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Lawyers, Feminists & Concerned Citizens Urge President to Return Trans Bill, Cite Constitutional Violations  
  • Gender
  • March 26, 2026

Calling on the President to act as “guardian of constitutional values,” the signatories demanded that the Bill be sent back for detailed scrutiny and wide-ranging consultations with transgender and gender-diverse communities.   Groundxero | 26 March, 2026   A broad coalition of lawyers, feminists, and civil society members has urged the President of India Smt. Droupadi Murmu to […]

Pre-Dawn Raids, Mass Arrests in Odisha’s Scheduled Areas Raise Concerns Over Mining Push and Policing
  • Adivasis
  • March 26, 2026

Talampadar must be examined as a case that exposes the deepening nexus between state power and corporate interests, where Adivasi dissent is increasingly criminalised and structural accountability remains absent.   Malika Singh Groundxero | 26 March, 2026   In the hamlets of Rayagada and Kalahandi’s Scheduled Area (Schedule V), home to Kui-speaking Kondh Adivasis, Jhodia and Paraja Adivasis, […]

“41 Deaths in 90 Days”: Manual Scavengers Demand Accountability, Say ‘Prime Minister Must Apologise’
  • Labour
  • March 26, 2026

Despite official denial, sanitation workers and activists say caste-based sewer deaths in Modi’s Swachha Bharat continue unabated —“every 2–3 days, one Indian dies in a gutter.”   Mouli Sharma Groundxero | 26 March, 2026 | New Delhi   “I joined [the movement] in 2015,” says Mangal, a 29-year-old from Delhi orphaned after his father drowned to death in […]

How the US Became an International Serial Killer
  • Commentary
  • March 26, 2026

What was once covert, controversial, and constrained is now overt, normalized, and defended.   Medea Benjamin Nicolas J.S. Davies Mar 25, 2026 Via Common Dreams   For decades, the United States moved from covert assassination plots to openly embracing assassination or “targeted killing” as policy. Now, in its war with Iran, that evolution is reaching its most dangerous […]

NWMI Condemns Trans Bill Amendments, Demands Immediate Repeal
  • Gender
  • March 25, 2026

NWMI says far from protecting the rights of transgender persons, the amendments undermine self-identification, criminalise support systems, and erase diverse transgender identities across India.   𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐱𝐞𝐫𝐨 | 𝟐5 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔   The Network of Women in Media, India has condemned the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, calling it regressive and demanding its […]

TIJMALI: AN UNDECLARED CONFLICT ZONE?
  • Peoples' Movements
  • March 23, 2026

The targeted attacks by pro-company people or hired goondas and the active connivance of the district administration with the company is coming down heavy on the movement. Even then, the adivasis and Dalits opposed to mining are fighting it out legally in the courts and through large mobilization on the ground.   Groundxero | 23 March, […]