Chaitanya DavéIn 1881, India’s population was 288 million. Today it is about 1.37 billion. As per United Nations, world population today stands at 7,713,468,000.One out of every six people on the planet lives in India. By area, India is world’s 7th largest country. Between 2001 and 2011, the country grew by 17.7%, adding 181.5 million […]
Indian American High School students from Southern Connecticut joined young professionals at a networking luncheon event in Stamford on December 24th. Organized by the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin-Connecticut Chapter (GOPIO-CT) at the Hampton Inn and Suites in Stamford, it was a house full event. GOPIO-CT has been organizing this event for the […]
The 7th North East India Peace Award 2019 was being conferred to Fr. Dr. C.P. Anto on 7th December 2019 at Christ School, Nongsder, Umiam, Shillong, Meghalaya. The North East Peace Award is an initiative of Christ School International, Meghalaya and KKLL Foundation, Guwahati, Assam since 2012. The main purpose of presenting this award is […]
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Prashant UmraoAdvocate, The Supreme Court of IndiaCommunity Legal-Advisor, Ground Report IndiaOn the last day of last month August, a very controversial document, the final register of citizens, was released in Guwahati, Assam. It is important to have basic knowledge and background of NRC before proceeding further. NRC is The National Register Of Citizens maintained by […]
George MonbiotAs Dutch elm disease spread across Britain in the 1970s, the country fell into mourning. When the sentinel trees that framed our horizons were felled, their loss was a constant topic of sad and angry conversation. Today, just a few years into the equally devastating ash dieback epidemic, and as the first great trees are toppled, most of […]
Uniting the identity of Pastorals through first ever National Pastoral ParliamentGOPNAAD, ‘Mera’ village, Becharaji, Mehsana, Gujarat Pastorals from across the country meeting in Gujarat ‘It is the high time to reestablish the contribution of pastorals for sustainability of the environment, in the context where humanity has reached a verge of crisis’. With this as the central […]
Dr Robert J BurrowesHonourary Editor, Ground Report IndiaTax havens are locations around the world where wealthy individuals, criminals and terrorists, as well as governments and government agencies (such as the CIA), banks, corporations, hedge funds, international organizations (such as the Vatican) and crime syndicates (such as the Mafia), can stash their money so that they […]
Col Shashikant G DalviNational Coordinator (Water Conservation),The Climate Reality Project, IndiaDirector, ParjanyaRain water Harvesting Consultancy In February 2002, Govt of Maharashtra published GR titled “SHIV KAALIN PAANI SAATHAVAN YOJANA“ making it mandatory for all govt & public buildings to recharge depleting groundwater table using” Roof Top Rain Water Harvesting” method. Marathawada region in the state […]
Prof John Scales Avery, PhDwas part of a group that shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize “Only immediate climate action can save the future. If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.” A new book I have written a 396-page book about the […]
Robert J. Burrowes PhDHonorary Editor, Ground Report IndiaMohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869: 150 years ago this year. There will be many tributes to Gandhi published in 2019 so I would like to add one of my own. This reflects not just my belief that he gave the world inspiration, ideas and powerful strategies […]
Vivek Umrao GlendenningThe Founder and the Editor, Ground Report IndiaThe Vice-Chancellor & Co-Founder, The Gokul Social UniversityThis story starts some years back with a promise with the public by Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, for building an All India Institute of Medical Sciences, AIIMS in Varanasi on demand of people of Varanasi and […]
Prof Michael BrennerProfessor of International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, USAHonourary International Advisor, Ground Report India Emanuel Macron’s ascendance to the Elys ée is trumpeted by the Anglo-American media as an epochal event that ushers in a new Golden Age for France. He is heralded as savior of a failing country – a combination of […]
Ajay Ghosh Urging AAPI to bring in traditional Indian wellness practices to modern medical systems, President describes “AAPI as a link between two vibrant and democratic societies” (Mumbai, India. December 29h, 2018) The Honorable President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, inaugurated the 12th edition of the Global Healthcare Summit organized by the American Association of Physicians […]
Robert J. Burrowes PhD While it is now very late in the life cycle of homo sapiens, with extinction now due to consign us to Earth’s fossil record – see ‘Will humans be extinct by 2026?’ – I would like to make a belated pitch for the importance of the human individual and why nurturing each […]
Prof John Scales Avery, PhDwas part of a group that shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize A “With law shall our land be built up, but with lawlessness laid waste.”Njal’s Saga, Iceland, c 1270 AD Quick Navigation The present United Nations CharterWhy call war an “institution”?A World FederationThe success of federationsLaws binding on individualsGreatly increased financial […]
Dr Robert J BurrowesHonourary Editor, Ground Report IndiaHave you heard the expression ‘climate change’? That lovely expression that suggests a holiday in a place with a more pleasant climate.Unfortunately, only the rarest individual has the capacity to see through the elite-promulgated delusion that generated this benign expression and its twin notions that 1.5 degrees celsius […]
Col Shashi G Dalvi (Rtd)District Manager (Pune)The Climate Reality Project, IndiaDirector, PARJANYA The Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) is the back-bone for Industrial revolution in the state of Maharashtra. It has about 233 industrial complexes spread over 1,30,000 acres of land all over the state. It provides fully developed industrial plots with all the necessary infrastructure, […]
Dr Robert J BurrowesHonourary Editor, Ground Report IndiaBritish author and social commentator H.G. Wells may have coined the expression that originally popularized World War I as The War that Will End War, as his book, based on articles written during that vast military conflict, was titled. In any case, in one version or another, the […]
Robert J. Burrowes PhDHonorary Editor, Ground Report IndiaThe continuing rise of fascism around the world is drawing increasing attention particularly as it takes firmer grip within national societies long seen to have rejected it. Some recent studies have reminded us of the characteristics of fascist movements and individuals, particularly as they manifest among politically active fascists. […]
Prof John Scales Avery, PhDwas part of a group that shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize The superficiality of today’s televisionThe wealth and power of the establishmentNewspapers and warThe mass media and our present crisisOur duty to future generations The superficiality of today’s televisionSocial critic Neil Postman contrasted the futures predicted in Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave […]
Robert J. Burrowes PhD‘When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it – always.’ M.K. Gandhi As we remember Gandhi Jayanti on 2 […]
Dr Robert J BurrowesHonourary Editor, Ground Report IndiaDeveloping the tradition charted by C. Wright Mills in his 1956 classic The Power Elite, in his latest book, Professor Peter Phillips starts by reviewing the transition from the nation state power elites described by authors such as Mills to a transnational power elite centralized on the control […]
Dear Fellow Citizens, Exactly 71 years ago in 1947 at the stroke of midnight the freedom and birth of our country was declared. A hope of new dawn had taken birth in the mind and heart of tens of millions of fellow citizens with the unfettering of the chains of their slavery. With the hope of the […]
Dr Robert J BurrowesHonourary Editor, Ground Report IndiaThere is almost unanimous agreement among climate scientists and organizations – that is, 97% of over 10,000 climate scientists and the various scientific organizations engaged in climate science research – that human beings have caused a dramatic increase in the amount of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide […]
