-The Times of India The ghost of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots has returned yet again to haunt Congress leader JagdishTytler. A sessions court on Wednesday ordered reopening of the case against him despite CBI giving him the clean chit twice. The former Union minister is accused of instigating a mob on November 1, 1984, whose actions led to the death of three persons taking shelter in a gurdwara. Setting aside the order of...
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THOSE WHO MADE THE RIGHT KIND OF NOISE -Prasenjit Bose
-The Telegraph Many Indians stand in solidarity with the protest launched by the academic community in the University of Pennsylvania against the decision to invite Narendra Modi, writes Prasenjit Bose S L. Rao's criticisms of the academics of the University of Pennsylvania, who had initiated a campaign against Wharton Business School's invitation to Narendra Modi, in his article, "The trip that never was" (March 18), are not only unwarranted but they also...
More »Holi of hope for Vrindavan widows -Amit Bhattacharya
-The Times of India VRINDAVAN: They sang and danced, laughed and shed tears. They threw flowers at each other and played with gulal. The widows of Vrindavan celebrated Holi with a riot of colours on Sunday, defying tradition that bids them to stay away from festivities of all kind. These widows of the holy town - tragic icons of institutionalized oppression against women - have been observing Holi for decades. But it...
More »Bring 500 for sterilisation, take home a Nano -Manjari Mishra
-The Times of India JABALPUR: When Rajkumar Ahirwar accepted an offer on March 13 to go to the neighborhood adda (local pub) from Deepak Rajak, a casual acquaintance, he had little idea what awaited him. The 22-year-old from Ashok Nagar woke up from his drunken stupor in a government district hospital the next day with a certificate in his pocket that said he had been vasectomised. In a bid to achieve sterilisation...
More »Delhi Police tried to shield accused of ’84 riots, asserts CBI
-PTI CBI on Friday alleged that the Delhi Police had failed to act against the main culprits and had tried to shield the accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case in which Congress leader Sajjan Kumar along with others is facing trial in a court here. Continuing the final arguments, senior advocate R S Cheema, who appeared for the CBI, told District Judge J R Aryan that the two Delhi Police officials...
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