02-Feb-2016
• 2 Feb 2016 • Hindustan Times (Mumbai) • HT Correspondent htmetro@hindustantimes.com Activists, students, social workers want action against those responsible for Dalit scholar’s suicide MUMBAI: Thousands of students, political activists and social workers came out on the streets to protest against the suicide of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad. Sporting caps that read…
02-Feb-2016
Feb 02, 2016 | • PTI | • Thiruvananthapuram Two senior IPS officers in Kerala were Monday at the centre of a bitter row with a woman officer accusing her male colleague of harassing her for nearly three decades and also being behind a vigilance probe against her. Additional director-general of police R. Sreelekha in…
02-Feb-2016
The Mehsana SP said that the girl seems to have lost her right eye whereas, 95 per cent of her face has sustained burn injuries along with other body parts like chest, shoulder and legs. By: Express News Service | Ahmedabad | Updated: February 2, 2016 3:36 am The girl had refused the accused’s proposal…
02-Feb-2016
PTI Dhar, February 2, 2016 Hindus can perform puja and Muslims can offer namaz at the disputed Bhojshala monument in the district on Basant Panchmi on February 12, the Archaeological Survey of India said in an order. Tension has been brewing up in the district since last one month in the run-up to the festival…
02-Feb-2016
Srinagar, Feb 2, 2016, (PTI): In a heart warming example of Kashmiriyat, Muslims of a village in Kulgam district of south Kashmir performed the last rites of a Kashmiri Pandit, who clung his roots and refused to leave the valley when all others in his family fled under threat from militants. Janki Nath (84), a…
02-Feb-2016
Woman pulled by her hair, agitating students beaten up Aradhna Wal @aradhnaw New Delhi: A video of extreme police brutality did the rounds on Monday, forcing people to take note of the lathicharge on university students carrying out a protest for justice of Rohith Vemula, the Dalit student from Hyderabad who had committed suicide earlier…
02-Feb-2016
Amarnath Tewary Patna, February 2, 2016 Sixty Dalit students from Bihar, who are studying engineering in Orissa, have threatened to commit suicide after the Bihar government allegedly stopped paying their stipends to the college, and the students were forced to leave the institution. All the 60 students had secured their admission in Rajdhani Engineering College,…
02-Feb-2016
I took it up before the Cabinet and within a minute, the Cabinet increased it to Rs 3,000 crore. By: Express News Service | Jaipur | Published:February 2, 2016 12:57 am Minority Affairs Minister Najma Heptullah Monday said there was “no intolerance” in the country and that the decisions taken by the Narendra Modi government…
02-Feb-2016
Feb 02 2016 : The Times of India (Ahmedabad) Vijaysinh Parmar Rajkot: The state government feels that the disclosure of an inquiry report into killing of three Dalit youths in police firing in Thangadh town of Surendranagar in 2012 may harm sovereignty and integrity of the country and incite hatred among sections of the society.…
02-Feb-2016
By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Updated: February 2, 2016 3:35 am The video, shot on January 30, shows police officers and men in plain clothes beating protesters at Jhandewalan. A video that shows Delhi Police officers beating students, who were protesting outside the RSS headquarters in Jhandewalan over Dalit research scholar Rohith…