Citizens for Justice and Peace
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…
MLA thrashed over beef party: Omar says ‘done in Dadri way’
08-Oct-2015
Peerzada Ashiq Srinagar, October 8, 2015 At least seven BJP MLAs on Thursday thrashed independent legislator Engineer Rashid inside the Assembly for organising a beef party on Wednesday evening. The incident took place immediately after the Assembly met around 10 a.m. to discuss bills, with bills on beef ban listed for the day, though down…
Continuing scandal Statistics confirm that the criminal justice system is inefficient, and prejudiced against minorities and poor.
06-Oct-2015
05OCT2015 By: Express News Service | Published:October 5, 2015 12:02 am The National Crime Records Bureau figures for 2014 point to a problem that is still with us: almost 68 per cent of the inmates of India’s overflowing prisons are undertrials, and 70 per cent of those convicted are illiterate. Affluent states like Goa, Punjab,…
2002 post-Godhra riots: SC directs Gujarat govt not to take action against retired DGP R B Sreekumar
06-Oct-2015
The inquiry was initiated against Sreekumar by the Gujarat government for maintianing a ‘semi official’ diary, audio recording conversations with government officials and producing secret documents related to the 2002 communal riots. By: Express New Service | Ahmedabad | Published:October 5, 2015 8:14 pm The Supreme Court of India on Monday directed the Gujarat government…
How WhatsApp stoked tension in Dadri In past few months, police say they averted a few communal incidents by keeping a tab on social media activities
06-Oct-2015
Azaan Javaid @AzaanJavaid Dadri (Gautam Buddha Nagar, UP): The Uttar Pradesh Police in the last two months had diffused nearly five incidents of communal tension in various villages of Dadri. Authorities here had received intelligence inputs from multiple sources about village youth, who as the police believe, were having ‘conversations’ which might have disturbed the…
Woman sets self, her 2 girls ablaze
06-Oct-2015
Surat She Was Harassed For Not Bearing Son Unable to bear taunts of her mother-in-law for giving birth to two girls, a 34-year-old woman set her two daughters and self ablaze at Dandi village of Navsari district on Sunday .Pratibha Patel, a resident of Azad Faliya in Dandi, sprinkled kerosene on five-year-old Hetvi, nine-month-old Disha…
I am a proud RSS man: J&K Speaker after beef ban protest inside Assembly
06-Oct-2015
The National Conference members raised slogans against the beef ban and what they termed as “interference in religious matters”. Written by Bashaarat Masood | Srinagar | Updated: October 6, 2015 7:54 am While adjourning the House amid slogans against him and the RSS, Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Speaker Kavinder Gupta said on Monday that he…
Four jawans, militant killed in Kupwara encounter
06-Oct-2015
Army said that two operations were launched in Hafruda forests and Kursun Lolab after receiving information about the presence of militants. Written by Mir Ehsan | Srinagar | Updated: October 6, 2015 4:04 am The Army launched a search operation after the attack. Four Armymen were killed in North Kashmir’s Hafruda forest early Monday morning…
Madhya Pradesh: Three arrested for converting locals to Christianity in Motwa
06-Oct-2015
The three were booked under the Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act and sections 295, 506 and 34 of the IPC Written by Milind Ghatwai | Bhopal | Updated: October 6, 2015 12:20 am Three volunteers of Gospel Echoing Missionary Society (GEMS) were arrested from village Motwa near Satna for allegedly converting the local people…
Bengaluru school girl commits suicide after harassment by family rivals
06-Oct-2015
The police did not register a case but sent the families away after advising them to settle the issue. Written by Johnson TA | Bengaluru | Published:October 5, 2015 9:26 pm A 15- year-old school girl committed suicide at her residence in Subhashnagar, Chikkajala in North-East Bengaluru on Monday after she was stripped and photographed…