Call for Proposals: Europe Offers Grant to Civil Society Organizations

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Call for Proposals: Europe Offers Grant to Civil Society Organizations

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Call for Proposals: Europe Offers Grant to Civil Society Organizations

The total budget of 120,000 euros will be divided into three separate grants.

The Council of Europe’s Democratic Institutions and Civil Society Division has launched a grant for non-governmental organizations (NGOs). It aims to foster democratic culture and strengthen the engagement of citizens in decision making in their countries, and to enhance the mutual engagement between the Council of Europe and civil society organizations.  read more

My house - 463, DPS Apts., Plot No. 16, Sector 4, Dwarka, Phase I, New Delhi 110 078 - being broken with lethal construction. Rakesh Raman

Why Is My House Being Broken in Delhi?

My house - 463, DPS Apts., Plot No. 16, Sector 4, Dwarka, Phase I, New Delhi 110 078 - being broken with lethal construction. Rakesh Raman
My house — 463, DPS Apts., Plot No. 16, Sector 4, Dwarka, Phase I, New Delhi 110 078 — being broken with lethal construction. Rakesh Raman

Why Is My House Being Broken in Delhi?

As I have been complaining against this criminal activity, I am receiving continuous threats including death threats from the criminals.

Friends, my name is Rakesh Raman. I am a journalist and live in Dwarka area of New Delhi. I have been facing extreme misery and numerous threats to drive me out of my home. 

I am a victim of increasing corruption, illegal construction, environmental crime, and human rights violations as a citywide scandal led by builders’ mafia in connivance with senior government officials is happening in Delhi.  read more

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Recommendations to Restore the Credibility of the Indian Judiciary

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Recommendations to Restore the Credibility of the Indian Judiciary

The excerpts from the “India Judicial Research Report 2024: Decline of the Indian Judiciary” are given below.

In order to restore the credibility of the Indian judiciary, some of the recommendations are given below.

Screening of Judges: The judges should not be appointed without proper live-streamed interviews with them by select committees of honest judges and reputed citizens after making the profiles and records of candidates public on a dedicated website. The open interviews with candidates should be on the lines of congressional hearings in the United States. This method should be applied to the existing judges also. Only those judges should be appointed in high courts and the Supreme Court who would not take government jobs or any other undue benefit after retirement. read more