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One killed, four injured in Leh blast

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Srinagar : One person was killed and four injured in Jammu and Kashmir's Leh town when a shell went off while labourers were collecting...

Tripura power projects capacity to be augmented

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Agartala : The generation capacity of three power plants in Tripura will be augmented by 62 MW without increasing fuel consumption, an official said...

Police officer killed in Assam gun battle

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Guwahati : A superintendent of police and his personnel security officer were killed in a gun battle with militants in Assam's Karbi Anglong district,...

Muslims at bottom of higher education ladder, alongside backward tribes

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By Charu Bahri Despite almost trebling in the decade ending 2010 -- from 5.2 per cent to 13.8 percent -- the rate of Muslim enrolment...

Good gestures keep the lost hope alive in relief camps in Assam

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: Scores of Adivasis from several districts of Assam hit by militant violence were forced to take shelter in different relief camps. With the chilling winter and lack of proper food, clothing and even medicines, the people living in such camps are undergoing horrible time.

Shutdown paralyses life in Manipur

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Imphal : A 38-hour shutdown which began early on Friday, paralysed normal life across Manipur. The shutdown has been called by activists pressing for the...

Assam athlete falls victim to witch hunting, survives

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Guwahati : An athlete, who brought laurels to Assam in the past, fell victim early this week to witch hunting in Karbi Anglong district...

दिल्ली की मलिन बस्तियों में रहने वाली इन लड़कियों के लिए शिक्षा भेदभाव से...

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सुप्रकाश मजूमदार । Twocircles.net सुबह उठ कर जानकी सबसे पहले खाना बनाने में अपनी माँ की मदद करती है। चूल्हा के पास, धुएं से खुद...

J&K withdraws red beacons for top officials

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By IANS, Jammu : The Jammu and Kashmir government Wednesday forbade the use of red beacons on the official vehicles of the chief secretary, the...

Hope against hope for BTAD riot victims in Assam rendered homeless

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: Wahidur Rahman, a petty businessman who used to deal in books has faith in democracy but he is finding it tough to live his life in the relief camps for more than a year. Wahidur who hails from remotest part of Dhubri district’s Gauripur of Assam has been stuck in relief camps along with his family members one after another.

Equality, diversity, inclusion: a new concept of future museums

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Dr Fatma Faheem Every year on 18 May since 1977, the International Museum Day is observed to raise awareness among people about museums, which are...

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...

Eid-ul-Adha celebrated in Manipur

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By Dr. Syed Ahmed for TwoCircles.net, Imphal: Prayers and greetings marked the Eid-ul-Adha celebrations by the Muslims in Manipur today. In the Imphal city, Muslims performed the Eid Namaz in the mosques. Muslim males, clad in kurta-pyjama, were seen in large number in the early morning performing namaz at some of the prominent mosques, like Sadr Bazar Jame Majid, at Imphal main market, Jame Masjid at Hafiz Hatta, Jame Masjid at Golapati, etc.

Learning from Meghalaya village to keep India clean

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By Raymond Kharmujai, Mawlynnong (Meghalaya) : If Indians want to make their country a clean and healthy place, then they should learn from the Khasi...

परमाणु ऊर्जा के खिलाफ चुटका में संघर्ष जारी

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TCN News जबलपुर: कल तारीख 31 मई 2015 को चुटका परमाणु बिजली परियोजना के खिलाफ चुटका में हुई स्थानीय लोगों की विरोध सभा में...

Poll official in Assam who cannot vote as he is D voter

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Barpeta: Most unexpected things often happen in India and the elections are also no exception from it. Like many others one Sahjahan Kaji of Assam’s Barpeta is also branded as a Doubtful voter or D voter for his ‘doubtful identity’ as an Indian citizen and he has been barred from voting since 1997.

Left parties sweep Tripura panchayat polls

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Agartala : Further consolidating its rural stronghold, Tripura's ruling Left Front, led by the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), Saturday won a landslide in...

Educational development seminar for minority students held in Guwahati

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: About 40 meritorious students from different parts of the Northeast region who participated in the Educational Development Seminar (EDS) in Guwahati have expressed great satisfaction. The seminar attended a host of prominent personalities came to an end on Sunday.

BJP to woo Dalits, farmers; Modi urges workers to focus on development

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New Delhi : The two-day BJP national executive meeting concluded here on Sunday with the ruling party drawing up a roadmap on making development...

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...

Anti-terror convention in Assam by Jamiat

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By TwoCircles.net staff Reporter, Guwahati: Even as the protests are going on across Assam against the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) for its alleged involvement with Islamic fundamentalist, the party is looking for an investigation from the union home ministry.

In a first, two seats reserved for ST candidates in upcoming UP elections

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By Faisal Fareed, Twocircles.net For the first time in Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, two assembly seats—Obra and Dudhi in Sonbhadra district have been reserved for...

Dalit, tribals can perform as good as others: PM

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Noida : People from the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes will perform as well as others if they are given the opportunity, Prime Minister...

Centre to promote tourism in tribal circuit of Chhattisgarh

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New Delhi : Union Tourism Minister Mahesh Sharma on Wednesday said the central government will assist in the development of a tribal circuit...

Criminal tracking network being set up in Tripura

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Agartala : A Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System (CCTNS) is being set up in Tripura as part of a nation-wide project to keep...

टीसीएन स्पेशल : मुश्किल है शिवालिक की पहाड़ियों में बसे वन गुर्जरो को...

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आसमोहम्मद कैफ।Twocircles.net स्थान - उत्तर प्रदेश - उत्तराखण्ड सीमा , मोह्नन्द , देहरादून मार्ग,शिवालिक रेंज शिवालिक क्षेत्र की पहाड़ियों पर बसे हुए इन...

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...

Mizoram governor takes charge of Tripura Sunday

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Agartala : Mizoram Governor Vakkom Purushothaman will take additional charge of Tripura Sunday, officials said Friday. President Pranab Mukherjee has appointed Purushothaman to discharge the...

TCN Interview: “My purpose as a filmmaker is to bring stories of marginalised into...

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In this interview with TwoCircles.net, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Somnath Waghmare talks about the production of films and the social landscape that constitutes film-making...

Join hands for a better tomorrow: President to Manipuri youth

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Canchipur (Manipur) : Asserting that societies flourish only in an "atmosphere free from violence", President Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday asked the youth from Manipur to...

Two policeman killed in Kashmir firing

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Srinagar : Two policeman were killed in Jammu and Kashmir Monday when militants fired at a vehicle transporting food for police personnel, officials said. The...

India’s space odyssey, slice of Nagaland: Durga puja variety

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By Sahana Ghosh, Kolkata : Twinkling rockets zooming off into space towards a reddish Mars, tribals keeping alive the unique iron craft in the backdrop...

Tribals allege harassment by anti-poaching guards near Kaziranga National Park

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By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Bokakhat: Residents of Agoratoli village, located on the outskirts of the Kaziranga National Park (Eastern Range) have alleged harassment and intimidation...

Enthusiastic independent candidates in northeast poll fray

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By Ninglun Hanghal, Imphal : A large number of independent candidates are in the poll fray in the northeast, with half of the aspirants in...

Beef, pork, and elections: A subjective commentary

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By Yogesh Maitreya for TwoCircles.net, The political ground in India has always been caste-ridden. Candidates, who claim to play politics excluding these fundamental factors of sociology of India, only put voters in complete oblivion where voters are being lift up from their ground level identity and persuade to imagine their space in candidate’s utopian story-telling about changes, the changes which are mostly caste based matters to which utopian language wipes with its lucrative tongue.

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...

Leela Santhosh: Kerala’s first Adivasi filmmaker who wants to tell the real stories of...

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By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net Kerala is often presented as one of the most equitable states in the nation; a state where (at least relatively) your...

Modi, BJP draw flak in Assam over Land Swap Deal with B’desh

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: Reacting strongly over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement over the Land Swap Deal with Bangladesh, political parties and other organizations in the state have termed the Prime Minister nothing short of ‘enemy of Assam’.

In Bastar, state violence is not an aberration, but a norm

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By Rajaraman Sunderasan for Twocircles.net, Between the theaters of war, the tribal population of the Bastar district of Chhattisgarh is under severe repression of the...

Why are Jharkhand’s tribals demanding a separate religious code?

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The fight for the Sarna Adivasi religious code is quite old. On November 11, 2020, Jharkhand Assembly passed a resolution asking for a separate...

EC probing BJP’s ‘communal party’ tag in Tripura school books

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Agartala : The Election Commission of India is probing the BJP being tagged a "communal party" in the textbooks of government schools in Left-ruled...

Meghalaya to count votes under CCTV surveillance

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Shillong : Counting of votes for Meghalaya's two Lok Sabha seats will be done under CCTV surveillance, an election official said Wednesday. Over 69 percent...

Tripura gets new chief secretary

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Agartala : G. Kameswara Rao Thursday took over as new chief secretary of Tripura. He succeeded Sanjay Kumar Panda, who will join the central government...

When peace hopes gave way to despair in Assam, Nagaland

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By Rupesh Dutta New Delhi : Amid renewed incidents of violence, the year 2016 proved that peace in Nagaland and Assam will remain...

Kargil freezes at -17, rain, snow forecast in Kashmir

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By IANS, Srinagar : Ladakh's Kargil town was the coldest place in Jammu and Kashmir at minus 16.8 degrees Thursday and Kashmir Valley is expected...

EC to hold ‘wake up’ campaign in Jammu

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By IANS, Jammu: The Election Commission Saturday announced the "Wake up Jammu" campaign in an effort to increase voter participation in the Lok Sabha elections. In...

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...

One killed, over 25 injured in Assam blast

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Guwahati : One person was killed and over 25 others were injured in an explosion in Assam's Dibrugarh district Sunday evening, police said. Dibrugarh Superintendent...

Oil spill in Tripura river, water treatment plants shut

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Agartala : An oil spill at a hydel project in Tripura has forced the authorities to shut down many water treatment plants, causing a...

Voting sluggish in Arunachal

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Itanagar: Balloting in simultaneous elections to Arunachal Pradesh's two Lok Sabha seats and the state assembly was sluggish in the first three hours, with...

President condoles the death of ex-Mizoram chief minister Brig. Sailo

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New Delhi : President Paranab Mukherjee on Saturday condoled the death of former Mizoram chief minister Brig. T. Sailo, saying that it was an...

10 NDFB cadres killed, over 300 nabbed in five months: DGP

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Guwahati : During the five-month security operation against the anti-talks faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants, 10 members of the...

Former tribal insurgent leader shot dead in Manipur

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Imphal : Hmar National Army leader Lalthanshang Hmar was shot dead on Tuesday in Churachandpur district of Manipur, police said. Some unidentified persons barged into...

Super-luxury resort in Kashmir’s Meadow of Flowers

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By Sheikh Qayoom, Gulmarg : As this world-famous resort prepares to host a record number of tourists this year, Gulmarg's only 5-star luxury property, the...

Country-wide voter awareness campaign starts

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Agartala : The information and broadcasting ministry will organise exhibitions in 480 locations across the country as part of its voter awareness campaign, an...

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...

BJP central team to submit report on Tripura to PM

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Agartala : A BJP central team Tuesday said it would submit to the prime minister its report on the situation in Tripura following attacks...

Police officer suspended in Kashmir

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Srinagar : Jammu and Kashmir Police Friday suspended a station house officer (SHO) in Anantnag district for giving false information to the media about...

Omar visits injured legislator in hospital

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By IANS, Jammu : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Tuesday visited a government hospital here to enquire about the health of injured opposition...

Bringing tribals to mainstream top priority: Jual Oram

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New Delhi : Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram Tuesday said that bringing over 10 crore tribals to social mainstream and strengthening institutions for their...

All vacant posts for SC/ST will soon be filled: Kejriwal

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

Panic-stricken Tripura woman dies after quake

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Agartala : A 35-year-old woman died of heart attack after she panicked during the earthquake in Tripura, an official said here on Sunday. "Krishna Sinha...

Develop Nagaland to its unique position: Sumitra Mahajan

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Kohima : Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan Saturday asked the Nagaland government to develop this scenic mountainous state to its special and unique position...

Bengal court sends arrested KLO leaders to police custody

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By IANS, Siliguri : A West Bengal court Monday sent three KLO militants including its vice president Tom Adhikary and finance secretary Nilambar Rajbanshi to...

Waiting with hope for justice after a year of massacre in Assam’s Baksa district

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By Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net, Guwahati: Life cannot be more cruel than this for Kashem Ali, the man who lost his daughter to the armed militants just when he was about to forget the pain of losing his mother and elder sister.In 1994 when Ali lost his mother and elder sister to militancy. On May 2, 2014 he could do nothing but to be a witness to the death of his five year old daughter’s death when armed militants opened fired indiscriminately in Assam’s Baksa district.

Restrictions imposed in Srinagar over ‘Quit Kashmir’ rally

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Srinagar : Authorities Monday imposed restrictions on pedestrian and vehicular traffic in and around Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir as a separatist rally 'Quit...

Students Protest at UP Bhawan against Sedition Charges on Kashmiri Student

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By Kashif Ahmed Faraz, New Delhi: Several students protested UP Bhawan in the Capital against the harassment and eviction of Kashmiri students in Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, Meerut and the slapping of sedition charges against 67 Kashmiri students. The protesters included activists, students from universities, mostly from JNU and Kashmiri Students.

Two-year-old girl raped in Meghalaya

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Shillong : A two-year-old girl is in critical condition after she was raped by her uncle in a Meghalaya village, police said Friday. The...

A generation born in displacement with no land rights: Vallabh Sagar Dam and its...

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By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Over the past few years, the Indian state has faced increasing resistance from Adivasis across the nation over land acquisition and...

IMA works out plan to address tribal health issue

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Thiruvananthapuram: Taking a serious view of increasing infant deaths and malnutrition cases reported in Attappady, one of the largest tribal settlements in Kerala, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has drawn up a detailed action plan to find solution for various health issues with special focus on antenatal care of tribal women.

Assam MPs raise voice on Dimapur lynching incident in Parliament

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By TwoCircles.net staff reporter, Guwahati: Rising in one voice, members of Parliament (MPs) from Assam – those from Congress and All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) – have raised the issue of cruel mob lynching at Dimapur earlier in the month and demanded a stop to racial profiling in the line of language and religion.

Assam moots special court for witch-hunting trials

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Guwahati : Assam might set up a special court for the trial of cases related to witch-hunting, a social evil in some parts of...

Scheduled Tribe status for six Assam communities

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New Delhi : The committee formed to recommend communities of Assam for granting the Scheduled Tribe (ST) status will submit its report shortly, Minister...

Chhattisgarh: Five more arrested for clash in Narayanpur over ‘religious conversion’

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Police have filed three separate cases at Edka police station following complaints received from tribals, tribal Christians and police about alleged attacks on...

Ex-ULFA rebels want cases withdrawn

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Guwahati : An umbrella grouping of around 4,200 surrendered ULFA members Wednesday urged Assam Governor J.B. Patnaik to withdraw criminal cases pending against them...

Hasina thanks Tripura CM for backing land swap deal

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Agartala : Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has thanked Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar for backing the India-Bangladesh Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) that the...

Northeastern youth protests in Delhi: Opportunity to bridge the gap

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By Ninglun Hanghal, IANS, Last week, Delhi witnessed a large turnout of youth from northeastern India - comprising eight states - to protest against the...

Allocation for SC, ST, minorities gets boost in budget

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New Delhi, (IANS) : Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Wednesday that the government will give special importance to implementation of schemes for the...

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.

Dalits, Adivasis in India pushed out of higher education during Covid-19, new report finds...

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A new study by National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) has found out that with stark social divides, the pandemic has visibilised and...

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.

Two Years of Narasingbari Killings: Heart-wrenching story of little Rashida

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Abdul Kalam Azad Today is the second anniversary of Narasingbari Killings. On 1st May, 2014, at around 8:00pm three people were killed and several injured....

48 students fall ill after eating mid-day meal in Tripura

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Agartala : At least 48 students, including girls, fell ill and were admitted to hospital after eating mid-day meal in a school in Tripura,...

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...

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...

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...

Mizoram to curb corruption at all levels : Governor

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Aizawl : Mizoram is fully committed to root out corruption in all its forms and at all levels, and this has been the main...

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...

How illegal stone quarries are destroying Adivasi villages of Tapi district

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By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Ashokbhai Gamit is a farmer in Vaghpani village of Vyara Taluka, Tapi District. As a farmer, he carries a lot of...

Poet Mohammad Sahid Chowdhury felicitated at Imphal

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By Dr Syed Ahmed for TwoCircles.net, Imphal: All Manipur Muslim (Meitei-Pangal) Welfare Association (AMPWA) has felicitated Mohammad Sahid Chowdhury, the renowned Manipuri Muslim poet from Barak valley of Assam. He was felicitated at a function held at Hafiz Hatta here on May 11, 2015.

PM to launch start-up scheme for SCs/STs

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New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi, now on a visit to Saudi Arabia, will on Tuesday launch a scheme to promote entrepreneurship among...

Muslim man beheaded after interview by media in Myanmar

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Nay Pyi Taw : A Muslim man in northern Rakhine state of Myanmar was found beheaded after he was interviewed by journalists, State Counsellor...

Adivasis in MP accuse mob of forcibly entering homes, beating women, demand action

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The Adivasi women issued a stern warning to the government and administration, declaring that should they fail to take action on those responsible for...

Modi promotes northeast as tourist destination

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New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday sought to promote India's northeast as a tourist destination and urged people to visit the region...

‘Over 35 percent rural Indians still illiterate’

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New Delhi: Over 35 percent of Indians in rural areas are illiterate, with Rajasthan home to 47.58 percent of the unlettered, Socio Economic and...

Camps to verify names in voters list March 9

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Agartala : The Election Commission has decided to hold special camps Sunday in polling stations across the country to facilitate people to verify their...

Tripura troopers to be deployed for Haryana polls

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Agartala : Five companies of Tripura State Rifles (TSR) troopers will be deployed in Haryana to facilitate peaceful state assembly elections Oct 15, an...

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...

Terror plot averted in Meghalaya

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Shillong : Seven insurgents were arrested in Meghalaya Thursday, as police averted a plot to carry out an explosion in the assembly constituency of...

Sonowal blames Gogoi for not availing budget benefits

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Guwahati : Union Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports Sarbananda Sonowal Saturday blamed Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi's Congress government for not...

Arunachal votes for assembly, Lok Sabha Wednesday

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Itanagar : Over 750,000 people in India's mountainous state of Arunachal Pradesh will Wednesday cast their ballot for simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha...

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...

Man crossing LoC held by army, handed over to police

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Jammu : The Indian army Sunday apprehended a man who crossed the Line of Control (LoC) into India in Poonch district of Jammu and...

Official in police custody for embezzling Rs.4 c

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Agartala : A Tripura education department official, who was arrested from West Bengal Saturday for embezzling over Rs.4 crore from a central scheme, was...

Dalit, Adivasi protestors released, say they will not be intimidated

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

Congress leads in one seat in Manipur

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Imphal : Ruling Congress party Friday took lead in one of two Lok Sabha constituencies in Manipur while opposition Naga Peoples Front (NPF) was...

Bangladesh allows transit of foodgrain to northeast India

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By Sujit Chakraborty, Agartala : In a highly significant move that was evidently cleared at the highest level, Bangladesh is allowing India to ferry foodgrain...

Assam polls before May 2016: CEC Brahma

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Guwahati : Elections to the Assam legislative assembly will be held before May 2016, Chief Election Commissioner H.S. Brahma said here on Tuesday. The entire...

DoNER minister to discuss development with northeast CMs

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Shillong : DoNER Minister Jitendra Singh will Friday meet the governors and the chief ministers of all eight northeastern states here to brainstorm on...

Attacks on northeast people, threat to society: President

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Canchipur (Manipur) : Expressing sadness over attacks on youths from the northeastern region in the national capital, President Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday said the "pluralistic...

Meghalaya students protest sexual harassment in varsity

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Shillong : Students and faculty members of the North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) Wednesday gave a three-day ultimatum demanding the termination of a professor...

Seven youths rape minor girl in Mizoram, arrested

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Aizawl : Mizoram police arrested seven youths, including four minors, for gang raping a minor girl, police said here Tuesday. "The accused youths gang raped...

Modi greets Meghalaya, Tripura, Manipur on statehood day

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New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday greeted the people of Meghalaya, Tripura and Manipur on their statehood day. Greeting the people of Meghalaya,...

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...

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...

Tripura to set up new varsity

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Agartala : The Left Front government will set up a state university in Tripura and this will be taken up in the budget session...

Pro-ILP agitationists in Manipur protest police high-handedness

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Imphal : A woman, who was badly injured while taking part in a demonstration favouring Inner Line Permit (ILP) system for Manipur, has started...

Assam districts gear up for by-polls

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Guwahati : Hectic campaigning is on in Assam's three assembly segments - Silchar, Lakhipur and Jamunamukh - that will go to by-election Sep 13. In...

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.

Jihadists trying to raise women’s wing in Assam: Gogoi

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Guwahati : Jihadist forces were trying to raise a women's wing in Assam, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said Tuesday. Two districts - Barpeta and Nalbari...

Congress flays Tripura over chit fund scam, seeks CBI probe

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Kolkata: Accusing the Manik Sarkar government in Tripura of "shielding" and "benefitting" from Rose Valley, a ponzi firm under scanner for money laundering, the...

AIUDF: The broken dreams and lost hopes of minorities in Assam

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: For Ashraful Hussain, the party was a ray of hope for the downtrodden and underprivileged people of the society. Now, he is quite dejected and rather angry at times. He hoped finally somebody was there to take care of the neglected minorities of the state but after several years it turned out to be another broken dream.

Two more interlocutors shortlisted for Naga peace talks

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By IANS, Kohima : The central government has shortlisted two more people for appointment as the interlocutor for the peace talks with the separatist National...

CPI-M threatens stir if new Tripura governor crosses limit

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Agartala : Tripura's ruling CPI-M on Thursday threatened to launch a mass movement if newly appointed Governor Tathagata Roy crosses his constitutional limit. "We welcome...

Nearly two-third voters cast ballots in Mizoram

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Aizawl: Nearly two-thirds of the voters cast their ballots Friday for the lone Lok Sabha seat and in a by-poll for an assembly segment...

Renewal of land lease for army opposed in Kashmir

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Srinagar : Residents living near an army firing range land held a demonstration here, demanding a written assurance from the state government that it...

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...

Tribal organisation rallies against amendment in Land Act, conversion law

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Ranchi, (IANS): A tribal organisation held a rally in Ranchi on Monday against the Jharkhand government's Anti-Conversion Bill and its proposed amendments in the 2013...

BJP hails revocation of AFSPA from Tripura, credits Modi

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New Delhi : The BJP on Thursday hailed the Tripura government's decision to revoke the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), which gives security...

Go easy on protesters: Assam CM to police

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Guwahati : Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday instructed police to go easy on public protests and said baton-charge and firing should be...

Manipuri youth’s Delhi attackers sent to police custody

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New Delhi : A court here Tuesday sent the three youths arrested for killing a Manipuri BPO employee, to two days' police custody. The employee,...

Keep your promise, don’t change land act: Tribal leaders to PM

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Ranchi : Tribal leaders of Jharkhand have urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to keep his promise of not changing the land act in...

Peace pact with Meghalaya rebel outfit before cabinet: Official

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By IANS, Shillong : The union home ministry has referred the draft of the settlement agreement to be signed with Meghalaya's rebel A'chik National Volunteers...

Odisha’s SC/ST MLAs plead with CM on reservation

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Bhubaneswar : The Odisha assembly on Friday witnessed an unusual scene when opposition MLAs belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Tribes fell at Chief...

Rahul Gandhi to campaign in four northeastern states

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Shillong : Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will Tuesday begin his campaign in four states of the northeast for the Lok Sabha elections. Elaborate security...

When fishermen were made Al Qaeda terrorist overnight in Assam

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: Rustam Ali had a terrible time as he was picked up by police as terrorist having connection with Al Qaeda in Assam’s Majuli. So were Sherafat Ali and Dhiren Doley from Majuli who were detained by police and media immediately jumped to term them as terrorist element after the Al Jawahari’s video where the Al Qaeda leader also pronounced Assam’s name as their next target.

Yogi Adityanath booked after nude picture of tribal women shared on his fanpage

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter An Adivasi woman from Assam, Laxmi Orang, has filed a case against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Aditynath and Ram Prasad Sarma,...

Pomp, pageantry mark R-Day across India

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Jammu/Kolkata/Guwahati/Chennai/Panaji/Imphal : Republic Day was Monday celebrated across India with gaiety and patriotic fervour, as leaders stressed the need of rooting out corruption and working for development and asked insurgents to shun violence. The day was largely peaceful, barring two blasts in Assam and four in Manipur.

BSF to probe killing of 3 Tripura tribals by its men

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Agartala, (IANS): The Border Security Force (BSF) has ordered a court of inquiry into the killing of three tribals in firing by its troopers...

Three army personnel killed in Arunachal ambush

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Itanagar : At least three army personnel were killed and three others injured on Thursday when suspected militants ambushed their convoy in Arunachal Pradesh's...

Strong reaction by civil society; immediate action sought

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: Political parties, students’ organizations and civil society have raised its voice against the brutal killing of innocent villagers by armed militants of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) in Assam’s Bodoland Territorial Areas District (BTAD). All have condemned the incident as barbaric and sought for strict punishment.

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

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

Two Manipuri youths attacked in Delhi, three held

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New Delhi : Two Manipuri students were attacked with a scissor, stones and iron rods by three people, two of them juveniles, when the...

5000 people from 40 villages in Maharashtra gather to demand justice for Dr. Payal...

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By Imran Inamdar, Twocircles.net Jalgao (Maharashtra) With the intention to send a strong message to the government authorities, as many as five thousand Adivasi activists including...

Tripura voters’ gender ratio exceeds national average

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Agartala : At 963 females to 1,000 males in the electoral rolls, Tripura's gender ratio is higher than the national average of 908 and...

In Gujarat, 95 of 100 suspects in crimes against Dalits acquitted

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By Nikhil M. Babu As violent protests continue in the Prime Minister’s home state of Gujarat over the flogging of Dalit youth by upper-caste Hindu...

Peace activists honoured at Aaina’s anniversary function

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By TCN News Guwahati: Syed Abdul Malik, one of the greatest litterateurs of Assam, and Mohammad Taher, eminent academician who passed away recently, both posthumous, were among the seven personalities from the state honoured for their unstinted work for promotion of peace, brotherhood and understanding among people.