গ্রাউন্ডজিরো-র অন্যতম প্রতিষ্ঠাতা সদস্য দেবাশিস (বাচ্চু) আইচ, গত ২১ জুন আমাদের ছেড়ে চলে গেছেন। গ্রাউন্ডজিরো ১৩ জুলাই কলকাতার থিওসফিকাল সোসাইটি হল-এ তাঁকে মনে রেখে এক স্মরণসভার আয়োজন করে। সেখানে দেবাশিস আইচের পরিবার, রাজনৈতিক সহকর্মী, সাংবাদিক বন্ধু, গণ আন্দোলনের সাথী সহ বহু মানুষ উপস্থিত হন। তাঁদের স্মৃতিচারণায় উঠে আসে দেবাশিস আইচের চেনা-অচেনা এক বর্ণময় জীবনের টুকরো ছবি। […]
Visually challenged people have to rely on others or an expensive smartphone device to be able to tell which currency note they’re holding. By Shyamoli Jana 5 July, 2024 Demonetisation not only killed people, but has also made the lives of blind people harder with the introduction of new currency notes making banknotes […]
Local villagers and activists alleged that the 12 persons killed by security forces in Chhattisgarh were villagers from the nearby Pedia village who were out to gather tendu leaves. Groundxero | May 13, 2024 On 11th May 2024, twelve Adivasi people in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, were killed in an encounter by the paramilitary forces of […]
Nearly 282 million people in 59 countries and territories experienced high levels of acute hunger in 2023 — 24 million more than the previous year. Groundxero | April 30, 2024 According to the 2024 Global Report on Food Crises released on April 24, nearly 282 million people or 21.5 percent of the analysed population […]
The top five biggest military spenders last year—the U.S., China, Russia, India, and Saudi Arabia—accounted for 61% of global military outlays. JAKE JOHNSON Apr 22, 2024 New research published Monday shows that global military spending increased in 2023 for the ninth consecutive year, surging to $2.4 trillion as Russia’s assault on Ukraine and Israel’s war […]
“It is utterly unconscionable that at a time where masses of the world’s population are living in dire poverty, a few individuals are allowed to amass staggering wealth,” said an activist responding to the list. Groundxero | April 2, 2024 There are more billionaires than ever before. The world has 2,781 people with fortunes exceeding […]
While the attack comes over two years into Russia’s war on Ukraine, an adviser for the Ukrainian president said the neighboring nation “certainly has nothing to do with the shooting/explosions in the Crocus City Hall.” By COMMON DREAMS STAFF Mar 22, 2024 UPDATE: Russia’s Investigative Committee announced Saturday that the death toll has increased […]
India moved up a rank but is still placed at 134 out of 193 countries behind Sri Lanka (78), Bhutan (125) and Bangladesh (129) on the global Human Development Index (HDI). Groundxero| March 15, 2024 After a drop in its Human Development Index (HDI) value in 2021 and following a flat trend over […]
The incarceration of Prof Saibaba and the other co-accused and their acquittal by the High Court after a decade shows – the dictum of ‘natural justice’ that not a single innocent should be punished – is vanishing into thin air in the gathering gales of fascism. Groundxero| March 5, 2024 The Nagpur bench […]
Groundxero|20 February, 2024 সম্প্রতি বিধানসভায় আসাম সরকারের পক্ষে মন্ত্রী পীযূষ হাজারিকা এক প্রশ্নের উত্তরে বলেন যে, ২৭ লক্ষ লোকের আধার ইস্যু করতে হলে সুপ্রিম কোর্টের অনুমতি লাগবে। মুখ্যমন্ত্রীর মুখেও আবার একই রকমের বিভ্রান্তিকর কথা শোনা গেল। গত ৫ বছর ধরে আধার আটকে রেখে এখন নির্বাচনের প্রাক্কালে সরকার বল সুপ্রিম কোর্টে ঠেলে দিয়ে হাত ধুয়ে […]
Groundxero | 3rd February, 2024 In a press statement, released on 2nd February, 2024, over 250 activists, academicians, lawyers, and concerned citizens expressed solidarity with rights activist and former IAS officer Harsh Mander and condemned the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)’s raids at his home and his office as being part of a “vindictive witch hunt”. The […]
Groundxero Report | 22 Jan 2024 Even as the entire country was overwhelmed by the massive display of brute majoritarianism on the occasion of inauguration of Ram Temple at Ayodhya, in the city of Kolkata, students, right activists, social and political organisations and individuals held several protest programs denouncing the use of the state and […]
Blocking subsidies meant for the poor and the marginalized to exact political revenge is unethical and reveals the Union government’s anti-working-class and anti-farmer position. Groundxero Report | 22 Jan 2024 The Narendra Modi-led Union government has decided to withhold the release of Rs 7,000 crore earmarked for the state government in West Bengal […]
Groundxero | 28th December, 2023 The all-India general body meeting of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) has called for intensifying struggle of farmers and farm-workers in 2024 to achieve the main demands of Minimum Support Price (MSP) calculated on the basis of C2+50% formula for all crops procurement by the government, freedom of farmers from […]
By Groundxero 17 December, 2023 In yet another deadly industrial accident, nine workers, including six women, were killed and and three others seriously injured in a massive blast at an explosives manufacturing factory in Nagpur district of Maharashtra on Sunday morning. The company was into manufacturing drones and explosives for the armed forces. The blast […]