Citizens for Justice and Peace
ATTACKS ON CHURCHES
10-Feb-2015
Between December 2013 and December 2014, about 7,000 Christians faced threats, violence and displacement December 2013: Govind Kuram Korram,11, whose father converted to Christianity, died of starvation in Chhattisgarh after being locked up in a room by his uncle who was a Hindutva activist June 2014: Nimakka Laxmaya, 50, a recent convert, was killed on…
Rename Aligarh as Harigarh, says VHP
10-Feb-2015
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations held in Aligarh on Monday , proposed renaming Aligarh to Harigarh, triggering howls of protests from both local residents and historians, who said there was no merit in the demand. “This (Harigarh) is Aligarh’s oldest and real name,“ said Krishna Gupta, a VHP…
Praveen Togadia defies Bengaluru ban order
09-Feb-2015
Defying a ban order by the city police, which was upheld by the Karnataka high court, VHP president Praveen Togadia made a multi-media appearance in Bengaluru. At the end of the golden jubilee function of the Vishwa Hindu Parishath, the organisers played the video of Mr Togadia, which went on for more than 12 minutes,…
A house named `Mahatma’ Nathuram
09-Feb-2015
Barely 12km from Gandhi Bhawan in Beliaghata, where Mahatma Gandhi went on a fast in 1947 to stop Hindu-Muslim riots in West Bengal, stands a house named after the man who assassinated him. Rana Pratap Roy , a former resident of Michael Nagar near Dum Dum who was a commander in the Navy and had…
Only Hindutva can unify India, says Bhagwat
09-Feb-2015
Hindutva is a cultural and civilisational ideology and everybody living in India should consider himself a Hindu, said RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat at a function here on Sunday. Addressing RSS workers, Mr. Bhagwat said the country could only be unified through Hindutva. He said that Rashtriya Swaysewak Sangh had always worked for the interests of…
A 100-yr-pact for communal amity in Konkan village
09-Feb-2015
Hindus and Muslims in Burondi, a village in Ratnagiri district — located 228 km from Mumbai — have signed a 100-year pact between themselves to maintain communal harmony. The pact, which has been notarised, lays down a code of conduct for members of both the communities to avoid communal strife in the village that has…
Farmers’ suicides in Maha: No compensation in 50% of cases
09-Feb-2015
Feb 09 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) INELIGIBLE EVEN IN DEATH – Chittaranjan Tembhekar Mumbai:Families of nearly half of the farmers in Maharashtra who have committed suicide over the last four years are not eligible to get even the paltry Rs 1 lakh compensation thanks to government rules. Maharashtra, along with Tamil Nadu,…
UP Dalits barred from temple feast
09-Feb-2015
Mrigank Tiwari In an incident that illustrates that untouchability -called the curse of the country almost a century ago by Gandhi -still thrives in many parts of modern India, members of a Dalit community were barred from serving food at a community feast organized at a temple in Rewati village near Aonla on Friday night.…
Beef traders allege harassment by right-wing groups, go on strike
05-Feb-2015
Alleging harassment at the hands of activists of various right-wing groups, particularly since the BJP-led government came to power, beef traders here and in the entire western Maharashtra went on an indefinite strike from Thursday . “Our business is completely legal but on the grounds of sentiments and animal cruelty , activists of various right-wing…
RSS Man Inder Kapahy Joins UGC
05-Feb-2015
New Delhi:A founding member of NDTF, Kapahy fought against Delhi University’s 4-year undergrad course The human resource development ministry has appointed as a member of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Professor Inder Mohan Kapahy , a long-time member of RSS and founding member of the National Democratic Teachers’ Front that led a successful fight against…