Ranchi: A church-run school in Jharkhand’s steel city Jamshedpur has suspended 17 students for allegedly shouting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ in the school, drawing protests from Hindu-right wing groups on Wednesday. The matter came to light when some parents approached the district education officials, while Appu Tiwari, who runs an NGO, on Tuesday, submitted a complaint […]
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Question on ‘Jai Shri Ram’ in Bengal school exam spark row
Kolkata (1 MIN READ): Questions related to ‘Jai Shri Ram’ chant and West Bengal government’s move to refund ‘cut-money’ in a school exam paper have triggered protests in the state. Class 10 students appearing for the Bangla language examination at Akna Union High School in Hooghly on Monday were asked to write a newspaper report […]
Muslim boy allegedly set on fire for not chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ dies in Varanasi hospital
Chandauli (1 MIN READ): Khalid, the 15-year-old boy whose family had alleged that he was set ablaze by four men when he refused to chant “Jai Shri Ram” here, succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday. Khalid was set on fire in Chandauli on Sunday and had been admitted to the Kabir Chaura hospital in Varanasi with […]
Muslim cleric assaulted, forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’, 12 youths booked
Muzaffarnagar: Twelve youths in this western UP district have been booked for pulling the beard of a Muslim cleric and forcing him to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’, police said on Sunday. Senior Superintendent of Police, Muzaffarnagar, Shailesh Kumar Pandey, said that the matter is, prima facie, one of assault and the case has been registered on […]
UP government denies Muslim minors forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has denied that students of a madarasa in Unnao district were forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’, saying that the news was wrongly spread to malign the government’s image. Principal Secretary, Information, Avanish Awasthi admitted that a clash took place while the children were playing cricket but denied that the students […]
Madrasa children beaten for refusing to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ in Unnao
Unnao: A group of young students at a madrasa in Unnao district were allegedly forced to chant “Jai Shri Ram” and then beaten up when they refused to repeat the slogan. According to reports, the victims, who are all minors, had their clothes torn off and their bicycles were vandalized by the group when the […]
Three Muslim youths thrashed, forced to chant Jai Shri Ram in Assam
Guwahati: Barely two weeks after a youth was arrested for forcing some Muslim youths to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’, four miscreants in Assam’s Barpeta district thrashed three Muslim youths and forced them to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’. According to the police, the incident took place at the Jyoti Gaon area located near the Fakhruddin Ali […]
Boy thrashed for refusing to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ in Kanpur
Kanpur: A 16-year-old Muslim boy was allegedly beaten by unidentified men here for wearing a skull cap and refusing to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram. According to police reports, the incident took place on Friday when the victim, Mohammad Taj, a resident of Barra, was returning home after offering namaaz in Kidwai Nagar. Four unidentified motorcyclists stopped […]
Bengal madrasa teacher pushed off train for not chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’
Kolkata: A madrasa teacher from West Bengal complained that he was allegedly beaten up and pushed off from moving train here by a group of men after refusing to chant “Jai Shri Ram”, a Government Railway Police (GRP) officer said on Tuesday. The incident came to light two days after 22-year-old Tabrez Ansari passed away […]
Bengal’s Kanchrapara turns violent with ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogan
Kolkata: West Bengal Police on Saturday resorted to baton charge to disperse a group of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters staging a demonstration and shouting “Jai Shri Ram”, ahead of a Trinamool Congress party meeting at Kanchrapara in North 24 Parganas district. The police officers tried to keep the BJP workers away from the area […]