Citizens for Justice and Peace
Muslim man donates truck to carry vegetable to Tirupati temple
17-Feb-2016
Vijayawada:Feb 17, 2016, PTI A Muslim man from Chennai has donated a refrigerator truck to the famous Tirupati temple for transporting vegetables. The vehicle, worth Rs. 35 lakh, was flagged off by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu earlier on Monday. The truck, with a capacity of eight tonnes, was donated by Abdul Gani, and will…
RSS worker beaten to death
17-Feb-2016
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Feb 17, 2016. DHNS: An activist of the RSS was beaten to death by a gang of assailants in Kannur on Monday, triggering tension in politically sensitive regions of the district. The activist named Sujith (27) of Azad Colony in Aroli was assaulted at his home by a group of 10 assailants with logs.…
`24-hour surveillance must to prevent abuse of schoolgirls’
17-Feb-2016
Feb 17 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) V Narayan & Vinamrata Borwankar Mumbai: Abdul Rehman (33), alias Rauf Shaikh, the private van driver who was arrested on Monday for sexually assaulting a six-year-old, has been remanded in police custody till February 23. Shaikh allegedly committed the offence after threatening to kill the girl’s…
Sightless Muslim girl knows Gita by heart
17-Feb-2016
Feb 17 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Ishita Bhatia Meerut Ask seven-year-old Rida Zehra if she knows the Gita, and the visually-challenged girl folds her hands and starts reciting the book -which she knows by heart -within seconds. Living at a residential blind school in Meerut since three years, Zehra has never seen…
Vemula Suicide: Fact-finding Committee Slams Hyderabad University Authorities
17-Feb-2016
Feb 17 2016 : The Economic Times (Mumbai) Anubhuti Vishnoi New Delhi: The report of the HRD ministry’s fact-finding team on the Rohith Vemula suicide has slammed the university administration for a flawed inquiry process that led to the expulsion of the five students associated with the Ambedkar Student Association.It also underlined the “academic demoralisation…
3-year-old abducted, raped in Dharavi
17-Feb-2016
dna correspondent @dna The Dharavi police on Tuesday filed a case against an unidentified man for kidnapping and raping a three-year-old girl. No arrests into the case have been made yet. The minor was a resident of Shivaji Nagar, Govandi, where she lived with her family. Her family found her missing from home at 10pm…
Bihar woman flees from husband after he sells her to porn film makers
17-Feb-2016
Feb 17, 2016 | • Age Correspondent | • Bihar Sarita alleged that her in-laws not only taunted her for her father’s inability to provide a dowry, but also started treating her roughly. In less than two months after her wedding, a woman from Saran district, Bihar was forced to abscond from her in-law’s house…
Main accused in Muzaffarnagar riot victim gangrape arrested
17-Feb-2016
PTI Muzaffarnagar, February 17, 2016 A 14-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped on January 29 by three youths when she was returning home. The main accused has been arrested in connection with the gangrape of a 14-year-old girl, who was rehabilitated along with her family after the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots, police said on Wednesday. Zulfam, son…
Vicious assault on Kanhaiya
17-Feb-2016
Imran Ahmed Siddiqui New Delhi, Feb. 17: Kanhaiya Kumar was kicked and punched so viciously inside a court complex today afternoon that what appeared to be urine stained the young man’s trousers. Half an hour later, the JNU students’ union president, arrested on a sedition charge, was beaten up again – this time in a…
JNU Row: No question of clean chit to Kanhaiya, says Bassi
17-Feb-2016
Shubhomoy Sikdar New Delhi, February 17, 2016 The Police Commissioner said that they, in fact, had evidence against the JNUSU president on the basis of which he was arrested. Dismissing media reports on a Delhi Police internal report not mentioning Kanhaiya Kumar as raising anti-India slogans, Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi on Wednesday said those…