Citizens for Justice and Peace
`Will kill 3,000 Muslims,’ says Pune engg student in online post, arrested
07-May-2015
Pune: TIMES NEWS NETWORK A 20-year-old engineering student was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly posting on a social networking site on May 2 that he would “kill around 3,000 Muslims“. The Bund Garden police said Amitsinh Kate, a resident of Bibvewadi, was taken into custody after the cyber crime cell of the Pune crime branch…
Protests in Nagpur against Saamana edit
05-May-2015
NAGPUR: Angry over the editorial in Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamana, which describes those seeking a separate state for Vidarbha as traitors and Kashmiri separatists, various organisations on Monday held protests against the party in Nagpur. Vidarbha Connect (VCan), Vidarbha Rajya Andolan Samiti ( VRAS) and other pro-Vidarbha organisations burnt copies of the newspaper at Laxmi…
Greenpeace in Dire Straits
05-May-2015
MHA looking into funding of major Indian health body After turning the screws on Greenpeace India and the Ford Foundation, the home ministry has now turned its gaze on to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the eponymous non-governmental organisation founded and run by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda. A senior official…
4 killed in communal clash in Nadia
05-May-2015
Kolkata Bureau Kolkata, May 6, 2015 Four persons were killed and seven injured in a clash between two communities in Kaliganj block in West Bengal’s Nadia district on Tuesday. A senior police official confirmed the incident to The Hindu , and said that the situation had been brought under control. “This is a fact (that…
Panchayat threatens family of boycott
05-May-2015
May 06, 2015 – Aftab Khan | Nashik A jaat panchayat (community court) has threatened to socially boycott a family, after a girl complained of molestation by a community leader’s son in Brahmani village of Rahuri tehsil in Ahmednagar district. The family has now appealed to Andhshraddha Nirmulan Samiti (ANS) for help. The girl, a…
School shuts doors on boy with skin disease, to admit him after HC order
05-May-2015
Ahmedabad school admits student after barring him from school 18 months ago, following court orders. By: Express News Service | Ahmedabad | Published on:May 6, 2015 12:48 am About 18 months after it shut its doors on an 8-year-old boy suffering from a skin disease, a school in Ahmedabad has promised to take him back,…
Violence in Mathura over inter-faith elopement
05-May-2015
Thursday, 07 May 2015 | IANS | Lucknow Violence broke out in Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday after a girl eloped with a boy from a different community, officials said. After police failed to recover the girl in Sonkh town, locals set some items belonging to a religious place on fire, and resorted…
Tension in Shamli: Locals see a political plot
04-May-2015
Written by Dipankar Ghose | Kandhla (shamli) | Updated: May 4, 2015 6:21 am In September 2013, as Shamli and Muzaffarnagar burned around them, the small town of Kandhla was largely untouched, with leadership working overtime to keep the peace. On Sunday, a day after 17 people were injured in a clash between the police…
Christian convention cancelled by district administration citing law and order problem
04-May-2015
Written by Milind Ghatwai | Bhopal | Updated: May 4, 2015 12:07 pm A Pentecostal convention scheduled to begin in Kakarkuva village of Dhar on Monday was called off after the district administration cancelled permission late on Sunday saying the event could become a law and order issue. The sub-divisional magistrate had on April 15…
Tension in Haryana village over construction of stadium
04-May-2015
Tension prevailed in Tigara village of Haryana’s Yamunanagar district on Sunday following a clash between members of two communities over the construction of a sports stadium, prompting the authorities to deploy heavy security in the area. Members of one group torched vehicles parked outside the houses of the other in the village on Saturday night,…