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Amid election heat, Sonia-Modi in war of words

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Nuh/Itanagar/Guwahati : The Congress-BJP war of words escalated Monday, with Congress president Sonia Gandhi charging the BJP with indulging in "politics of hate" and...

109 mn job seekers need to upgrade skills: Badal

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Shillong : Around 109 million new job seekers have to upgrade their skills, while another 460 million people have to be re-skilled and up-skilled...

Easter celebrated in Meghalaya

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Shillong : Christians in Meghalaya Sunday joined their brethren the world over in celebrating Easter. Believers throngeed Cathedrals and other churches in the Christian-majority state...

Militants kill three in Assam

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Guwahati : Three people, including a woman, were killed when suspected militants fired indiscriminately Wednesday at a group of people in Assam's Kokrajhar district,...

Meghalaya for power exchange to meet shortfall

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By IANS, Shillong : Power-starved Meghalaya has decided to go in for a power exchange arrangement with the 726 MW gas-based plant at Palatana to...

Bangladesh border guards to tighten vigil along frontier

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Agartala : The Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) would further tighten vigil along the India-Bangladesh border to check activities of the Indian militants, a Border...

Mizoram refugees want durable solution to ethnic issue

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Agartala : Mizoram's displaced Reang tribals, sheltered in six refugee camps in Tripura for about 17 years, Wednesday urged a central government team to...

Tripura seeks access to Bangladesh ports

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Agartala : The Tripura government will ask Prime Minister Narendra Modi to persuade Bangladesh to provide access to its water and land routes to...

May Day: ‘No way out of tea estates,’ housing woes, low wages compel workers...

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Assam’s tea estates contribute to more than fifty percent of the total tea production in India. However, the workers working at these estates have...

New Delhi is northeasterners’ favourite job destination

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By Natalia Ningthoujam, New Delhi : Abhijit K. Borah moved here from Guwahati in search of a better future. He says Delhi has a lot...

Development, Environment and the Tribal of Maghuwapara

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By Abdul Kalam Azad, The history of human civilization is same as the history of change and development. The advent of renaissance and industrial revolution in seventeen century opened up the scope of change and development beyond imagination. The science and technology played a vital role in this whole journey. But history also tells us that a certain section of society always remains outside the ambit of such change and development process. This alienation is sometimes deliberate as well as forceful. We observe such alienation of tribals of northeast region of India from development process. During colonial period British Raj distinguished the tribals from the people living in the valleys. The colonial rulers were less bothered about development interventions in tribal dominated areas as most of those areas were not economically viable as far as revenue collection was concerned. Sociologists opine that such alienation is one of the major reasons for the current unrest in this region. But today we are going to discuss another aspect of exclusive development model and its impacts on the marginalized tribal groups.

Man arrested for raping deaf woman in Tripura

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Agartala: A man was arrested for raping a 32-year-old deaf and dumb woman, police said here Tuesday. "Ajit Nama, aged 30, raped a deaf and...

Odisha to invest Rs.1,000 crore for tribals’ development

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Bhubaneswar : Odisha plans to invest around Rs.1,000 crore in the next two years to improve the living standards vulnerable tribal groups in the...

Two accused in Tania killing withdraw bail pleas

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By IANS, New Delhi : Two accused in the killing of Arunanchal Pradesh student Nido Tania Friday withdrew their bail pleas as the probe has...

One-day solidarity fast to mark 14 year of Irom Sharmila’s struggle at Jantar Mantar

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Irom Sharmila entered her 15th year of hunger-strike against the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) that has led to gross human rights' violations in North-East and Jammu & Kashmir on 5th November. To mark the beginning of the 15th year of her struggle for democracy and justice, Save Sharmila Solidarity Campaign (SSSC) along with other like-minded organisations like Azaadi Bachao Aandolan, B P Mehta foundation and other human rights' groups and individuals observed one-day solidarity fast at Jantar Mantar.

18 castes to be included in ST category

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Ranchi: Jharkhand's Bhokta and Puran are among the 18 communities across India that are likely to be designated as Scheduled Tribes (STs) by the...

Arrests of Human rights activists and intellectuals across India strongly condemned

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 By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Prominent activists’ and public intellectuals’ houses were raided and the activists and intellectuals who were critical of the government were arrested...

Curfew continues in Kashmir’s Pulwama, situation peaceful

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By IANS, Srinagar : Curfew continued Friday in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama town where clashes had erupted between people and the security forces Thursday following...

After Lalu, Nitish, Manjhi also want caste census data release

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Patna: A day after Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad, Bihar Chief minister Nitish Kumar and his predecessor Jitan Ram Manjhi on Monday...

Van Versus Vikas: New documentary dismantles mythology of India’s “progress” from worldview of Adivasi...

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The film chronicles the resistance of an Adivasi family, along with other city activists and residents, to stop the Mumbai Metro Rail project...

Congress makes false promises, Sonia let marines go: Modi

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Itanagar/Guwahati : BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Monday launched a scathing attack on the Congress, accusing the party of making "false promises", and...

CBI arrests chit fund executive in Tripura

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Agartala : An executive of a chit fund has been arrested in Tripura by the CBI for allegedly collecting deposits of more than Rs.10...

‘We’re Not Begging — We’re Demanding What’s Ours’: Odisha’s Koraput Tribals Fight for Kendu...

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Mohsina Malik, TwoCircles.net Koraput (Odisha): Kendu or Tendu leaf is more than just a forest product for tribal communities across the country. It is their...

Congress bags 31 of the 59 reserved seats in Rajasthan; BJP falls from 53...

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter With the Congress all set to return to power in Rajasthan after five years, the reign of Vasundhara Raje will come...

Militancy-hit people in Tripura threaten stir

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Agartala : Militancy-hit people on Thursday threatened to organise a massive stir in Tripura if the state government did not rehabilitate them properly. Over 3,000...

Tripura militants kidnap three traders, driver in Mizoram

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Agartala : Three Tripura traders and their driver were kidnapped by tribal guerrillas from Mizoram, police said here Sunday. "Five businessmen from northern Tripura went...

Bangladeshis among five arrested in Mizoram

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Agartala : Five tribals, including two Bangladeshis, have been arrested in Mizoram and a huge cache of arms and ammunition recovered from them, a...

Kashmir revokes stipendiary recruitment policy

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Srinagar : The Jammu and Kashmir government Wednesday revoked its controversial stipendiary recruitment policy following feedback gathered by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on his...

World Bank aid for power projects in Tripura

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Agartala : The World Bank would provide Rs.1,376 crore to create infrastructure in the power sector in Tripura, an official said here on Wednesday. State-owned...

Mehta to be Meghalaya’s new police chief

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Shillong : IPS officer Rajiv Mehta, currently the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) chief in New Delhi, was Friday appointed Meghalaya's police chief, an official...

Notification for Nagaland poll issued, shutdown called for Thursday

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Kohima (IANS): The Election Commission of India on Wednesday issued the notification for the February 27 elections to the 60-member Nagaland Assembly despite civil...

Gogoi faces people’s ire along Assam-Nagaland border

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Guwahati : Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Monday faced the anger of the people in the violence-hit Assam-Nagaland border in Golaghat district, forcing him...

Over one lakh people affected by Meghalaya floods

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Shillong : More than one lakh people were affected in Meghalaya Monday after the swollen Brahmaputra and Jingiram rivers submerged several villages, an official...

One land rights activist dies after self-immolation in Assam

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: One protestor of peasants’ body Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) died after receiving 90 per cent burn injuries following his act of self-immolation in demand of land rights in front of Assam secretariat on Monday.

Rescued tribal kids sent back homes in Assam, Tripura

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Agartala : The 19 tribal children rescued from Guwahati railway station in Assam by security forces and Childline, an NGO, have been handed over...

Why Jharkhand’s Pathalgadi movement is worrying the state government

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Shukoh Albadar, TwoCircles.net Merely 40 km away from the Jharkhand’s state capital Ranchi, Khunti, a newly-carved out district is in the limelight across the national...

‘Bangladesh brick kilns hit by ban on Meghalaya coal mining’

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Shillong : Production has been hit in thousands of brick kilns in Bangladesh that are dependent on coal from Meghalaya following an interim ban...

Compensate ‘shooting incident’ victims, NHRC tells Assam

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Guwahati : The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Wednesday asked the Assam government to pay Rs.5 lakh each to the next of kin of...

Tamil Nadu girl clears the path to become first doctor in her tribe

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While NEET has abetted several institutional murders of students hailing from the marginalized groups, 20-year-old student Sangavi from the Malasar tribal community in Coimbatore has...

Essar may open Jharkhand mine next year

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New Delhi : Indian conglomerate Essar Group's power arm, Essar Power, on Wednesday said that it may open its Jharkhand coal mine for production...

Tripura, Mizoram to implement food security act from April

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Agartala/Aizawl : Tripura and Mizoram governments are computerising their Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) to implement the National Food Security Act from April, officials...

Cabinet approves telecom plan for northeast

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New Delhi : The union cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday gave its approval for implementing a Comprehensive Telecom Development Plan for...

Prisoner’s body handed over to Pakistan

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By IANS, Jammu : The body of a Pakistani prisoner who was found hanging in a jail here Feb 22 will be handed over Monday...

ONGC agerees to supply gas to Tripura power project

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Agartala : State-owned ONGC has finally agreed to supply natural gas to 101-MW capacity Monarchak power plant that is being set up by government-run...

The blame game and RS election in Assam

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Suspended AIUDF MLA Majharbhuiyan says party chief Ajmal asked him to abstain. By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: After remaining in the centre of the...

Northeast to have air ambulances soon

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Guwahati : Patients from difficult-to-access locations in the landlocked northeastern states can heave a sigh of relief, as a Guwahati-based hospital is planning to...

Nine arrested for torturing Assam woman as ‘witch’

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Guwahati : Nine people were arrested Wednesday in Assam's Sivasagar district for torturing a woman and branding her a 'witch', police said. The incident took...

Congress, NC tie up for Lok Sabha polls

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Jammu : The ruling National Conference (NC) and Congress alliance in Jammu and Kashmir has forged an electoral alliance for the Lok Sabha polls,...

Tripura announces five percent DA for its employees

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Agartala : To pacify its aggrieved employees seeking central pay scales, the Tripura government Wednesday announced an additional five percent dearness allowance for its...

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...

The University is a Graveyard. Burn it down

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By Anubhuti Agnes Bara for TwoCircles.net “…It leads to no good if institutions that grant titles, qualifications, and other prerequisites for life or a profession...

294 days and counting: Why Churachandpur refuses to bury its dead

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By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Churachandpur, Manipur: September 1 started like every other day at work for Chingneihoih, 22, from Churachandpur. For the...

Man held for attempting to bury daughter alive

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Agartala : Police have arrested a man on the charges of attempting to bury his nine-year-old daughter alive in Tripura, an official said here...

Maoists kill Odisha tribal

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Bhubaneswar : Suspected Maoists Wednesday shot dead a tribal man in Odisha's Malkangiri district, accusing him of spying on them for the police, an...

Assam cops get training to handle cases of witch hunting, trafficking

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Guwahati : Police stations in Assam will soon have personnel with better knowledge of handling witch hunting, human trafficking and child labour cases. The state...

Marginalised students of JNU can now speak for themselves: Bhupali Magare, President, BAPSA

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By Atul Anand and Dhrubo Jyoti for Twocircles.net Bhupali Magare, one of the students suspended from JNU for speaking out against the authoritarian decisions...

TCN questions for Narendra Modi

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By TwoCircles.net team, New Delhi: BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has opened up for interviews and he is being interviewed by number of TV...

Modi’s One Year : Environmental protection still awaits balance

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Although the number of actual clearances given on paper for infrastructure projects are not much different compared to the UPA rule, the NDA rule...

Standing struggle by Kerala adivasis ends; state agrees to most of their demands

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Thiruvananthapuram: After 162 days, the Standing Struggle staged by the adivasis demanding rightful ownership of their lands came to a successful end on Thursday. Started under the aegis of the Adivasi Gothra Maha Sabha (AGMS), the struggle ended following an assurance given by the meeting of the ministerial committee to agree to the demands raised by the tribal community.

Air, surface links to Kashmir Valley restored

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Srinagar : Air services between the Kashmir Valley and the rest of the country were restored Thursday and the strategic Srinagar-Jammu highway was also...

Three people killed in Tripura road mishap

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Agartala : At least three people were killed and 17 others were critically injured when two passenger jeeps collided in Tripura, police said here...

Manipuri youth stabbed, robbed in Delhi, four juveniles held

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By IANS, New Delhi : A 22-year-old youth from Manipur was stabbed and robbed here early Tuesday, in the third incident in a fortnight of...

Reports on Attapadi tribals exaggerated: Minister

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Thiruvananthapuram : Reports about the death of infants in the Attapadi tribal settlements in Palakkad district are exaggerated and far from the truth, Rural...

Assam-Agra transmission line to help north India this summer

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By Sujit Chakraborty, Agartala : A 1,800 km transmission line from Assam to Agra is likely to provide some relief to electricity-starved north India this...

CBI raids Rose Valley offices in Tripura, seizes documents

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Agartala : Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) teams on Wednesday raided seven Tripura offices of Kolkata-based Rose Valley Group, a chit fund company,...

सवालों के प्रहार तले डेल्टा मेघवाल की मौत

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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...

India’s youngest bank Bandhan to empower women, rural folk

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By Sujit Chakraborty, Agartala : Innovative microfinance company Bandhan will operate as a bank from October next year and focus on empowering women and rural...

One killed, five injured in Manipur blast

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Imphal : A 28-year-old youth was killed and five others were injured when unidentified militants triggered a bomb blast here Monday, police said. "Naresh Sahani,...

वाह रे मोदी बजट! दलित-आदिवासियों का हक़ भी मार लिया!

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Afroz Alam Sahil, TwoCircles.net प्रधानमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी भले ही अरूण जेटली द्वारा पेश किए गए बजट को गांव, गरीब और किसान समर्थक बजट बता रहे...

Tripura to drop cases against ex-guerrillas

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Agartala : The Tripura government has decided to withdraw court cases against surrendered militants, except those of crimes committed against women, an official said...

Gogoi lashes out at Modi

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By IANS, Guwahati : Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Monday said his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi was an "irresponsible leader" and worker of RSS whose...

आदिवासी समाज से आने वाले देश के पहले मेयर है विक्रम आहाके

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आकिल हुसैन।Twocircles.net मध्य प्रदेश की छिंदवाड़ा नगर निगम में कांग्रेस ने 18 साल बाद मेयर का चुनाव जीता हैं।‌ छिंदवाड़ा नगर निगम में कांग्रेस...

Manipur to get 400 kw power project: DoNER minister

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Imphal : DoNER Minister Jitendra Singh on Friday announced that Manipur would get a 400 KW power project at an estimated cost of Rs.124...

Campaign launched by Bihar govt aims to curtail drop-out rate among tribal children

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After an order by the Patna High Court to address the high drop-out rate of tribal children in the state, the government in Bihar...

Irom Sharmila to tie the knot

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Kodaikanal (Tamil Nadu), (IANS): Finally, Irom Sharmila, the indefatigable fighter against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Manipur, has decided to tie the...

Bangladesh seeks access from India to battle rebels

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Shillong : Bangladesh has urged India to allow Bangladeshi security forces to enter the Chittagong Hills Tract from Tripura to launch a crackdown on...

Tripura governor asks police to protect women

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Agartala : Tripura Governor Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya has asked police and the state women's commission to take stern action against those who molested a...

Gogoi white paper compares NDA, UPA performances

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Guwahati : Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Monday said Assam faced gross injustice during the period when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic...

Tribal blocks to get Rs.10 crore each for development

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New Delhi: The government Tuesday launched a programme under which Rs.10 crore will be provided to each block for the development of various facilities...

Digital Deceit: How AI and Voice Apps Were Weaponised to Sexually Assault Tribal Girls...

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Iqra Farrukh, TwoCircles.net Bhopal: In a chilling revelation from Madhya Pradesh, technology has been weaponised for deceit and cruelty. Approximately 80 kilometers from Sidhi district headquarters, impoverished...

Naga activists call for changes in male-dominated society

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By IANS, New Delhi : Naga activists and scholars Wednesday robustly called for changes in the male-dominated society of Nagaland state, saying that it barred...

Bangladesh to take back tribal refugees

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Agartala : Bangladesh has agreed to take back over 350 of its tribals who have been sheltering in the Indian state of Tripura since...

Under Modi, record rise in unspent funds for Dalits/tribals

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By Nikhil M. Babu In the run-up to the 2014 general elections, then prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, while addressing a gathering of Dalits and...

Agartala airport to be made international airport

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Agartala : The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has completed preliminary work to upgrade Agartala airport as an international airport to boost the region's...

For these girls living in Delhi’s slums, education is a dream fraught with violence,...

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By Suprakash Majumdar, TwoCircles.net The first thing Janaki does in the morning is to help her mother prepare food. Beside the chulha (a stove), covering her face...

Communal hostility up in BJP rule: Sarkar

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Agartala : Communal violence has increased after the BJP-led government headed by Narendra Modi took power in India, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said...

‘Peaceful poll conduct, preventing infiltration challenges for J&K police’

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Jammu : Jammu and Kashmir director general of police (DGP) Ashok Prasad Tuesday said the peaceful conduct of Lok Sabha and assembly elections this...

Sanitation minister inspects Meghalaya village

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Shillong : Ram Kripal Yadav, union minister of state for drinking water and sanitation, Sunday visited a village in Meghalaya, interacted with villagers and...

India to tighten vigil along Myanmar border

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Agartala/Aizawl : India would strengthen vigil along its border with Myanmar to check drugs and arms smuggling besides movement of inimical elements, including militants,...

Parts of northeast cut off as Meghalaya blockade continues

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Agartala : The northeastern states of Tripura, Mizoram, parts of Manipur and southern Assam remained cut off from the rest of India for the...

NPP wants Meghalaya CM to quit over student’s death

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Shillong : Meghalaya's opposition National People's Party (NPP) Wednesday demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Mukul Sangma and Home Minister Roshan Warjri over the...

बस्तर में सुरक्षा बल और माओवादी मुठभेड़ में पिसती आम आदिवासी जिदंगियां, दूधमुंही बच्ची...

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Poonam Masih/ TwoCircles.net बस्तर। छत्तीसगढ़ के बस्तर में माओवादी और सुरक्षा बलों के बीच होने वाली मुठभेड़ अब एक आम घटना बन गई है। माओवाद...

Palakkad MP to go on indefinite hunger strike for Attappady tribals

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Kozhikode: Urging the Union and State governments to address the woes faced by tribal community at Attappady in Palakkad district of Kerala, Palakkad MP M B Rajesh will go on an indefinite hunger strike at Agaly in Attappady from November 10.

Heroin seized, Myanmarese national held in Mizoram

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Aizawl : Officials of the Mizoram excise and narcotics department have arrested a Myanmarese national and seized 44 grams of heroin, estimated to be...

Rainstorm hits normal life in Tripura, Mizoram

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Agartala/Aizawl : Overnight seasonal cyclonic rains and thunder storms disrupted power supply and surface transport movement besides damaging a large number of houses in...

Former Assam CM resigns as AGP chief

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Guwahati : Former Assam chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta Monday resigned as the president of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) after its debacle in...

BJP government muzzling voice of poor: Rahul Gandhi

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New Delhi : Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Monday accused the Narendra Modi government of muzzling the voice of the poor, tribals and...

Gujarat Adivasis object to Govt’s “misuse” of tribal development funds for Ram temple visit...

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Neglecting Adivasi deities, rituals and culture, the Gujarat government announced an aid of Rs. 5000 to tribals for a trip to the Ram temple...

BJP riddled with protests over tickets to ‘outsiders’

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Mainpuri : Despite the hype over BJP's prime ministerial hopeful Narendra Modi's campaign, the disappointment and heartburn caused by ticket distribution could hurt the...

First dengue case in Tripura

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Agartala : The first confirmed case of dengue has been reported in Tripura, an official said here Wednesday. "A man was found with dengue virus...

Meghalaya police officer arrested for molesting minor

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Shillong : A Meghalaya police officer was arrested for molesting a minor girl, an officer said Monday. Prosecuting Inspector Alarick J. Sangma was nabbed Sunday...

Nido killing: One more sent to judicial custody

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By IANS, New Delhi : One more person, arrested for the death of Arunachal Pradesh student Nido Tania, was presented before a court here Tuesday...

Assam bandh: Normal life hit; over 70 detained, released

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Guwahati : Normal life was affected across Assam Friday in the wake of a Bajrang Dal-sponsored 12-hour dawn-to-dusk bandh to press for the arrest...

Nido Tania case: HC issues notice over dropped charges

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New Delhi : The Delhi High Court Friday issued notice to the CBI on a plea of the father of deceased Arunachal Pradesh student...

Congress leads in lone Mizoram seat

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Aizawl : The ruling Congress candidate and incumbent Lok Sabha member C.L. Ruala was Friday leading by 10,000 votes over Robert Romawia Royte of...

Rajnath reviews Nagaland situation

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New Delhi : Home Minister Rajnath Singh, at a meeting here Thursday with Nagaland Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang, reviewed the situation arising out of...

Curfew on in Kashmir, Srinagar tense

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Srinagar : Curfew continued for a second day in Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora district Sunday following protests after police firing killed a young man,...

Two killed in Assam floods

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Guwahati : At least two people have been killed in Assam in flash floods and landslides triggered by incessant rain for the past two...

Meghalaya home minister quits

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Shillong : Meghalaya Home Minister Roshan Warjri has resigned from the ruling Congress-led government, a party official said Friday. Warjri, the first woman home minister,...

Chamling pitches for ST status for 11 Sikkimese Nepali communities

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Gangtok (IANS): Making a strong pitch for granting of Scheduled Tribe status to 11 Sikkimese Nepali communities, an issue which has been lying unresolved...

Anti-national activities go down in Assam: Government

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Guwahati : The Assam government Tuesday said intensified security measures have led to a steep fall in anti-national activities of fundamentalist forces in the...

Waterfalls, tribals and animals be damned: Why the proposed Athirapally dam is a disaster...

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This is the first in a two-part series on the proposed Athirapally dam in the Thrissur district of Kerala, and how it will destroy...

Legal awareness camp for Muslim women in Manipur

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By Dr. Syed Ahmed, for TwoCircles.net, Imphal: All Manipur Muslims (Meitei Pangal) Welfare Association (AMPWA), a prominent civil society organization, organized a One-Day Legal Awareness Programme on the topic “Protection of Women’s Right” in association with Manipur State Legal Services Authority (MSLSA) on June 1, 2014 at the campus of Muslim Girls Hostel at Hafiz Hatta, Imphal.

Rajnath flays Congress for lack of development in NE

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Guwahati : BJP president Rajnath Singh Sunday charged the Congress with not doing anything to develop the northeast region. "It is the Congress party which...

Border alert ahead of Modi’s northeast visit

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Agartala : Security forces are keeping a strict vigil along India's border with Bangladesh and Myanmar ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to...

Nagaland lynching: Grief turns into anger at Khan’s Bosla village in Assam

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Brothers reluctant to resume business in Dimapur By A Ghyasuddin, TwoCircles.net, Bosla village, Karimganj (Assam): Many things have been said, many pieces have been written about them. As the time gradually passes, their grief seems to have turned into seething anger here at Bosla village in the Karimganj district – home of the Dimapur rape accused Syed Sarif Uddin Khan.

Maulana Abul Hussain Sabiri, first North-East India Jamaat member, no more

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A prolific poet, his Urdu poem Tarana-e-Assam is part of the 12th class curriculum of the state education board of Assam. By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: Maulana Abul Hussain Mazumdar – popularly known as Sabiri Saab – the eminent Islamic scholar, writer as well as the first Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) member from the north-east India, has passed away.

Assam Pradesh Congress Committee hosts iftar congregation in Guwahati

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: The Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) organised a grand iftar get-together on Thursday evening at the New MLA Hostel in the State Capital Complex at Dispur Guwahati. About 300 persons from different walks of life, including Minister and MLAs, took part in the iftar congregation.

940,000 people vote in Tripura

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Agartala : Around 940,000 people voted Saturday for the second Lok Sabha seat in Left-ruled Tripura, an official said. "Balloting took place in tribal reserve...

Newly elected Lok Sabha MPs from North East felicitated in Delhi

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By Dr. Syed Ahmed, for TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: The people from North East India staying in the National Capital felicitated the Members of Parliament (MPs) who were elected to the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections.

Militants kidnap two tribals in Tripura

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Agartala : Militants have kidnapped two tribal men in Tripura, police said Friday. Police suspect that the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) militants might...

12-hour shutdown against killings hits life in Assam

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Guwahati : A 12-hour dawn-to-dusk shutdown Friday called to denounce the killing of a large number of tribals by Bodo militants affected normal life...

Assam to oppose Centre’s ban on recruitment: Gogoi

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Guwahati : Assam will oppose the central government's ban on recruitment and will go ahead with filling up the vacant posts in the state,...

Five new high court judges appointed, four more soon: Kashmir government

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By IANS, Jammu : The Jammu and Kashmir government Thursday said that five high court judges were appointed last year and four more vacancies are...

State wide protest after militants kill 16 year school girl in Assam

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: Priya Basumatary was just another village girl living happily with her parents in the Dwimuguri locality under Runikhata police station in Chirang district in Assam. But one afternoon the 16 year old girl fell prey to the barbaric act of armed militants.

Mizoram church body says missionaries unhurt in quake

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Aizawl : Missionaries from the northeastern state of Mizoram who were working in Nepal, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan and Sikkim when the massive earthquake...

Reservation unrest in Manipur varsity

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Imphal : The issue of reservation seems to have polarised the students of Manipur University here after the University Grants Commission (UGC) slashed the...

JUH Maharashtra bears all expenses of marriage of girl whose father was lynched by...

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By Imran Inamdar, TwoCircles.net On July 1, 2018, the family of Bharat Bhonsle were left stunned, broken and distraught after they were informed that Bharat...

Tripura government asked to form SIT to probe chit fund firms

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Agartala : The Tripura High Court on Thursday asked the state government to set up a Special Investigating Team (SIT) to probe the activities...

‘Ask CBI to probe Karnataka IAS officer’s death’

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Agartala : The IAS association's Tripura branch on Saturday demanded a CBI probe into the death of Karnataka's young IAS officer D.K. Ravi. "The IAS...

डिजिटल इंडिया का सच : उत्तर प्रदेश का एक थाना ऐसा भी जहां नही...

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Assam floods: CM urges centre to raise ex-gratia

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Guwahati : Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Wednesday appealed to union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to raise the ex-gratia for families of those killed...

Tripura tops rural jobs scheme for fifth year

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Agartala : Tripura maintained its top position for the fifth consecutive year by providing 87 person-days' rural jobs per household during the 2013-14 fiscal,...

NPP releases ‘People’s Document’ for Meghalaya polls

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Jowai (Meghalaya), (IANS): National People's Party President Conrad K. Sangma on Thursday released the People's Document for Meghalaya at an election rally here. The "People's...

Solidarity action held for Irom Sharmila at Jantar Mantar

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By TCN News, New Delhi: In order to express deep respect for Irom Sharmila and to support the ongoing struggle for justice by civil society...

AAMSU to go on hunger strike for the BTAD violence victims

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: The All Assam Minority Students’ Union (AAMSU) has urged the state government to pay attention to the families of the riot victims in Bodoland Territorial Areas District (BTAD) or the students’ body will go on hunger strike after August 15.

Five killed in Tripura accident

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Agartala : Five people, including three young women, were killed and over 20 others injured when their van fell into a gorge in Tripura,...

Militants kill four policemen in Meghalaya

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Shillong : Four policemen were killed and two others injured in Meghalaya on Tuesday when tribal militants ambushed a police team in South Garo...

Garo rebels causing serious concern: Meghalaya governor

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Shillong : Meghalaya Governor K.K. Paul Friday expressed concern over the growing influence of the outlawed Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA), a rebel outfit,...

Minorities Commission kicks off awareness campaigns in remote areas of Manipur

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By Dr. Syed Ahmed for TwoCircles.net, Imphal: Manipur State Minorities Commission (MSMC) kicks off educational awareness campaign in the remote areas of the state. The first awareness camp was organized at Sangaiyumpham, a Muslim inhabited area of Thoubal district, on December 6, 2014.

Don’t harass tourists, tour operators tell northeast rebels

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Shillong : A confederation of tour operators in India's northeastern states Monday appealed to various rebel groups in the region not to harass tourists...

Condemning the massacre of Muslims in BTAD, AMU students organised peace march

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Aligarh: Students of the Aligarh Muslim University condemned the targeted killings of innocent Muslims of Bengali origin in the Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Districts (BTAD) of Assam. On Sunday the students of the University organised a peace-march and lighted candles in the campus.

Minority students’ body asks government to take action against fundamentalists in Assam

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: More than 500 All BTC Minority Students Union (ABMSU) on Thursday staged a demonstration against the anti-social elements who are trying to bring division in the society in the name of religion and slammed the state government for its failure in check the violence and illegal activities in the state that have increased in recent time.

Coverage of Covid-19 vaccination of tribals in Gujarat half of the state average

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Gujarat has managed to fully vaccinate only thirty-five percent of its nine million tribal population which is half the rate of vaccination coverage of...

Special status of northeast states must continue: Tripura CM

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By Sujit Chakraborty, Agartala : Cutting across political lines, chief ministers of eight northeastern states, ruled by Congress, Left and regional parties, have urged Prime...

Manipur’s second Lok Sabha seat votes Thursday

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Imphal : Eight candidates are in the fray in Thursday's poll to Manipur's second Lok Sabha constituency with issues like misgovernance, unemployment and drug...

Will Congress’ faith in dynastic politics save it in Dima Hasao?

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By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Haflong: Dima Hasao, the least populated district of Assam, goes to polls on April 4 and like most of the state,...

Manipur remembers Maulana Azad on National Education Day

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By Dr Syed Ahmed for TwoCircles.net, Imphal: Various government agencies and private bodies in Manipur observed the National Education Day, which commemorates the birth anniversary of the great freedom fighter, eminent educationist and India’s first Union Minister of Education Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.

Meghalaya to consult centre on Garo peace talks

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Shillong : Meghalaya will consult the central government to initiate peace talks with the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) rebel outfit, state Home Minister...

Soldier hurt in militant grenade attack in Assam

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Guwahati : A soldier was injured when suspected militants lobbed a grenade at an army camp in Assam's Chirang district, police said Friday. The incident...
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