Citizens for Justice and Peace
After Kodnani, her former assistant gets bail in 2002 Naroda Patiya riot case
25-Feb-2015
Written by Satish Jha | Ahmedabad | February 26, 2015 3:08 pm After Maya Kodnani, her then personal assistant and co-convict in 2002 Naroda Patiya massacre case Kirpal Singh Chhabda was granted bail on Thursday. A division bench of Gujarat High Court pronounced the order while refusing the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) plea…
Guj has at least 2.7 L malnourished kids
25-Feb-2015
They were found malnourished on the basis of their weight to age ratio in 18 districts dna correspondent @dnaahmedabad Gandhinagar: The state government likes to blow its trumpet on development front as well as on social indicators. However, when it comes to children’s health, the situation is grim. The government has revealed that there are…
Tension in Sukma after police arrested tribals and ‘tortured’ them
23-Feb-2015
By: Express News Service | Raipur | February 23, 2015 2:43 am The arrest of some tribals in Sukma has snowballed into a major agitation as several thousand tribals have begun a march towards the district headquarters. Led by AAP leader Soni Sori and other party workers, the tribals also held a rally in Jagdalpur…
Court acquits 68 for lack of evidence in 2002 Gujarat riot case
14-Feb-2015
Ahmedabad, Feb 13, 2015, (PTI): A trial court today acquitted all the 68 accused due to lack of evidence in a case related to the 2002 post-Godhra riot at Seshan village in Deodar tehsil of Banaskantha district. Fourteen persons, including two children, were killed in the violence at the village — which is about 150…
Farmers’ suicides in Maha: No compensation in 50% of cases
09-Feb-2015
Feb 09 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) INELIGIBLE EVEN IN DEATH – Chittaranjan Tembhekar Mumbai:Families of nearly half of the farmers in Maharashtra who have committed suicide over the last four years are not eligible to get even the paltry Rs 1 lakh compensation thanks to government rules. Maharashtra, along with Tamil Nadu,…
RSS Man Inder Kapahy Joins UGC
05-Feb-2015
New Delhi:A founding member of NDTF, Kapahy fought against Delhi University’s 4-year undergrad course The human resource development ministry has appointed as a member of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Professor Inder Mohan Kapahy , a long-time member of RSS and founding member of the National Democratic Teachers’ Front that led a successful fight against…
Debt-ridden Maharashtra farmer kills self
05-Feb-2015
Yavatmal (Maharashtra), 05 February, 2015 A debt-ridden farmer from a village in Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region climbed on a lit pyre and committed suicide Wednesday, the second such incident since November last year, an activist said here Thursday. Anandrao S. Pandagle, 45, a resident of Bhambh village, is survived by his wife and three teenaged daughters,…
Now, vendors held for selling Urdu daily with Prophet toon
05-Feb-2015
Feb 06 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) The JJ Marg police late Wednesday night arrested two vendors for selling copies of the Urdu daily Avadhnama which had reproduced the cover of French weekly Charlie Hebdo with a Prophet Muhammad cartoon, reports Mateen Hafeez. A Sewri court released the duo on bail on Thursday…
NREGA set to hit new low in targets
01-Feb-2015
Written by Ruhi Tewari | New Delhi | Posted: February 1, 2015 1:46 am As the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) enters its 10th year on Monday, data shows households have been provided employment for just a little over one third of the mandated 100 days so far this financial year on…
Varanasi Muslims don’t feel they are part of Modi plan
07-Nov-2014
Mohammad Ali In his first address to the Varanasi people after becoming the Prime Minister, Narendrra Modi said he had “lots of plans” for his parliamentary constituency. A large section of Muslims living in Varanasi, however, feel they are not part of Mr. Modi’s plans. The association of the city with the Prime Minister has…