The administrative streets of central New Delhi have now become a terrifying labyrinth of surveillance and armed lockdown – except for the VIP residents who live there, and the exotic nightly businesses that entertain them. Mouli Sharma report on New Delhi on the eve of October 10. 10 October 2026, New Delhi: At the […]
In a press release on 17 September 2026, eight months after the Supreme Court-appointed CBI Special Investigation Team (SIT) explicitly ruled out the presence of animal fats in the ghee used for manufacturing the Tirumala Tirupati temple’s prasadam, the Enforcement Directorate has arrested a promoter of a private food company allegedly involved in contamination after […]
Hours after the Cockroach Janta Party’s ultimatum to the BJP run incumbent Union government to resume the massive mass protests that shook the capital in late July earlier this year if the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar does not tender his resignation within two days, Jantar Mantar has been put on lockdown. At least 123 […]
As sugar prices surge from Rs 48.18 to Rs 62 per kg in less than two months, SKM – the joint platform of farmers’ unions – accuses Modi government of facilitating market profiteering; demands Rs 5,500 per tonne for raw cane and mandatory sharing of sugar-industry surplus with cane farmers. Groundxero Desk Sep 17, […]
Employees’ associations of ISRO demand answers over plans to hand over launch-vehicle production, satellite manufacturing and launch infrastructure to private players, warning that ISRO risks being reduced to an “R&D boutique” Groundxero Desk A growing confrontation is emerging inside India’s space establishment over the future of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), with […]
The new mining law curbs states’ power to tax mineral-bearing land. The SKM calls it an assault on federalism and warns that the ‘neo-extractivist’ regime will hand greater control of India’s mineral wealth—and Adivasi territories—to mining corporations. Groundxero | August 31, 2026 For communities living on India’s mineral-rich lands, the battle over the […]
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) and Central Trade Unions on 10 August mobilised workers, farmers and other sections of working people in a nationwide Jail Bharo protest against the Narendra Modi government’s economic and labour policies. The SKM warned that if the government fails to address the demands, it will launch an intensified and sustained […]
The outrage of over one lakh Indians at 20th July’s ‘Chalo Sansad’ call for Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation has exposed the Union government’s strategic urban infrastructure disguised as dormant policing machinery–along with all its violent cracks. By Mouli Sharma New Delhi, 20 July 2026: Approximately one lakh people took to the […]
A looming crisis is threatening the lives and livelihoods of Adivasi communities across the Eastern Ghats. The biodiversity, nature, and environment of the Eastern Ghats are hurtling towards destruction. Yet, the struggle of the indigenous communities to save the Eastern Ghats continues. Update: 20 June, 2026 The brutal police crackdown on Kantamal village […]
A massive turnout at Cockroach Janta Party’s ‘Gen-Z Protest’ against corruption and incompetence in India’s public education sector signals a changing of the guard in Indian public fora. The police-permitted peaceful protest took place within Jantar Mantar’s designated demonstration area, and was a one-of-a-kind, perhaps chaotic display of new age, spontaneous mobilisation made possible through […]
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Friday called the India–European Union Free Trade Agreement (FTA) an economic colonisation blueprint that will lead to systematic corporate capture of the vast Indian market. Groundxero | January 30, 2026 Rejecting the India–European Union Free Trade Agreement (FTA) as a grave threat to farmers, workers and small […]
Thousands of women from across Karnataka marched through the streets of Belthangady in a silent rally, demanding truth, justice, and accountability for rape, disappearances, and unnatural deaths of women and girls reported over several decades in and around Dharmasthala. Groundxero | December 24, 2025 Thousands of women from across Karnataka marched through the streets […]
Calling worker–farmer unity the “primary weapon” against the union government’s policies, SKM calls to observe January 16 as ‘All India Resistance Day’ against NDA’s corporate push. Groundxero | 22 December 2025 The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Monday announced a renewed nationwide mobilisation against what it described as the NDA government’s “authoritarian, anti-federal […]
Modi government yields to the U.S. pressure; open up a strategic and crucial sector like nuclear energy to private and foreign multinational companies. Groundxero | December 18 The Union government has pushed through a far-reaching overhaul of India’s nuclear energy regime, opening the strategic sector to private and foreign multinational corporations while diluting […]
The memorandum concludes with an explicit warning: “If the Government continues to ignore and neglect the burning demands, the masses belonging to farmers and workers have no option other to launch “massive, peaceful, protracted struggles” similar to the 2020–21 agitation. Groundxero | NOV 25, 2025 On the eve of the fifth anniversary of the […]