Citizens for Justice and Peace
HC raps govt. over ban on non-Hindu missionaries
16-Oct-2015
Pavan Dahat RAIPUR, October 16, 2015 The Chhattisgarh High Court has said that the “impugned resolution” (Section 129 (G) of the Chhattisgarh Panchayat Raj Act) banning all non-Hindu religious propaganda, prayers and speeches in over 50 villages of Bastar, shall not come in exercise of the fundamental right to preach and propagate of religion and…
‘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…
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…
Rohini Salian names NIA officer who asked her to go soft in Malegaon blast case
13-Oct-2015
Mumbai, October 13, 2015 “His name is Shri Suhas Warke, SP, NIA, Mumbai branch.” Rohini Salian, former special public prosecutor in the Malegaon 2008 blast case has in an affidavit named the National Investigating Agency officer, who allegedly asked her to “go soft” in the case. In an affidavit dated July 28, 2015, which was…