Citizens for Justice and Peace
Hyderabad research scholar’s suicide: TISS students boycott lectures, express solidarity
19-Jan-2016
By Pallavi Smart Students from IIT-B, TIFR, Mumbai University and its affiliated colleges to follow suit tomorrow, term Rohith Vemula’s suicide an ‘institutional murder’ Protests condemning the suicide of Rohith Vemula, a research scholar from Hyderabad Central University (HCU), seem to be spreading like wildfire across premier educational institutes in the country, including Mumbai. While…
Dalit student’s suicide ‘murder of democracy’: Arvind Kejriwal
19-Jan-2016
By IANS New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday described the suicide of the Hyderabad Dalit student as “murder of democracy, social justice and equality”. “It’s not suicide. It’s murder. It’s murder of democracy, social justice and equality. (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi ji should sack ministers and apologise to the nation,” Kejriwal said…
Dalit suicide case: Congress demands sacking of Smriti Irani, Dattatreya
19-Jan-2016
By PTI New Delhi: Going on the offensive on the dalit student’s suicide case in Hyderabad, Congress on Tuesday demanded that HRD Minister Smriti Irani should be removed along with Union Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya, against whom a FIR has been lodged. Party spokesperson Kumari Selja told reporters in New Delhi that both Irani and…
Dalit PhD scholar hangs himself
19-Jan-2016
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 He along with 4 others had been suspended for alleged attack on an ABVP official. Protests followed outside HRD minister’s residence in Delhi. The minister forms a committee to look into the matter Hyderabad: The body of V Rohit, a Dalit PhD scholar who was found hanging at the Central University’s…
Student suicide: Digvijay asks student wings to unite
19-Jan-2016
New Delhi, Jan 19, 2016, (PTI) Attacking the government over the alleged suicide of a dalit scholar in Hyderabad, Congress leader Digvijay Singh today charged that vice chancellors have been handpicked by the BJP-RSS and asked student wings to come together to fight the “communal forces”. “This is only a beginning.Vice Chancellors have been handpicked…
S Ghulam Ali and Headache Return to Haunt Fadnavis
18-Jan-2016
Jan 18 2016 : The Economic Times (Mumbai) Krishna Kumar Mumbai Pakistani ghazal artist Ghulam Ali will be back in Maharashtra next month, providing a fresh headache for the state govern ment. Ali’s previous show was cancelled following protest of the Shiv Sena, the ruling BJP’s partner. Nation alist Congress Party leader Jitendra Awhad has…
4 junkies held for boy’s sexual assault, murder
18-Jan-2016
Jan 18 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Mateen Hafeez Mumbai Beer Bottles Led To Breakthrough After 7-Year-Old’s Skeleton Found Four beer bottles found under the Eastern Freeway where a seven-year-old boy’s skeleton was discovered in a cavity under the flyover, helped nail the alleged accused–four drug addicts–three months after the crime. The crime…
United efforts needed to make Ram temple a reality: Swamy
18-Jan-2016
Jan 18 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Chaitanya Deshpande Nashik BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Sunday said rules barring women from entering temples must be changed in keeping with changing times. He also stressed the need to restructure academic syllabi to provide “true information“ about the country’s history to youngsters. Swamy was delivering…
After Pathankot attack, cops beef up security for local trains, stations
18-Jan-2016
• 18 Jan 2016 • Hindustan Times (Mumbai) • Saurabh M Joshi saurabh.joshi@hindustantimes.com HIGH ALERT State issues advisory; special teams of railway police’s commando force to patrol all routes MUMBAI: Following the Pathankot terror attack, the railway police are on high alert following a state advisory about the possibility of a similar attack on Mumbai’s…
ACCUSED HELD AFTER RAPE CLIP CIRCULATED IN MUZAFFARNAGAR
18-Jan-2016
• 18 Jan 2016 • Hindustan Times (Mumbai) • Vasistha Bhardwaj letters@hindustantimes.com MUZAFFARNAGAR: Khatauli police arrested two men allegedly involved in the gangrape of a 32-year-old married woman here. The accused, apprehended on Sunday, had raped the woman in Kelavada village under Khatauli police station, more than two years ago and filmed the act. On…