Citizens for Justice and Peace
After writers, artists enter protest-against-intolerance canvas
28-Oct-2015
Oct 28 2015 : Mirror (Mumbai) Sobhana K Nair in New Delhi mirrorfeedback Days after writers took to streets protesting the growing intoler ance, artists have now begun to raise questions. On Tuesday, over 400 artists, including Vivan Sundaram, Anjolie Ela Menon and Subodh Gupta, condemned recent attacks on rationalists and minorities. The creative bunch…
WOMAN UNDER ATTACK – Teen caught for raping 5-year-old
28-Oct-2015
Oct 28 2015 : The Times of India (Ahmedabad) Ahmedabad: TIMES NEWS NETWORK A 15-year-old boy has been apprehended by Amraiwadi police for allegedly raping a 5-year-old girl at his neighbour’s terrace. The incident took place on Monday night.The girl and the boy were sent for medical examination on Tuesday . According to police, parents…
Writers were not blind to ‘love jihad’ or ‘ghar wapsi’, our agitation not manufactured
28-Oct-2015
IE EDIT 28OCT2015 Writers were not blind to ‘love jihad’ or ‘ghar wapsi’. Our agitation was not manufactured. by Keki N. Daruwalla | As dust settles over the anti-Sahitya Akademi protests, certain questions hang in the air, unanswered. Why did politicians see a hidden political knife somewhere in this unrest? Why did they feel insecure…
Meet Pratheesh Viswanath: The VHP man who allegedly ‘orchestrated’ police raid at Kerala House
28-Oct-2015
A Kerala High Court lawyer by profession, Viswanath is also the all-India joint coordinator of a helpline set up by the VHP to help “victims of love jihad”. Written by Liz Mathew | Delhi | Updated: October 28, 2015 9:14 am On a day when news websites and television channels flashed pictures of him with…
WOMAN UNDER ATTACK – Teen caught for raping 5-year-old
28-Oct-2015
Oct 28 2015 : The Times of India (Ahmedabad) Ahmedabad: TIMES NEWS NETWORK A 15-year-old boy has been apprehended by Amraiwadi police for allegedly raping a 5-year-old girl at his neighbour’s terrace. The incident took place on Monday night.The girl and the boy were sent for medical examination on Tuesday . According to police, parents…
Adityanath detained, stopped from visiting area where clash occurred
28-Oct-2015
By: Express News Service | Lucknow | Updated: October 28, 2015 5:37 am Police Tuesday detained BJP MP Yogi Adityanath and his supporters while they were on way to Shohratgarh town in Siddharthnagar district where a communal clash had taken place during Muharram processions last week. Later, talking to reporters the Gorakhpur MP claimed he…
Meet Pratheesh Viswanath: The VHP man who allegedly ‘orchestrated’ police raid at Kerala House
28-Oct-2015
A Kerala High Court lawyer by profession, Viswanath is also the all-India joint coordinator of a helpline set up by the VHP to help “victims of love jihad”. Written by Liz Mathew | Delhi | Updated: October 28, 2015 9:14 am On a day when news websites and television channels flashed pictures of him with…
Shutdown in Kashmir Valley, separatists in house arrest
28-Oct-2015
A strike called by separatists on the 68th anniversary of the arrival of Indian troops in Kashmir shut the Valley on Tuesday. The first batch of Indian troops from Sikh regiment’s first battalion was airlifted to Srinagar on October 27, 1947, after Maharaja Hari Singh signed the Instrument of Accession. It was supported by Kashmir’s…
Adityanath detained, stopped from visiting area where clash occurred
28-Oct-2015
By: Express News Service | Lucknow | Updated: October 28, 2015 5:37 am Police Tuesday detained BJP MP Yogi Adityanath and his supporters while they were on way to Shohratgarh town in Siddharthnagar district where a communal clash had taken place during Muharram processions last week. Later, talking to reporters the Gorakhpur MP claimed he…
Communal violence: Scientists write to President
28-Oct-2015
Oct 28, 2015 | Age Correspondent| chennai Eminent thinkers and researchers from Scientists for Ethical and Societal Values, including professors from IIT- Madras and the Indian Institute of Mathematical Sciences, have submitted a petition to the President with regard to the recent rise in incidents of communal violence across the country. “We, as scientists, are…