Citizens for Justice and Peace
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…
SRK film Darr inspired Ghaziabad girl kidnap
16-Feb-2016
dna correspondent @dna New Delhi: The Ghaziabad police on Monday arrested five people in connection with the abduction of Snapdeal employee Dipti Sarna who was kidnapped on her way home from Vaishali metro station. The prime accused, Devender, confessed to stalking Dipti since he first saw her a year ago. In their possession, the police…
Kerala girl barred from college for ‘marrying outside her religion’
16-Feb-2016
• 16 Feb 2016 • Hindustan Times (Mumbai) • HT Correspondent letters@hindustantimes.com The college authorities told me that I can’t attend classes since I married a person without the consent of my parents. They told me if I continued my education, it would set a bad precedent for other girls. NEERAJA, the student allegedly barred…
Kerala girl barred from college for ‘marrying outside her religion’
16-Feb-2016
• 16 Feb 2016 • Hindustan Times (Mumbai) • HT Correspondent letters@hindustantimes.com The college authorities told me that I can’t attend classes since I married a person without the consent of my parents. They told me if I continued my education, it would set a bad precedent for other girls. NEERAJA, the student allegedly barred…
Teen held for attempting to rape 10- year- old girl
16-Feb-2016
• 16 Feb 2016 • Hindustan Times (Mumbai) • HT Correspondent htmetro@ hindustantimes. com The Mumbai crime branch arrested a 19- year- old for allegedly attempting to rape a 10- year- old girl in Malwani. The accused, Akash Vilat, allegedly barged into the girl’s house last Thursday when she was alone. A crime branch officer…
Lawyers thrash JNU students, teachers and journalists
16-Feb-2016
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 NEW DELHI: Violence broke out in Patiala House court complex when groups of lawyers on Monday attacked journalists, students and teachers of JNU and unidentified people in and outside the court dubbing them as anti-nationals in the wake of a raging row over the arrest of a student leader of the…
JNU teachers join strike, to take ‘nationalism’ classes
16-Feb-2016
New Delhi, Feb 16 (PTI): Jawaharlal Nehru University teachers joined the students in boycotting classes on Tuesday in protest against arrest of its student union leader in a sedition case and said they would take classes on “nationalism” in the varsity lawns. The students on Monday had gone on an indefinite strike till JNU Students’…
Mahishasura & beef claims in cop report
16-Feb-2016
Imran Ahmed Siddiqui New Delhi, Feb. 16: Delhi police have cited “beef eating” and worship of “Mahishasura” by some far-Left student organisations at JNU to bolster their charge that they were involved in “anti-national” activities in the university. The claim came in a status report to the Union home ministry in connection with the activities…
Lawyers beat up scribes, students in Delhi court
16-Feb-2016
JNU issue takes violent turn inside Patiala House | Two dna journos threatened Azaan Javaid @AzaanJavaid New Delhi: Journalists, senior faculty members and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students, along with other political activists, were on Monday threatened, attacked and beaten up inside the Patiala House Courts, where JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar was being produced.…