Citizens for Justice and Peace
In a first, RSS invites govt official to Dussehra function
16-Oct-2015
Defence scientist and former Director General of DRDO Padmabhushan V K Saraswat, at present a member of the NITI Aayog, is the chief guest. Written by Vivek Deshpande Nagpur Published:Oct 16, 2015, 1:14 For the first time in the history of the RSS, a person on government assignment has been invited to the organisation’s Dussehra…
‘Voices not raised after Emergency, Muzaffarnagar’
15-Oct-2015
Thursday, 15 October 2015 | PNS | New Delhi After Mahesh Sharma, his Cabinet colleague Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday questioned eminent writers’ act of returning awards to protest against Kannada author Kalburgi’s murder and Dadri lynching reminding them that such voices were “not heard” after incidents like Emergency and Muzaffarnagar riots. His statement came…
Udhampur truck attack: Relatives of injured truck drivers return compensation, allege insult
15-Oct-2015
Rashid said the government has given only a few thousand rupees and arranged an air ticket for one family member to travel to New Delhi, where his son his being treated. Written by Mir Ehsan Srinagar Updated: Oct 15, 2015, 3:06 Families of Kashmiri truck drivers who were attacked on Srinagar-Jammu national highway at Udhampur…
NEW ADOPTION RULES – Christians Upset At Large, Try to Build Up Unified Opinion
15-Oct-2015
Oct 15 2015 : The Economic Times (Mumbai) Vasudha Venugopal New Delhi:Govt gets letters from 15 adoption centres run by Mother Teresa’s charity seeking closure It’s not the Missionaries of Charity alone that has problems with new guidelines that make it easier for single men and women to adopt children. There is disgruntlement among the…
Guj man offers to sell eye, kidney to build school wall
15-Oct-2015
Oct 15 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Sachin Sharma Vadodara In a non-descript village of Panchmahal district, the head of a school management committee has offered to sell his kidney and an eye to raise money for building the compound wall of a government primary school. So fed up was Gopal Patel of…
Writer Dalip Kaur Tiwana returns Padma Shri, RSS lashes out
14-Oct-2015
Tiwana, 80, is the first writer to give up a Padma award as part of a protest which has seen about 25 people across the country return their Akademi awards. By: Express News Service Chandigarh/ Guwahati/ New Delhi/ Nagpur/ Kolkata Updated: Oct 14, 2015, 8: Likening the “atrocities committed on Sikhs in 1984” to attacks…
Police don’t have the right to kill arrested accused, says court
14-Oct-2015
MUMBAI: The police do not have the right to take the life of those arrested by them, the Bombay high court said on Tuesday, adding there was complete lack of sensitivity and political will to address the issue of custodial deaths. A division bench of justice VM Kanade and j ustice Dr Shalini Phansalkar Joshi…
Two more farmers commit suicide in Odisha
14-Oct-2015
Staff Reporter BHUBANESWAR, October 14, 2015 Two more farmers ended their lives in western Odisha districts even as the Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) directed the State government to furnish a report on spate in farmers’ suicides on Tuesday. Nuapada district registered its first farmer suicide this year when Dhanurdhar Ada (35) died in a…
4 die of hunger in Assam tea garden
13-Oct-2015
Oct 13 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Silchar: TIMES NEWS NETWORK The INTUC-affiliated Barak Cha Shramik Union (BCSU) has alleged that four persons have died of starvation over the past week in Bhuvan Valley Tea Estate in Assam’s Cachar district. The garden is owned by Kolkata-based Bhuvan Valley Tea Company Limited. The dead…
CBSE tries to promote RSS ideologues with essay competitions
13-Oct-2015
LAST MONTH, THE CBSE HELD AN ESSAY COMPETITION ON PANDIT DEENDAYAL UPADHYAYA NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) under the HRD ministry is playing a key role in promoting students’ interest to know more about the RSS ideologue and Bharatiya Jan Sangh leader Deendayal Upadhyaya, whose birth centenary is being celebrated this…