Citizens for Justice and Peace
Home secretary is shifted due to rift with government?
01-Sep-2015
Rajiv Mehrishi replaces LC Goyal at North Block In a sudden and surprise move, the Narendra Modi government on Monday gave marching orders to L.C. Goyal as Union home secretary, and named senior IAS officer Rajiv Mehrishi for the top job at MHA. A 1979-batch IAS officer, Mr Goyal had barely completed six months in…
Bajrang Dal activist arrested after tweets
01-Sep-2015
Special Correspondent MANGALURU, September 1, 2015 Bantwal police on Monday arrested Bhuvith Shetty, a resident of Bantwal, on charges of threatening writer K.S. Bhagwan through tweets after scholar M.M. Kalburgi’s death on Sunday. According to Sharanappa S.D., Superintendent of Police, Dakshina Kannada, Mr. Shetty, said to be a Bajrang Dal activist, has been booked under…
Yogi Adityanath warns of demographic ‘imbalance’, cites Census data
31-Aug-2015
Aug 31, 2015 | PTI|Muzaffarnagar (UP): He appealed to ‘Hindu parents to teach their daughters about its dangers’ Muzaffarnagar (UP): BJP MP Yogi Adityanath, who often stokes controversy with his remarks, has said that “high” fertility rate among Muslims could lead to demographic imbalance and cited the recently released Census data. “The comparatively high fertility…
Bajrang Dal leader ‘welcomes’ murder of rationalist
31-Aug-2015
BENGALURU: The co-convenor of the Bajrang Dal, Bhuvith Shetty, triggered a controversy by welcoming the assassination of scholar Prof MM Kalburgi who was shot dead at his house in Dharwad on Sunday morning. In a tweet he said, “Then it was UR Ananthamurthy and now MM Kalburgi. Mock Hinduism and die dogs death. And dear…
Violence continues in Kannur
31-Aug-2015
Special Correspondent KANNUR, August 31, 2015 The house of Bharatiya Janata Party district president K. Ranjith at Palliyanmoola here came under bomb attack early on Sunday as sporadic incidents of violence continued in parts of the district. The house of a CPI(M) worker, identified as Surendran, at nearby Pallikkunnu also came under bomb attack on…
Niranjan Jyoti again: ‘Hindu women should not marry outside community’
31-Aug-2015
The Minister of State for Food Processing was speaking after she took part in the Jayanthi celebrations of Sree Narayana Guru in Alappuzha. Written by Shaju Philip Thiruvananthapuram Updated: Aug 31, 2015, 0:26 Union Minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti said on Sunday that Hindu women should never marry men from other communities as that would weaken…
Two students suspended for inter-religious relationship
28-Aug-2015
MANGALURU, August 28, 2015 A II Pre-University student and his collegemate, a first PU student, have been placed under suspension for two weeks by a college in Sullia, 60 km away from Mangaluru, following protests by a section of students. Their “crime”, as the protesters portrayed it, was their alleged relationship despite belonging to different…
Senior Union ministers to attend 3-day RSS meet
28-Aug-2015
New Delhi: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the Modi government appeared to have reconciled to a cozy “agree to disagree” relationship. As part of the coordination mechansim between government and the BJP’s ideological mentor, senior ministers will be attending a three-day meeting of the RSS and its affiliates here from September 2. The RSS brass…
Footage shows cops no different from rioters: HC
28-Aug-2015
TIMES NEWS NETWORK Court Takes Serious Note Of Police Excesses The Gujarat high court on Thursday took a serious view of alleged police excesses in dealing with the unrest that was triggered after the August 25 crackdown on Patidar leaders at the GMDC ground. “This is very disturbing. If police does this, what is the…
Buses, buildings set afire, trading comes to a halt; Guj losses pegged at Rs20,000cr
27-Aug-2015
Aug 27 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) RajkotSuratPalanpur: TIMES NEWS NETWORK Suspend Cops, Says Hardik As Violence Over Quotas Spreads Mob violence sparked off by Tuesday night’s police crackdown on Patidar protesters in Ahmedabad escalated to such a level on Wednesday that the Anandiben Patel government was forced to call for the Army’s…