Visitors: 406West Bengal, India 17th November 2009 at about 00.30 a full circle of human despair has been completed with the death of Ms. EM Parvati aged about 45 years and wife of Late EM Ganesh. Parvati was another name in countless aggrieved of apathy of state deliverance and mindless development policy of the State, […]
Visitors: 354We welcome the reports that the Government of India and the CPI (Maoist) are agreeable to the idea of talks. In the present situation talks are the only way to come to a resolution of any problem, however difficult it may be. We reiterate that the talks should be unconditional, and that they should […]
Visitors: 505European Union “The biggest polluters turn out to become the biggest failures for climate protection”, commented EP Environment Committee Chair Jo Leinen (S&D, DE), on this weekends events. On the contrary, the December climate conference in Copenhagen “needs to become a success”, stressed Mr Leinen, who will chair the EP’s Copenhagen delegation. It would […]
Triloki Nath Purwar(The article was written in 1971, before the Bangladesh war) Headlines THE CRISISMAN’S NATURESOCIAL DEVELOPMENTNEW DIRECTIONFUTURE SOCIETYTHE SUBCONTINENT THE CRISISHuman society has been experiencing a suffocating and depressing situation in community living the world over. The conflict between nationalities and ideologies is sapping our creative energies in various spheres of life. In the […]
Visitors: 355North East Region, Jammu & Kashmir; India RESOLUTION We the civil society groups from Jammu and Kashmir and the North East affected by militarization and Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and other organizations in solidarity, having come together from 12 to 14 November 2009 at New Delhi and deliberated on the issues of […]
Visitors: 421 15 November 2009 “Since November 2008, thirty-five print and online journalists have been murdered,” said Marian Botsford Fraser, Chair of the Writers in Prison Committee. “All over the world, writers and journalists and bloggers are suffering for practicing their right to speak out on issues that matter.” On 15 November 2009, International PEN’s […]
Visitors: 386people of Indian Institute of Technology initiative, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India Shiksha Sopan continued its activities in all three sections of Shiksha, Sanskar and Swavalamban. There were contact programmes in Hostels, visit by eminent personalities, Special lectures, a Science workshop for teachers of local schools close to IITK Campus etc., apart from regular activities […]
Visitors: 324November 14, 2009: Opposing the proposal to weaken the Right to Information Act by amending it within the first four years of its implementation, people from 10 states across the country gathered together at Jantar Mantar for a day long dharna to warn the government against bringing any amendments. Several people’s groups and organisations […]
Visitors: 337 West Bengal, India Name of victim: Mr. Anwar Gain, son of Late Elahi Baksh Gain, aged about 35 years, by faith-Muslim, Post Office and Village -Tetulberia, Police Station – Gaighata, District – North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India. Name of perpetrators: (1) Mr. N R Paswan, BSF Camp-Inspector; (2) Mr. S. Hudda and […]
Visitors: 580 You may recall the case of Professor Davinderpal Singh Bhullar, a Sikh political activist, who went to Germany almost 15 years ago in December 1994 to seek political asylum after his father was disappeared by the Punjab police in 1991 and his family was repeatedly harassed and tortured. Bhullar was a known political […]
Visitors: 456 Peace leads to Human Rights; Vishwaranjan recovers the lost Human Rights of the poor. The peaceful jungles of Bastar were turned disturbed and made full of horror by almost all the departments of the government, since 1980. The nefarious acts of different government departments resulted in to Naxalism. It was not only the […]
Visitors: 321We conducted a fact finding upon information received that the victim Prashanta Mondal (deceased), District-Murshidabad was gunned down by the involved BSF personnel attached with Out-Post no.1 under DMC BSF BOP Camp, Lalgola Police Station, Murshidabad. The incident took place on 17/8/2009 at about 4 am. The victim was reportedly apprehended by the perpetrator […]
Visitors: 276Chhattisgarh, India (3 A.M on 6th of November) So – called safe guarders of the poor have once again showed their real face tonight at 3 A.M. by destroying the Peoples property. Two school buildings at Village Phulpad Police Station – Kuakonda were destroyed by them. This way, they deprived hundreads of Children from […]
Visitors: 329West Bengal, India I am attaching an incident of utter violation of rights of a child, not only by the domestic legal laws but also contravening the articles of UNCRC, which has been ratified by the Indian State more than decades ago and by that having the compulsion to ensure the rights of the […]
Visitors: 230 Bihar, India (GRI has requested to author for english translation) बिहार सूचना का अधिकार मंच द्वारा भारतीय नृत्य कला मंदिर, पटना में “मेरी आवाज सुनो” कार्यक्रम का आयोजन हुआ, जिसमें मुख्य रुप से मैग्सेसे अवार्ड विजेता श्री अरविंद केजरीवाल, सुप्रीम कोर्ट में वरीय अधिवक्ता श्री प्रशान्त भूषण, बिहार मानवाधिकार आयोग के अध्यक्ष माननीय […]
Visitors: 266 Central Information Commissioners are selected arbitrarily. You need proof? C J Karira — a fellow petitioner in our PIL filed in Delhi High Court this week — emailed me some classic second-appeal orders passed by Chief CIC Wajahat. Three different RTI applicants asked: “Yes, we understand about Prime Minister’s Recommendation Committee and the […]
Visitors: 279 Bihar, India I am activist by nature and when found malpractices in issuing Kisan Credit Card from Madhya Bihar Gramin Bank, Arai, filed an RTI application seeking related informations. My application was rejected by PIO with a comment that informations are of confidential nature and may cause some business competitions. Anyway, I escalated […]
Visitors: 300 For full article please click on Full Article The Deadly Challenge Of Climate Change Began To Arise Only 250 Years Before The UNIPCC report clearly states that the planet earth was pollution-free before the advent of capitalism some 300 years back. By1750, pollution began to appear. The expert reports point out that increase […]
Visitors: 260I want to express my feelings through Ground Report India. I am happy that someone realize how a few people are using media to spread rumours and gain publicity and popularity of the news channel or news paper. Sometimes they do some inhuman act that can cause lot of pain to someone. I have […]
Visitors: 288 Please read the copy of petition filed with the Honorable Supreme Court of India against The Maharashtra State Government and The Secretary and Managing Committee of Premnagar Bldg No. 5 Co-op Hsg Society , Borivali(West), Mumbai-400092. I am very sorry to inform you about very casual and negligent approach of the Maharashtra State […]
Visitors: 333We must cry foul and blow the whistle! The composition of Central Information Commission shows that the current method of selection completely biased in favour of those residing in Delhi / North India and having central government jobs, especially jobs related to DOPT, PMO and Information Commission. Such biased appointments are inherently unlawful and […]
Visitors: 272 The way government currently appoints Information Commissioners is itself an RTI Act violation. Poocho kaise? Section 12(5) specifies: “The Chief Information Commissioner and Information Commissioners shall be persons of eminence in public life with wide knowledge and experience in law, science and technology, social service, management, journalism, mass media or administration and governance.” […]
Visitors: 261Hon’ble Prime Minister & Chief Ministers, Naxalites or Maoists (One would not know what is the difference between them) appear to have driven home the point that there is widespread hatred and mistrust about the politicians and government officials amongst the people, particularly those belonging to the lower income group. In view of such […]
Visitors: 224The spectrum scandal is in the news again..The central bureau of investigation has raided the offices which comes under the IT and communication ministry. Union cabinet Minister Raja who is the minister in charge of the department has been repeatedly saying that he did what his predecessor did in 2001.So it is obvious the […]
Visitors: 255 There is a saying: “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me!” If tomorrow’s newspaper announces that former DoPT Secretary A N Tiwari – or anybody else – has been abruptly appointed as Chief Central Information Commissioner, let us shave our heads in shame. It is wrong to arbitrarily […]