Visitors: 194 Your Excellency, Prime Minister Abe, Members of the media, I am delighted to welcome Prime Minister Abe to India. It is a great pleasure to host a personal friend and a great champion of India-Japan partnership. No partner has played such a decisive role in India’s economic transformation as Japan. No friend will […]
Visitors: 218 Dr Ram Puniyani Rtd Professor, IIT Bombay Evangelical Fellowship of India and Alliance Defending Freedom, India EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Christian community in India is concerned at the intensity of the targeted and communal violence directed against it almost on a pan India basis. Violence against Christians picked up in independent India in the […]
Visitors: 496 Walter Hahn Founder – Coordinator, German Dalit Solidarity Platform. Founding Member, International Dalit Solidarity Network. Strong supporter of Campaign for Electoral Reforms in India In October 2008 the “Campaign for Electoral Reforms in India (CERI)” was launched in Dhaka with an international conference after a preparation phase of more than two years. […]
Visitors: 381 by Dr Madeleine Florin, PhD In the second week of the month of April 2012 I was lucky enough to catch a brief glimpse of life in Chhattisgarh, mostly of Dantewada district. For transport, I hurtled around in the back seat of the well driven and well stocked car labelled “Press”. Again, […]
Visitors: 204 New York, January 31, 2012 The Indian government should prosecute members of the security forces for recent high-profile cases of torture, to send a message that such practices will no longer be tolerated, Human Rights Watch said today. Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers, long implicated in torture and extrajudicial killings near the border […]
Visitors: 190 Anoop Nobert A new ruling dispensation has started its tenure in the southern most state of India 8 months ago & it will be not be inappropriate to think about the state of Kerala. In fact, the backdrop of the various talks and deliberations about the Free Trade Agreements only makes it too […]
Visitors: 393 Prof. Satish Kailash Indian Institute of Science, (IISc) Bangalore Prof Monto Mani Indian Institute of Science, (IISc) Bangalore Abstract: Many studies have warned that the alarming depletion of water table in many parts of India, unless urgently and effectively arrested, would be irreversible. This steep decline is traced to the […]
Visitors: 435 Prof Willem Vervoort Associate Professor Hydrology Research Laboratory Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources The University of Sydney, NSW Australia Abstract Floods have a devastating effect on human lives and local economies, and therefore the traditional government risk management approach has been to reduce the occurrence probability of floods. As such, […]
Visitors: 331 Prof Surendra Pathak Director, Research IASE Deemed University Head, Department of value Education, IASE Deemed University Mother earth is considered one of the most beautiful and harmonious planets in the Universe. Earth may be the only planet in our galaxy that has enough water and environment for the further evolution […]
Visitors: 397 Shankar Sharma Preface The ‘expert group on low carbon strategies for inclusive growth’ which was set up under the Planning Commission to develop a strategy for India’s 12th Five Year Plan has released its interim report recently. While this interim report echoes the earlier govt. stand that India is one of […]
Visitors: 255 Prof S S A Jafri PhD Ms Milita Haldar Giri Institute of Development Studies, Lucknow Lecturer, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial Engineering and Management College, Lucknow and Doctoral Fellow, Giri Institute of Development Studies, Lucknow Abstract For having all round development of the economy, the need of the hour is to have sound land use […]
Visitors: 544 Anupam Mishra Environmentalist Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi Covered with sweat, the chelvanji is at work inside the kuin (well). Already about a depth of thirty to thirty five hands (cubits) have been dug. Now onwards the heat inside will go on increasing. The width of the kuin and its circumference are […]
Visitors: 175 Written By: Yogesh Pratap Singh He is a former IPS officer and lawyerCould be reached at- yogeshpratapsingh AT gmail.com —————— Anna’s fall was predicted by me in April 2011 in an article in Tehelka. New York Times and others in media are analysing the same now when it should have been done then. […]
Visitors: 192 1. Overview India is faced with the challenge of sustaining its rapid economic growth while dealing with the global threat of climate change. This threat emanates from accumulated greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, anthropogenically generated through long-term and intensive industrial growth and high consumption lifestyles in developed countries. While engaged with the […]
Visitors: 155 By:Sachin Kumar JainWriter is a activist closely associated with Right to Food CampaignContact: Vikas Samvad, E-7/226, First Floor, Opp. Dhanvantri Complex, Arera Colony, Shahpura, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh Amidst the cacophony around the Lokpal Bill, National Food Security Bill 2011 has been tabled in the Loksabha. Whatever the Government of India has fleshed in […]
Visitors: 209 The Centre for Development Studies at Tata Institute of Social Sciences in collaboration with Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore and Institute for Economic Growth (IEG) with support from United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is organizing a two-day National Consultative Meeting on the above theme during 15-16 December, 2011 at TISS, […]
Visitors: 224 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: 229 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: 198 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 […]
Visitors: 171 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: 194 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) […]
Visitors: 193 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: 171 New case of dementia arises every seven seconds in the world . And India will have one of the largest numbers of elders with this mind crippling illness. World Alzheimer’s Day was launched 17 years ago on 21st September 1994, to unite people affected by Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias around the world. […]
Visitors: 199 Background 1.0. The Need for a National River Policy Flowing rivers are the lifelines of millions of humans and no humans alike. Vast number of people meet their drinking, domestic and non domestic and agricultural needs of water from the water flowing in the rivers. The fisherman and other dependent groups earn their […]
Visitors: 165 Comprising of the 8 states of Assam, Manipur, Tripura, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Arunachal, North East is India’s one of the most culturally vibrant and ethnically diverse region with over 205 ethnic tribes and about 175 linguistic groups. Each state in the region has its own history, cultural resources and socio-political strengths […]