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…
The importance of being Rohith Vemula
27-Jan-2016
Valson Thampu, Jan 27, 2016: There is something worse than nudging a young man of promise towards suicide. It is the depravity of fudging its meaning, the mockery of casting the dead into a coffin of falsehood. So, Rohith Vemula is reconfigured as a victim of clinical depression. Depression is not such a bad thing.…
Some Hindu groups behaving like Muslim fundamentalists: Akhtar
27-Jan-2016
Kolkata, Jan 27, 2016 (PTI) Claiming that some Hindu groups are now behaving like Muslim fundamentalists, eminent lyricist-scriptwriter Javed Akhtar has said barring such elements Indian society has always been tolerant. “In 1975 I showed a comedy scene in a temple. Today I won’t. But even in 1975, I wouldn’t have shown a scene in…
Dalit teachers want VC sacked to resume classes
27-Jan-2016
Hyderabad, Jan 27, 2016, DHNS: SC/ST Teachers Forum at University of Hyderabad has said their members would launch a hunger strike from Thursday demanding justice for Dalit scholar Vemula Rohit, dashing hopes of resuming classes early. “We demand the resignation of Vice Chancellor P Apparao and the interim VC Prof Vipin Srivastava to resume academic…
To eat beef, vote for AIMIM: Owaisi
26-Jan-2016
The AIMIM is contesting in 90 wards during the elections that are scheduled to be held on February 2. Hyderabad | Published:January 26, 2016 4:07 am AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi courted controversy Monday as he told a gathering in Hyderabad to vote for his party if they wanted to continue eating beef. Campaigning for the…
After gangrape, police order closure of Fort Kochi homestay
26-Jan-2016
One of the minors arrested is the case is the son of a police constable from Fort Kochi Written by Shaju Philip | Thiruvananthapuram | Published:January 26, 2016 2:46 am Police has ordered the closure of a homestay in Fort Kochi where two women were allegedly gangraped over the last three months. Six youths and…