Citizens for Justice and Peace
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…
How Samadhan Sena kept the communal pot boiling
01-Oct-2015
Written by Apurva | Dadri | Updated: October 1, 2015 6:23 am The death of Mohammad Akhlaq in Dadri’s Bisara village may have been shocking, but in villages within a 10-kilometre radius of the crime scene, it is hardly surprising. For four months now, a little-known organisation called the Samadhan Sena has kept the communal…
Cow medicine spat in Valley
01-Oct-2015
Our Special Correspondent Srinagar, Sept. 30: Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani has accused the Jammu and Kashmir regime of distributing medicines made from cow urine in government hospitals in the Valley, the allegation coming amid simmering tension over the beef ban in the state. A statement issued by the Geelani-led Hurriyat claimed the People’s…
Catholic church seeks ban on ‘Agnes of God’
01-Oct-2015
NEW DELHI: Oct 1, 2015, DHNS Demands for ban seem to be increasing in India with the Catholic church now wanting the Centre to ban the play ‘Agnes of God’ across the country, saying it mocks their beliefs. The Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) shot off a letter to Home Minister Rajnath Singh and…
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,…