Citizens for Justice and Peace
Sena defends ink attack, calls it ‘mild’ protest
12-Oct-2015
Alok Deshpande October 12, 2015 Kulkarni has alleged that the attackers were from the Shiv Sena Sudheendra Kulkarni, who is organising former Pakistani Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri’s book launch event in Mumbai, had black oil paint thrown on his face outside his home on Monday. Mr. Kulkarni, chairman of Observer Research Foundation (ORF), has alleged…
VHP to writers: Dare you to eat pork in Saudi
11-Oct-2015
Oct 12 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) TIMES NEWS NETWORK HP spokesman Surendra V Jain on Sunday “dared“ writers returning their Akademi awards over the Dadri episode, among other things, to ask for pork in Saudi Arabia. “If they do so and return alive, I will myself welcome them. Otherwise, they should stop…
The cow keepers: Some cattle vigilante groups operating in Delhi and neighbouring states
11-Oct-2015
They waylay trucks, set them on fire, beat up ‘offenders’, all in the name of the holy cow. Written by Abhishek Angad , Ankita Dwivedi Johri Updated: Oct 11, 2015, 9:03 On most weekdays, 25-year-old Akhilesh Singh goes to work at a Central telecom firm in Sahibabad in Ghaziabad, a district in Uttar Pradesh on…
Akhlaq’s family gets call to drop names from FIR
10-Oct-2015
Oct 10 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Bisada: TIMES NEWS NETWORK A mob of about a 100 people had attacked Mohammad Akhlaq’s house on the night of September 28. Of them, 10 have been named in the FIR. These 10, Akhlaq’s family could identify that night in the chaos, when, to make matters…
Deshpande quits Akademi over Kalburgi killing
10-Oct-2015
Author Shashi Deshpande on Fri day resigned from the Sahitya Aka demi’s gen eral council to protest against its silence on the murder of Kannada writer and rationalist M M Kalburgi. “Today, I am deeply distressed by the silence of the Akademi on the murder of Professor Kalburgi…a noted scholar and a good and honest…
Muslim panel seeks probe into sting operation disclosures
09-Oct-2015
Raghava M. MANGALURU, October 9, 2015 The Central Muslim Committee, Dakshina Kannada and Udupi, has sought an inquiry into the alleged disclosures by local Bajrang Dal leaders and a BJP MLC on “Love Jihad” in a sting operation by the Delhi-based Cobrapost and Gulail. Talking to reporters here on Thursday, committee’s president and the former…
Cow carcasses found in J&K’s Udhampur; situation tense
09-Oct-2015
Friday, 09 October 2015 | PTI | Udhampur Protests broke out on Thursday in Udhampur district of Jammu & Kashmir, after “carcasses of three cows” were found behind the office of the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, police said. Irate protesters blocked the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway near Chenani tehsil, they said. On the assurance of Deputy Commissioner Udhampur,…
Katju in trouble over cow remark
09-Oct-2015
Chandigarh, Oct 09, 2015, DHNS: The Jalandhar police in Punjab is looking into the veracity of charges leveled by a local resident who has accused the former Supreme Court Judge and ex-chairman of the Press Council of India Justice Markendey Katju of “hurting religious sentiments.” The complaint against Katju relates to his recent comment on…
Meat in Akhlaq fridge was mutton, not beef
09-Oct-2015
Oct 09 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Purusharth Aradhak Dadri (UP): Mohammed Akhlaq’s family had insisted all along that there was no beef in the house. And now a forensic test has proved precisely that: the meat that the mob found in Akhlaq’s fridge, and which they claimed was the proof they needed…
VHP vows to fight Love Jihad with Ayudha Puja
09-Oct-2015
Outfit to also push Ayodhya cause, calls for nation-wide Ram nama japa on Nov 25 Dhaval Kulkarni @dhavalkulkarni Mumbai: While Hindu right-wing groups in Gujarat have sought to bar the entry of Muslims at garba events to prevent ‘Love Jihad’ incidents, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has turned aggressive and is planning a worship of…