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Dalit student accuses MP university of harassment

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Bhopal : A Dalit student pursuing M.Phil at the Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication here on Monday accused its authorities of...

Solution for farmersâ€™ plight and suicidal incidents

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In the name of Najeeb : Left and exclusion of Muslims in JNU

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By Waseem R S for TwoCircles.net On October 30, 2016, a solidarity meeting was organised by Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Student Union demanding justice for...

After arrests, Kerala Police take to threatening students for protesting

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By Shafeeq Alingal Kozhikode: Wafa, a first year Sociology student here at Farook College, hardly expected that she would be under constant threats from police...

Bahujan Kranti Morcha organises rally in Mumbai, asks for separate courts for Dalit atrocity...

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Text and Video by Shiva Thorat The Bahujan Kranti Morcha, an umbrella organisation of various representatives of marginalised groups, organised a rally in Mumbai to...

Film Review: From Hindu to Hindutva

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By Ram Puniyani, Kandhmal violence has been the most ghastly communal violence in the Adivasi areas in India. Close to two years after the violence the tragedy of the area continues, the victims of violence, the rehabilitation, the justice to victims, most of these are no where close to what they should be.

Students across Mumbai come out in support of Fathima Latheef, JNU students

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter As the protests across both IIT Madras and JNU surged with more and more students coming out on the streets, hundreds...

Three sentenced to life for gang rape of a Dalit woman in Maharashtra

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Solapur (Maharashtra): In a 12 year old case of a gang rape of Dalit woman from Solapur district of Maharashtra, the...

Young Dalit writer attacked, threatened in Karnataka

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Bengaluru: A young Dalit writer, who wrote a book against the caste system and Hinduism, was threatened by a few unidentified youth in Karnataka's...

JD-U may be headed for split over CM Manjhi

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Patna: Bihar's ruling JD-U Friday appeared headed for a split over the likely replacement of Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi by his predecessor Nitish...

NHRC issues notice over sanitation workers’ death in Noida

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New Delhi, (IANS): The National Human Rights Commission on Thursday issued notice to Noida authorities regarding the deaths last week of two sanitation workers...

8 मार्च को देश भर में गिरफ़्तारी देगी भीम आर्मी, चंद्रशेखर ने जेल से...

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आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर : भीम आर्मी ने अपने सुप्रीमो चंद्रशेखर रावण की रिहाई को लेकर अब सख़्त फैसले लेने शुरू कर दिए...

Dalit boy beaten up in Gujarat, two accused arrested

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Ahmedabad : A 15-year-old Dalit boy was allegedly beaten up late on Thursday evening by two men in Bhavda village of Daskroi taluka in...

All Dalits should be equal before the law

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By Madhu Chandra The struggle between Upper Caste and oppressed communities of India has reached its crucial juncture. The presidential reservation facilities preserved in Indian Constitution is most precious gift given to Indian oppressed class community. This legal framework to protect and preserve the underprivileged communities of India has been under attack again and again by high caste minority ruler of the country.

Manjhi to continue as Bihar CM, says Nitish Kumar

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Patna : Senior Janata Dal-United leader Nitish Kumar Sunday said Jitan Ram Manjhi will continue to be Bihar's chief minister, ending speculations over his...

Make eligibility of pre and post-metric scholarship for minority students same as that for...

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By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Aurangabad (Maharashtra): The present eligibility criteria of scoring at least 50% marks in the previous year’s examination to claim pre-...

Dalit activist Mevani detained for seeking land rights

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Ahmedabad : Gujarat Dalit rights activist, Jignesh Mevani and 200 supporters, who were demonstrating outside the Ahmedabad District Collectorate, were detained on Monday. Two women...

दलित, आदिवासी और पिछड़ो के हज़ारों पद ख़ाली, संसदीय समिति ने मोदी सरकार...

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यूसुफ़ अंसारी, TwoCircles.net देश में 2014 में मोदी सरकार बनने के बाद से ही उस पर आरक्षण विरोधी होने आरोप लगते रहें हैं। लगातार कहा...

In Kerala, Dalit students facing difficulties to get educated

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By Aaliya Rushdi, TwoCircles.net, Nilambur (Kerala): The Dalit Students of the area, who were sent to schools far away in the district, are returning back in groups to their homes. The parents, who are ignorant of the importance of education have not got any complaint on this matter.

Dalit Sahitya Samman Sammelan held at Imphal

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By Dr Syed Ahmed, TwoCircles.net, Imphal: Awards were conferred to as many as 80 persons working in different fields in recognition of their dedication to...

चन्द्रशेखर रावण रिहा : “बहनजी मेरी बुआ,खून का रिश्ता, उनका विरोध नही करूँगा, भाजपा...

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आस मोहम्मद कैफ | सहारनपुर- भीम आर्मी के संस्थापक चन्द्रशेखर रावण को शुक्रवार सुबह 2:45 पर रिहा कर दिया सहारनपुर जेल से रिहा कर दिया...

A plea to the Election Commission

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Election Commission should ban political parties that directly or indirectly organise communal riots and reap communal votes to win elections

Kashmiris should support United Punjab, a precursor to “United States of SAARC”

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Ref: - India need not be over sensitive to revival of Punjab movement minus terrorism. Dear Sir This refers to last week news in Indian and...

Budget 2016: Schedule castes, tribes protest after Jaitley offers a penny, snatches a dollar

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By TCN Staff Reporter Delhi: In his Budget speech, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was at his eloquent best while allocating Rs 500 crore for scheduled...

स्त्री – शिक्षा के लिए सब कुछ दांव पर लगाने वाली सावित्रीबाई फुले

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हमारे जानी दुश्मन का नाम है अज्ञान उसे धर दबोचो मजबूत पकड़ कर पीटो और उसे जीवन से भगा दो! तन्वी सुमन। Twocircles.net उपर लिखे हुए एक-एक शब्द भारत की...

Andhra HC strikes down all sentences in Dalit massacre case

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Hyderabad : In a dramatic judgment, the Andhra Pradesh High Court Tuesday set aside an order of a special court that sentenced 21 people...

Doms in Varanasi seek justice through honorable rehabilitation

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By Vidya Bhushan Rawat, Hundreds of pilgrims seek to see the sunrise on the banks of Ganges in Varanasi and the boatmen go on live commentary of these ghats narrating the mythological details.The most poignant moment come when you see the Manikarnikaghat, Dashashwamegha Ghat and Harishchandraghat reminding you the stories of Raja Harishchandra’s loyalty to his ‘profession’. In an indirect reference, these are the same ‘preachings’ which ask you to do thy duty while ‘result’ is not thy concern.

Dalit leader Janardan Chandurkar is Mumbai Congress chief

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By IANS, Mumbai : Dalit leader Janardan C. Chandurkar was appointed the new president of Mumbai Regional Congress Committee Thursday, party office-bearers said here.

Does India face tyranny of the majority?

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Hindus and especially Muslims in India have to make efforts to acknowledge the luggage of the past few centuries which is a mix of...

‘राहुल गांधी ने भी मुझे धोखा दिया’ –डेल्टा मेघवाल के पिता

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net बारमेर (राजस्थान) : दलित मेधा की मिसाल बन चुकी डेल्टा मेघवाल की लड़ाई अब घर-घर का हिस्सा बनती जा रही है....

R.S. Katheria – a professor becomes minister of state

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Agra : BJP MP from Agra constituency in Uttar Pradesh, Ram Shankar Katheria was Sunday inducted in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government in the...

I didn’t recommend beef consumption: BJP MP

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New Delhi : BJP MP Udit Raj on Monday clarified that he did not advocate beef consumption when he quoted Usain Bolt's coach as...

FIR lodged against Mayawati in Lucknow

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Lucknow : An FIR was lodged against Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati and three others by the family of former BJP Vice President...

Bush & Condoleezza should listen to Wendy

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Ref: - Kashmiri leaders should also approach USA. Dear Sir

“Secularists” & Muslim leadership enemy of secularism in India

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Ref: - ECI being allowed to derelict in BJP CD case Dear Sir What communal politics did to Muslims of India during last two decades can not be fully comprehended merely by the stories of demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992 (despite Supreme Court's observe over there) and by the horrifying details of the massacre of thousands of innocent Muslims since late eighties including in 2002 Gujarat pogrom.

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter नई दिल्ली : बामसेफ की राष्ट्रीय उपाध्यक्ष डॉ. मनीषा बांगर ने देश की मौजूदा स्थिति को लोकतंत्र के लिए ख़तरनाक बताया है....

Protest in Boston against arbitrary arrest of human rights defenders in India

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By TCN News: Boston, MA, US: Over 50 people assembled at Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to protest against the arbitrary arrests of human rights defenders...

हाथरस कांड : राहुल -प्रियंका के दम से काँग्रेस ने लड़ी मुख्य लड़ाई

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महमूद रियाज़ हाशमी महान वैज्ञानिक अल्बर्ट आइंसटीन ने कहा था, “फीजिक्स से ज्यादा पॉलीटिक्स कठिन है” और जो लोग इस बात से सहमत हुए बिना...

Main accused arrested in Dalit girl attack

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By IANS, Fatehpur (Uttar Pradesh) : The main accused has been arrested in the brutal attack on a teenaged Dalit girl who was maimed for resisting rape, police said Monday.

Even today people treat me as an untouchable: Bihar CM

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Patna : Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi Sunday revealed that he is still treated as an "untouchable" by some "powerful people" as he...

Congress women leaders lash out at Ramdev over Dalit remark

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New Delhi: Three women leaders of the Congress Saturday hit out at yoga guru Baba Ramdev over his remarks on party vice president Rahul...

We are done with Godfather-like politics…the oppressed can speak for themselves: Rahul Sonpimple, BAPSA...

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By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Rahul Sonpimple, in one-on-one conversations, maintains eye contact at all times: although I interviewed him in near darkness at the...

Ensure the Dalit voice is not stifled: Amnesty tells Indian states

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New Delhi, (IANS): Day after a Dalit activist immolated himself in Gujarat, Amnesty International on Tuesday urged the state governments to ensure Dalit protestors...

Dalits beaten up by ABVP activists for holding beef festival

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By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net,

Activists express solidarity with HDRC for controversial advertisement on sanitation

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By TCN News, Several human and civil rights activists have come out in support of the content of an advertisement for sanitation worker by the...

“We are united to fight fascism”, CPI (ML) candidate Sandeep Saurav aims to bring...

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By Chinki Sinha, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: There was a poem by Punjabi communist poet Pash he stumbled upon in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) during his...

Savita Ali: Raising her voice to highlight atrocities against Dalit and Muslim women

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By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Patna: Savita Ali remembers the time when she was in school, in a village called Naraina, district Panipat. She had just...

The Hunted in India

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By Vinay Bhat for TwoCircles.net

Dalits will be protected against atrocities: Wasnik

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By IANS, Chandigarh : Rights of Dalits will be protected and strict laws will be implemented to prevent atrocities against them like the arson attack on Dalit homes in Haryana, Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Mukul Wasnik said here Wednesday. "I have travelled to various states of the country to see whether there is any discrimination with these sections of society. We will strictly implement the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 at all places," Wasnik told reporters.

Jarawa women dance clip old, videographer will be held: Chidambaram

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By IANS,

Radhika Vemula has a message for the PM this Women’s Day

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An open letter from Radhika Vemula to the Prime Minister Jai Bhim everyone, My name is Radhika Vemula. I am Rohith Vemula’s mother. This International Women’s...

The anxieties around Dalit-Muslim unity: Part One

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By Ambedkar Reading Group-Delhi for Twocircles.net Much of the present-day discussions use the category of caste to abandon the Muslim question and see it anew...

Rajasthan has become a living hell for Dalits: Renu Meghwanshi, state secretary, Mahila Congress

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Renu Meghwanshi is no stranger to fighting against Dalit atrocities. She might be contesting from the Congress now, but prior to this, she was...

Varanasi: UP minister hints at ending coalition with BJP; reiterates demand for Purvanchal state

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By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net Omprakash Rajbhar, a cabinet minister in the Yogi-Adityanath led BJP government in Uttar Pradesh, hinted towards ending the coalition with BJP...

Dalit student attacked; OU students burned down portraits of Hindutva ideologues

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,

Government grants more funds to promote tribal, folk cultures

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By IANS,

‘Left, farmers’ movement ignore distinction between peasants, labourers

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Interview with Gita Ramaswamy, author of “Land, Guns, Caste, Woman—The Memoir of a Lapsed Revolutionary” Aatika S | TwoCircles.net In this interview, the author talks...

Dalit for President: Tokenism wins

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By Amulya Ganguli It's a no-brainer, for the result is known before the contest. The support which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been able...

Judiciary should not be a “Holy Cow”

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By Ravichandran Chakkiliyan, TwoCircles.net, On May 12TH, 2014 Dalit Stree Shakti, an organization based in Hyderabad fighting against violence on dalit women organized a seminar on "Judiciary and its Functioning" in the memory of Lakshmipeta dalits, a place in Srikakulam where 7 dalits were beaten to death by Thoorupu Kapu (men/women) (Backward Caste) in 2012. The Meeting was organized in Ravindra Bharati, Lakdikapool, Hyderabad.

Probe into Vemula death a farce: Mayawati

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New Delhi: BSP chief Mayawati on Friday alleged that the government was protecting people with RSS links who forced Dalit scholar Rohit Vemula to...

Haryana to give free bicycles to SC students

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Chandigarh: Haryana has sanctioned Rs.7 crore for this fiscal to provide free bicycles to the Scheduled Castes (SC) students studying in government schools, an...

‘Jungle Raj’ in Rajasthan

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By IndScribe One after the other, shocking incidents of crimes and atrocities on the Dalits are being reported from Rajasthan. The latest incident has occurred in...

Sambhaji Brigade receives threat through packet of explosive

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By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net, Pune: Sambhaji Brigade, an extremist organisation and proponent of Maratha reservation and Shiv-dharma, has received an anonymous packet containing explosives here. The...

Congress appoints two observers in MP to placate Dalits

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New Delhi (IANS): In its bid to strengthen its outreach among the Dalit community in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, the Congress on Friday appointed two...

‘अखिलेश को दलितों के घर फुंकवाने वाले आपराधिक तत्व प्रिय हैं’

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TCN News बलिया : जहां एक तरफ़ बलिया सदर विधायक नारद राय को दोबारा कैबिनेट मंत्री बनाए जाने को लेकर उनके समर्थकों में खुशी व...

The story of minors: A note on the practice of untouchability in Uttar Pradesh

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The mainstream Manuwadi media and Savarna liberal media are always desperate to take note of the atrocities on Dalit-Bahujans in a particular fashion. The...

BJP Dalit leaders to aggressively counter opposition onslaught on community

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New Delhi : The BJP has decided to aggressively counter the Opposition's onslaught over the recent string of atrocities against Dalits in various parts...

हाथरस कांड : सीबीआई ने माना, गैंगरेप के बाद ही हुई थी दलित युवती...

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर। Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के हाथरस में गैंगरेप और हत्याकांड मामले की जांच कर रही सीबीआई ने शुक्रवार को मामले की एससी/एसटी कोर्ट में...

Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind’s 33rd mega gathering in Ajmer to focus on Dalit-Muslim unity

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By TCN News, New Delhi: In order to address concerns over the current communal condition of the country in which weaker sections are being targeted...

Courts in 20 UP districts hit by Ambedkar statue row

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Ghaziabad, (IANS): Work in courts in 20 districts of Uttar Pradesh remained suspended on Wednesday after the state bar association declared a strike over the...

बिजनौर : दलित-मुस्लिम एकता में खटास

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आस मोहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net बिजनौर: उत्तर प्रदेश विधानसभा चुनाव के दूसरे चरण के मतदान से ठीक पहले बिजनौर जिले में सांप्रदायिक तनाव है. एक युवक...

सहारनपुर जातीय संघर्ष : मोदी-योगी सरकार ने जल्द ही कोई कार्रवाई नहीं किया तो...

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TwoCircles.net News Desk फ़रीदाबाद (हरियाणा) : सहारनपुर शब्बीरपुर गांव में हुए दलितों के साथ जातीय संघर्ष और फिर पुलिस की एकतरफ़ा का विरोध अब उत्तर...

Bhima-Koregaon: Maharashtra police raids Dalit activists who supported protest

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Mumbai, (IANS): The Maharashtra Police carried out multi-city raids on Tuesday against prominent Dalit activists and supporters in a fallout of the January 1...

Protest against Tsundur Judgment at AP and Telangana High Court

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By Ravichandran Chakkiliyan, TwoCircles.net, Hyderabad: On Monday, the Tsundur Dalits Struggle Committee For Justice, comprising seventy-five people’s organization, protested against the Andhra Pradesh High Court judgment which released the twenty-one accused in the Tsundur Dalit massacre case. The protest was a part of the long struggle the committee has taken up. In the history of dalit movement, this was the first time a protest has been staged in front of a High Court demanding justice for the Tsundur dalits. All of the protestors taken into preventive custody and were released in the afternoon.

National Council For Human Rights and Constitutional Rights

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Republic Day Eve marked by anti-caste vigil outside India House, London

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By TCN News London: Representatives of rights groups, Indian Diaspora and Dalit organisations marked India’s Republic Day eve by holding a candlelit...

Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) celebrates Bhim Jayanti

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TCN News Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), an advocacy group dedicated to safeguarding India’s pluralist ethos, on April 14, marked the birthday of B R...

Wife of Pranay, victim of caste murder, delivers a baby in Hyderabad

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TCN News Amrutha, wife of Pranay who was hacked to death in September for marrying a girl from the upper caste community, has delivered a...

Modi must speak against growing intolerance: NCSC chief

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Agartala: Prime Minister Narendra Modi must react over "growing intolerance" in India since after the NDA government came to power, National Commission for the...

Dalit woman branded a witch, thrashed in Rajasthan

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By IANS, Tonk (Rajasthan) : A Dalit woman was labelled a witch and beaten up badly in Rajasthan's Tonk district, police said Sunday. Kamla Bairwa of Jhalra village in Tonk district, over 100 km from Jaipur, stated in her First Information Report (FIR) filed with the police Saturday that some villagers tagged her as a witch, insulted her and then beat her up. "The villagers, especially the women, call me a witch. They insult me, torture me and beat me up. They wanted me to leave the village," Kamla, a labourer, told IANS.

‘Dalit terrorism’: DHRM demands CBI probe into Hindutva-police conspiracy

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent, Thiruvananthapuram: The CBI should investigate the Hindutva-police conspiracy behind the cruel Dalit hunt of the Kerala police in the name of Dalit terrorism, demands a complaint submitted by the Dalit leader Selvaraj to Home Minister P Chidambaram.

भीम आर्मी के भारत बंद का व्यापक असर, दिल्ली मे भिड़े दो गुट, अलीगढ़...

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आसमोहम्मद. कैफ़, Twocircles.net दिल्ली। दलित के हितों के लिए सँघर्ष करने का दावा करने वाले संगठन भीम आर्मी एकता मिशन के आह्वान पर सर्वोच्च अदालत...

Arm Dalits for self-defence, demands Republican Party of India

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Nagpur/Mumbai : Taking a strong view of the growing attacks on Dalits in the country, the Republican Party of India on Friday demanded that...

Education a constitutional right, says Adv Prakash Ambedkar; calls for rally to Vidhan Sabha...

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By Daisy Katta, TwoCircles.net As the students’ strike in Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) entered the 18th day, Advocate Prakash Ambedkar, National President, BHARIP...

In pictures: Dalits, Adivasis protest across the nation against change in SC/ST Act

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By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net The ruling of the Supreme Court of India pertaining to the Schedule Caste/ Schedule Tribe Act resulted in a “Bharat Bandh”...

Ambedkar Age Digital Bookmobile: Displaying centuries-old songs, and artworks on anti-caste struggle of Maharashtra

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The project aims to collect Maharashtra’s long history of social reform, accessing 500-year-old traditions of song-writing, performances and poetry against caste-based exploitation and untouchability. Riya...

A former Marxist fights on BJP ticket

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By Priyanka, New Delhi: He used to be a Marxist who later took to Dalit activism before quitting his Indian Revenue Service job where he...

बिहार चुनाव: दलित समीकरण नहीं आसान

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net पटना: दो रोज़ पहले उत्तर प्रदेश के हमीरपुर में मंदिर में प्रवेश करने पर एक दलित दम्पत्ति की जलाकर हत्या कर...

For 6 years, Deepa Mohanan has been fighting against casteist abuse in MG University,...

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This is the first in a three-part series of stories documenting caste discrimination against Dalit Bahujan Adivasi students at the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam,...

Labour rights activist Shiv Kumar released from jail after 48 days, taken to hospital...

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Labour rights activist and President of Mazdoor Adhikar Manch (MAS) was released on March 4 after being incarcerated for 48 days in a case...

Nearly 500 Hindus convert to Buddhism in Bihar

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Patna : Nearly 500 Hindus, including women and children, converted to Buddhism Saturday in half a dozen villages in Bihar's Gaya district, officials said. All...

Dalits angry as Bihar massacre accused are acquitted

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By Imran Khan, Patna : Family members of the Dalits who were killed in 1999 in Bihar's Arwal district, allegedly by the outlawed, upper -caste militia Ranvir Sena men, are disheartened and devastated over the release of all the accused.

UP Police arrests ex-IPS officers and activists from a press conference on atrocities over...

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter It seems protesting against Yogi Adityanath has now become a crime in Uttar Pradesh.A few days ago, eight students from Lucknow...

Dalits should come forward and participate in the development of society: Devyani Khobragade

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By TCN News Nagpur: "Dalits should utilize all possible government schemes and should actively participate in the developing of society”, said IAF officer...

Maharashtra orders probe into attack on Dalit woman

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By IANS,

Quota for faculty members at IIMs on anvil: Javadekar

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Ahmedabad : The Union Human Resources Development Ministry is considering introducing reservation for faculty positions at Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). Union HRD Minister Prakash...

Muslims will consider supporting AAP, if it offers concrete programme for them: Amir JIH

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New Delhi: Amid the talk of communal forces emerging stronger, India is going to polls. The fear of BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is perhaps more felt by the Muslim minority than anyone else. The “secular” Congress—charged with corruption and misrule—does not seem much energetic and confident at this moment. At this crucial juncture what strategy should the largest religious minority community of the country adopt in the upcoming General and assembly elections? What are the options available for them? To learn about this and more, Mishab Irikkur, Mohammad Raghib and Abhay Kumar interacted with Maulana Jalaluddin Omari, the Amir (national president) of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) last week at the New Delhi headquarter. The seventy-nine year old Amir--who is an Islamic scholar and author of dozens of books--spoke on a host of issues such as elections, politics, the social and economic problems of Muslims, reservation, framing of innocent Muslim youth on terror charges etc. The JIH---which came into existence soon after the Jamaat-e-Islami had split into two separate organisations during Partition -- is one of the most influential Islamic organizations among Muslims that mainly does “intellectual” work and carries out welfare activities as well. The excerpts are as follows.

Lone survivor of Khairlanji massacre, Bhaiyalal Bhotmange, dies of heart attack

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By Shiva Thorat, Twocircles.net Bhaiyalal Bhotmange, the lone survivor of the Khairlanji massacre, died of a heart attack on Friday, January 20. For the past...

Arrest Dalit children’s killers: CPI-M

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Faridabad (Haryana): The CPI-M on Wednesday demanded the immediate arrest of those who killed two Dalit children here. "It is the utter failure of the...

JD-U leaders slam Manjhi for ‘upper castes’ remark

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Patna : At least six leaders of ruling JD-U, including ministers and legislators, have openly criticized their own Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi for...

दिल्ली में हाथरस जैसी वारदात, 9 साल की मासूम को बलात्कार के बाद जलाया

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विशेष संवाददाता। Twocircles.net राष्ट्रीय राजधानी दिल्ली में 'हाथरस कांड' जैसी रेप वारदात सामने आई हैं। श्मशान घाट में लगे वाटर कूलर से पानी लेने...

Allowing such huge foreign capital in real estate is anti-people

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Ref: - Are PM, FM, RBI Governor & SEBI Chairman listening? Dear Sir When in mid 2003 after retirement, I shifted in my present 3 bed room rented flat at Dwarka, New Delhi, it used to cost Rupees 1.2 million. Because due to personal reasons I am required to stay in Delhi hence my relatives and friends advised me to purchase similar flat in Delhi. Hence I started managing Rs 1.2 million for the purchase of similar flat which I succeeded within few months. But to my dismay the price of such flats rose hence I started managing additional funds in order to take care of this price rise.

Aadhaar linkage threatens voter exclusion among Dalits, Adivasis

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Lakhs of people are victims of deprivation ever since mandatory Aadhaar-linking to various social security benefits was introduced. Countless such Catch-22 like cases...

Congress protests tribals’ victimisation in Gujarat

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By IANS, Gandhinagar: The opposition Congress staged a walk-out from the Gujarat assembly Thursday, protesting remarks from the treasury benches that many of the tribals were Maoists. The walk-out came at the end of a daylong debate on the budgetary demands for the forest and tribal welfare department when Forest Minister Mangubhai Patel was giving his reply.

Muzaffarnagar faces fresh set of violence as Rajputs attacked Dalits leaving 18 injured

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Siddhant Mohan & Aas Mohammad Kaif, TwoCircles.net A day before the anniversary of infamous Muzaffarnagar riots, violence erupted in Bhoopkheda village as upper caste Rajputs...

Supreme Court stays AP High Court Judgment in Tsundur Dalit massacre case

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, New Delhi: The Supreme Court stayed the Tsundur judgment delivered by Andhra Pradesh High Court on Wednesday and also sent notices to all the convicts who were released and gave four weeks time to respond.

The Uphill Battle to Rejuvenate the Bahujan Samaj Party: Aakash Anand’s Daunting Task

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Asad Rizvi, TwoCircles.net Lucknow: Rejuvenating the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) will be a formidable challenge for Aakash Anand. Despite his reinstatement as the national coordinator of...

CPI-M condemns police firing on Dalits

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New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) The CPI-M on Monday denounced the police firing on Dalit activists protesting against the Supreme Court's decision to dilute the...

Fear grips Dalits in Gujarat village after youth’s killing

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Bhadraniya (Gujarat), (IANS): An atmosphere of fear hung over a colony of Dalits in this Gujarat village after the killing of a young man from...

सचिन वालिया की मौत के बाद बदल गई है भीम आर्मी की कहानी

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आस मोहम्मद कैफ, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर : सचिन वालिया की मौत के बाद के भीम आर्मी गहरे बदलाव की और है इसके लिए भीम आर्मी के...

Purifying Your Wealth and Targeting Poverty and Inequality

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By Althaf Shajahan, Running regressions and making sense of data is my job. We were working on a sort of data analysis where we had to consider different socio-economic groups and using data on three variables, viz. household income, consumption and assets which would together measure something we may term us material well-being and compute an inequality adjusted index value for each group. As expected, Dalits, Adivasis and Muslims fared the worst. Yeah! What’s new in this? Sachar report and every possible report speak about this. Well here, the index needs to be explained. Our index measures household indicators of well. While it aggregates across all the members of the groups, it discounts for the inequality among the members. (Refer the original computations in the figure below ). While searching the data for Muslim cases, I did see observations on Muslim community members who belong to the top percentiles and quintiles of either income or wealth. It is this inequality that makes me mull over. Intra-community inequality is not the concern of the state. While it is possible for Muslims as citizens of this nation to ask for state support and schemes citing their vulnerability as much as Dalits or Adivasis are, public policy may or may not consider it. But the inbuilt poverty and inequality targeting systems needs to be looked at.

Ex-IAS Anees Ansari elected chairman of Momin Conference

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By Faisal Fareed, TwoCircles.net Lucknow: The plight of silk weavers in Varanasi, brass workers in Moradabad and bangle artisans in Ferozabad will be raised by retired IAS officer Anees Ansari. The move is seen as the first step towards joining active politics like many of his brethren. Ansari was in news when he was suspended from the post of Agriculture Production Commissioner (APC) of the state in 2008 after his fashion designer wife Asma Hussain hosted a fashion show at their official residence.

भारी हंगामे के बीच दलित युवक का अन्तिम संस्कार, आरएसएस पर दंगा भड़काने का...

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आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net मोरना : सोमवार को मुज़फ़्फ़रनगर में हुए उपद्रव के दौरान मारे गए दलित युवक का अन्तिम संस्कार आज भारी हंगामे...

National Dastak barred from sharing content on its Facebook page

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter In what seems like a case of an attack on Dalit-Bahujan spaces in social media, Facebook has barred National Dastak from...

Hyderabad varsity teachers slam Smriti Irani

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Hyderabad: Protests over suicide of a Dalit research scholar continued unabated on Thursday at the University of Hyderabad, with the teachers slamming union minister...

‘जब तक दिलीप सरोज के परिवार को न्याय नहीं मिल जाता, तब तक आंदोलन...

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TwoCircles.net News Desk लखनऊ : दलितों के बीच काम करने वाली ‘लक्ष्य’ नामक एक संस्था की लखनऊ टीम ने दलित छात्र दिलीप सरोज की इलाहबाद...

Farmers protesting land acquisition thrash officials

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By IANS, Bangalore: Farmers opposing acquisition of their land for a residential complex on Bangalore's outskirts Monday punched, kicked, head-butted and tore clothes of officials who went to the area to survey the land, police said. Farmers of Kodigehalli, which forms part of the proposed 'Nadaprabhu Kempegowda Layout', named after founder of Bangalore, Kempegowda, thrashed an executive engineer, an assistant executive engineer and their driver and broke the windshield of their vehicles, they said.

Delhi event discusses poll questions

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New Delhi : 'Hum Dekhenge: Looking Back' - an event to help voters get answers to some questions ahead of the Lok Sabha election...

नयी सदी, नयी सरकार: मैला ढोनेवाले मैला ही ढो रहे हैं

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फहमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net पटना: देश को आज़ाद हुए सालों हो चुके लेकिन दलित समुदाय के साथ भेदभाव लगातार जारी है. यह समुदाय अभी तक...

RTI yet to reach Orissa’s tribals, Dalits

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By IANS,

50 injured in police, protestors clash in Patna

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Patna : At least 50 people, including 12 police officers, were injured here on Friday afternoon when police in a bid to disperse...

Is Sonia Congress nominee, Pratibha Patil is fit to be President of India?

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‘जिग्नेश मेवाणी की गुजरात पुलिस द्वारा ‘अवैध हिरासत’ लोकतंत्र की हत्या है’

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter नई दिल्ली : ऊना दलित अत्याचार लड़त समिति के संयोजक जिग्नेश मेवाणी को दिल्ली से लौटते हुए गुजरात पुलिस द्वारा हिरासत में...

Rajya Sabha disrupted repeatedly over Dalit atrocities

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New Delhi : The Rajya Sabha was disrupted repeatedly on Monday over atrocities against Dalits in Punjab, as Congress leaders protested the gruesome chopping...

Karnataka to vote Thursday for all 28 Lok Sabha seats

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Bangalore : Karnataka will Thursday vote to elect its representatives from all the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state. Polling will be held in...

बुंदेलखंड : वोट के लिए दलितों को प्रताड़ित कर रहे हैं भाजपा प्रत्याशी

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प्रियंका कोटमराजू और अंशु ललित, TwoCircles.net बुंदेलखंड : 'वोट नहीं दोगे, तो देख लेंगे. सरकारी नल से पानी नहीं पीने देंगे, सरकारी रोड पर चलने...

Ambedkar statue vandalised in Uttarakhand

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Haridwar, (IANS): A statue of Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar was on Friday found vandalised by miscreants in a village in Haridwar district of Uttarakhand, sparking...

Dalit killing case shifted out of Haryana

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By IANS, New Delhi: In a blow to the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government, the Supreme Court Wednesday transferred the trial of those accused of attacking Dalits in Haryana to New Delhi.

Gujarat CID files chargesheet in Una Dalit flogging case

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Ahmedabad : In an important development, the Gujarat Police on Wednesday filed chargesheet against 34 persons in connection with the flogging of Dalits by...

Dalit leader Jignesh detained ahead of Modi’s arrival in Ahmedabad

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Ahmedabad : Gujarat Dalit rights leader Jignesh Mevani was "picked up" by Gujarat police from Ahmedabad airport on Friday evening, hours before Prime Minister...

Krantikari Janata: First Ambedkarite magazine published in Marathi and Urdu and its potential renaissance

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By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net In an age where social media and websites have become the easiest way to reach audiences, how feasible is it to...

बाबा साहेब जिन्हें रखना चाहते थे आगे, वो क्यों रह गईं पीछे?

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मीना कोटवाल, Twocircles.net बाबा साहेब भीमराव आंबेडकर ने एक पत्रकार के रूप में भी काम किया है, ये काफ़ी कम लोगों को ही पता है।...

Beating of 3 Paraya boys in Kozhikode unpack existing caste-violence in Kerala

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By Ashfaque EJ, TwoCircles.net Kozhikode: “It’s been a week after we got beaten and casteist slurs were used against us. The police have failed to...

Police searches at slums in Hyderabad spark fear among slum dwellers

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The recent searches carried out by police in several slums in Hyderabad has drawn the ire of the slum-dwellers, who are predominantly Muslim, Dalits...

Muslims and Dalits to hold joint protest against demolition of Guru Ravidas temple

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TCN News Representatives from the Muslim community have lent their support to the Dalit Community in their demand to re-build the Guru Ravidas temple at...

Intra Kashmir women activists will achieve nothing by merely emulating their male counterparts

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Ref:- Human rights of women dependents of Kashmiri martyrs & massive participation in exports, hold the key.

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This refers to three day Intra Kashmir women's conference 'Connecting women across the LoC' organised by Center for Dialogue and Reconciliation New Delhi & Women's Studies Centres of J&K Universities, which concluded on November 18, at Srinagar.

‘अस्तित्व, अस्मिता और जनआन्दोलन’ के मुद्दे पर 2-4 दिसंबर को पटना में जमावड़ा

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TCN News पटना : जन आन्दोलनों का राष्ट्रीय समन्वय यानी एनएपीएम का 11 वां राष्ट्रीय अधिवेशन 2-4 दिसंबर को पटना के ऐतिहासिक अंजुमन इस्लामिया हॉल...

Ram Vilas Paswan, son Chirag win

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Patna : Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan and his son Chirag Paswan have won from the Hajipur and Jamui Lok Sabha seats,...

Around 1,700 Hindus convert to Buddhism in Bihar

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Patna : Around 1,700 Hindus in Bihar have embraced Buddhism citing the religion's emphaisis on unity and no discrimination among its followers, an official...

Several leaders from different parties, including Dalit faces from BSP, join AIMIM in Maharashtra

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Aurangabad: In yet another rare success for the Assaduddin Owaisi led All India Majlees-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) in Maharashtra, as many as 15 local leaders including many corporators from different parties have joined it. Amongst these leaders, 10 are Dalits belonging to Panther Republic Party (PRP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Dalit Bahujan Mahasangh and Bheem Shakti.

मायावती, महाराष्ट्र और गुजरात : दलित समय में मोदी की जवाबदेही

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सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net कल उत्तर प्रदेश भाजपा के उपाध्यक्ष दयाशंकर सिंह के बयान के बाद उत्तर प्रदेश का राजनीतिक माहौल बेहद गर्म हो गया है....

उत्तर प्रदेश : दलित वोटों का बंटवारा और बसपा का विकल्प

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विद्या भूषण रावत उत्तर प्रदेश में बहुजन और दलितों का नेतृत्व करने वालों की कतार लग गयी है. ये कोई बुरी बात नहीं है क्योंकि...

Will torch myself if not given a home, says poor Dalit

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By IANS, Patna: Many rural poor are upset over alleged corruption in getting houses under a central government scheme and a 30-year-old Dalit woman has threatened to set herself on fire if she does not get a home due to her. Ramvati Devi, a resident of Begusarai district, has threatened to set herself on fire April 1 if she is not provided a house under the Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) before that. She says her name was in the 2008 waiting list of the scheme. "I will set myself on fire to protest injustice. I am a victim of injustice and corruption in the scheme.

सुल्तानपुर में दलित को पीटा, बुलन्दशहर में रेप

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश में दलितों के उत्पीड़न के मामले में बढ़ोत्तरी हो रही है। ताज़ा मामला सुल्तानपुर का हैं जहां एक दलित व्यक्ति...

Remembering Guru Ravidassji: One of the greatest thinker and social reformer of India

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By Jaspal Singh Today is the 642nd anniversary of the birth of Guru Ravidass also known as Raidas. He is one of the greatest thinkers...

USA should help Pakistan to institutionalize military rule

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Ref: - Tested old ally deserves better treatment. Dear Sir There is nothing more relish-able for Indians than to have news of any trouble in its sworn rival Pakistan (if political trouble then all the more welcome as it symptomize the Pakistan State, as untenable). Hence the wide spread coverage in print & electronic media of India about the following political problems of Pakistan should though be taken as quite exaggerated: - (i)- As per chief of ruling PML-Q, Shujaat Hussain, emergency in Pakistan is still an option.

Government slammed for ‘anti-farmer policies’, lynching

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New Delhi, (IANS): The Bhumi Adhikar Andolan (BAA) on Sunday condemned the central government for its "anti-farmer policies" and lynching of minorities and Dalits through...

नाइंसाफी,अन्याय,संवेदनहीनता, दुख और तक़लीफ़ का साल 2020

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आकिल हुसैन। Twocircles.net साल 2020 पूर्ण होने पर हैं। यह साल देश के लिए तमाम कठिन परिस्थितियों से गुज़रा है। कोरोनावायरस का प्रकोप, लाकडाउन,दिल्ली दंगे,लाकडाउन...

वंचितों की नायिका पल्लवी पटेल ने डिप्टी सीएम केशव प्रसाद मौर्य को हराया

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जिब्रानउद्दीन।Twocircles.net डॉक्टर पल्लवी पटेल ने सिराथू विधानसभा क्षेत्र से पूर्व डिप्टी सीएम और प्रत्याशी केशव प्रसाद मौर्य को हराकर एक इतिहास सा रच दिया है।...

Rahul visits Haryana village hit by anti-Dalit violence

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By IANS, Hisar (Haryana): Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Thursday paid a surprise visit to Mirchpur village in this Haryana district which was rocked by an arson attack on Dalit houses last week, in which two people were burnt alive. Accompanied by senior Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan, Rahul Gandhi reached Mirchpur village in an Innova car that was escorted by two other vehicles at around 12.30 p.m.