Protesting Executive Members of the All Sikkim Adhoc Teachers Association are under police custody as an FIR has been lodged against them. Raju Chetri‘s report. The teachers had earlier gone to the police station to lodge an FIR as they were being defamed on social media. One of the facebook accounts had described […]
Today morning 8’o clock, Mahul MHADA (Mumbai Housing and Area Development Authority) Building number 14 caught blazing fire, allegedly from an electricity short-circuit. The fire engulfed as many as 3 floors of the building, affecting 100 families (each floor with 34 flats). The people stuck in the fire were rescued by the residents of […]
দিল্লি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের শিক্ষক জি. এন. সাইবাবাকে মহারাষ্ট্র পুলিশ ২০১৪ সালে গ্রেফতার করে, “নকশাল ভাবাদর্শ”-এ বিশ্বাস করার “অপরাধে” এবং ভারতীয় কম্যুনিস্ট পার্টি (মাওবাদী)-র সাথে সম্পর্ক রাখার অভিযোগে। ৯ই মে ২০১৪ তারিখে বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় থেকে বাড়ি ফেরার পথে সাদা পোশাকের পুলিশ সাইবাবার গাড়ির চালককে গাড়ি থেকে জোর করে নামিয়ে দিয়ে শারীরিকভাবে ৯০% অক্ষম সাইকে বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় থেকে তুলে নিয়ে […]
GroundXero was launched on 14th April this year, on Dr. B.R.Ambedkar’s birth anniversary, and looking forward to the Bengali new year that begun the next day. As 2018 in the Gregorian calendar draws to a close, we present some brief snapshots of the year that has been. For this first post in a series, we […]
After the recent order of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) recommending the opening of Vedanta’s copper smelting plant in Thoothukudi, a report by Reuters has once again brought the issue of police brutality to the forefront. It claims that 12 of the 13 protestors killed when police opened fire on a demonstration in May 2018 […]
The Jharkhand Government has established security camps inside many primary schools and panchayat bhawans in several village in Khunti district of the state. The villagers and women’s rights activists allege that these camps have adversely affected the Right to Education of adivasi children. They have urged the state government, NHRC and NCST to relocate those […]
On the 50th day of their ongoing agitation demanding proper rehabilitation, Mahul residents marched to Azad Maidan in Mumbai and occupied it. As the sit-in continues despite threats from the police, the Maharashtra CM still refuses to meet with the protestors. Rohit Pandit and Aabha Joshi report from Azad Maidan, Mumbai. Rohit is one of […]
Last Sunday a Dalit research scholar at the University of Hyderabad succumbed to dengue, as his friends and students in general raised alarm over the negligence shown towards his health condition by the University Health Center, who referred him to a crony private nursing home, despite it being on the black-list of the University for […]
Chandramukhi Muvvala, the first and only transgender candidate contesting the assembly elections in Telangana, as a candidate for the CPIM-led Bahujan Left Front, had started her campaign yesterday, and has gone missing from her Hyderabad home today. Her friends suspect that she has been abducted, and are asking #WhereisChandramukhi ? A GroundXero report. Chandramukhi […]
The police, on Tuesday, arrested four persons from Makli village in Goaltore in Jungle Mahal in West Midnapur, claiming that the arrested persons were instigating villagers to join the Maoists. However, no evidences of the claim has been found so far and the arrests raise concerns that the cases are politically motivated. A Groundxero report. […]
বৃহস্পতিবার দুপুর আড়াইটে নাগাদ সিভিল সোসাইটি উইমেনস অর্গানাইজেশন (সিএসডব্লিউও)‘র প্রেসিডেন্ট অ্যাগনেস খারসিং এবং তাঁর সঙ্গী এ সাংমা পূর্ব জয়ন্তিয়া পাহাড়ের টুবের সোহস্রিতে আক্রান্ত হন। এই নিয়ে এ বছর তিন জন সমাজকর্মী পূর্ব জয়ন্তিয়া পাহাড়ে আক্রান্ত হলেন। গত মার্চ মাসে জয়ন্তিয়া ইউথ ফেডারেশন (জেওয়াইএফ) -এর প্রেসিডেন্ট পি মাজাওকে সিমেন্ট মাফিয়ারা খুন করে। পরিবেশের নিয়মকানুন অমান্য করে […]
Workers in Bhilai condemn the arrest of worker-leader, human right activist and peoples lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj, calling it an attack on the working class and toiling masses. A report by Kaladas Daheriya, a cultural activist from Chattisgarh. On 28 October, workers belonging to Progressive Cement Workers Organisation, Engineering Mazdoor Union, Chemical Mazdoor Union, Chattisgarh […]
The fight of Mumbai’s slums against forceful eviction and deadly “rehabilitation” continues. As the Maharashtra Government and the Bombay Municipal Corporation continue to violate High Court order mandating proper and just rehabilitation for the slum residents evicted last year from all along the Tansa water pipeline, the protests have now spilled onto the streets. On […]
Mumbai Rises to Save Democracy (MRSD) press release condemns the continuous hounding of the human rights activists, people lawyers, trade unionists and other voices of dissent by the Indian state and use of draconian law like UAPA to imprison them for years without bail. The press statement also highlights the failure of the Maharashtra government […]
“অধ্যাপক আগরওয়াল চেয়েছিলেন কেন্দ্র এমন একটি আইন করুক, যে আইনের বলে গঙ্গোত্রী থেকে উত্তরকাশী গঙ্গা বাধা-বন্ধনহীন হয়ে ‘অবিরল’ ধারায় বইতে পারে এবং গঙ্গা নিষ্কলুষ হোক। তাঁর ক্ষোভ ছিল, গঙ্গার বাঁধন ও দূষণ মুক্তির প্রশ্নে কী কেন্দ্র কী রাজ্য কেউই আন্তরিক নয়। গঙ্গাকে ঘিরে যা হচ্ছে, যা করা হচ্ছে তা একেবারেই স্বৈরাচারী কার্যকলাপ।” লিখছেন দেবাশিস আইচ। […]