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Muslim’s literary body organises annual meet at Imphal

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By Dr. Syed Ahmed for TwoCircles.net, Imphal: Writers’ Union, Manipur, a literary body of the Muslims in Manipur organized its 15th Annual Meet at Dave Literature Centre in D.M. College Campus, here on February 8. The function was graced by Maulana Mubarak Ali and Azrun Kabir as Chief Guest and President respectively. It was attended by members of the union, Muslim writers and representatives of different civil society organizations of the State.

What really happened in Dimapur?

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Anger against illegal Bangladeshi immigrants spills over to take rape accused person’s life By A Ghyasuddin, TwoCircles.net, A lot has been said by many but the fact remains that there was a serious breach of law and order by Nagaland government and the outcome was killing of an under trial rape accused in a most horrifying way for a modern world.

LS Poll 2014: Prospects of ten parties’ regional front in Northeast India

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By Syed Ali Mujtaba, Northeast India is one of the most neglected regions in the country. The reason being there are not enough MPs from there to make their voice felt in the Parliament. The attention of the central government is more towards containing the insurgency rather than focus on the development of the region.

Two killed in Meghalaya landslides

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Shillong : Two people were killed, three others injured and over 100 rendered homeless after torrential rains triggered landslides at various places across Meghalaya...

Poll staff airlifted, others trekking to remote Ladakh areas

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Leh (Jammu and Kashmir) : Polling parties and election materials were dispatched Sunday to six far-flung polling stations of Leh district in Jammu and...

NIA gets four-day custody of Bodo militants

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Guwahati : Three top Bodo militants, who were arrested from Nagaland capital Kohima, were Saturday produced in a court which sent them to four-day...

Assam’s rebel minister Himanta Biswa Sarma quits

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Guwahati : Assam's rebel minister Himanta Biswa Sarma Monday resigned from the state cabinet, saying it was not possible "mentally, physically and politically" to...

Jharkand’s Bamboo artisans experience livelihood crunch amid lockdown, worry for future of profession

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By Nazish Hussain, TwoCircles.net Jaggarnath Mahli of Hesal village, situated 20 kilometres from Ranchi city, makes bamboo articles for a living. Due to the coronavirus...

No mandatory arrest for offences under SC/ST Act, says SC

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New Delhi, (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that the arrest of a accused under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of...

These Tribes in India celebrate Liberation Day not Independence Day

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By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net As many as 150 tribes across India observe 31st August as ‘ Liberation Day’ or ‘Vimukti Divas’ because it was on...

Replica gun stolen from Agartala war memorial

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Agartala : A replica gun placed in a war memorial in Agartala, Tripura, has been stolen, police said on Thursday. The war memorial is situated...

Three big signing for NorthEast United

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Shillong : NorthEast United Football Club Wednesday announced the signing of Portuguese defender Miguel Garcia, Zambian midfielder Kondwani Mtonga and Greek goalkeeper Alexandros Tzvoras...

Non-tribal residents of Ranchi facing eviction from homes

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Ranchi : More than a lakh non-tribal residents of Ranchi district in Jharkhand are set to lose their homes if an administrative order to...

Urgent need to tackle floods, erosion, Gogoi tells Uma Bharti

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Guwahati : Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has urged Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti to expedite the constitution of the Brahmaputra River Valley...

Assam a Muslim populous state with under-representation of Muslims

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By Wahidul Islam for TwoCircles.net, Amidst the paranoia and degrading level of politics, Muslims have always been most vulnerable and politically exploited section of the...

BJP loses assembly by-election in Nagaland

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Kohima : The BJP Monday lost the assembly by-election to its coalition partner Naga People's Front (NPF) candidate in Nagaland. Neiphrezo Keditsu, the NPF candidate...

Three-day conference on “Tribal situation in India” starts at the Indira Gandhi National Tribal...

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter Amarkantak (Madhya Pradesh): On Monday, January 29, the 47th Annual Conference of the Indian Anthropological Society on the theme ‘Tribal Situation...

Schedule Tribe across Tamil Nadu except for one district: The curious case of Erode...

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By Amit Kumar, Twocircles.net Erode: Some refer to it as a bureaucratic mistake, while others blame it to caste politics, yet for 30,000 people of...

Passport Seva Kendra opened at Imphal

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The office would also benefit Muslims preparing to perform hajj By Dr Syed Ahmed for TwoCircles.net, Imphal: Opening of a passport office at Imphal is a dream comes true for the people of the state, said Chief Minister O Ibobi while inaugurating the office of Passport Seva Kendra here. The function, organised by the Union Ministry of External Affairs on March 31, was attended by Gaikhangam, deputy chief minister; Thangso Baite, Lok Sabha MP; Haji Abdul Salam, Rajya Sabha MP; P C Lawmkunga, chief secretary; Mukesh K Pardeshi, joint secretary of Ministry of External Affairs, and Ajungla Jamir, Guwahati Regional Passport officer.

Militant camp busted in Meghalaya

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By IANS, Shillong : A hideout of the United A'chik Liberation Army (UALA) was Tuesday busted in Meghalaya's insurgency-hit Garo Hills, police said. "We busted a...

BJP team to visit Tripura

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Agartala : A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) team will visit Tripura next week to look into the alleged political violence in the Left-ruled state,...

Maid’s decomposed body found in army colonel’s house

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Guwahati : The highly decomposed body of a maid was on Thursday recovered from the servants' quarter of an army Colonel in Assam's Jorhat...

Troopers to watch over Tripura by-poll Saturday

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Agartala : A contingent of security personnel has been deployed for the Manu assembly by-poll in Tripura Saturday, an official said here Friday. "An adequate...

No question of dividing Tripura: Chief minister

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Agartala : Tripura's Left Front government would not allow any attempt to divide the northeastern state, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said here Monday, asserting...

PM to vote in Assam

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Guwahati : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is among the over nine million people who are eligible to vote Thursday for Assam's six Lok Sabha...

Nepal quake: Assam forms special team to help victims

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Guwahati : Days after the devastating earthquake in Nepal, Assam on Wednesday set up a special disaster management team for extending services to the...

Cooch Behar tribal women to float new handicrafts company

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Kolkata : A hundred tribal women in the district of Cooch Behar in West Bengal are gearing up to float a new company next...

RJD to protest withholding caste Census data: Lalu

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Patna: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad on Sunday announced that his party would compel the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government to make...

छत्तीसगढ़: पुलिस ने 17 आदिवासियों को मारकर नक्सली मुठभेड़ की झूठी कहानी रची

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By अनुज श्रीवास्तव, TwoCircles.net साल 2012. मुख्यमंत्री रमनसिंह के नेतृत्व में छत्तीसगढ़ में भाजपा की सरकार थी. बीजापुर ज़िले के सारकेगुड़ा गाँव में 28-29 जून...

Tribal groups aghast with no mention of relief for Adivasis in PM’s Atma-Nirbhar Bharat

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TCN News Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced an economic package of Rs. 20 lakh crores for a “self-reliant” India on Tuesday with no mention of...

Crime going up in Assam, says minister

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Guwahati : The number of those killed in Assam has been steadily increasing, from 1,321 in 2011, to 1,368 in 2012 and 1,383 in...

PDP seeks governor’s intervention on ‘ignored areas’

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By IANS, Jammu : Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Wednesday appealed to Governor N.N. Vohra to intervene for creating new administrative units in areas ignored...

Northeast is India’s economic corridor: Jitender Singh

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New Delhi : Describing the northeast as the "economic corridor of India", Minister of State for Development of the Northeastern Region (DoNER) Jitendra Singh...

More buses to ply in Maoist-hit Odisha districts

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Bhubaneswar : The Odisha government has decided to ply 30 more buses in the tribal-dominated and Maoist-affected districts to improve transport connectivity, an official...

Seven die in Madhya Pradesh heat wave

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Seoni (Madhya Pradesh) : At least seven people have died and about 110 have taken ill due to the intense heat wave in Seoni...

1,000-hour bandh in Assam districts lifted

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Guwahati : A 1,000-hour bandh in Assam's Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao districts demanding an autonomous state was Friday lifted following an assurance from...

Northeast India gets its first solar power plant

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By Sujit Chakraborty, Monarchak (Tripura) : North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) has commissioned a five-MW solar power plant at Monarchak in Tripura, which will...

35 percent polling for Manipur’s second LS seat

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Imphal: About 35 percent of electors cast their ballot till Thursday noon as voting took place for the second Lok Sabha seat from Manipur,...

Woman separatist leader held in Srinagar

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By IANS, Srinagar : Chief of Kashmiri separatist women group Dukhtaran-e-Milat (Daughters of Faith), Asiya Andrabi was arrested Friday during anti-Valentine's Day protest here. Andrabi was...

Tribal boys in Wayanad under POCSO threat

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By Shafeeq Hudawi Kozhikode: Babu, a 21-year-old from the Paniya community, came out of jail in March after spending close to three months in jail....

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.

Asia Pacific Journalist body expresses shock at self-immolation in Guwahati

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: Asia-Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists (APFEJ) has expressed deep shock and sorrow at the self-immolation of a Guwahati city dweller demanding land-settlement and urged the authority to initiate due consultations to resolve the issue amicably.

Independence Day celebrated in Mizoram

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Aizawl : The 68th Independence Day was celebrated in Mizoram Friday with Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla unfurling the national flag at the Assam Rifles...

People in Assam clash with security forces over alleged rape

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Diphu (Assam) : Several people, including policemen, were injured in Assam on Friday when a group of people clashed with security forces while protesting...

Assam CM’s son files nomination

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Guwahati : Assam Chief Minister's son Gourav Gogoi Wednesday filed his nomination papers to contest the Lok Sabha election from Kaliabor near Tezpur. Gourav Gogoi...

Kashmir governor’s address to legislature disrupted

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By IANS, Jammu : There was chaos on the first day of the Jammu and Kashmir legislature's budget session Monday as opposition members disrupted Governor...

Bengal animal house to serve east, northeast India

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Kolkata : The Bose Institute's state-of-the-art animal house and research facility is set to supply strains of small laboratory animals for research to the...

Irom Sharmila not allowed to vote in Manipur

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Imphal: Human rights activist Irom Sharmila Chanu, who has been on a fast for 13 years against a special, stringent anti-terror act in Manipur,...

Congress chief writes to Assam CM on NCERT syllabus

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Guwahati : Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has directed the Assam government to be ready to make representations to the centre to ensure that changes...

Just 10 percent voting in Kashmir’s Udhampur

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Udhampur: Balloting was sluggish in this Lok Sabha constgituency in Jammu and Kashmir Thursday, with just 10 percent votes cast in the six districts...

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...

Tribal varsity aims to mainstream tribal youth: President

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Amarkantak (Madhya Pradesh), (IANS): President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday said the aim of the Indira Gandhi National Tribal University is to help tribal youth...

NGT upholds coal mining ban, lets mined pile to be carried

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Shillong : The National Green Tribunal Tuesday upheld its ban on coal mining in Meghalaya, but relaxed the guidelines for transportation of 6.3 million...

Poll code partly relaxed in some states

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Agartala : The model code of conduct has been slightly relaxed in those states where polling has been completed, an official said here Wednesday. "Ministers...

Manipur development project spells doom for 11 villages, 12,000 people

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By Azera Parveen Rahman Imphal: One person's manna is another person's poison. This adage couldn't ring more true for the people of Manipur whose fate...

Militant involved in Assam attacks gunned down

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Guwahati : A militant involved in the Dec 23 massacre in Assam's Kokrajhar district was Saturday gunned down by security forces, a day after...

Himachal Pradesh: Is incompatible development damaging the state’s ecology, leading to natural calamities?

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Several reports and statements by the local organizations, scholars, and activists have time and again warned against the impracticability of making large-scale hydropower projects...

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...

Know the law: How to get bails

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By Avani Bansal for TwoCircles.net -- Advocate Avani Bansal is currently a student doing Masters at Harvard Law School . She pursued MPhil in Law at...

Four killed, 27 injured in Meghalaya storm

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Shillong: Four people, including a six-month-old baby, were killed and at least 27 others injured in a cyclonic storm in Meghalaya's West Khasi Hills...

Congress condemns Assam violence, blames BJP for ‘communal agenda’

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New Delhi : The Congress Saturday condemned the violence in Assam and blamed the BJP and its leader Narendra Modi for creating a "communal...

Assam youth feel development can bring solution to every problem

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: When it comes to the issues for fighting elections for the political parties, it can be vary which are often politically motivated to influence the emotion of the people in various ways but what really people expect from these political parties hardly given the due importance.

India needs anti-racist law: CPI-M

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By IANS, New Delhi : The CPI-M Wednesday asked the government to unveil an anti-racist law to curb attacks similar to those on people from...

Andhra rice starts reaching Tripura via Bangladesh

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Agartala : The second consignment of 5,000 tonnes of rice ferried in three small ships from Visakhapatnam port in Andhra Pradesh started arriving in...

Pakistan to resume cross-border trade in Kashmir

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By IANS, Islamabad : Pakistan said Thursday it has decided to resume cross-border trade in Kashmir after weeks of suspension over the arrest of a...

Mission Bhartiyam condemns the expulsion of Kashmiri students over cheering for Pak cricket team

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Mission Bhartiyam, has condemned the expulsion of 60 Kashmiri students from a University in Meerut over what has been termed as “anti-national” support to the Pakistani cricket team.

Manipur’s first Chief Minister Md Alimuddin remembered

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By Dr Syed Ahmed for TwoCircles.net, Imphal: Md Alimuddin, the first Chief Minister of Manipur after it attained statehood, was remembered on the 42nd foundation day of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Centre, which later developed into Manipur University (MU).

One killed in landslide in Jammu region

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Jammu : One woman was killed and three others seriously injured in a landslide triggered by heavy rainfall in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district...

No swine flu in Tripura, girl tests positive in Nagaland

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Agartala/Kohima : There has been no case of swine flu so far in Tripura, but the state is on full alert to deal with...

Portable water contamination sensor developed

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: Two Assam Don Bosco University Researchers of the Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) Department at Don Bosco College of Engineering and Technology (DBCET) have developed an on-the-spot water contamination sensor that can assess whether the amount of metal ions present in water is in the range that is safe for human consumption.

Birsa Munda and Eklavya remembered and celebrated at Jalgaon

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By Imran Inamdar, TwoCircles.net Jalgaon (Maharashtra) On the occasion of "World indigenous Day "(Jagatik Adivasi Diwas) on 9th August as many as seven thousand Adivasi activists...

Tribal Affairs Ministry gets Rs 5,329 crore in Budget

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New Delhi, (IANS) : The Tribal Affairs Ministry has been allocated Rs 5,329 crore -- almost 10 per cent more than the previous year --...

Congress makes false promises: Modi

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Itanagar : BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Monday accused the Congress of making false promises to the people. Addressing an election rally here, Modi...

Report exposes ‘roots of atrocities’ against Muslims in Assam

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Report by Indo-American group IAMC shows repeated episodes of mass violence since 1993 were planned and politically motivated, urges action to prevent ethnic cleansing. By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), an advocacy group based in the United States, has released a report that exposes the roots of the mass violence in Assam in 2012 and 2014, in which hundreds of lives have been lost and over a half million people were displaced.

Rio quits, Zeliang to be new Nagaland CM

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Kohima : Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio has submitted his resignation to Governor Ashwani Kumar after his election to the Lok Sabha. He will...

PDP legislator apologises for slapping marshal

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By IANS, Jammu : A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) legislator who slapped a Jammu and Kashmir assembly marshal Wednesday apologised in the house Thursday. Syed Bashir,...

Srinagar curfew continues for third day

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Srinagar : Curfew continued for the third day in seven areas of Jammu and Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar Saturday though public transport ran and...

Muslims of BTAD are exiled in their own land post 2012 riots

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By Nilim Dutta, N 26˚ 30’ 10.4” E 90˚ 01’ 24.9” If one types in the above location coordinates into the ‘search’ in Google Earth, it immediately takes one to the image of an empty field somewhere in Gossaigaon Revenue Circle of Kokrajhar District, one of the four Districts in the Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD) of Assam, in the satellite topographic imagery dated 3 May 2010.

Awareness on birth control in Assam’s Hailakandi

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: For Doctor Ilias Ali, it was a major step taken in the right direction as he addressed the second...

Cow Slaughter, Beef Ban: The Lackluster Obsessions of Assam CM

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Sandipan Talukdar, TwoCircles.net Mohen Morang’s family owns over 80 buffaloes and 50 cows in their cattle shed near Bamun Chapori, located in the Golaghat district...

Assam seeks central help for skill development centres

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Guwahati : Assam has approached the union government for support for setting up skill development centres across the state to increase employability of the...

National Commission for Scheduled Tribes issues notice to BHU over faulty recruitment process

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By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net Taking note of the several wrongful recruitments done at the Banaras Hindu University on posts reserved for schedule castes, schedule tribes,...

Tripura to arrange for Modi’s Teachers’ Day address

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Agartala : The Left Front government in Tripura would make arrangements so that school students can listen to the live telecast of Prime Minister...

Assamese student beaten up by Delhi college mates

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New Delhi : A 21-year-old Delhi University undergraduate hailing from Assam was Tuesday beaten up by his fellow students inside the college canteen over...

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.

Adivasi girl branded ‘mentally ill’ for speaking against discrimination finally allowed to continue her...

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By Twocircles.net Staff Reporter Thiruvananthapuram: After suffering for many months, Athira, a tribal student of College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram (CET), is finally upbeat, and for...

Northeast people to light candles to honour Modi

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Guwahati : Thousands of people from the northeast will light candles in their homes and offices across the country to show their respect for...

Maharashtra governor transferred

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New Delhi : K. Sankaranarayanan, the governor of Maharashtra, was Sunday transferred and appointed as the Mizoram governor for the remainder of his term,...

Two-thirds of Jammu electorate vote by 3 p.m.

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Jammu : Two-thirds of the electorate had exercised their franchise by 3 p.m. Thursday for the Jammu Lok Sabha seat even as queues could...

How quotas help disadvantaged-caste students get higher education

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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...

NDFB militants massacre 11 in Assam’s BTAD; scared villagers flee to safer places

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: Hundreds of villagers of Assam’s Bodoland Territorial District (BTAD) have started fleeing for safer places after armed militants of anti-talks faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) fired indiscriminately killing at least 11 villagers including two children.

Rajnath Singh announces Rs 674 cr for Assam

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Assam CM submits memorandum seeking more central assistance. By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: In view of the large scale devastation due to unprecedented floods in Assam, the Centre on Wednesday announced to release Rs 674 crore for Assam’s State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) for 2014-15.

Bengal governor takes charge of Meghalaya, says won’t talk politics

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Shillong : West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi, who Tuesday took additional charge of Meghalaya, said he does not talk politics in Bengal and...

Guwahati youth’s effort to make students read valuable books

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: He must get a pat on his back for his enormous effort that too done single-handedly to bring a change among the students. He is Imran Hussain of Guwahati who has initiated to install the reading culture among the youths of the region with his dream project called Bibliophilia Café.

Trinamool announces candidates from Manipur, Tripura and Jharkhand

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Kolkata : Trinamool Congress Wednesday announced its six candidates for the northeastern states of Tripura and Manipur and the eastern state of Jharkhand. In Tripura,...

Sushma Swaraj’s helicopter fails to land in Shillong

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Shillong : The helicopter in which External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was travelling in Meghalaya Friday failed to land here due to poor visibility,...

Dimapur lynching raised in Rajya Sabha

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ArrayNew Delhi : The lynching of a rape accused in Nagaland's Dimapur town was raised in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday with MPs questioning...

आदिवासी बच्चों को उनकी जड़ों से अलग करते बस्तर के ये स्कूल

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net दंतेवाड़ा/सुकमा (छत्तीसगढ़) : बस्तर में चल रहे स्कूल ज्ञान के केंद्र होने के बजाय अज्ञान के कीड़े साबित होते जा रहे...

CPI-M to protest against MGNREGA fund cuts

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Agartala : The CPI-M will organise demonstrations across the country, including at parliament house in New Delhi Nov 26, to protest against the curtailment...

Mission Indradhanush launched in northeastern states

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Agartala : The Mission Indradhanush, an immunisation programme, was launched on Tuesday in 33 districts of northeastern states to vaccinate children by 2020, an...

Chakma tribals observe ‘black day’

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Agartala : Around 7.5 lakh Chakma tribals observed a 'black day' on Wednesday to protest the occupation of their original homeland in the Chittagong...

Ajmal Foundation’s talent search for 2015 held

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By TCN News, Guwahati: 70,856 students across seven North Eastern states of India and West Bengal took the prestigious Ajmal National Talent Search Examination (ANTSE) 2015 held across 1,089 exam centres in the region on Sunday, and a good performance in it could change their life in more ways than one. The ANTSE had assumed significance as a popular talent search examination in the North East India to start with and now its reach is spreading beyond the region while the aim is to cover all of India in the near future, a press statement by Ajmal Foundation said.

Dalits and Tribals call for Bharat Band on March 5

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TCN News Tribals and Dalits have called for a nation wide bandh tomorrow march 5th, 2019, Tuesday to protest the SC order for eviction of...

A lot rides on Manik Sarkar as Tripura goes to polls

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By Sujit Chakraborty, Agartala : Tripura, the country's last red stronghold, goes to the polls Monday and a lot is riding on Chief Minister Manik...

Militant killed in Kashmir gunfight

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By IANS, Srinagar : One separatist guerrilla was killed Sunday in a gunfight between security forces and militants in north Kashmir's Baramulla district, an official...

11 dead, 32 wounded in Kashmir accident

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By IANS, Jammu : At least 11 people were killed and 32 others injured Sunday when an overloaded mini bus fell into a deep gorge...

Rs.124.04 bn tax-free deficit budget in Tripura

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By IANS, Agartala : Tripura Finance Minister Badal Chaudhury Wednesday presented a Rs.124.04 billion tax-free budget with a deficit of Rs.1.58 billion for the 2014-15...

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...

Boycott separatist militants on Independence Day: Journalists’ Forum Assam

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) has urged the people of northeast India to defy separatist militants’ diktat on celebrating the Independence Day (I-Day) with. The scribe’ body argues that every patriotic Indian should observe the I-Day (and also the Republic Day) to pay their heartiest tributes to the known & unknown martyrs of India’s freedom movement for their supreme sacrifices.

Kejriwal invokes Vemula, laments atrocities against Dalits, tribals

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Panaji : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday invoked the suicide of Rohith Vemula while lamenting atrocities against Dalits and tribals, especially in...

Separatists protest in Srinagar over ‘judicial double standards’

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By IANS, Srinagar : Separatist activists of the Hurriyat group headed by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Wednesday staged a protest here alleging the "double standards of...

APCR condemns ‘complicit role of state’ in Father Stan Swamy’s death

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In a statement the Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) said the UAPA and other draconian laws must be immediately repealed to end...

Dimapur lynching: SIO West Bengal team demands high level inquiry

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SIO team meets Nagaland Dy Resident Commissioner at Kolkata By TCN News, New Delhi: A delegation of the West Bengal unit of Students Islamic Organisation (SIO) met Nagaland deputy Resident Commissioner here on the ongoing burning issue of brutal lynching to death in Dimapur a person suspected by Nagas to have raped a Naga girl.

Adivasis have protected the forest and the next generation of people says Neetisha Xalxo

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Text and video by Atul Anand, TwoCircles.net On February 28, 2019, Birsa Ambedkar Phule Student’s Association (BAPSA) at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi organized a...

Tripura militant outfit to hold talks with governments

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Agartala : Militant outfit National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) will hold tripartite talks with the central and Tripura governments in Shillong on April...

Praveen Togadia’s remark urging Hindus to have 4 wives draws ire in Assam

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By Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net, Guwahati: The statement of Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s (VHP) international working president Praveen Togadia has drawn sharp reactions from all sections in Assam. During his visit to Assam, Togadia asked all the Hindu men to marry four wives.

Crime rate declines in Tripura by 18 percent

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Agartala : Tripura witnessed a substantial 18 percent reduction in overall crime, including crime against women, during the past one year, it was announced...

Swine flu alert in northeast India, two women test positive

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Agartala/Aizawl/Imphal : The northeastern states have sounded a high alert to prevent the spread of swine flu in the bordering region even as two...

Arunachal, Varanasi to get NDRF battalions: Rijiju

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Guwahati : Two new battalions of the National Disater Response Force (NDRF) will be set up in Arunachal Pradesh and in Varanasi, the Lok...

India initiates work to link Northeast with Bangladesh port

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By Sujit Chakraborty, Agartala : India has taken the first steps to construct a Rs.70 crore ($11.5 million) bridge over the Feni river in Tripura...

Disarm Bodo militants to end mass violence in Assam, urge Indian Americans

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IAMC condemns killing of Adivasis, reiterates recommendations made in its recent report on ethnic violence in Assam. By TCN News, Washington DC: The Indian American Muslim Council ( IAMC ), a US based advocacy group, has condemned the brutal violence in Assam during the last one week, leading to the brutal killing of 76 people, burning of houses and the displacement of hundreds of others.

Stars of North-East donate blankets to homeless in Guwahati

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By TCN News GUWAHATI : The 'Stars of North East' (SoNE) undertook a blanket distribution project targeting the poor of Guwahati on Friday night....

वीडियो रिपोर्ट : अब वन गुर्जरों की जंगल से ज़मीन की और जाने की...

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आसमोहम्मद कैफ़। Twocircles.net हिमाचल ,उत्तराखंड और उत्तर प्रदेश की शिवालिक रेंज में लाखों वन गुर्जर रहते हैं वो पशुपालन करते हैं और दूध को बाजार...

‘Revert to Be Buried’: In Chhattisgarh, Even Death Offers Tribal Christians No Escape From...

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Poonam Masih, TwoCircles.net Jagdalpur (Chhattisgarh): “What could I do? There was immense pressure on me to do ghar wapsi (homecoming or return to Hinduism). If...

Judicial probe ordered into Dimapur lynching; DC, SP suspended

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Dimapur (Nagaland) : The Nagaland government Friday ordered a judicial probe into Thursday's incident of a mob breaking into the high-security central jail here...

Jaitley announces packages for SCs, STs

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New Delhi : Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Thursday announced a mix of welfare plans and financial allocations to uplift people belonging to the scheduled...

Release jailed chairman for peace talks: Meghalaya outfit

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By IANS, Shillong : The Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA), a rebel outfit in Meghalaya, Monday said it was ready for peace talks provided...

New FM channels for northeast region

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Agartala : New FM radio channels will be set up in five towns of northeastern states along the Bangladesh border to reach out to...

PDP complains to poll panel against Kashmiri minister

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Srinagar : Jammu and Kashmir's Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Sunday lodged a complaint with Election Commission against Social Welfare Minister Sakina Itoo, of the...

The youth of Manipur has the potential to inspire the whole nation, says PM...

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By Dr. Syed Ahmed, for TwoCircles.net, Imphal: Addressing a gathering Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the youth of Manipur has the potential to inspire the whole nation with their excellence in sports so they should be rescued from the menace of drugs. Referring to the issue of unemployment in the North-Eastern states, he expressed that the whole North-Eastern region has the prospects to emerge as a hub of call centres.

4 children in Assam orphaned due to flood, will move to ‘Children’s village’

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: Though it was gloomy all around for the four ill-fated children of Boko in Kamrup district of Assam who lost their parents due to the devastating floods will, now they can expect a new dawn in the midst of crisis. All Thanks to the state government for taking their responsibility.

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...

Over 15 lakh vote in Assam’s Bodo council polls

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Guwahati : Over 15 lakh people on Wednesday cast their votes in elections to the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) in four Bodo-majority districts in...

Manipur records 74 percent polling

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Imphal : Around 74 percent of the 874,000 voters cast their ballot Thursday for the second Lok Sabha seat in Manipur, officials said. An Election...

Tripura cop suspended after assault on BJP leaders

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Agartala : A police sub-inspector, tasked with providing security to Tripura BJP leaders, was suspended for negligence of duty after they were allegedly assaulted...

Malkangiri: Who is responsible for deaths of more than 120 Adivasi children?

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By Akash Poyam for Adivasi Resurgence Up until now, Japanese Encephelitis (JE) has caused more than 120 deaths (Official numbers, real deaths could be...

Lot needs to be done on roads in northeast: Minister

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New Delhi : Admitting that India is much behind China in building roads along the border areas in the northeast, DoNER Minister Gen V.K....

A conversation with GN Saibaba’s wife AS Vasantha Kumari

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In a conversation with TwoCircles.net, the wife of jailed scholar-activist GN Saibaba AS Vasantha Kumari talks about his new book, the situation of prisoners...

सोनी सोरी पर पुलिस द्वारा हमले की कोशिश

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TCN News बस्तर: आज छत्तीसगढ़ के आदिवासी मानवाधिकारों के लिए संघर्ष कर रही सोनी सोरी पर पुलिस ने हमले की कोशिश की है. जब यह...

Compensation only after long battle by acid attack victim in Assam

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: The state authorities of Assam have ordered compensation for the acid victims following an urgent appeal by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) for immediate intervention and financial assistance to a survivor of acid attack as per the guidelines issued by the Supreme Court of India in 2013.

Will my valley remain green? Many Kashmiris wonder

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By Sheikh Qayoom, Srinagar : As the Kashmir countryside turns lush green with the paddy growing season, one wonders whether the farmers' greed for wealth...

Kidnapped SBI official in Meghalaya still untraced

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Shillong : The whereabouts of a State Bank of India (SBI) official kidnapped by militants eight days ago are still not known, while 42...

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...

Tribals protest in Ahmedabad demanding implementation of FRA, MNREGA

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Ahmedabad, Feb 12 (IANS) Hundreds of tribals from six districts of Gujarat gathered here at the Sabarmati riverfront and took out a rally demanding...

Amendements in mines bill will help tribals: Government

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New Delhi : The government said on Friday that tribals will benefit from the mines act that parliament passed on Friday with two amendments...

Delhi Police’s new FB, Twitter pages for northeast people

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By Alok Singh, IANS, New Delhi : Faced with criticism over its perceived lack of sensitivity and outreach to the northeast community in the capital,...

Tribal votes a key factor in Assam polls

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By Amitava Mukherjee Both the BJP-led alliance and the Congress have left no stone unturned in securing tribal votes which may turn out to be...

Manipuri man’s killing: another attacker sent to police custody

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New Delhi : A Delhi court Wednesday sent another youth, arrested in connection with the killing of a 29-year-old Manipuri BPO employee, to one...

North-East students bag four medals at AFMI convention in Kerala

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: A total of 122 rank holder students of class X and XII board examinations belonging to the minority communities drawn from 22 states of India received gold, silver and bronze medals at the 23rd Annual International Convention on Education organised by the American Federation of Muslims of Indian Origin (AFMI).

Tripura parties oppose demand for separate state by tribals

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Agartala, (IANS): Tripura's ruling CPI-M on Friday accused the BJP of "instigating" a tribal party to hold a rail and road blockade from July...