Citizens for Justice and Peace
Now, Gujarati poet returns Akademi award
13-Oct-2015
Anil Joshi Was Awarded For Collection Of Essays After tribal activist Ganesh Devy, another Gujarati litterateur poet Anil Joshi returned his Sahitya Akademi Award. Joshi on Monday wrote a letter to Sahitya Akdemi president professor Viswanath Pratap Tiwari informing him about his decision to return the award in protest of attacks on scholars and intellectuals…
Stripping of Dalit family at Dankaur in UP: A clear case of police atrocity on Dalits
13-Oct-2015
13 October, 2015 The UP administration and the SP megaphones were orchestrating that the Dalits’ stripping incident in Dankaur last week as a conspiracy hatched by the saffron brigade to shame the Akhilesh government. Is there any shame left with Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son? Though the UP government just cannot abdicate its responsibility…
After losing two cotton crops, farmer ends life
13-Oct-2015
Oct 13 2015 : Mirror (Ahmedabad) Ahmedabad Mirror Bureau amfeedback@timesgroup in TWEETS @ahmedabadmirror 42-year-old Vikram Pithiya was depressed after he lost first cotton crop to scanty rainfall and the next to heavy rain; had consumed poison Disheartened by a weak mon soon and damaged crops, a 42 year-old farmer committed su icide in Nani Vavdi…
Godhra to bar Muslims, garba banners say: Daughter before my eyes
13-Oct-2015
The BJP and RSS affiliates are urging Godhra residents to organise the traditional or sheri garba to restrict entry and “maintain the purity of the event”. Written by Kumar Anand Vadodara Updated: Oct 13, 2015, 2:25 Outside a garba event in Godhra. Express ‘Maari dikri maari aankh saame’, ‘Maari dikri maari najar samaksh’ (My daughter…
Rohini Salian names NIA officer who asked her to go soft in Malegaon blast case
13-Oct-2015
Mumbai, October 13, 2015 “His name is Shri Suhas Warke, SP, NIA, Mumbai branch.” Rohini Salian, former special public prosecutor in the Malegaon 2008 blast case has in an affidavit named the National Investigating Agency officer, who allegedly asked her to “go soft” in the case. In an affidavit dated July 28, 2015, which was…
No religion says block roads & break law for festivals: HC
13-Oct-2015
Oct 13 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Shibu Thomas Mumbai:Govt Told To Pull Up Its Socks For Navratri, Diwali The Bombay high court on Monday rapped the state government and the municipal corporation for failing o crack down on noisy celebrations and illegal pandals during the recently concluded Ganeshotsav . A division bench…
4 die of hunger in Assam tea garden
13-Oct-2015
Oct 13 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Silchar: TIMES NEWS NETWORK The INTUC-affiliated Barak Cha Shramik Union (BCSU) has alleged that four persons have died of starvation over the past week in Bhuvan Valley Tea Estate in Assam’s Cachar district. The garden is owned by Kolkata-based Bhuvan Valley Tea Company Limited. The dead…
Harassed Muslim fodder seller sets himself ablaze in Punjab
13-Oct-2015
Oct 13 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Bathinda TIMES NEWS NETWORK A Muslim man, who had been selling fodder outside a cow shelter, set himself on fire on Monday afternoon after being harassed by an employee of the gaushala. Having suffered nearly 40% burns, Eid Mohammad (35) recorded his statement before a magistrate…
Another farmer commits suicide
12-Oct-2015
Staff Reporter BHUBANESWAR, October 12, 2015 Even as the State is yet to recover from the shock of alleged suicide by three farmers in western Odisha, another farmer has reportedly ended his life in Khurda district. Abhimanyu Baliyarsingh, a farmer of Brajasundarpur village in Bolagarh block in Khurda district, was found dead in his field…
Missionaries confirm adoption pullout
12-Oct-2015
Our Special Correspondent New Delhi, Oct. 10: The Missionaries of Charity today issued a formal statement confirming it had decided to stop putting children up for adoption, ending what sources said was a five-decade involvement in the process. The decision was prompted by new government guidelines that have stripped adoption centres of the right to…