Visitors: 319# 1. Most recent: Murderous attack on Environmentalists Sumaira Abdulali & Naseer Jalal, and TOI Journalists. Maharashtra, March 16. On March 16, the sand-mining mafia which is choking Bankot Creek – a rich mangrove habitat for migratory birds, crocodiles and marine life in Maharashtra’s Raigad district — attacked environmental activists Sumaira Abdulali and Naseer […]
Visitors: 270Orissa, India We express our concern on the police raid of the house of Sri Dandapani Mohapatra, a writer and journalist. On 11th March 2010, while Sri Mohapatra was away in some meeting, violating all procedures, the police raided his house for nearly six hours ransacking all his belongings and not even allowing his […]
Visitors: 403West Bengal, India Mr. Gopen Chandra Sharma, son of late Mr. Gopal Chandra Sharma, Village – Dayarampur, Police Station – Jalangi, District – Murshidabad, West Bengal, India has been an active defender in different parts of Murshidabad district for last six years. There had been multiple attempts by police in connivance with others to […]
Visitors: 345Tamilnadu, India Chandru, a 24 years old and a Second Year Post Graduate Student of English Literature, was born on 16.09.1985 at Thanneer Palli a small village of Tamilnadu. He belongs to a poor family. His father was farmer died because of illness caused by habit of alcohol, when Chandru was 12 years child. […]
Visitors: 649Maharashtra, India WRIT PETITION ON PADMA AWARDS DISCRIMINATION FOR URGENT SUO MOTU CONSIDERATIONMoved under articles 226, 12, 13 and 14 and also under article 51A of the Constitution of India and appropriate rules framed thereunder. Dr. Leo Rebello, The Petitioner-in-Person Residing at: 28/552 Samata Nagar, Kandivali East, Mumbai 400101.VersusThe Union of India, through the offices […]
Visitors: 277Almost every developing country in the world except a few countries like Myanmar and North Korea claim that theirs is a democratic governance. Obviously, democracy as a concept is viewed as the most desirable form of governance and people of every country would like to jump into this band wagon. However, in actual practice […]
Visitors: 309West Bengal, India Case Details :- Name of the Victims:- (1) Ms. Fatima Bewa (name changed), Female, 45 years, Religion – Islam; (2) Ms. Mumtaz (name changed), Female, 21 years, residing at Village & Post Office – Kazi Para, No.4 Gate, Police Station – Barasat, District –North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India Name of […]
Visitors: 265New Delhi The World Water Day is being celebrated 20 March 2010 at UNEP’s Headquarters at Nairobi in Kenya. This year’s global celebration is jointly hosted by UNEP, UN-Habitat, the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation (UNSGAB) and the Government of Kenya. This event brings together policy-makers, scientists and eminent personalities throughout […]
Visitors: 305Maharashtra, India In my earlier article on the importance of exercising our right to have FIR registered, I extensively discussed approaching the police, but only cursorily mentioned approaching Magistrates.(In case you haven’t read it, visit: http://www.groundreportindia.com/2010/02/citizen-power-to-get-fir-registered.html) Some better-informed friends immediately wrote back, asking me to correct ambiguities and inaccuracies in this respect. First, let […]
Visitors: 393South Asia In 2009, the 16th year of its existence, the Association for Communal Harmony in Asia (ACHA) has continued to make slow, but steady progress in the pursuit of its mission of promoting peace in South Asia and harmony among South Asians everywhere. ACHA still is one of the oldest, best organized, most […]
Visitors: 268This writer was part of a fact-finding team that inquired into the “attack” on the Holy Family Church, Hinkal, in Mysore in February 2002. The team had found out, among other things, that the incident was a minor one – a minor scuffle in the church premises and a broken window-pane. The incident should […]
Visitors: 366Tonga, The Women and Children Crisis Centre (WCCC) is appalled with the final remark in the Tongan Prime Minister’s statement at the Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Ashika Tragedy last week. The Prime Minister stated: “finally, counsel assisting the Commission, you may be an excellent counsel in Australia, but when you are in […]
Visitors: 289Mumbai, Maharashtra Armed with documentary evidence received in several installments from DoPT, Mumbai RTI Activist Girish Mittal filed a formal complaint with Chief Central Election Commissioner Navin Kumar for breach of Model Code of Conduct during the Lok Sabha Elections held in 2009. The complaint, which was dispatched on Friday along with supporting documents, […]
Visitors: 238I’m not a trained economist. But I sort of understand it from a grassroots, human rights pov. I hope you have time to read my little column. Feedback and circulation welcome. For more articles on this very important subject, look up www.outlookindia.com ._____opinion (Outlook India, March 15, 2010)The Khaas Aadmi Budget: It’s time people […]
Visitors: 320West Bengal, India Name of the Victims:- 1. Mr. Samir Mondal, son of Mr. Sanatan Mondal, aged about- 32 years, Caste-Scheduled Caste, faith-Hindu, occupation-Farmer2. Mr. Kanai Dolui s/o Mr. Manmath Dalui and3. Mr. Nikhil Sarkar s/o Mr. Nimai Sarkar, all three residing at village-Chhotomollakhali School Para, Post Office– Chhotomollakhali, Police Station– Sunderban Coastal, District […]
Visitors: 242Tamilnadu, India 30 visually impaired women from different economic background, age group and educational level from all over Tamil Nadu participated in the round table discussion. The discussion was organised by Nandini Voice For The Deprived. HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DISCUSSIONS Highlights of the views expressed by the visually impaired women on different problems and […]
Visitors: 263Uttar Pradesh, India CPI(ML)-New Democracy condemns Mayawati Govt’s pro-feudal malevolent police violence against landless and poor peasantry. ‘Special’ targets of Mayawati’s police: Women and minor girls. On 4th March 2010 the CPI(ML) New Democracy held a demonstration at Jantar Mantar from 12 noon onwards against the brutal police –PAC assault ordered by Mayawati Govt […]
Visitors: 252West Bengal, India Name of the victims:- (1) Ms. Sahida Bibi wife of Mr. Nesar Gazi aged about-35 years, by faith-Muslim, occupation-rag picker; (2) Master Abdul Alim Gazi son of Mr. Nesar Gazi, aged about-15 years, both residing at 4A Basanti Colony, Police Station-Ultadanga, District-Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Name of the perpetrators:- (1) Three […]
Visitors: 426Maharashtra Dr Arun Gadre, of Pune, Maharashtra is the winner of this year’s Maanav Adhikaar Paaritaushik (Human Dignity Award) of Rupees One Lakh in memory of Professor M. M. Guptara. The citation reads: “Dr Gadre worked for some 20 years in a rural part of Maharashtra as a gynecologist: instead of working in a […]
Visitors: 332 Vivek Umrao Glendenning MCIJ International Journalist, the Chartered Institute of Journalists, London Member, Wikimedia /Wikipedia Australia Member, International PEN Member, International PEN Sydney Centre Indian Administration Services should be renamed as the Indian Public Facilitation Services or Indian Public Services. (It was called as Indian Civil Services, ICS, and after Independence it was […]
Visitors: 358GRI February-2010-Edition Download PDF File By Ground Report India (GRI)
Visitors: 334Our modern world is not only crazier than we think, but crazier than we can possibly imagine. This can be proved by the following examples: The Court in Minnesota orders a parent to poison her 13-year-old boy with chemotherapy as it believes chemo is the only treatment for cancer that works (parental and child […]
Visitors: 305As I write this page, the Union minister for environment and forests is deliberating whether Bt brinjal can be grown and eaten in India. So, at the outset, let me make my own bias clear. I am not an anti-GM person; I have no ideological problems with the use of genetically modified technology to […]
Visitors: 473Port Vila, Vanuatu – February 24Central banks of the Pacific are becoming active in building more inclusive financial systems. Representatives of five Pacific central banks met today to discuss how to extend financial services to the unbanked, including how to oversee new technologies such as mobile phone banking while protecting clients. It is estimated […]
Visitors: 413New York The Iranian government should immediately stop harassing and arbitrarily detaining members of the Baha’i community, Human Rights Watch said today. (Dozens Detained Without Charge; Leaders Face Charges Carrying Death Penalty) The detention of 13 Baha’is on February 10 and 11 follows the arrest of 13 others in early January. The government alleges […]