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…
Now, Gujarati poet returns Akademi award
13-Oct-2015
Anil Joshi Was Awarded For Collection Of Essays After tribal activist Ganesh Devy, another Gujarati litterateur poet Anil Joshi returned his Sahitya Akademi Award. Joshi on Monday wrote a letter to Sahitya Akdemi president professor Viswanath Pratap Tiwari informing him about his decision to return the award in protest of attacks on scholars and intellectuals…
After losing two cotton crops, farmer ends life
13-Oct-2015
Oct 13 2015 : Mirror (Ahmedabad) Ahmedabad Mirror Bureau amfeedback@timesgroup in TWEETS @ahmedabadmirror 42-year-old Vikram Pithiya was depressed after he lost first cotton crop to scanty rainfall and the next to heavy rain; had consumed poison Disheartened by a weak mon soon and damaged crops, a 42 year-old farmer committed su icide in Nani Vavdi…