Reports

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: 337For 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 Ideology, […]

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

GRI Cover Reports, Environment, Indian States, Reports 0

Visitors: 395 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: 257Dear 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 other. […]

PM visits Sikkim, announces 1000 crore rupee relief

GRI Indian States, Reports 0

Visitors: 217 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

Visitors: 237 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 […]

Balochistan: Pakistan's response to crisis failing

GRI Human Rights, International, Reports 0

Visitors: 334 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: 344 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: 229 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: 583 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: 320 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: 341 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: 297 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: 336 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: 306 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: 245 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: 299 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 […]

India- Governance- Issues (IGI)

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

Visitors: 232 Umesh Rashmi Rohtagi graduated in Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 1968 in India, recieved masters degree from University of Michigan in 1982 in USA. 24161 Nilan Drive Novi MI 48375, USA Phone : (248) 471-5786 In India we give more importance to People, Party and not to Issues. Even in minutes of meeting […]

India- Governance- Issues (IGI)

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

Visitors: 281 Umesh Rashmi Rohtagi graduated in Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 1968 in India, recieved masters degree from University of Michigan in 1982 in USA. 24161 Nilan Drive Novi MI 48375, USA Phone : (248) 471-5786 In India we give more importance to People, Party and not to Issues. Even in minutes of meeting […]

PEN International celebrates International Day of Peace 21 September 2011

GRI Freedom-of-Expression, International, International Organizations, Reports 0

Visitors: 372 ‘There can be no freedom without peace, nor peace without freedom’ Today is International Day of Peace, officially recognised by the United Nations and identified as a global day of ceasefire. Peace-building is at the heart of PEN International’s work celebrating literature and promoting freedom of expression. Connecting a global community of writers, […]

PEN International celebrates International Day of Peace 21 September 2011

GRI Freedom-of-Expression, International, International Organizations, Reports 0

Visitors: 412 ‘There can be no freedom without peace, nor peace without freedom’ Today is International Day of Peace, officially recognised by the United Nations and identified as a global day of ceasefire. Peace-building is at the heart of PEN International’s work celebrating literature and promoting freedom of expression. Connecting a global community of writers, […]

Putting Sustainable Energy at the top of global development agenda: EU Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs, appointed as member of the UN High Level Group on Sustainable Energy for All

GRI Environment, International, Reports 0

Visitors: 384 Brussels, 20 September 2011 Today, EU Commissioner Piebalgs was appointed as a member of the High-level Group on Sustainable Energy for all, together with leaders from business, government, international organisation and civil society. He attended the launch of the UN High Level Group in New York, in presence of UN Secretary General Ban […]

Putting Sustainable Energy at the top of global development agenda: EU Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs, appointed as member of the UN High Level Group on Sustainable Energy for All

GRI Environment, International, Reports 0

Visitors: 342 Brussels, 20 September 2011 Today, EU Commissioner Piebalgs was appointed as a member of the High-level Group on Sustainable Energy for all, together with leaders from business, government, international organisation and civil society. He attended the launch of the UN High Level Group in New York, in presence of UN Secretary General Ban […]

Gujarat’s Wounds : Can Fasting bring harmony, while the scars remain unattended to?

GRI Human Rights, Indian States, Reports 0

Visitors: 255 Prof Ram Puniyani (Rtd) Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Life is full of strange paradoxes. Narendra Modi undertook fast for three days for Sadbhavna (Harmony), to mark complete peace, unity and harmony (Sept 2011). This came in the backdrop of the Supreme Court verdict which has asked the trial court to examine all […]

Gujarat’s Wounds : Can Fasting bring harmony, while the scars remain unattended to?

GRI Human Rights, Indian States, Reports 0

Visitors: 291 Prof Ram Puniyani (Rtd) Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Life is full of strange paradoxes. Narendra Modi undertook fast for three days for Sadbhavna (Harmony), to mark complete peace, unity and harmony (Sept 2011). This came in the backdrop of the Supreme Court verdict which has asked the trial court to examine all […]

Acharya Neeraj on Ganga, cow, agriculture, water and climate change

GRI Environment, Reports, Video Reports 0

Visitors: 414Acharya Neeraj is sharing his experiences of 3000 Kms long foot march from Gomukh to Gangasagar to save the holy river Ganga. He completed foot march in about 5 months (150 days). He has been working on water, environment and village economy for around one decade. Video by: Vivek Umrao Glendenning MCIJ International Journalist, […]