Citizens for Justice and Peace
Man hands out triple talaq through WhatsApp
08-Oct-2015
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 08, 2015, DHNS: A 21-year-old female BDS student in Kerala was handed out a triple talaq by her husband on WhatsApp, about a month after their wedding. The incident, happened in early 2014, came to light after the girl, a native of Cherthala in Alappuzha district, approached the Kerala Women’s Commission (KWC) during…
Valley’s top counter-insurgency cop killed in LeT attack
08-Oct-2015
Peerzada Ashiq Srinagar, October 8, 2015 Altaf Ahmad or ‘Altaf Laptop’ was the brain behind several online surveillance operations against militants since 2006. He earned the sobriquet ‘Altaf Laptop’ within the police for his unmatched success in online surveillance of militant activities since 2006. On Wednesday, sub-inspector Altaf Ahmad fell to bullets, while chasing Kashmir’s…
Govt. can’t punish us for lack of education: Women on Haryana new poll law
08-Oct-2015
Legal Correspondent NEW DELHI, October 8, 2015 Women candidates affected by Haryana’s new poll law imposing minimum educational qualifications to contest panchayat elections told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that “people do not choose to be illiterate.” “In fact, it is the State’s failure to have not provided us with education. We should not be…
Man hands out triple talaq through WhatsApp
08-Oct-2015
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 08, 2015, DHNS: A 21-year-old female BDS student in Kerala was handed out a triple talaq by her husband on WhatsApp, about a month after their wedding. The incident, happened in early 2014, came to light after the girl, a native of Cherthala in Alappuzha district, approached the Kerala Women’s Commission (KWC) during…
Iqlakh’s family leaves Bishada, saffron outfits denied entry into restive village
08-Oct-2015
Thursday, October 08, 2015 Dadri (UP): The family of Mohammed Iqlakh, who was was beaten to death on a street near Dadri last week over rumours of eating beef, has left its home for comparative safety of Delhi, as VHP leader Sadhvi Prachi was yesterday prevented from entering the restive Bishada village defying prohibitory orders.…
More attempts to organise beef fest in Kerala; 10 students suspended
08-Oct-2015
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Oct 08, 2015, DHNS The politics over food continued to trigger dissent in beef-loving Kerala as attempts to organise more “beef festivals” were made by college students on Wednesday leading to opposition from college authorities. There were minor clashes and at least 10 students were suspended in Kottayam. Meanwhile, an assistant professor of Sree…
Mob sets fire to truck carrying cows in UP, thrashes Muslim youth
08-Oct-2015
Lucknow, Oct 08, 2015, DHNS Tension prevailed in Malipur area in Uttar Pradesh’s Ambedkar Nagar district after locals torched a truck allegedly carried cows and assaulted a Muslim youth. Police sources here said the truck was on its way to the neighbouring Sultanpur district on Wednesday morning, when it collided with a tractor-trolley near Salahpur…
Denied entry in temple, Dalits launch protest
08-Oct-2015
Kautilya Singh, TNN | Oct 8, 2015, 01.13PM IST DEHRADUN: After being “forcefully” removed from their village, group of Dalits from Gabella village, who were denied permission to enter the temple, sat on a hunger protest outside the Gandhi Park of Dehradun on Thursday morning. On a written complaint by the villagers, the district authorities…
Iqlakh’s family leaves Bishada, saffron outfits denied entry into restive village
08-Oct-2015
Thursday, October 08, 2015 Dadri (UP): The family of Mohammed Iqlakh, who was was beaten to death on a street near Dadri last week over rumours of eating beef, has left its home for comparative safety of Delhi, as VHP leader Sadhvi Prachi was yesterday prevented from entering the restive Bishada village defying prohibitory orders.…
Not enough money for communal harmony!
08-Oct-2015
Manan Kumar @Manankmr New Delhi: The National Foundation for Communal Harmony (NFCH), an autonomous body under the union home ministry, neither has the money nor the manpower. This at a time, when the country needs it the most amongst a spiralling increase in cases of communal violence, the latest being the Dadri incident. Constituted on…