Visitors: 229 Delhi, India The program “ Travelling with Gandhi” jointly held in collaboration with the Gandhi Peace Foundation ,( GPF) New Delhi, Schumacher Centre, New Delhi and the Peace Studies Dept of the Post Graduate Diploma in Peace Studies ( PGDPS) , Martin Luther Christian University, MLCU, Shillong , from the 20th till the […]
Visitors: 278Somebody at DoPT goofed up very badly yesterday. While emailing an invitation to Activist Bimal Khemani of Aligad, UP, an official unwittingly attached an entire word file containing many other letters pertaining to RTI. A couple of these letters clearly show the intent of the meeting being convened on 31st March. A draft of […]
Visitors: 334Delhi, India I, Gopi Dutt, want to draw your attention to problem that Delhi has been facing since as long as 10 yrs now. I am talking about the pollution in Yamuna caused by devotional material, Polybags, Flowers etc. Our govt., different NGOs and now Maharaja Sri Sri Ravi Shankar have put their best […]
Visitors: 292West Bengal, India Case Details Name of the Victim :- (1) Abu Hassan, Male, Age – 16 years, (2) Abdus Salam, Male, Age – 15 years; both son of Mr. Abu Bakkar Mondal, Religion – Islam, resident of Village + Post Office – Harekrishnapur, Police Station – Jalangi, District – Murshidabad, West Bengal, India.Name […]
Visitors: 383Fiji By the end of this week it will take as much effort as pushing a button for you to have access to a wealth of quality marine and fisheries information from the Pacific. Gone are the days of having to trawl through different websites and constant library visits as you search for information […]
Visitors: 302West Bengal, India Case Details: Name of the Victim:- Mr. Biredra Nath Mondal, son of Late Kushai Mondal, Male – 56 Years, Religion – Hindu, Scheduled Caste of Village – Char Rajanagar, Post Office – Char Rajapur, Police Station – Raninagar, District – Murshidabad, West Bengal, India. Name of the Perpetrators:- (1) One Border […]
Visitors: 245Silver Inning Foundation has been writing to the ministry for more than month now for more clarification on new Review Committee fro NPOP(National Poicy of Older Person) and have also filed and RTI. But it’s sad a National ministry is not bothered. They dont even reply to email – no time I suppose. MOSJE […]
Visitors: 301European and western writers have often made a heinous effort to tarnish the image of Islam by expressing something contemptible & negative views & reviews about Islam, particularly in context of women education and their rights in society. They opine that Islam suppresses the rights of women not allowing women to be progressive in […]
Visitors: 275Wellness is an important aspect from childhood to death. Without wellness the individual doesn’t see much in life. The purpose of education, training, property, planning, social intercourse etc, are meant for getting wellness on a sustained basis through out life. Holistic wellness comprises all aspects of wellness namely materialist, spiritualist and lateral. Holistic wellness […]
Visitors: 296There was a time when there was sort of cold war in the world between two blocks, with one representing the so called free world and the other representing the communist countries , which were supposed to be serving the cause of the downtrodden and protecting them from the so called oppression of the […]
Visitors: 295Uttar Pradesh, India Acharya Neeraj is going to do a foot march from Gomukh to Gangasagar, almost 3000 kms long, covering 4 states and more than 30 districts. The Foot March will start on 6th May 2010 and finish on 2nd October 2010. Acharya Neeraj was a student leader in Lucknow University and wanted […]
Visitors: 356West Bengal, India Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM) organized a People’s Tribunal on Torture (PTT) at Moulali, Kolkata on 9th and 10th of June, 2008 a programme as part of the project, ‘National Project on Preventing Torture in India (NPPTI)’, which was supported by European Union & FNSt. MASUM was responsible for implementing the […]
Visitors: 313# 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: 268Orissa, 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: 399West 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: 341Tamilnadu, 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: 635Maharashtra, 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: 273Almost 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: 307West 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: 259New 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: 302Maharashtra, 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: 390South 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: 266This 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: 363Tonga, 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: 287Mumbai, 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, […]