Citizens for Justice and Peace
Killing people for eating beef is heinous crime: Taslima Nasreen
14-Feb-2016
Feb 14, 2016 | • PTI | • Thiruvananthapuram India as a country is not intolerant as India has Constitution and laws, which do not support intolerance, says Nasreen. Thiruvananthapuram: Renowned Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen feels killing people for eating beef is not intolerance but a ‘heinous crime’ and it should be stopped. “It is…
Haryana: Cop’s wife raped in ICU after delivering baby
14-Feb-2016
Feb 14, 2016 | • : Age Correspondent with agency inputs The CCTV footage shows a man getting down from a car outside the hospital at around 3.30 am. Chandigarh: In a shocking incident, a policeman’s wife was allegedly raped by an unidentified person at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a private hospital on…
Angry Hindu activists stone RSS office over Bhojshala namaz
14-Feb-2016
TNN | Feb 14, 2016, 01.11 PM IST Indore: Hindu activists on Saturday pelted stones at RSS office at Trimurti Nagar of Dhar, in a protest against what they alleged was ‘a sellout of Bhojshala on Friday’. They accused the sangh leaders of facilitating the secret namaz at Bhojshala rooftop during Basant Panchami celebrations. Stray…
12-year-old boy beats Dhar cops, traces missing drone
14-Feb-2016
Ashish Gaur | TNN | Feb 14, 2016, 01.09 PM IST Indore: A 12-year-old boy, Gokul, beat Dhar cops and tracked a drone camera that went missing from Bhojshala on Saturday. The boy pedalled his way to the policemen carrying the drone camera on his bicycle on Saturday and later walked away with a cash…
India tolerant even of intolerance: Amartya
13-Feb-2016
Feb 13 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) New Delhi: TIMES NEWS NETWORK “The problem is not that India is intolerant. It is far too tolerant even of intolerance,“ said Amartya Sen, delivering the Rajendra Mathur annual lecture organised by the Editors Guild. Speaking on the subject of “the centrality of the right to…
Snapdeal staffer back, says abducted & let off
13-Feb-2016
Feb 13 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Ayaskant Das Ghaziabad Dipti Sarna, a 24-year-old legal executive with Snapdeal, returned home on Fridaymorning, almost 36 hours after she had gone missing. She told police she had been kidnapped by four men in a shared auto who said they “wanted her to meet someone (tumhe…
Where Anupam Kher Errs
13-Feb-2016
Feb 13 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Pavan K Varma We cannot simply assume tolerance, to evade holding up present-day acts to scrutiny Anupam Kher is a fine actor, and a friend. We were co-panelists recently at the concluding debate of the Jaipur Literature Festival. The subject was, predictably , freedom of speech…
Supreme Court to examine ban on women’s entry at Sabarimala
13-Feb-2016
The bench also took note of Kerala government’s recent stand and termed it as “somersault” saying, “You have filed an affidavit by taking an opposite stand. We will test it also as to whether a can take a somersault or u-turn”. By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Updated: February 13, 2016 4:54 am…
Tension in Dhar blows over as Hindus, Muslims offer prayers
13-Feb-2016
• 13 Feb 2016 • Hindustan Times (Mumbai) • Punya Priya Mitra and Ritesh Mishra letters@hindustantimes.com DHAR: A face-off between rightwing Hindu groups and the administration i n Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar blew over after Muslims offered Friday namaaz under heavy security cover at a disputed shrine claimed by both communities. Communal t ension had been…
Bhojshala on Basant Panchami: Finally, both puja, namaz offered
13-Feb-2016
Some Muslims ‘smuggled in’ for brief namaz at noon, Hindus let in after 1 pm Written by Milind Ghatwai | Dhar | Updated: February 13, 2016 1:23 am It took nearly 200 policemen in white kurta-pyjama, approximately 25 Muslim men who no one except the administration saw offering the Friday namaz, and a breach of…