Today, when the BJP is presenting itself as a protector of women in West Bengal over the issue of rape, this entire experience is coming back to my mind. By Himanshu Kumar After the rape and murder of a female doctor in West Bengal, the BJP is preparing to uproot the Trinamool government […]
There are horrific atrocities being committed against the Adivasis, and their right to life is being violated. It is the responsibility of the Supreme Court to protect these rights. However, when someone approaches the Supreme Court seeking justice, they are fined instead. By Himanshu Kumar Sukdi is an Adivasi woman whose husband was […]
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), while welcoming the Supreme Court decision to put a stay on the order by UP and Uttarakhand Governments to display names of owners of all eateries along the Kanwar Yatra routes, strongly demanded apology of the Chief Ministers and Governors of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand and stringent action against bureaucrats […]
What is truly shocking is that despite the RBI and ECI expressing their reservations about the scheme before it was formalized in 2018, the BJP government has all along been more concerned with safeguarding the anonymity of donors giving money to political parties than with upholding the citizens’ right to knowing who is financing the […]
Who is the next target? Vitriolic attacks on the human rights activists continue unabated in our country. Amidst this despicable ploy to implicate the activists in numerous cases, the next question which obviously arises is, who is the next target? We think we already know the answer. This time, the venomous arrow has been […]
The Supreme Court, today, cancelled the bail of Ashish Mishra, son of Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra Teni and the main accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, in which, on 3 October, 2021, four farmers and a journalist were mowed by his speeding car in broad daylight. The Supreme Court reversed the […]
The Supreme Court has directed the Union Government to seek from the states and submit within two weeks the latest data on the number of people who have died due to starvation in the country and frame a model policy of establishing community kitchens to fight hunger. The court gave this order to the central […]
Groundxero report: Tuesday, 25 May 2021 On May 24, 2021, Monday, the Supreme Court directed that dry ration has to be distributed to migrant workers wherever stranded throughout the country by the States under the Atma Nirbhar Scheme or any other scheme found suitable by the States/Centre. The Court also directed all the States/Union Territories […]
Even though the government had one year to ramp up the public health facilities in order to battle the second wave of COVID-19 that everyone saw coming, throughout India the health infrastructure has totally crumbled. Hospitals do not have enough beds and most of them are running short of oxygen which has already caused numerous […]
The Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) has described the frequent internet shutdowns and communication disruptions in the valley during the last one year as “digital apartheid” and a “collective punishment” meted out to the Kashmiris. The promise of lasting peace, freedom and justice for the people of Jammu & Kashmir is inextricably […]