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…
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…
Prasad releases stamp on Avaidyanath, says Ram temple will be constructed
02-Oct-2015
Prasad said that he had been a lawyer in the Ram Janmabhoomi case and he was sure of victory in Supreme Court also after the Allahabad High Court judgment. By: Express News Service | Lucknow | Published:October 2, 2015 2:44 am The Centre Thursday released a commemorative postal stamp on leader of Ram Janmabhoomi movement…
‘Police officer was heavily drunk… He pulled our clothes and abused us’
02-Oct-2015
Priyanka and nine others landed in a hospital after a “brutal” cane charge by the station house officer of the local station, who they alleged was “intoxicated.” Written by Mohammad Hamza Khan | Tonk | Published:October 2, 2015 2:40 am After two months without three subject teachers and futile assurances from the principal, Priyanka Swami…
VHP again pushes for Ram temple
02-Oct-2015
National Bureau NEW DELHI, October 2, 2015 Supporters of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) once again pushed for the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya in the presence of Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday. “I would like to send a request to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, through…
ANOTHER BOMB HOAX – Six letters threaten blasts in temple towns, schools
02-Oct-2015
Oct 02 2015 : The Times of India (Ahmedabad) Vadodara: TIMES NEWS NETWORK There is no respite for city police and bomb disposal squad. The Raopura police on Thursday received an envelope containing six letters threatening of blasts at temple towns of Ambaji, Shyamlaji and Shirdi, besides three citybased schools. The letters that carried the…