Citizens for Justice and Peace
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…
Sub-inspector kills woman, commits suicide in Delhi
18-Jan-2016
Azaan Javaid @AzaanJavaid New Delhi: A 30-year-old Delhi Police sub-inspector on Sunday morning shot dead a woman and then committed suicide in a park situated in Delhi’s south west region. While the 27-year-old woman died on the spot, the cop succumbed to injuries later in the evening after undergoing treatment at All India Institute Of…
Another ‘rape video’ goes public in Muzaffarnagar
18-Jan-2016
Mohammad Ali Muzaffarnagar, January 18, 2016 A girl from Kailawda village in Khatoli police station has alleged that two men from the “other community” gang-raped her two years back. For the third time in the last 10 days, yet another case of gang rape was reported from Muzaffarnagar district. A girl from Kailawda village in…
Tension in Hyderabad varsity over research scholar’s suicide
18-Jan-2016
Hyderabad, Jan 18, 2016, (IANS) Tension prevailed in University of Hyderabad on Monday over the suicide of one of the five Dalit research scholars following their expulsion from the hostel. Police intervened to shift the body from the campus to the hospital for autopsy as students resisted their attempts, demanding justice to the student’s family.…
From Dadri to Malda: Partisanship of secularists debasing secularism
18-Jan-2016
Monday, January 18, 2016 By Virendra Kapoor National interest should guide the ‘award-wapsi’ crowd Dadri is some fifty kilometers from Delhi. Malda over 1,500. But that cannot be the only reason why Malda has not entered national consciousness. Dadri was in the headlines for several weeks. The crime was gruesome. An innocent man was killed…
Body of Dalit researcher who committed suicide after alleged insult sent for autopsy
18-Jan-2016
Hyderabad, Jan 18 (PTI): The body of V. Rohit, a Dalit PhD scholar who was found hanging at the Central University’s hostel room in the campus on Sunday, was sent for post mortem amid protests from fellow students on Monday morning. According to Cyberabad Police Commissioner C.V. Anand, the situation is now “fine” on the…