By Swati Thapa| April 22, 2024 Mongabay Series: Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship Following widespread protests, Uttarakhand’s Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has issued orders to district magistrates to deny permission to sell agricultural lands to those outside the state. With just 14% of its land designated for agriculture and more than 65% of […]
গ্রাউন্ডজিরো রিপোর্ট বীরভূমের রামপুরহাটে ১৭ অক্টোবর, শনিবারপ্রায় ৫০০০ মানুষের এক মিছিল বের হয় কেন্দ্রীয় সরকারের কৃষি বিলের বিরুদ্ধে। সদ্য সংসদে পাশ হওয়া কৃষি বিল ২০২০ রদ করার দাবি তোলার পাশাপাশি এই মিছিলে দাবি ওঠে – দলিত ও নারীদের উপর ক্রমাগত বাড়তে থাকা হিংসা বন্ধের ও পরিযায়ী শ্রমিকদের প্রাপ্য সাংবিধানিক অধিকার দেওয়ার। বাংলা সংস্কৃতি মঞ্চ-এর […]
Teenagers from schools, dressed in uniforms, coming in hordes, marching down the rain-wet streets in raw rage, with handwritten slogans on placards dangling from their necks, is something unprecedented. But that is exactly what is happening in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh. The protest started spontaneously as two students died in a tragic road accident. The […]
Groundxero : As election year approaches, the Modi government claims to have discovered a fantastic Maoist plot to the PM’s life. We have written earlier about how this eerily mirrors a pattern of such purported assassination attempts on the life of then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi in the build-up to the 2007 elections. “From 2003 to […]
Doctors protest in Kolkata, demand more government funding in health, call for steps to curb attacks against them GroundXero: It is an unusual sight to find doctors jostling with the police at a barricade, on a stormy evening. Yet, if anything, the protest on 11th May in Kolkata, featuring about 500 people in attendance, suggested […]
Almost 250 people gathered raising their voices against the Dumdum Metro moral policing incident, on a Facebook call by the event hosts of #waitingforfreedom. Protests continue in the face of further attempts of harassment and lack of cooperation of the Police. Rimjhim Sinha The incident of a couple becoming the victim of moral policing had […]