Reports

Human Rights Defenders working in tribal area against displacement in Orissa are under wrath of the state – Please take action

GRI Human Rights, Indian States, Reports 0

Visitors: 274To,Justice G. P, MathurThe Acting ChairmanNational Human Rights CommissionFaridkot HouseCopernicus MargNew Delhi-110001 Respected Sir, We are deeply concerned by the fact that the members and activists of one fraternal organization namely Keonjhar Integrated Rural Development and Training Institute (KIRDTI) came under police rage for their legitimate work in the forefront of human rights. This […]

NDMCT ‘s 1298 Senior Citizen Helpline for Mumbai launched

GRI Indian States, Reports 0

Visitors: 355On 10th May 2010 , ‘1298 Senior Citizen Helpline for Mumbai’ was launched by Chief Guest Ms. Asha Parekh in presence of Guest of Honour Shri D. Shivnandan, Mrs. Priya Dutt, Honorable Member of Parliament and Ms. Sweta Mangal, CEO of Dial 1298 for Ambulance service. India is gradually undergoing a demographic change. With […]

Chargesheeted for singing National Anthem, ten activists plan nationwide protest

GRI Indian States, Reports 0

Visitors: 239By: Chetan R, Place: Mumbai What began as a tiff between the state chief information commissioner and a group of 10 Right to Information (RTI) activists could now snowball into a nation-wide protest. The 10 activists had sung the national anthem during a visit to the RTI commissioner’s office in May 2008. ‘Penalise officials’ […]

JUSTICE DINAKARAN INQUIRY DELAYED BECAUSE OF MANIPULATIONS AT HIGH LEVEL ?

GRI Indian States, Reports 0

Visitors: 243We have created a history of sort by promoting Justice Anil Dave to Supreme Court of India. His was the shortest tenure as the CJ of Bombay High Court and I am thinking of recommending this feat to the Limca Book of Records !!! 🙂 Mr. Dave was appointed on the probe panel in […]

Naxals again display their cowardice act: it’s neither a social or political intention rather economic.

GRI Freedom-of-Expression, Indian States, Reports 0

Visitors: 241Chhattisgarh, The Nange Paon Satyagrha strongly condemns cowardice act of naxals in which they blew up one CRPF van on 8th May, 2010. The Nange Paon Satyagrah is a social campaign against all those traditions, customs, policies and practices which give rise to inequality, promote injustice and hinder liberty. Nange Paon (barefoot) is symbol […]

Tackling India’s Water Crisis

GRI Environment, Indian States, Reports 0

Visitors: 282Broadly speaking, there are more than two billion people worldwide who are currently living in regions afflicted with water scarcity and in India in particular, the water crisis is assuming added dimensions in view of rapid shrinking of Himalayan glaciers, brisk depletion of surface and underground water resources as well as pollution of major […]

GMO products and their pain

GRI Environment, Indian States, Reports 0

Visitors: 214More interesting reports on the dangers of GMO and the profit-centric human-phobic activity of Monsanto. Check out the weed resistance report: http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/weeds-are-now-resisting-monsanto-weed Also enjoy the comments at the end of the report. This must be given the widest possible publicity so that more Governments and farms do not fall prey to the so called […]

Indian citizens helplessly languishing in prison of Bangladesh

GRI Human Rights, Indian States, Reports 0

Visitors: 246To Shri S.M. KrishnaHonorable MinisterMinistry of External AffairsGovernment of IndiaNew Delhi Dear Sir I want to draw your kind attention on couple of cases where Indian citizens are languishing in Bangladeshi prisons (Rajsahi Prison) after completing their terms and in couple of others the persons were framed into charges but without having the access […]

Woman was tortured, modesty was challenged by the BSF & inaction of West Bengal police

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Visitors: 283ToThe Director GeneralBorder Security ForceBlock No. 10, CGO ComplexLodhi RoadNew Delhi – 3 Dear Sir I like to inform you about an outrageous incident committed by four BSF personnel upon one 45 year old married woman (name withheld). Our organization; MASUM received information that on 24/04/2010 at around 3 am while the victim along […]

PEACE CHANNEL CLUBS ARE MODERN MORUNG

GRI Indian States, Reports 0

Visitors: 262Rev. C.P. Anto, the Founder and Director, Peace channel while addressing the one day training of Peace Channel club leaders on 24th April 2010 at Dimapur, said that Peace Channel Clubs can be the modern Morung, where not only the young boys get trained in developing the skills but also the girls. In the […]

HARRY POTTER WITH A desi INDIAN FLAVOUR

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Visitors: 345“GHOSTS, OCCULTS &EXORCISTS”, a book containing narrations on ten real life experiences of Parur S,.Ganesan with apparitions was released to-day by Senior Advocate Mr.S.Venkiteswaran at a function organized by the Rotary Club of Deonar before a large gathering. Given below is a profile of the book. It may be recalled that while reviewing Harry […]

Amartya Sen’s Idea of Food Security

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Visitors: 1,241Amartya Sen, the Nobel Prize winning economist and considered the leading social scientist in the world today, has been advocating for decades that economic growth, rise in GDP and income are only a means not the ends of development. He first clearly laid out these views in his essay: How is India Doing? In […]

April 2010 Edition

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Visitors: 310GRI April-2010-Edition Download PDF File By Ground Report India (GRI)

Democratic Society – the Recent Utopia

GRI Cover Reports, Environment, Freedom-of-Expression, Human Rights, International, Reports, Research Articles, Writers in Solidarity Yora Atanasova 0

Visitors: 502(please click for original article in Bulgarian) The Lost Illusions during the Years after 1989 The World in April 2010 What is Coming? I have twice experienced big disillusionment in my life – with “the real socialism” and with the “real” democracy, as I grew up during the socialism, experienced the transition, and gradually […]

Special Edition on Water Issues

GRI Editorials, Environment, Reports, Vivek U Glendenning "Social Nomad" 0

Visitors: 312Dear Friends, Thank you for appreciation and contributions to establish and empower the Ground Report India (GRI) as a ground voice for the common people. The Ground Report India is planning a Special Edition in the month of September 2010 on Water Issues and ground works on Water Issues in India. Please send reports […]

An untold story of a human rights activist (Maoist : Am I a sympathiser or Supporter) by Gladson Dungdung)

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Visitors: 442I appeared in the public life through my human rights works, writings and speeches. However, I reached to the larger audience when I had got a chance to appear in CNN-IBN and NDTV-24×7 debates on the issue of Naxalism last year. After these debates, I got immense positive and negative responses from across the […]

Thimphu Statement on Climate Change

GRI Environment, International, Reports 0

Visitors: 462Bhutan, The Sixteenth Meeting of the Heads of State or Government of the Member States of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in Thimphu, Bhutan, on 28-29 April 2010, Recalling the high priority attached by the Leaders of SAARC at successive Summits towards preserving and sustainably managing the rich, fragile and diverse […]

Middle East/Asia: Partial Reforms Fail Migrant Domestic Workers

GRI Human Rights, International, Reports 0

Visitors: 402On International Labor Day, Governments Should Pledge to Make Comprehensive Reforms New York, The reforms undertaken by Middle Eastern and Asian governments fall far short of the minimum protections needed to tackle abuses against migrant domestic workers, Human Rights Watch said today in a report released in advance of May 1, International Labor Day. […]

Suicides and attempts for suicide by the students of IIT Kanpur (An autonomous prestigious Institute where recruiters come from heaven)

GRI Human Rights, Indian States, Reports 0

Visitors: 454IIT Kanpur, It was the night of this April 19’2010, Snehal Ajit Indurkar, student of IIT Kanpur cut a slit into her left hand nerve to end her life just because of the fear of termination, if you are stunned please don’t be now because this is like the sun rises every morning and […]

An open letter to Union minster for Environment and Forests

GRI Environment, Indian States, Reports 0

Visitors: 297Dear Sir,  Subject: Support for ministry’s principled stand on Acts of Parliament  Greetings from the Western Ghats. The recent news media seem to be replete with reports that the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) is facing criticism that environment clearance to many projects, which will need either diversion of forest lands OR […]

National Online Survey Report of Senior Citizens & Letter of Protest to MOSJE Mr.Mukul Wasnik

GRI Indian States, Reports 0

Visitors: 271On 24th April National Online Survey Report and a Protest Letter was submitted to MOSJE Shri Mukul Wasnik by Sailesh Mishra at Bangalore at Inauguration function of Nightingale Center for Ageing & Dementia.The Minister assured that he will look into the matter. On 8th Dec 2009 the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment (MOSJE), […]

ISSUES FACING ELDERLY PERSONS

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Visitors: 220While the improvement in medical science has enabled longevity of life for many people, this has also brought about many issues. There are number of instances that both the elderly parents and the children compliment each other in an elegant manner, with total understanding of each other’s needs. However, this is not always the […]

CHRONOLOGY OF POLICE ATROCITIES & HARASSMENTS AGAINST MASUM ACTIVISTS – FOR CONDUCTING PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL ON TORTURE

GRI Human Rights, Indian States, Reports 0

Visitors: 483West Bengal, FEBRUARY 2006MASUM initiated National Project on Preventing Torture in India (NPPTI) undertaken by the People’s Watch, Tamil Nadu, supported by the European Union and the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung (FNSt). MASUM was responsible for implementing the project in West Bengal. Project was designed for 2006-2008. Objective was to ratify the UN CAT and […]

Social Audit on State RTI Information Commissioners launched

GRI Indian States, Reports 0

Visitors: 238Maharashtra, A group of RTI activists in Mumbai has launched a social audit or public hearing (Jan Sunwaiee) on the quality of service rendered by Maharashtra State Information Commissioners (MSICs), who are appointed under the Act as Second Appellate Authority, to facilitate and implement Citizens’ access to information. Information Commissioners are mandated by Sections […]

Does Pranab Mukherjee misuse constitutional powers for private reasons not for public good

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Visitors: 252The dust has not yet settled around Shashi Tharoor and Sunanda Pushkar, but the cloak of silence that surrounds ministerial girlfriends and cronies seems to be coming apart. The Deccan Chronicle, Hyderabad Edition, said: “A spate of babu heads will roll, but largely those in minor services but with major loyalties to mantris who […]