Citizens for Justice and Peace
Suleman Usman shootout: Trial pending for two decades
04-Jan-2016
• 4 Jan 2016 • Hindustan Times (Mumbai) • Charul Shah charul.shah@hindustantimes.com MUMBAI: Even after more than two decades, the trial for the Suleman Usman Bakery encounter during the 1993 riots where nine people had died is yet to begin. This time, the officer in charge of the investigation has failed to appear before the…
Mob attacks police station in Malda
04-Jan-2016
Special Correspondent Kolkata, January 4, 2016 Violence spreads from rally organised to condemn derogatory statement of Hindu outfit leader More than a dozen policemen, including an inspector in-charge of a police station, were injured in mob fury in West Bengal’s Malda district on Sunday. Gopal Tiwari, 22, sustained a gunshot while about 30 vehicles were…
Man held for raping minor girl in Malad
04-Jan-2016
Jan 03, 2016 | • Age Correspondent| • mumbai The Malad police on Saturday has arrested a 21-year-old man for kidnapping and raping a six-year-old girl who had come to the area to attend a wedding. The minor who is a resident of Mahim was in Malad on Friday for the wedding. According to police…
Ads for RTI lowest in Modi’s tenure: Activist
03-Jan-2016
Ashutosh Shukla @scribeashutosh Advertisements to create awareness on the RTI Act have been at an all-time low this year. As per an RTI reply, expenses on the advertisements till December 28, 2015, have been less than 20% of those spent in the previous fiscal. The information, provided by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT)…
Subject of Shamli ‘hate speech’, woman to court: I am happy only with Asif
02-Jan-2016
Speaking to The Indian Express, the woman said, “I told the court today that I had gone with Asif on my own. I also told the court I would be happy only with Asif.” Written by Manish Sahu Lucknow Published:Jan 2, 2016, 5:13 The 23-year-old woman whose alleged kidnapping led to a mahapanchayat in Shamli,…
Caste no bar: In this part of Punjab, Dalit cooks are family
02-Jan-2016
The school has students from the Rai Sikh community studying along with upper caste students including from the Jat Sikh community. Their mid-day meals are all cooked by Dalits. Written by Divya Goyal Ludhiana Published:Jan 2, 2016, 9:25 In a country where children have been told not to eat food from a Dalit cook and…
J&K HC stays order on use of state flag
02-Jan-2016
Jan 02, 2016 – YUSUF JAMEEL | Srinagar A larger bench of the Jammu and Kashmir high court on Friday stayed an earlier order of a single-judge bench allowing the state government to use both the tricolour as well as the state flag on official buildings and vehicles. On December 26, Justice Hasnain Massodi had…
Dilwale’ hits the screens again in Mangaluru
02-Jan-2016
Mangaluru, Jan 1 , 2015, PTI: Theatre owners here have decided to resume screening of Shah Rukh Khan-starrer ‘Dilwale’ after it was disrupted from December 20 due to protests from Bajrang Dal and VHP activists. The right-wing Hindu outfits had stalled the screening of the movie in protest against Shah Rukh Khan’s comment on growing…
Hanuman Sena men clash with ‘Kiss Street’ organisers in Kerala
02-Jan-2016
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Jan 2, 2016, DHNS: The New Year cheer made way for hostility on a street in Kozhikode on Friday morning, as activists of Hanuman Sena clashed with organisers of “Kiss Street”, an anti-moral policing protest, ahead of the event. The police have arrested 32 people in connection with the clashes. Members of Njattuvela, a…
Dalits continue to live under tough conditions’
02-Jan-2016
Shemin Joy NEW DELHI: Jan 2, 2016, DHNS: A majority of Dalits in the country live under difficult conditions, as per latest Census reports. While most of them are forced to defecate in the open and having very little access to Internet or gas connection among other amenities, the reports said. A large number of…