Citizens for Justice and Peace
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…
Two villagers refused to eat mithai served by Dalit student, booked
28-Jan-2016
The duo refused to touch mithai after Sumant Ahirwar, a Dalit student brought it from a room as directed by a school teacher. Written by Milind Ghatwai | Bhopal | Published:January 28, 2016 12:34 pm Two upper caste villagers refused to eat mithai (sweets) during a function at a school on the occasion of the…
BJP leader held for alleged cow slaughter in Madhya Pradesh, gets expelled from party
28-Jan-2016
The BJP expelled Anwar Mev alias Anna, who was associated with its minority cell, from the party after the police recovered beef from his house Written by Milind Ghatwai | Bhopal | Updated: January 28, 2016 10:55 am A BJP leader and his four relatives were held for allegedly slaughtering a cow at his home…
Bihar: Cops sent to raze illegal temple attacked
28-Jan-2016
Local RJD leader S K Nirala, who reportedly built the Basudev temple that blocks a road, has been arrested. By: Express News Service | Patna | Published:January 28, 2016 2:40 am Bihar’s Hajipur town was tense on Tuesday evening after a crowd attacked a police party that had gone to demolish an illegally constructed temple…
3 BJP men involved in Dadri lynching, will reveal names if PM Modi asks: Mulayam Singh Yadav
28-Jan-2016
The SP chief, however, didn’t take the names of the Bisara village in Dadri area of Gautam Budh Nagar or the victim 50-year-old Mohammad Akhlaq who was killed by a mob on September 28. By: Express News Service | Lucknow | Published:January 28, 2016 1:46 am More than four months after a man was lynched…
Dalit sarpanch skips flag hoisting
28-Jan-2016
Jan 28 2016 : The Times of India (Ahmedabad) Ashish Chauhan Ahmedabad: The dalit sarpanch of Nortol village of Kheralu taluka in Mehsana who sought enhanced police protection for the flag hoisting ceremony on Republic Day af ter being threatened by mem bers of the Thakor communi ty, refrained from attending the event as he…