Citizens for Justice and Peace
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…
Hindus And Sikhs Help Repair And Rebuild An Old Mosque In Punjab
08-Oct-2015
Hindus And Sikhs Help Repair And Rebuild An Old Mosque In Punjab October 8, 2015 Inspirational, News When we can see the sharp lines drawn between Hindus and Muslims after the case of Dadri lynching. There are many people who have reached their boiling point because of that case. But that incident has not stopped…
Kerala: 6 college students suspended for conducting ‘beef fest’ protesting against Dadri lynching
06-Oct-2015
According to the management of Sree Kerala Varma College, the action was taken against the students, all activists of Students Federation of India, for serving beef inside the campus violating disciplinary rules of the institution. By: PTI | Thrissur | Updated: October 5, 2015 6:34 pm Six students of a leading government-aided college here have…
Dadri lynching communal: Home Ministry
06-Oct-2015
NEW DELHI, Oct 06, 2015, DHNS Horror aftermath: Politicisation of killing, mudslinging complicate situation in UP village The Union Home Ministry on Monday expressed concern over “various incidents with communal overtones” across the country and bracketed the “unfortunate” murder of a man over beef eating rumours under communal incidents. However, Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma and…
Over 5,000 kids forced to attend crumbling schools
06-Oct-2015
Oct 06 2015 : Mirror (Mumbai) Ankita Bhatkhande TWEETS @ankitab_MIRROR BMC has stalled redevelopment of its 16 schools as they do not meet DCR norms More than 5,000 children have been forced to study in crumbling class rooms after the BMC stayed redevelopment proposals for 16 municipal schools that do not fulfil Development Control Regulation…
Violence in Varanasi, vehicles set ablaze
06-Oct-2015
Varanasi (UP), Oct 5, 2015, (PTI) Violence erupted here today, with mobs indulging in stone-pelting on police and setting ablaze a police picket and number of vehicles. The violence broke out during a march by seers and some other locals, when some people in the crowd resorted to stone-pelting, police sources said. The mob also…
Bengaluru: BPO employee abducted, raped for over three hours
06-Oct-2015
Oct 06, 2015 | Age Correspondent| Bengaluru Van driver, cleaner sexually assaulted the girl for 3 hours Bengaluru: In an incident strikingly similar to the Delhi gangrape case, a 22-year-old BPO employee was raped for over three hours by a driver and a cleaner of a Tempo Traveller on Saturday night. The survivor who boarded…
Meat pieces found in village near Bishada, security stepped up
06-Oct-2015
Greater Noida, Oct 5, 2015, (PTI) Tension today spread to nearby areas of Bishada after meat pieces were found in an adjoining village even as the District Magistrate decided to further restrict entry of visitors to the troubled spot and examine statements made by controversial BJP MLA Sangeet Som during his visit to the area.…
Family gets 10 years rigorous imprisonment for acid attack
06-Oct-2015
Oct 06, 2015 | A sessions court in Mumbai on Monday convicted and sentenced a woman along with her husband and son to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for throwing acid on her three sisters and a year-old child. According to public prosecutor Jyoti Sawant, all the victims and the accused women were sisters. The…
BJP, VHP, RSS nexus against ‘love jihad’
06-Oct-2015
NEW DELHI, Oct 06, 2015, DHNS A sting operation made public on Monday by investigative portals — Cobrapost and Gulail — said that Hindutva groups use “violence, intimidation and emotional blackmail” to break up Hindu-Muslim married couples. The claim came after secret camera shootings conducted by these portals in Delhi, Muzaffarnagar and Meerut (Uttar Pradesh),…