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By Dr Shahnoor Rahman, India, being the largest democracy in the world, the identification and special care of the poor and deprived of the society -- mostly the Dalits and minorities by the government is the most important thing for social justice. This is the most important thing as well so that everyone can contribute towards the progress of the country.

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Lucknow : Congress leader and chairman of the Scheduled Castes Commission P.L. Punia Friday filed his nomination papers for the Nov 20 Rajya Sabha...

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By Ram Puniyani, Caste hierarchy is a major obstacle to the goal of social justice and it continues to be a major obstacle to social progress even today. There are many a theories, which have tried to understand its origin. The latest in the series is the attempt of RSS to show its genesis due to invasion of Muslim kings. Three books written by RSS ideologues argue that Islamic atrocities during medieval period resulted in emergence of untouchables and low castes. The books are ‘Hindu Charmakar Jati’, ‘Hindu Khatik Jati’ and ‘Hindu Valmiki Jati’.

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Chennai : A 23-year-old Dalit man who married into the politically influential Thevar community was hacked to death in front of a large number...

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By Badre Alam and Sanjay Kumar for Twocircles.net The Una incident has once again exposed the hypocrisy of the so-called ‘Gujarat model’ as...

By Amit Kumar This is the last of the four-part series on cases of Dalit atrocities in India which were brought up during a tribunal...

TwoCircles News Desk पटना : ख़बर है कि विगत 28 जनवरी, 2016 को खगडि़या ज़िले के राहुलनगर दमहा गांव में बसे महादलित परिवारों के घरों...

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...

By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net Gujarat: Tension prevailed in Gujarat’s Sodhana village on Friday after Dalit people of the town refused to bury a person from...

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.

By TwoCircles.net staff reporter, Patna: Janta Dal (United) MP from Bihar Maulana Gulam Rasool Balyawi expressed his displeasure at evasive answers to his questions in the Rajya Sabha yesterday. Maulana Balyawi who became a Rajya Sabha MP in 2014 asked the Humran Resource Development Minister about incidence of discrimination against dalit and Muslim children in schools and report on the government monitoring of the discrimination.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday was told that besides being meritorious candidates to be considered for judgeship, it should address the question...

By IANS, New Delhi : Hundreds of Dalits Wednesday gathered at India Gate and marched towards Jantar Mantar to protest the Jan Lokpal bill proposed by activist Anna Hazare and his team.

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.

Hyderabad : The Joint Action Committee for Social Justice at University of Hyderabad has reiterated the demand that union minister Bandaru Dattatreya and vice...

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will lead a reception here for Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali on January 14 ahead of his performance. Ali...

By Twocircles.net Staff Reporter New Delhi: The National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights has expressed disappointment at a recent news item which...

By IANS, Hisar : Tension prevailed in the Surya Nagar area of this Haryana district Tuesday after stray incidents of violence following a dispute between the members of the Dalit and Jat communities, police said. "Yesterday (Monday) night a buffalo, belonging to a member of Dalit community, collided with a vehicle that was owned by a Jat youth. At that time there were some heated arguments but the situation was somehow controlled," a police official said.

By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net On August 9th 2014, a local tabloid paper called Mumbai Mirror based in Mumbai published a news that could only be...

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New Delhi : A number of academicians, writers, students and activists on Friday vowed at the Pratirodh forum here to keep resistance alive till...

By Shafeeq Hudawi, Twocircles.net Kasargod: A Dalit woman in Kasargod district of Kerala has alleged that she was denied treatment by government hospital...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday said that unless a temple had a constitutional right, it could not prohibit the entry of the...

Hyderabad 5th March 2008: Muslim Women and Childeren were attacked by police at Saidabad police Station when they went to inquire the arrest of their son Mr.Mohtashim an Enginering Student.mr.Mohtashim was picked up by plainclothsmen in a tata sumo with plain Number plate. submitted by Amjed Ullah Khan

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By IANS, Gandhinagar: The Gujarat unit of the People's Union for Civil liberties and the Adivasi Mahasabha of the state have strongly condemned the illegal detention of two activists on "false grounds" and demanded their release. Activists Avinash Kulkarni and Bharat Pawar, who have been working with the tribals, were detained by police. "Is it a crime to work in a democratic and peaceful way for the empowerment of tribals," Rohit Prajapati and Xavier Manjooran said Tuesday.

By IANS, Patna : An upper castes panel in Bihar wants a Forward Commission on the lines of Backward and Mahadalit commission to study the socio-economic condition of the upper castes. "We will submit a memorandum to the state government soon, seeking formation of a Forward Commission (Savarna Ayog) to study the socio-economic condition of the upper castes, particularly Brahmins," J.N. Trivedi, a spokesman of the Brahmin Samaj Rajnitik Chetna Samiti of Bihar told IANS here.

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Claiming that the government is trying to suppress agitating dalit and adivasi voices, the 30-odd dalit and adivasi activists released from police custody said they will not be intimidated and will not compromise on their fundamental rights.

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net नोखा (राजस्थान) : राजस्थान के बीकानेर जिले के नोखा में स्थित ‘श्री जैन आदर्श कन्या शिक्षक-प्रशिक्षण महाविद्यालय’ के परिसर में हुई...

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By IANS, New Delhi : Crucial allies of India's ruling coalition Wednesday condemned the lynching of a labourer from Uttar Pradesh in Mumbai, with Railways Minister Lalu Prasad of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) threatening to cancel trains in violence-hit states and the Lok Janshakti Party demanding President's rule in Maharashtra. "If this violence continues, we will have to consider that in future we might have to cancel trains in states where these incidents occur," Lalu Prasad said.

By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net Pune: The Pune-Chinchwad Unit of All India Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has strongly condemned killing of a Dalit youth Vicky Dhepe...

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Kolkata: Terming Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "deafening silence" on the raging issue of "intolerance" as an endorsement of the "communal statements" of union ministers...

By IANS, Lucknow : Three members of a Dalit family were killed in Uttar Pradesh's Jyotiba Phule Nagar Tuesday, police said. Mukhram, 55, his wife Gyanwati, 50, and their son Rahul, 22, were found murdered inside their house in Dhanaura area, about 300 km from here. "Prima facie it appears the three died of injuries inflicted by a sharp-edged weapon," police inspector Sanjay Tiwari told reporters in Jyotiba Phule Nagar. "We are yet to ascertain the exact reason behind the killings. Investigations are on to nab those involved in the incident," he said.

Dear Sirs,

Computerizing the mosques and minorities is a very good idea for empowerment of the minorities and poverty alleviation of the marginalized and deprived class of society.

Biometric registration of every minority and tracking their health, education, skills, employment and old age pension would go a long way in alleviating poverty.

The Zakat payments can also be tracked effectively using the biometric smart cards.

By, Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: “We don’t want to criticize anybody but the fact of the matter is that, the entire Muslim leadership has always ignored Dalit Muslims. Be it Jamiat Ulema Hind, Milli Council or any other organization, their attitude towards Dalit Muslims can only be described as indifferent,” complained a group of Dalit Muslim leaders.

By IANS, Shimla : States should set up special courts to try cases related to atrocities on Dalits, union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Mukul Wasnik said Friday.

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By TCN News, Kochi: The Kerala High Court has asked for detail about Dalits in the state and their condition of living, acting on a complaint filed by the Harrison Company that Dalits are forcing marches towards the private lands of the company. V. Anil Kumar, Under Secretary for Dalits, has filed an affidavit showing that about 14,200 tribal Dalits of the state are inhabited, and made it clear that the government is moving forward to allot lands to these people.

By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent Thiruvananthapuram: The Dalit Human Rights Movement (DHRM) has decided to form a new Dalit movement by the time of the coming Assembly elections, reports say. The DHRM will also reportedly vote against the CPI (M) in the coming panchayat elections.

By TCN News New Delhi: Creating “Muslim as the enemy” to mobilize the Hindus and manufacture a conflict between the two is...

Hyderabad, Sep 15 (IANS) A shutdown was imposed in Telangana's Miryalguda town on Saturday over the murder of a Dalit man in an apparent...

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By IANS, Bhopal : A Dalit in a Madhya Pradesh village only wanted payment of wages due to him -- but what he got was death. Mason Ramesh Jatav was allegedly killed after he demanded Rs.4,000 for the work he had done for farmer Shriram Lodhi, police Sunday said. Thirty-eight-year-old Jatav was killed in Shivpuri district Friday night when he had gone to Shriram's house with his wife to demand back-wages. According to police, Shriram and his relative Gabdu Lodhi took the couple to a nearby field and killed Jatav, a resident of Sirsona village, about 350 km from here.

Ahmedabad: Keeping their promise, the agitating Patidar community on Tuesday swamped the city in a 10-km long revolution rally demanding caste reservations, posing a...

By IANS, New Delhi: The central government has approved six new residential schools for tribals in Madhya Pradesh, officials said Thursday. According to officials from the tribal affairs ministry, the allocation for starting the Eklavya Adarsh Awasiya schools has been increased to Rs.12 crore from Rs.2.5 crore. Madhya Pradesh has the largest tribal population in India. The population of Scheduled Tribes in the state is 154.03 lakh -- 23.27 percent of the state's total population of 661.81 lakh. The allocation per student has also been raised.

By Shaik Zakeer Hussain, TwoCircles.net,

By Shafeeq Hudawi, Twocircles.net Kozhikode: If statistics from National Crime Records Bureau are taken into consideration, it becomes clear Kerala has been...

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Mumbai: With the intention of spreading environment of peace and harmony in the state and to express solidarity with the...

By TwoCircles.net staff reporter, Usmanabad (Maharashtra): Dalit leaders and activists staged a protest by keeping body of Kamlavati Kamble for almost six hours in the Lohara police station premises in the district demanding arrest of those responsible for her death.

Silchar: A 29-year-old tribal youth was killed by tea garden workers in Assam's Cachar district for allegedly practising witchcraft, police said here on Friday. "Over...

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net नोखा (राजस्थान) : डेल्टा मेघवाल कौन थी? उसमें ऐसा क्या था? जो सभी को अपनी ओर खींचता था? वो क्या कर...

Dr Sunil Abhiman Awachar is clearly an antithesis to discourse on contemporary Indian art. By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: Dr. Sunil Abhiman Awachar is well known as a poet and painter, also an assistant professor with the Department of Marathi in University of Mumbai. Meanwhile, he is full time activist in dalit human rights movement. He has published four anthologies of poetry, all in Marathi, that include ‘Global vartamanachya kavita (2008)’ ‘Mi mahasattechya darashi katora gheun ubha rahanaar nahi,’ ‘Bravo! Fox minds of capitalist’ and ‘Poems of the occupied everything’.

By IANS, Bhubaneswar: Four years after 14 protesters were killed in police firing in Kalinga Nagar in Orissa's Jajpur district, the authorities Monday started construction for a common corridor road in an industrial area opposed by local tribals. About 25 platoons of police forces were deployed as the district administration started construction in Kalinga Nagar industrial area.

By TCN News, New Delhi: The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) today held a protest demonstration at Jantar Mantar here and termed the incident...

By Nikhil M. Babu It was raining heavily last monsoon when Heerabai's youngest child, Seshkumari, 4, collapsed with a fever. The family could only...

TwoCircles.net News Desk पटना : सरकार द्वारा छात्रों को पोस्ट मैट्रीक छात्रवृति (अनुसूचित जाति/अनुसूचित जनजाति) हेतु ऑनलाइन आवेदन की अंतिम तिथि 17 मार्च 2016 तक...

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By IANS, Raipur: Thousands of tribals from the interior areas of Chhattisgarh Saturday held a rally in this state capital to protest their "neglect" by the central and state governments. Tribal men and women marched through the main streets of the capital to the rally at the sports complex ground, where over a dozen tribal leaders cutting across party lines and including three ministers of the state's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as also several Congress leaders, addressed them.

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By IANS, Bhubaneswar: A 50-year-old man was arrested Tuesday for raping a Dalit woman in Odisha, police said.

By Brij Khandelwal, IANS, Agra : Ahead of the polls, several citizens' groups have asked candidates of various political parties to support their demand for heritage city status to Agra visited by millions of tourists every year. Party candidates are being asked to clarify their stand on various issues that concern the development of this historic city.

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By Amit Kumar. TwoCircles.net The Dalit Asmita Yatra, organised in the wake of attacks on Dalits in Una, Gujarat by cow vigilantes might have...

New Delhi, Aug 28 (IANS) Several manual scavengers, liberated by an NGO, will tie rakhi to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the occasion of...

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By Md. Mudassir Alam for TwoCircles.net, Bihar has witnessed a very chaotic crisis in the recent time, which in turn has directly or indirectly affected the common people of the state. With the resignation of Jitan Ram Manjhi, the self-proclaimed political superman of Bihar from the CM’s post all types of speculations came to an end.

By Aabid Ali Haider for TwoCircles.net, The brutal and harrowing rapes in Kerala have revealed that women in India are unsafe when it comes to...

Ujjain : BJP president Amit Shah, who took a holy dip in the Shipra river on Wednesday as part of programmes during the ongoing...

Patna : A shutdown in Bihar Tuesday to protest the arrest of three men for the alleged gang rape of six Mahadalit women has...

दलित छात्रा डेल्टा मेघवाल की उनके कॉलेज परिसर में हुई विवादित मौत पर देश भर में चर्चा और चिंता है. कॉलेज-प्रशासन जहां इसे आत्महत्या...

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Ahmedabad : With more arrests on Wednesday, five persons have been rounded up so far on charges of beating up four Dalit youths who...

Lucknow: Following the footsteps of three leaders that quit the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ahead of the forthcoming state assembly elections, BSP's national secretary...

New Delhi : Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) on Sunday called for a sit-in at the varsity's Administration Block to pray for the...

New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said that all Dalit Bharatiya Janata Party MPs should resign to protest the assault...

New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said all vacant posts meant for SC/STs would soon be filled. "We will ensure that...

By Adnan Alavi, The outrage among parents over Dalit or Lower Caste [sic] women cooking food for their children in schools has once again demonstrated the casteist face of our society. 'Upper caste' families are insistent that they would not send the kids to school if the children are served food cooked by Dalit women. In several places, villagers have turned violent and the cooks had to be sent away.