Citizens for Justice and Peace
`Bans taking toll on Mumbai’s cultural life’
09-Oct-2015
Artistes, Filmmakers Decry Rise In Attempts At Censorship Goino Banks re members wat ching in a daze as Shiv Sainiks went on a rampage at the Mumbai Press Club less than a year ago. Banks was there to talk about his upcoming collaboration with Pakistani band Mekaal Hasan, and Sena was predictably outraged by yet…
More attempts to organise beef fest in Kerala; 10 students suspended
08-Oct-2015
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Oct 08, 2015, DHNS The politics over food continued to trigger dissent in beef-loving Kerala as attempts to organise more “beef festivals” were made by college students on Wednesday leading to opposition from college authorities. There were minor clashes and at least 10 students were suspended in Kottayam. Meanwhile, an assistant professor of Sree…
Not enough money for communal harmony!
08-Oct-2015
Manan Kumar @Manankmr New Delhi: The National Foundation for Communal Harmony (NFCH), an autonomous body under the union home ministry, neither has the money nor the manpower. This at a time, when the country needs it the most amongst a spiralling increase in cases of communal violence, the latest being the Dadri incident. Constituted on…
Teesta’s NGO slams licence suspension
08-Oct-2015
NEW DELHI, Oct 08, 2015, DHNS Says ‘mala fide’ action aimed to nail it Teesta Setalvad-led Sabrang Trust has challenged the grounds on which the Union Home Ministry has suspended its licence to collect foreign funds, saying the “mala fide” action was the continuation of the measures taken by the Gujarat Police to nail them.…
Why is govt hiding contracts with social media giants: HC
08-Oct-2015
Days after PM Narendra Modi’s return from the Facebook headquarters in the US, a contract between the Indian government and the social media giant has come under the scanner of the Delhi high court. Abench of Justices B D Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva on Wednesday pulled up the Centre for “hiding the contracts“ from the…
More attempts to organise beef fest in Kerala; 10 students suspended
08-Oct-2015
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Oct 08, 2015, DHNS The politics over food continued to trigger dissent in beef-loving Kerala as attempts to organise more “beef festivals” were made by college students on Wednesday leading to opposition from college authorities. There were minor clashes and at least 10 students were suspended in Kottayam. Meanwhile, an assistant professor of Sree…
Not enough money for communal harmony!
08-Oct-2015
Manan Kumar @Manankmr New Delhi: The National Foundation for Communal Harmony (NFCH), an autonomous body under the union home ministry, neither has the money nor the manpower. This at a time, when the country needs it the most amongst a spiralling increase in cases of communal violence, the latest being the Dadri incident. Constituted on…
Teesta’s NGO slams licence suspension
08-Oct-2015
NEW DELHI, Oct 08, 2015, DHNS Says ‘mala fide’ action aimed to nail it Teesta Setalvad-led Sabrang Trust has challenged the grounds on which the Union Home Ministry has suspended its licence to collect foreign funds, saying the “mala fide” action was the continuation of the measures taken by the Gujarat Police to nail them.…
Why is govt hiding contracts with social media giants: HC
08-Oct-2015
Days after PM Narendra Modi’s return from the Facebook headquarters in the US, a contract between the Indian government and the social media giant has come under the scanner of the Delhi high court. Abench of Justices B D Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva on Wednesday pulled up the Centre for “hiding the contracts“ from the…
Continuing scandal Statistics confirm that the criminal justice system is inefficient, and prejudiced against minorities and poor.
06-Oct-2015
05OCT2015 By: Express News Service | Published:October 5, 2015 12:02 am The National Crime Records Bureau figures for 2014 point to a problem that is still with us: almost 68 per cent of the inmates of India’s overflowing prisons are undertrials, and 70 per cent of those convicted are illiterate. Affluent states like Goa, Punjab,…