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Assamese woman gang-raped in Delhi

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By IANS, New Delhi : A 21-year-old Assamese woman was raped here by two men who have been arrested, police said Sunday. One of the men...

Former speaker Sangma flays Meghalaya CM

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Shillong : Former Lok Sabha speaker Purno A. Sangma Sunday praised the Congress legislators in Meghalaya for demanding the removal of Chief Minister Mukul...

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...

Journalist held in Assam for insurgent links

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Guwahati : A news correspondent with a satellite TV channel of Assam has been arrested for his alleged links with Bodo insurgents, police said...

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...

Mizoram to move second vote on account

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Aizawl : The Mizoram government will move another vote on account instead of presenting the regular budget for fiscal 2014-15 as the Planning Commission...

Nagaland governor quits, protests transfer

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Agartala/Thiruvananthapuram : Nagaland Governor Vakkom B. Purushothaman, who held additional charge as Tripura governor, resigned Friday protesting that he was not consulted on his...

Amarnath pilgrims to get prepaid SIM cards

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Jammu : Pilgrims for this year's annual Amarnath Yatra will get prepaid mobile SIM cards for seven days for enhanced telecom facilities during the...

Tears of pain and fear on Christmas: Bodo militants’ horror engulfs Assam’s Bodo majority...

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Since 1990, over 2200 people have been killed by Bodo militants By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati/Sonitpur: Helena Kisku is one of the displaced taking shelter at the Xamukjuli Church in Sonitpur district. It is Christmas time. But rather than celebrations, the 35-year-old mother with young children is occupied with graver concerns.

India, Bangladesh to step up joint border patrolling

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Agartala : Border guards of India and Bangladesh would intensify their joint patrolling, officials said here Sunday following a two-day district-level border meet. "The BSF...

Explained: The case against adivasi activist Himanshu Kumar

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On June 15, the Supreme Court dismissed the petition filed by Chattisgarh activist Himanshu Kumar seeking a probe into alleged rights violations by security...

Cabinet nod for expert group to classify caste names

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New Delhi: The Union cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday gave its approval to a proposal to form an expert group...

Ismail Hussain harmony award presented to Hiren Gohain

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: Char Chapori Sahitya Parishad (CCSP), a literary body of Assam which represents the Muslims living on the riverine areas of the state presented litterateur Ismail Hussain memorial Harmony Award to noted intellectual and scholar Dr Hiren Gohain.

Over three years, 70 pregnant women found HIV+ in Tripura

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Agartala : About 70 pregnant women have tested HIV-positive in Tripura in the past three years, an official of the Tripura State AIDS Control...

Experts highlight education in integrating northeast India

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New Delhi : Highlighting the problems and challenges faced by members of the northeast community, experts Sunday called for their integration through education, suggesting...

Assam violence: Toll rises to 40

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Guwahati : The toll in Tuesday's militant attacks in Assam's Kokrajhar and Sonitpur districts has risen to 40, officials said Wednesday. Union Home Minister Rajnath...

29 tourism projects sanctioned for northeast in 2014

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New Delhi : The ministry of tourism has sanctioned 29 tourism projects for the northeastern states in 2014, Parliament was informed Wednesday. Union Minister of...

Auto-driver shot dead in Meghalaya

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Shillong : An auto-rickshaw driver was shot dead in Meghalaya by two unidentified assailants Sunday, police said. The incident took place in Chepagre village in...

Rajnath reaches Assam

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Guwahati : Home Minister Rajnath Singh Wednesday flew into Assam to study the situation after Bodo militants massacred 65 tribals in three districts. Rajnath Singh...

UP govt undemocratically suppressing people’s voices resisting Kanhar dam: Fact Finding team

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, New Delhi: District and state administration in Uttar Pradesh are undemocratically suppressing the people’s voices against the “dangerous developmental projects”, alleged a fact finding team of the Delhi Solidarity Group that recently visited the Sonbhadra district in Uttar Pradesh.

Tripura to hold panchayat elections in July

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Agartala : Elections for panchayats in Left-ruled Tripura would be held in July, the state election commission announced Monday. "We have initiated the process for...

22 arrested over Nagaland lynching

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Guwahati/Dimapur : Twenty-two people have so far been arrested for their alleged involvement in the lynching of a rape accused in Nagaland's Dimapur town,...

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...

Paper trail to be used in Nagaland, Mizoram, Meghalaya

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Shillong : The voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) system will be used for the first time in the Lok Sabha elections in Nagaland,...

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...

Bodies of abducted people found in Assam

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Guwahati : The bullet-riddled bodies of four people, who were abducted by suspected Bodo militants in Assam's Baksa district, have been found, while the...

Modi hasn’t fulfilled promises, says Assam CM

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Guwahati : Though the Narendra Modi government has completed six months in office, yet none of his pre-poll promises have been fulfilled so far,...

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...

Aadhaar linkage threatens voter exclusion among Dalits, Adivasis

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Lakhs of people are victims of deprivation ever since mandatory Aadhaar-linking to various social security benefits was introduced. Countless such Catch-22 like cases...

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...

Despite mid-day meal, attendance lags in Agartala’s government schools

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By Sujit Chakraborty Agartala : Despite the lure of a mid-day meal, low attendance in Tripura's government schools is a "cause of concern" while enrollment...

Manik Sarkar calls on Narendra Modi

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New Delhi/Agartala : Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar Friday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. "It was a courtesy call," an official...

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 militancy due to social backwardness: Chief secretary

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Shillong : Meghalaya Chief Secretary P.B.O. Warjri Wednesday said the rise of militancy in the state's Garo Hills was largely due to social backwardness. "We...

Food security act not available for vulnerable tribal groups: NCST head

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By Rupesh Dutta New Delhi : The government's "inability" to implement the Food Security Act among the 'Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups' in India has resulted...

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.

Assam assembly to restrict car passes from May

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Guwahati : The Assam assembly is planning to introduce from May 1 stricter guidelines for issuing car passes following detection of Congress legislator Rumi...

Assam CM, governor clash over Assam poaching issue

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Guwahati : The debate between Assam Governor P.B. Acharya and Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi over the killings of one-horned rhinos gained steam on Monday...

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...

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.

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...

Nagaland polls contest between Nagas, outside forces: NPF chief

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Kohima, Feb 12 (IANS): Nagaland's ruling NPF chief Shurhozelie Liezietsu on Monday said the February 27 assembly election is not just a contest between...

100 Tripura students fall ill after taking deworming tablets?

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Agartala : Around 100 school students in Tripura fell ill Wednesday and were admitted to a hospital. Officials suspect the students fell sick after...

BTAD camp inmates wary ahead of Ramadan

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: The 300 odd people who have been stuck at the relief camps having a tough time after they have been devastated by the armed miscreants in Assam’s Bodoland Territorial Areas District (BTAD). More than 45 villagers were gunned down by the miscreants a few weeks back in these areas.

FIR against online rumour-mongers in Kashmir

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By IANS, Srinagar : The Jammu and Kashmir Police Sunday lodged an FIR against those spreading the rumour on social networking that the police force...

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...

Adivasi Women Continue to be Killed on Pretext of being a “Witch”

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Sami Ahmad|TwoCircles.net Sonamuni Murmu, 47, of Aswari village under Saraiyahat police station in Dumka district of Jharkhand, was forced to eat human excrement for allegedly...

Yasin Malik arrested, JKLF march halted

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Srinagar : Police Monday intercepted a pro-independence march by the JKLF here and arrested its chairman Yasin Malik and around a dozen supporters. Malik appeared...

Protests in Assam over BJP’s Delhi Vision Document

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Guwahati : Angry people Wednesday took to the streets across Assam over the BJP's Delhi poll Vision Document that described people from the northeast...

New Assam cabinet to be sworn-in Friday

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Guwahati : Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi will Friday reconstitute his council of ministers, a Congress leader said Thursday. Gogoi Thursday sent a list of...

10 gunned down in two Assam attacks

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Guwahati : At least 10 people were killed and four injured when suspected militants opened indiscriminate fire in two Assam villages Thursday night, police...

Irom Sharmila released from custody, resumes fast

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Guwahati : Human rights activist Irom Sharmila Chanua "who has been fasting since 2000 demanding repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA),...

Nitish, legislators reach Delhi; Manjhi announces quotas

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Patna/New Delhi : Aiming to put pressure on Bihar Governor Keshri Nath Tripathi for inviting him to form the next government in the state,...

Trial run on June 1-3 of Agartala-Kolkata bus via Bangladesh

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Agartala : The trial run of a bus service between Agartala and Kolkata via Bangladesh will be held on June 1-3, a minister said...

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...

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...

Journalist killed by tribal party cadres in Tripura: Police

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Agartala, (IANS): A journalist working for a local television channel was allegedly killed in an attack by tribal party cadres in Tripura on Wednesday, police...

‘SC/ST left out of pro-corporate budget,’ rights group alleges

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Dalit and tribal groups do not seem very happy with the union budget, which they claimed is pro-rich. “Pursuing unabashedly and openly a pro-rich policy, the Modi Budget outlines a corporate vision of India that unashamedly eats into the budgetary allocations meant for the millions of its poorest and neediest citizens, the Dalits and Adivasis,” said the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) - Dalit Arthik Adhikar Andolan (DAAA), which works towards the elimination of caste-based discrimination.

छत्तीसगढ़ के आदिवासियों का पसंदीदा आहार है बीफ़

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net सुकमा (छत्तीसगढ़) : छत्तीसगढ़ में बीफ आपको ढ़ूंढे नहीं मिलेगा, मगर आदिवासियों के बीच ये बेहद ही लोकप्रिय है....

In Wayanad Kerala, Adivasi Dalit students are on indefinite strike for better representation in...

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By Sukanya Roy, TwoCircles.net Sulthan Bathery: Since 28 September, members and students of the Adi Sakthi Summer School, an Adivasi Dalit students’ collective that facilitates...

Why are tribals from Jammu and Kashmir protesting inclusion of Paharis in ST list?

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Members of the Gujjar Bakarwal community in Jammu and Kashmir are on a protest march from Kupwara to Jammu against the government of India's...

Freedom heroes from the northeast remembered

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By IANS, New Delhi : Little known heroes from the country's northeast played valiant roles during the freedom struggle, reversing a myth - like many...

Assam: JIH offers houses for BTAD victims

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: A team of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) is visiting the eastern and north eastern India to take stock of the plight of the minority communities in the region and the various welfare activities undertaken by it for addressing some of the problems affecting the minorities.

Manipur extrajudicial killings campaign calls upon Rajnath to safeguard activists

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Imphal (IANS): Over a thousand Indians on Sunday called upon Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh to end...

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...

Bird flu in Manipur, culling of fowl starts

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Imphal : Bird flu or avian influenza has resurfaced in northeastern state of Manipur and the culling of poultry fowl began on Monday, official...

Stand-up India to benefit 2.5 lakh SC/ST, women entrepreneurs

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New Delhi : The government here on Friday said the Stand-up India Scheme will benefit 2.5 lakh Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe members and women entrepreneurs. “The...

Assam CM unveils Angel Fund for first-generation entrepreneurs

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi unveiled the Angel Fund floated to help first generation entrepreneurs and skilled youths aspiring to set up micro and small enterprises in the state on Friday.

Five policemen injured in Meghalaya bomb blast

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Shillong : Five policemen were injured Friday in a bomb blast triggered by militants in Meghalaya's South Garo Hills district, bordering Bangladesh. "GNLA (Garo National...

Manipur’s new governor takes charge

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Imphal : Former Congress leader and author Syed Ahmed on Saturday took charge as the 16th governor of Manipur. Manipur High Court Chief Justice Laxmikanta...

Five held for attempting to rape woman in Meghalaya

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Shillong : Five employees of a hotel here in the Meghalaya capital were arrested Tuesday on charges of attempting to rape a woman from...

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...

Appeal to stop illegal animal fights in Assam

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: An animal rights NGO has asked the Assam chief minister to bring a stop to the illegal practices of buffalo fighting and bulbul fighting during events scheduled for Magh Bihu celebrations between January 14 and 16 in various districts, mainly Sivasagar, Nagaon, Morigaon and Kamrup across Assam.

NIA chief in Assam, to visit violence-hit areas Wednesday

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Guwahati : NIA chief Sharad Kumar reached Assam Tuesday to take stock of the central agency's probe into the recent violence in Assam that...

MyFacts’ move to Assam governor seeking solution to BTAD trouble

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: Named MyFacts (Muslim Youths Forum Against Communalism, Terrorism and Sedition), a group that initially met through Facebook got together in the city and decided their action plan towards a solution of the ongoing violence in Assam’s Bodoland Territorial Areas District (BTAD).

Militant group’s shutdown hits life in Meghalaya

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Shillong : Normal life came to a standstill in Meghalaya on Wednesday following a 24-hour shutdown called by the outlawed Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council...

Government accepts report on safety of northeastern people

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New Delhi : The government has accepted the recommendations of a committee that has suggested immediate measures to ensure the safety of people from...

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...

AGP protests centre’s move on land swap with Bangladesh

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Guwahati : Assam's regional party Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) Tuesday held protest demonstrations across the state protesting the central government's decision to hand over...

‘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...

Six killed, 10 injured in Tripura road accidents

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Agartala : At least six people were killed and 10 others injured in separate road accidents in Tripura, police said here Saturday. "Three people died...

Crime Records also prove rise in atrocities against SC/ST in Kerala

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

Notification for first phase of polls issued in Assam, Tripura

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Agartala/Guwahati : The notification for the first of the nine-phased Lok Sabha polls was issued Friday with this the process to constitute the 16th...

I am from northeast… but I am not Mowgli!

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By Prantick Majumder, "Does the Rajdhani Express go to Assam?" I thought I had heard something wrong. When the question was repeated, I knew I heard it right. My blood came to a boil. But my conscience got the better of me as I realised that the person may genuinely not know much about Assam.

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...

Two-thirds voting for 2nd Tripura seat

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Agartala: Two-third of the voters Saturday cast their ballots till afternoon for the second Lok Sabha seat in Left-ruled Tripura, an official said. Around 66...

Seven from Assam dead in Nepal quake

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Guwahati : Seven people from Assam were killed in the devastating earthquake in Nepal and their bodies were being brought from the Himalayan nation...

Christians hold mass protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi against ‘attacks on churches’

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The demonstrators protested against the recent spate of violence faced by Christians in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka and other places...

Nagaland to protect world’s longest-distance migratory falcons

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By Sujit Chakraborty, Kohima : India's northeastern state of Nagaland is determined to provide sanctuary to Amar falcons, known to be one of the world's...

CBI raids Trinamool MP Tapas Paul’s home, 42 Rose Valley locations

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Kolkata/Agartala : The CBI on Wednesday raided the Kolkata residence of Trinamool Congress actor-MP Tapas Paul and 42 other locations of the Rose Valley...

शराबबंदी कानून : सज़ा से पहले सज़ा-ए-मौत

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फहमीना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net बिहार कैबिनेट ने करीब दो साल पहले पूर्ण शराबबंदी कानून को लागू किया था. इन दो साल में तमाम लोगो पर इस कानून...

Protesting tribal students lock Manipur varsity gate

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Imphal : The tribal students' union of Manipur University on Tuesday locked the main gate of the campus as part of its agitation against...

SC to hear Tripura High Court’s order on teachers

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New Delhi/Agartala : The Supreme Court, admitting a special leave petition (SLP) Monday, stayed Tripura High Court's order for framing a new employment policy...

Agartala stops power, water supply to Bengal chift fund firm

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Agartala : The Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) on Wednesday cut off the electricity and water supply lines to Tripura head office of Kolkata-based Rose...

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...

IAF lifts 425 stranded passengers between Leh and Jammu

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Jammu : The Indian Air Force Friday lifted 425 stranded passengers between Leh town of Jammu and Kashmir's Ladakh region and Jammu city on...

Assam students protest land swap deal with Bangladesh

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Guwahati : A major students' organisation in Assam Tuesday launched a state-wide protest opposing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statement to go ahead with the...

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...

Ajmal Group to set up more colleges in Assam

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: The Ajmal CSR has announced its plan to set up 10 new colleges in Assam including one in Bodoland Territorial Aare Districts (BTAD) during the year 2015. It was declared during the three-day annual convention of Ajmal CSR officials and heads of institutions run by the Ajmal Group in Assam’s Hojai.

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...

How an Adivasi Youth outfit plans to give a tough fight to the BJP...

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By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net With Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan set for assembly elections later this year, all political parties are gearing up for elections...

Panchayati Raj to end violence in BTAD, says the Assam Governor

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: A 15-member delegation representing three different organisations viz Samajwadi Party Assam, All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushwarat, and Jamaat-e-Islami Hind met the Governor of Assam Janaki Ballabh Pattanayak at the Raj Bhawan in Guwahati on Sunday to submit separate memorandums and apprise him about the ground realities of the prevailing situation in the BTAD area. The Governor gave the delegation a very patient hearing and spent more than an hour sharing viewpoints with them.

Political heat increases in Assam as first phase of poll nears

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: With the first phase of the Lok Sabha election is approaching on April 7 for the five seats in Assam, political parties have geared up their preparation in the midst of speculation, controversies and allegations. For these five seats mostly of the upper Assam, several big guns are featured including two union ministers – DoNER minister Paban Singh Ghatowar and union minister of state for tribal affairs Ranee Narah.

Railways to connect all northeastern states by 2020

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Silchar (Assam) : The railways hope to connect all the eight states in India's northeast by 2020. "We would connect all the states of the...

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...

Centre will take up issue of minimum wages in tea gardens

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Guwahati : Commerce and Industries Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Monday said the central government will take up with the states the issue of implementation of...

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...

One dies in Manipur bomb blast

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Imphal : A 10-year-old boy was killed in an explosion in Manipur Saturday, police said. The blast took place a day ahead of Prime...

Indian Americans condemn Saudi award for Prime Minister Modi

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Award defies logic given Modi’s record before and after taking office as Prime Minister By TCN News, Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), an advocacy...

Andhra varsity professor held for suspected Maoist links

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Hyderabad : An associate professor of Andhra University has been arrested for suspected links with the Maoists, Andhra Pradesh Police said Thursday. His family...

Three tribals killed, two hurt in Tripura BSF firing

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Agartala, (IANS): Three tribals, including a woman, were killed and two others injured in BSF firing in southern Tripura, an official here said. "BSF troopers...

Civil society groups express solidarity with Irom Sharmila, demand repeal of AFSPA

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By Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net. Guwahati: Several civil rights organizations and civilians have condemned the re-arrest of ‘Prisoner of Conscience’ Irom Sharmila by the Manipur police on Friday, January 23. Amnesty International India has also condemned the re-arrest of 23 January.

Assam CM asks projects proposal of MsDP

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has asked the state Minority Affairs minister Dr. Nazrul Islam to submit projects proposal focusing on education, health and skill development to the Union Ministry of Minority Affairs for allocation of funds under the Multi-sectoral Development Programme (MsDP) for implementation during the 12th Five Year Plan.

Anti-caste poet Lokshahir Shantanu Kamble passes away in Nashik at the age of 39

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By Daisy Katta, TwoCircles.net In a terrible jolt to the Ambedkarite movement in Maharashtra, Shahir Shantanu Kamble, a 39-year-old poet on whose life the...

IIT, IIM MP faces challenge on Sikkim seat

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Gangtok: Prem Das Rai, the only parliamentarian with IIT and IIM degrees, is facing a challenge from a newly formed outfit in Sikkim's sole...

Adivasi girl in Kerala college branded mentally ill; ostracised for speaking against discrimination

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By Shafeeq Hudawi, Twocircles.net It is no secret that students from the marginalised communities have been at the receiving end of casteist abuse across the...

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...

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...

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...

“Want affected people to have security,” activists raise concern over world’s second-largest coal block...

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The Deocha Pachami Harinsingha Dewanganj Coal Mine Project, in Birbhum, West Bengal is the second largest coal mining block in the world. While the...

NHRC asks Maharashtra to explain deaths of 500 tribal schoolgirls

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Mumbai, (IANS) : The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked the Maharashtra government to explain reports of sexual abuse and mystery deaths of...

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...

Tripura to be 100 percent literate in six months, says CM

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By Sujit Chakraborty, Agartala : India's northeastern state of Tripura, which has already achieved the first position in literacy in the country with 95.16 percent,...

Music is the healer, think Afghan musicians as they perform in Guwahati

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: On most of the occasions, when we talk of Afghanistan, it’s either Taliban or the prolonged conflicts at the land locked country. The country was almost devastated by many from both inside and outside yet there are some beautiful things to be appreciated in the country.

Museum of World War II inaugurated at Imphal

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By Dr. Syed Ahmed, for TwoCircles.net, Imphal: In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Imphal (1944) a war museum of the World War II was inaugurated by World War II Imphal Campaign Foundation at Imphal on April 4, 2014.

World Bank aid for power projects in northeast India

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Agartala : The World Bank would provide the major share of a Rs.5,111 crore project to develop and expand infrastructure in the power sector...

68 rebels of tribal outfit surrender in Meghalaya

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Tura (Meghalaya) : As many as 68 rebels of the United A'chik Liberation Army in Meghalaya on Thursday surrendered before the authorities, marking the...

Northeast MGNREGS employees to launch stir to hike wages

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Agartala : Over 13,000 employees employed in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in northeastern states would launch a stir from...

Opposition corners Tripura government for not honouring Dipa Karmakar

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Agartala : The opposition Congress legislators Monday castigated the Left Front government for not giving due importance to Dipa Karmakar, who excelled with a...

Security forces intensify hunt for Bodo militants

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Guwahati : Security forces Friday stepped up operations against Bodo militants in Assam, after Home Minister Rajnath Singh ruled out talks with them after...

Migrant Pandits throng Khirbhawani shrine in Kashmir

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Srinagar : Hundreds of migrant Kashmiri Pandits Friday thronged the Mata Khirbhawani shrine in Kashmir's Ganderbal district for an annual festival. Kashmiri Hindus -- young...

Will continue to speak my mind, says Manjhi

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Patna : Ignoring warnings and advice of his party JD-U over his controversial remarks in recent days, Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi Sunday...

Three north-eastern states to celebrate statehood day

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Agartala/Imphal : Three north-eastern states - Tripura, Manipur and Meghalaya - will celebrate their statehood day Wednesday, officials said Tuesday. "On this day, the Manipur...

‘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...

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...

झारखंड: भूमि अधिग्रहण का विरोध कर रहे आदिवासियों पर पुलिस फायरिंग

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TCN News हजारीबाग(झारखंड): झारखण्ड के हजारीबाग जिले के बड़कागांव के आदिवासी अपनी 17,000 एकड़ जमीन बचाने के लिए पिछले 15 दिनों से शांतिपूर्ण कफ़न सत्याग्रह...

13 years later, ‘Iron Lady’ Sharmila refuses to give up

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By Ninglun Hanghal, Malom (Manipur) : "Iron Lady" Sharmila Chanu completes Sunday 13 years of hunger strike that she began after the massacre of 10...

CPI-M needs new leadership to recover politically

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By Samir Kar Purkayastha, The CPI-M has decided to hold its 2015 party congress in Kolkata instead of Agartala, capital of the only state now ruled by the party. Tripura is far off, more difficult and expensive to reach, reasoned the party leaders while picking Kolkata. While the 1,000-odd delegates would miss out on a chance to see for themselves the workings of the party in a state where it has held on for years, the Kolkata congress may be seen as an opportunity to boost the morale of activists in West Bengal, where not a day passes without reports of desertion from the Marxist ranks.

Assam based scribe body demands for clemency to Al-Jazeera journalists

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: Joining the international chorus for the FreeAJStaff campaign, an Indian scribes’ body has demanded an immediate release of all journalists, who have been jailed in Egypt for allegedly ‘producing false reports on Egypt in collaboration with the banned Muslim Brotherhood group endangering Egypt's national security’.

The Roohani Water of AIUDF chief raises many eyebrows, claiming the act to be...

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Guwahati: Scholars and civil society of Assam have slammed the act of giving ‘roohani’ water by All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) chief, Badruddin Ajmal, to the people of Muslim community during election rallies, terming it as anti-religious. Casting a special chant into water carried to election rallies with the aim of using extremely poor and illiterate supporters as votes for the upcoming Lok Sabha election is against Allah, claimed Islamic scholars from the state. The supporters of AIUDF, however, see this water and the blind faith on Ajmal as a binding thread.

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...

Students learn to be job providers

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By TCN News, Guwahati: A group of Engineering students concluded a three day “Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp” at Assam Don Bosco University (ADBU) Azara campus, 20-22 March. Some 100 students of second, fourth, sixth and eight semesters participated in the camp organized in collaboration with Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, and sponsored by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi.