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New Delhi : Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula's mother on Wednesday described Prime Minister Narendra Modi as being "anti-Dalit" and "anti-students". Speaking during a protest...

Lucknow: BSP leaders and workers on Thursday held a sit-in in the state capital to protest against the demolition of a wall of Ambedkar...

New Delhi : A Lok Sabha member on Friday demanded a special session of parliament to commemorate 125th anniversary of B.R. Ambedkar. Biju Janata Dal...

By Charu Bahri As many as 26 per cent male and 35 per cent female students from India’s most disadvantaged castes and tribes in 245...

By Ram Puniyani, On 28th Feb (2014) Ramvilas Paswan of Loktantantrik Jan Party joined the NDA alliance. Same Paswan had left the NDA twelve years ago with the beginning of Gujarat carnage, saying that with the violence in Gujarat he cannot be part of NDA. This time his son formulated the face saver when he said that Modi has received clean chit in the Gujarat carnage. Few days ago another dalit leader Udit Raj directly joined BJP, with the assurance of being given a ticket for forthcoming elections. In Maharashtra, Ramdas Athwaley of Republican Party of India had become part of NDA, and succeeded in being nominated for Rajya Sabha, Upper house of Parliament. There are many others dalits in the fold of BJP directly or in alliance with BJP to be in NDA, for pre poll alliance. Most of these leaders claim to be working on the path shown by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. Ambedkar was committed to annihilation of caste and was totally opposed to the concept of Hindu nationalism, as propounded by RSS-BJP.

By Pramod Mandade, One week after the Maharashtra assembly election results I went to my village in Latur district (Marathwada). AIMIM (All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen) won two seats one in Aurangabad and another in Mumbai plus they took considerable votes in many other places.

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New Delhi : The seven Lok Sabha candidates of the BJP in Delhi have their eyes set on their opponents from the AAP while...

By Sanjay Kumar & Badre Alam, "For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a...

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By Shiva Thorat, TwoCircles.net Most people expect a cycle repair mechanic to do just that: repair cycles, and make a living. Dattu Thorat also does...

This is a first in a three-part series on how Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students Organisation (BAPSA) has, while effectively countering Savarna politics espoused...

By Darshan Desai Ahmedabad : Prominent Muslim body Jamiat-e-Ulema-Hind has declared support for a massive public rally being organized in Ahmedabad on Sunday by around...

Rajkot : Seven Dalit youngsters on Monday attempted to commit suicide in two separate incidents in Saurashtra the entire region erupted into a wave...

Hyderabad : Policemen, who cracked down on students protesting at University of Hyderabad, threatened to rape the women students, revealed an independent fact finding...

By IANS, Jhajjar (Haryana): A court here Monday awarded life imprisonment to seven people for the 2002 lynching of five Dalits in this Haryana district. All the convicts were produced in the court of Additional District and Sessions Judge A.K. Jain, amidst heavy security. After the sentencing, the accused were sent to Rohtak jail. The court acquitted 19 people in the case Saturday.

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By Vanya Mehta, TwoCircles.net, The Sabarmati riverfront, for Ahmedabad residents, is a welcomed respite of clean walkways and greenery. Young middle class teenagers safely venture out with their friends in the evening to enjoy the pleasant views of the river, watching the riverfront light up. The elderly take their morning walks nearby adolescent trees, before the heat settles in for the day. Gujarati tourism, boasted by Chief Minister and BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, is given a further facelift by the presence of this cultural landmark that stretches 11 kilometers across the length of the Sabarmati River.

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Lucknow : BSP supremo Mayawati on Sunday attacked the Narendra Modi government at the Centre, saying it is spreading hatred and communalism in Uttar...

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Patna : A powerful lobby of upper caste Bihar BJP leaders is disappointed over the appointment of OBC leader Nityanand Rai on Wednesday as...

By TwoCircles.net Staff reporter, Aurangabad (Maharashtra): The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay high court has acquitted seven accused from the charges of stoning to death a dalit youth in 2009. The divisional bench of Justice S S Shinde and Justice P R Bora on Wednesday acquitted three women of all charges, while the four male accused have been convicted under section 341 of IPC ((punishment for wrongful restraint).

By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Chirang: William Tudu, a 60-year-old Santhal, is not sure who to vote for. He has been voting in the past elections...

Ghaziabad : Tension gripped the Kanth area of Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad district Saturday as the BJP refused to back out of its proposed protest...

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By IANS, New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Tuesday dismissed allegations by her Uttar Pradesh counterpart Mayawati that the city government had diverted funds meant for Dalit upliftment to the Commonwealth Games. "We have not diverted any funds from the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes welfare schemes for the Commonwealth Games," Dikshit told reporters here. Mayawati had Monday alleged that the Delhi government had diverted Rs.750 crore meant for Dalit welfare to the Oct 3-14 Games.

Sasaram/Gaya (Bihar) : BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi at the election rallies in Bihar Thursday hit out at the Congress for neglecting farmers,...

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By DPA, Kabul : Taliban fighters killed a British woman aid worker for "spreading Christianity," Monday as she was going to her office in the western part of Kabul, officials said. The attackers, who were riding on motorbike, fled the area after the shooting, interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said. Bashary had earlier said that the aid worker was from South Africa and was working with an aid organization that was helping disabled people in Afghanistan. But the British embassy in Kabul later said that one of the its nationals was killed in the city.

(This is a rejoinder to an article published on November 30 on TwoCircles.net titled caste on my back, written by Aishik Chanda.) By Yogesh Maitreya, Gopal Guru described that “Indian social science represents a pernicious divides between theoretical Brahmins and empirical Shudras”. Now this divide does not only limit to the social-sciences texts when it discusses the dalits lives through Brahmin-imagination. This divide has an inculcation factor which transmits into other upper castes writers than Brahmins.

Bhopal : Protesting against "harassment and exploitation" by the Madhya Pradesh government, Dalits and tribal groups under an umbrella organisation on Sunday called for...

Hyderabad : Targetting central minister Smriti Irani over suicide of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula, the SC/ST Teachers Forum and Concerned Faculty of University...

By TCN News Every six years, the California Board of Education reviews its History and Social Science frameworks in a multi-year series of public hearings....

Lucknow: An FIR was lodged against yoga guru Baba Ramdev Saturday for making "vulgar comments" against Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Friday, an official...

Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi Sunday courted another controversy when he held a meeting with state government officials from the Scheduled Castes...

By TCN News, नई दिल्ली: हरियाणा के फरीदाबाद में 20 अक्टूबर 2015 को दबंगों ने रात में सोते हुए एक दलित परिवार पर पेट्रोल डालकर...

By IANS, Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren Monday said that no changes would be made in legislations governing the tribal land rights. "There is no move to make any amendments in the existing two acts formulated to protect the land right of the tribals," Soren said while replying to a query by a Congress legislator in the state assembly. Last week Soren reportedly said that amendments would be made in the Chhota Nagpur Tenancy (CNT) Act.

By IANS, Mumbai : The Maharashtra government Tuesday ordered the state CID to probe the brutal killings of three Dalit youths last month in Ahmednagar district, an official said here.

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In the third of the four-part series, we look at how the Honey collectors of Sunderbans are feeling the pinch of change in...

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.

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Chandigarh : The family of a 20-year-old Dalit youth, who was brutally murdered in Punjab's Mansa district, on Wednesday refused to cremate the body...

More than 350 writers, publishers, journalists and social activists from Hindi, English and Marathi, including Uday Prakash, Arundhati Rai, Shamshul Islam, Sharan Kumar Limbale, Kanwal Bharti, Giriraj Kishor, Anand Teltumbade, Manglesh Dabral, Anil Chamadia, Apoorvanand, Veerbharat Talwar, Ram Puniyani , S.Anand and others condemned police action against Forward Press last week.

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

Aatika S | TwoCircles As the internationally celebrated event of Dalit History month comes to an end, the Indian subcontinent is reeling with an increased...

By TCN News, New Delhi: The national seminar organized by the Welfare Party of India at Indian Law Institute here has expressed deep resentment and...

New Delhi : The Congress on Wednesday termed the NDA government at the Centre as "anti-Dalit". "The NDA government is anti-Dalit. A BJP MLA from...

Hyderabad : Mr.Masood Khan a Social Worker of Hafiz Baba Nagar Under Chandrayangutta Assembly Constituency who was rectifying Street Lights along with GHMC (Electrical ) Workers was attacked by Majlish Ittehadul Musleemin (MIM) goons.Later he was sfifted to Osmania General Hospital in a Serious condition.MBT leader Mr.Amjed Ullah Khan Visited the hospital and demanded stern action against the culprits by the police.

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New Delhi : The Lok Sabha Thursday passed a constitutional amendment bill to add more communities to the existing list of scheduled castes in...

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.