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Ground Report India needs sponsorship(s) and individual supports for Exploring India for "Water & Agriculture" tour. We look forward to your continued supports. As a citizen media we rely on you to continue to work towards our combined goals

GRI Cover Reports, Indian States, Reports, Video Reports 0

Visitors: 223 Concept: 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 […]

Dr Udit Raj urged Anna Hazare to support Bahujan Lok Pal Bill

GRI Cover Reports, Indian States, Reports 0

Visitors: 218 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, […]

Editorial

GRI Editorials, Indian States, International, Reports, Vivek U Glendenning "Social Nomad", Writers in Solidarity 0

Visitors: 273 There 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 […]

BOl – Free (Speak Free) Platform of common people by Janta TV

GRI Indian States, Reports, Video Reports 0

Visitors: 231 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. […]

Changing Diplomatic Landscape in South Asia

GRI Indian States, Reports, Writers in Solidarity 0

Visitors: 170 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 […]

Press Statement of All India Secular Forum (AISF) on harassment by Govt. of Gujarat of IPS Officer Shri Sanjiv Bhat

GRI Indian States, Reports 0

Visitors: 193 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 […]

Look deeper : Jan Lokpal Party & A new breed of Netas on the way

GRI Cover Reports, Indian States, Reports, Writers in Solidarity Ground Report India 0

Visitors: 226 Whenever 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) […]

The Communal Character of Anna Hazare's Movement by Bhanwar Meghwanshi

GRI Editorials, Freedom-of-Expression, Human Rights, Indian States, Reports, Writers in Solidarity 0

Visitors: 324 It 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 […]

The Bora community in the Kumaon Himalayas

GRI Indian States, Reports, Research Articles, Writers in Solidarity Bora Community, Ground Report India, Human Rights Law, Kalindi Kokal, Uttaranchal 0

Visitors: 1,319 Kalindi 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 […]

What does India really need for Transformation? : Electoral Politics Or Live Sources for Self-Motivations of Masses

GRI Editorials, Indian States, Reports, Vivek U Glendenning "Social Nomad" 0

Visitors: 199 For 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 […]

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR on Teacher Education for Peace and Harmony (11-13 Feb 2012)

GRI Cover Reports, Environment, Indian States, Reports 0

Visitors: 224 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 […]

GRI team will be on 75 days tour from 5th October 2011 covering hundreds of villages in 12 states for special edition on “Water & Agriculture”.

GRI Environment, Indian States, Reports, Video Reports 0

Visitors: 178 Dear 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 […]

PM visits Sikkim, announces 1000 crore rupee relief

GRI Indian States, Reports 0

Visitors: 147 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 […]

PM visits Sikkim, announces 1000 crore rupee relief

GRI Indian States, Reports 0

Balochistan: Pakistan's response to crisis failing

GRI Human Rights, International, Reports 0

Visitors: 215 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 […]

Balochistan: Pakistan's response to crisis failing

GRI Human Rights, International, Reports 0

Visitors: 221 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 […]

Mark Tully on Indian Politics

GRI Indian States, Reports, Writers in Solidarity 0

Visitors: 142 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, […]

Mark Tully on Indian Politics

GRI Indian States, Reports, Writers in Solidarity 0

Visitors: 437 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, […]

Vote for Saudi women no guarantee of rights

GRI Human Rights, International, Reports 0

Visitors: 191 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 […]

Vote for Saudi women no guarantee of rights

GRI Human Rights, International, Reports 0

Visitors: 206 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 […]

Leading Iran rights activist sentenced to 11 years

GRI Human Rights, International, Reports 0

Visitors: 195 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 […]

Leading Iran rights activist sentenced to 11 years

GRI Human Rights, International, Reports 0

Visitors: 235 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 […]

Climate change: Commission launches consultation on further reducing industrial gas emissions

GRI Environment, International, Reports 0

Visitors: 191 Brussels, 26 September 2011 The European Commission today launched a public consultation on strengthening EU measures to reduce emissions of fluorinated gases, a group of industrial gases which are extremely powerful contributors to global warming. A Commission review,1 which was also adopted today, concludes that the EU’s existing Regulation on fluorinated gases (‘F-gases’) […]

DE-TERRORISING SOUTH ASIA by Pritam K. Rohila, Ph.D.

GRI Environment, Human Rights, Reports 0

Visitors: 162 September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States have made terrorism an international issue. In spite of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and expenditure of trillions of dollars in international efforts to curb terrorism, world does not appear to be safer than before. However, in the process, dignity and civil rights of […]

DE-TERRORISING SOUTH ASIA by Pritam K. Rohila, Ph.D.

GRI Environment, Human Rights, Reports 0

Visitors: 173 September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States have made terrorism an international issue. In spite of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and expenditure of trillions of dollars in international efforts to curb terrorism, world does not appear to be safer than before. However, in the process, dignity and civil rights of […]