Citizens for Justice and Peace
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…
Attempt to create communal strife; idols vandalised in Gujarat temple
01-Oct-2015
Thursday, 01 October 2015 | NAYAN DAVE | GANDHINAGAR Three shocking incidences believed to be aimed at hurting religious sentiments of majority Hindu community created tension in South Gujarat as miscreants vandalised idols at a temple and in the same region the head of a cow was found near a river bank. According to police,…
Hindu organisations demand arrest of rationalist writer, KS Bhagwan
01-Oct-2015
Oct 01, 2015 | PTI| Mangaluru Puranik accused the professor of making derogatory remarks against Hindu deities Mangaluru: Hindu outfits, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal, today demanded that the government should arrest rationalist Kannada writer, KS Bhagwan for his “derogatory” remarks on Hindu Gods. Addressing a press meet, VHP leader, MB Puranik alleged…
J&K beef ban: SC to hear govt plea on Monday
01-Oct-2015
Oct 01 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) New Delhi: TIMES NEWS NETWORK The Supreme Court on Wednesday told the Jammu and Kashmir government that its appeal against the conflicting orders of high court benches in Jammu and Srinagar one banning cow slaughter and the other scrapping the provision banning slaughter would…
`Can’t live in fear, may leave village’
01-Oct-2015
Oct 01 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Purusharth Aradhak Greater Noida Fearing for their lives, many Muslims families on Wednesday planned to leave Bisada village in the Dadri area of Greater Noida. The family of 58-yearold Iqlakh, who was lynched late on Monday night following rumours that he had slaughtered a cow in…