Citizens for Justice and Peace
Won’t allow Muslims at Garba, says right-wing group in Gujarat
04-Oct-2015
Ahmedabad, Oct 4, 2015 (PTI) A right-wing group today said it had issued a “diktat” barring entry of Muslims at Garba events during the upcoming Navratri festival at Mandvi town in Gujarat’s Kutch district to prevent “love jihad” incidents. “We have issued a diktat barring the entry of Muslims at Garba events in Mandvi,” said…
Muslim youth rescues cow
04-Oct-2015
Sanjay Pandey Lucknow, Oct 04, 2015, DHNS Amid the politicking over the murder of a man at Dadri following rumours that his family was eating beef, a Muslim youth in the state capital rescued a cow from a deep well. According to an eyewitness account, the cow accidentally slipped into the well, situated in Aishbagh…
Some Contract Diarrhoea if They Don’t Abuse Hindus’
02-Oct-2015
Amid mounting criticism of right-wing outfits over the lynching incident, VHP said it has become “fashion“ for “some people“ to abuse Hindus or else they contract “diarrhoea“. “Several people have levelled allegations against Hindus and those working for awakening of Hindus. My view is clear, some people contract diarrhoea if they don’t abuse Hindus,“ VHP…
90-year-old Dalit man axed, burnt alive for entering temple in Uttar Pradesh village
02-Oct-2015
• By Mugdha Variyar Updated: October 2, 2015 13:02 IST A Dalit man who tried to enter a temple with his family in Uttar Pradesh’s Hamirpur district was axed and burnt alive on Wednesday. The man, said to be 90 years of age, was stopped at the entrance of the Maidani Baba temple by a…
UNEASY CALM IN BISADA VILLAGE OF GAUTAMBUDH NAGAR DISTRICT – Many Muslims Contemplating Leaving Area; Such Things Happen: BJP Leader
02-Oct-2015
Oct 02 2015 : The Economic Times (Mumbai) ManMohan Rai Lucknow: An uneasy calm prevailed in Bisada village of Gautam Budh Nagar district on Thursday , three days after a resident Mohammed Ikhlaq was killed and his son grievously injured on the suspicion of cow slaughter, and the possibility of similar communal friction elsewhere in…
Dadri temple priest detained; Centre seeks report from U.P.
02-Oct-2015
NEW DELHI, October 2, 2015 The Union Home Ministry has sought a report from the Uttar Pradesh government on the lynching of a man at Dadri in Greater Noida over rumours that he had consumed beef. The Centre has also sent an advisory to the State to keep a check on incidents of communal violence.…
Rijiju fires warning at `anti-govt’ NGOs
02-Oct-2015
Oct 02 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) New Delhi AGENCIES Tells Them To Drop Agenda Or Face Action Junior home minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday accused Greenpeace of inciting protests against industrial projects and warned global activists and aid outfits not to work against the government. Rijiju’s warning follows a crackdown by the…
Dadri lynching: Three days before attack, my son was called a Pakistani, says mother
02-Oct-2015
Written by Aditi Vatsa | Bisara | Updated: October 2, 2015 10:45 am Last Friday, Mohammed Akhlaq’s family had arranged a Bakr Eid feast for neighbours and close relatives. That evening, Ahklaq’s 22-year-old son Mohammed Danish told his mother that a group of boys in their village, barely an hour’s drive from Delhi, had called…
Does it matter now if someone was an Aryan: Romila Thapar
02-Oct-2015
Historian Romila Thapar said that in the current context, attempts were being made to follow two directives — the rewriting of history and the “cleansing” of institutions with “cultural pollution”. Written by Aranya Shankar | New Delhi | Published:October 2, 2015 3:10 am In the backdrop of the shocking murder of Kannada scholar and rationalist…
14 absolved of SIMI links: Verdict exposes shoddy probe by Khandwa police
02-Oct-2015
Written by Milind Ghatwai | Bhopal | Published:October 2, 2015 2:47 am As a Khandwa court absolved 14 people, including a Sikh and a Christian, of the charge of working for the banned Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), it found the investigators depending on a translator who admitted not knowing enough Urdu and the…