. Its foundation leads to an ideology of next generation media platform of the public and by the public. BOL – Free Platform: It may sound strange in the first observation that “Anyone can come on the TV platform of Janta TV” but it’s true. […]
Visitors: 299 Heera LalProvincial Civil Services (PCS) Joint Regsitrar, U P State Administrative Tribuanl, Lucknowwww.makingyouhapy.org In coming days, South Asia (SA) will be the epicenter of world power. SA has potent and fast growing rising countries- India and China. China is second largest economy after US and India is fourth after Japan- India and china […]
Visitors: 274 Mumbai, Dated: 13thOctober All India Secular Forum (AISF) strongly condemns the harassment of IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt by the Government of Gujarat. Shri Bhatt was not allowed to meet his family members and even his lawyer and was reportedly denied home food. Shri Bhatt is being treated like a criminal. AISF demands […]
Visitors: 375Whenever public anger spills out on the streets and the media goes into overdrive, a new political party is born or gains ascendancy. Many a new party in its infancy appears like a socio-political movement. When the dust settles, the movement is over, and only the party remains. Whenever a new NETA (politician) arrives […]
Visitors: 457It has now been confirmed that the Anna Hazare’s-led so-called ‘second freedom struggle’—as some sections of the media have mistakenly chosen to call it—has close links with the RSS. From conceptualizing this media-propelled movement to successfully organizing it, the RSS, it appears, played a key role in it. This being the case, it is […]
Visitors: 3,472Kalindi Kokal Human Rights Law Activist worked as a journalist with the Maharashtra Herald and Indian Express as a features writer (This is an article I wrote after interacting with the Bora community in Digoli, Uttaranchal. I feel it is necessary to save the traditional occupation of this community, even as […]
Visitors: 339For the past 20 years more or less, I have been in touch (active or passive), have been working or have worked with various known Social Personalities, Media Celebrities of Social Activism in India, known/ unknown Ground Activists, International Awardees, Mainstream Political Persons, RTI/RTF/RTE/ NREGA Activists, Activists of Gandhi’s Ideology, Organizations of Gandhi’s Ideology, […]
Visitors: 398 INTRODUCTION Recently world has seen nuclear catastrophe during Tsunami in Japan, political Tsunami in Middle East and Africa; racial & ethnic conflicts in Sri Lanka, east Asia and middle-east; terrorist and fundamentalist attacks in India, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries as well as Maoist Violence in south Asia. This shows the expression […]
Visitors: 260Dear Patron, Ground Report India team will start 75 days tour from 5th October 2011 covering hundreds of villages of various states (around 12 states) of India for special edition on “Water & Agriculture”. GRI team will try to cover Delhi, NCR, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana and other. […]
Visitors: 223 September 29, 2011, Gangtok, Sikkim The Prime Minister visited Gangtok and made an aerial survey of the quake affected areas of the state of Sikkim. Dr. Manmohan Singh flew over the affected areas of Mangan, Chungthang, Lachen and Lachung and visited the injured at the Government Hosiptal in Gangtok. He was briefed of […]
Visitors: 241 September 29, 2011, Gangtok, Sikkim The Prime Minister visited Gangtok and made an aerial survey of the quake affected areas of the state of Sikkim. Dr. Manmohan Singh flew over the affected areas of Mangan, Chungthang, Lachen and Lachung and visited the injured at the Government Hosiptal in Gangtok. He was briefed of […]
Visitors: 335 29 September 2011 Two separate attacks on civilians in Balochistan highlight the failure of Pakistan to tackle escalating insecurity in the region, said Amnesty International. Yesterday, Baloch politician Abdul Salam was assassinated in the city of Khuzdar by unknown assailants. Abdul Salam was a human rights defender who worked on behalf of hundreds […]
Visitors: 345 29 September 2011 Two separate attacks on civilians in Balochistan highlight the failure of Pakistan to tackle escalating insecurity in the region, said Amnesty International. Yesterday, Baloch politician Abdul Salam was assassinated in the city of Khuzdar by unknown assailants. Abdul Salam was a human rights defender who worked on behalf of hundreds […]
Visitors: 233 I was surprised when the Congress party gave me a Padma Shri – I am the only foreign journalist to ever get it. For, in my forty years of political reporting in India, I have always been a vocal critic of the Nehru dynasty. Someone even called me recently: “a vitriolic British journalist, […]
Visitors: 586 I was surprised when the Congress party gave me a Padma Shri – I am the only foreign journalist to ever get it. For, in my forty years of political reporting in India, I have always been a vocal critic of the Nehru dynasty. Someone even called me recently: “a vitriolic British journalist, […]
Visitors: 321 26 September 2011 Saudi Arabia must take immediate steps to end all discrimination against women in the kingdom, Amnesty International said today following moves to give women the right to vote. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia announced on Sunday that women will have the right to vote and run in municipal elections, the […]
Visitors: 344 26 September 2011 Saudi Arabia must take immediate steps to end all discrimination against women in the kingdom, Amnesty International said today following moves to give women the right to vote. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia announced on Sunday that women will have the right to vote and run in municipal elections, the […]
Visitors: 299 28 September 2011 The 11-year sentence handed down to leading human rights activist Narges Mohammadi is another blatant attempt by the Iranian government to crush human rights organizations, Amnesty International said today. Narges Mohammadi, the Executive chairperson of Iran’s Centre for Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), was sentenced yesterday after her conviction for “propaganda […]