Citizens for Justice and Peace
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…
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…
Day after clash, protesters and RSS activists file counter complaints at Dharavi police station
26-Jan-2016
According to the students, the police was initially reluctant to file a case. By: Express News Service | Mumbai | Published:January 26, 2016 1:01 am An FIR has been registered against at least a dozen people, allegedly belonging to a Rashtriya Swayam Sevak (RSS) shakha in Dharavi, under sections of atrocities Act after they clashed…
Vote for us if you want to eat beef, says Asaduddin Owaisi
26-Jan-2016
Jan 26, 2016 | PTI| Hyderabad It is the poor who cannot afford to eat mutton and they have to depend on beef, the MP said. Hyderabad: A ban on consumption and sale of beef may be imposed in the city if AIMIM was not voted to power in the upcoming elections to Greater Hyderabad…