Citizens for Justice and Peace
This businessman is wedded to a cause
28-Jan-2016
Jan 28 2016 : The Times of India (Ahmedabad) Palanpur: TIMES NEWS NETWORK Jitubhai Invited 18,000 Widows To Bless His Son’s Marriage Inviting widows to auspicious functions is still conside red a taboo, more so in ru ral areas. But Mehsa na-based businessman, Jitendra Patel, trashes these parochial beliefs with contempt. On Wednesday, Patel, bet…
6 found guilty in Bengal gang-rape case, 2 acquitted
28-Jan-2016
Kolkata, Jan 28, 2016, DHNS: Mamata had accused victim’s family of having Maoist links Nearly three years after a 21-year-old college girl was gang-raped and murdered at Kamduni in North 24 Parganas, a Sessions Court in Kolkata on Thursday pronounced six accused in the case guilty, setting the argument for quantum of punishment on Friday.…
Dalit scholar alleges harassment at JNU
28-Jan-2016
Staff Reporter NEW DELHI, January 28, 2016 : A Dalit research scholar at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has alleged that he was discriminated against on the basis of his caste, forcing him to threaten suicide. The scholar, who wished to remain anonymous, was awarded a five-year fellowship in 2011 to complete his Ph.D from…
Danish woman gang-rape: Police to submit potency report
28-Jan-2016
PTI NEW DELHI, January 28, 2016 The Delhi Police were on Wednesday allowed by a city court to place on record the original medical and potency test report of a 55-year-old man, one of the accused in a case of gang-rape of a Danish woman here, who claimed to be impotent. The court said though…
Six convicted in Kamduni gangrape and murder case
28-Jan-2016
Kolkata, Jan 28, 2016 (PTI) Six persons were today convicted by a local court in the Kamduni gangrape and murder case in which a 21-year-old college girl was brutally assaulted and murdered in June 2013, triggering outrage. Two other accused in the case were acquitted. Additional City and Sessions Judge Sanchita Kar pronounced Saiful Ali,…
Dalit scholar’s suicide: JNUSU members start hunger strike from police station
28-Jan-2016
By: Express News Service | Delhi | Updated: January 28, 2016 4:56 am JNU students march to the HRD Ministry to protest over Rohith Vemula’s death. Renuka Puri Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar along with others, started an indefinite hunger strike from within the Parliament Street police station Wednesday demanding justice…
Fresh protests in Hyd, Delhi and Chennai over dalit scholar suicide
28-Jan-2016
Thursday, January 28, 2016 HYDERABAD/ NEW DELHI: Fresh protests by students broke out on Wednesday in Hyderabad, Delhi and Chennai over the alleged “delay in justice” to the Hyderabad university dalit scholar who committed suicide, as they remained unrelenting in the demand for resignations of Union ministers Smriti Irani and Bandaru Dattatreya. Lending further support…
Protests over Dalit suicide turn into national movement
28-Jan-2016
• 28 Jan 2016 • Hindustan Times (Mumbai) • HT Correspondent letters@hindustantimes.com NEW DELHI: Protests swe pt through several top universities across the country, including Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi where classes were suspended on Wednesday as the agitation over the death of a Dalit scholar turned into a movement against caste bias on…
Rohith not a Dalit, says intel report
28-Jan-2016
Jan 28 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Bharti Jain New Delhi: A secret intelligence report has claimed that both the grandmother and mother of Rohith Vemula, a Hyderabad Central University research scholar who recently committed suicide, have declared the family’s caste as Vaddera, which is a backward caste and not part of the…
Now, women seek entry into Haji Ali dargah
28-Jan-2016
Several activists belonging to Muslim women groups held placards demanding entry for females into the sanctum sanctorum of the historic dargah, which receives hundreds of devotees everyday. By: PTI | Mumbai | Updated: January 28, 2016 10:17 pm Muslim women on Thursday staged a protest demanding entry into a restricted area of the Haji Ali…