Jitan Ram Manjhi sworn-in as Bihar’s new CM

Patna: Jitan Ram Manjhi, a 68-year-old Mahadalit leader, was Tuesday sworn-in as the 23rd chief minister of Bihar. Manjhi along with 17 ministers took oath...

बिहार चुनाव: दलित समीकरण नहीं आसान

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net पटना: दो रोज़ पहले उत्तर प्रदेश के हमीरपुर में मंदिर में प्रवेश करने पर एक दलित दम्पत्ति की जलाकर हत्या कर...

Rajya Sabha disrupted repeatedly over Dalit atrocities

New Delhi : The Rajya Sabha was disrupted repeatedly on Monday over atrocities against Dalits in Punjab, as Congress leaders protested the gruesome chopping...

‘राहुल गांधी ने भी मुझे धोखा दिया’ –डेल्टा मेघवाल के पिता

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net बारमेर (राजस्थान) : दलित मेधा की मिसाल बन चुकी डेल्टा मेघवाल की लड़ाई अब घर-घर का हिस्सा बनती जा रही है....

12 people held for Dalit woman’s murder in Kerala

Perambavoor (Kerala) : The police has so far arrested about a dozen people in connection with the murder last week of Dalit law student...

The Bhagana protest in Delhi

The four school-going Dalit girls were allegedly kidnapped and raped March 23 by upper caste men in Bhagana. The protestors have been demanding the arrest of the village head and his son along with others whose names have not been included in the police complaint.

SDPI vehemently condemns burning alive of Dalit Kids

By TCN News Bhopal: The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) has vehemently condemned the burning...

Hyderabad varsity issue not Dalit versus non-Dalit: Irani

New Delhi: The suicide case of Rohith Vemula, research scholar at University of Hyderabad, was not a "Dalit versus non-Dalit issue", and there was...

Ladai Seekhle: The story of Sumeet Samos, rap and annihilation of caste

By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net The list of atrocities against marginalised communities in India can make for a small book, but the forms of resistance against...

A book by this Dalit author has left RSS fuming

The 72-page book on RSS by a Dalit writer Devanur Mahadeva from Karnataka criticizes the right-wing Hindu nationalist party and is hitting record sales...

Vidya Bhushan and Thenmozhi honored by Ambedkar Association of North America

By TCN News, New York: In a three day celebration of Buddha Jayanti-Vesak Day and 125th Birth Anniversary of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Dr....

A Tribute to Raju Kamble from a Father and Daughter

Dear All, Jai Bheem and Namo Buddhaya, The loss of my dear friend Rajkumar D Kamble (I call him mottu with love, for which he never...

Ambedkar’s Bust inaugurated in Boston, USA

TCN News Boston Study Group (BSG), an organization dedicated to working towards a just and equitable society based in Boston (MA), was a proud contributor...

Next President should be a Dalit: Manjhi

Patna, (IANS): Former Bihar Chief Minister and an ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Jitan Ram Manjhi on Wednesday demanded that the next...

Bhima Koregaon: Dalits in search of icons from history

By Ram Puniyani for TwoCircles.net Maharashtra witnessed unprecedented violence against the Dalits who had congregated to pay tributes to the Dalits soldiers (1st January 2018),...

The new Pathans

Folklore in northern India goes something like this. A Brahmin, with his sacred threat ceremoniously held over his ear, was standing on the side of the road and answering the call of nature. He got a big thump on his back. Flabbergasted, on turning to see what had hit him, he found a Pathan with all his colorful native plume decorating his head as his regalia, was fuming over his act of sacrilege. The Pathan said: Pandit, how dare you pee while facing the west, where is our Ka'aba. Don't you know we pray our Namaz facing west towards our Holy Ka'aba? You are insulting our Holy Masjid.

Harvard India Conference sees protests against Rohith Vemula’s suicide

By TCN News, Cambridge (USA): The 13th annual edition of the Harvard India conference saw protests against the death of Rohith Vemula, a Dalit research...

AIMMM delegation meets victims of Una violence case, asks for CBI inquiry

By Amit Kumar, Twocircles.net A four-member delegation of All India Muslim Majlis e Mushawarat, led by its President Navaid Hamid, visited the...

Campaign to make minority and SC/ST women legally aware

By Saiyed Danish, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: Ashray Welfare and Charitable Society (AWCS) organized an event on legal awareness for women belonging to SC/ST and minority communities living near Pant Nagar and Nizamuddin in the community hall of Pant Nagar neighbourhood.

50 injured in police, protestors clash in Patna

Patna : At least 50 people, including 12 police officers, were injured here on Friday afternoon when police in a bid to disperse...

Manjhi’s self-interest, political hara-kiri, an alarm bell

By Md. Mudassir Alam for TwoCircles.net, Bihar has witnessed a very chaotic crisis in the recent time, which in turn has directly or indirectly affected the common people of the state. With the resignation of Jitan Ram Manjhi, the self-proclaimed political superman of Bihar from the CM’s post all types of speculations came to an end.

Nothing to do with Dalit students’ suspension: Dattatreya

Hyderabad : Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya on Monday said neither he nor the BJP had anything to do with the suspension of five Dalit...

PCLM: Knocking the doors of UN against Vatican

Dalit Christians constitute 70% of the total Christian population in India but they have no share in the Church-run institutions. Indian church (should) stop...

The problem of Rape: Why India is still failing?

By Aabid Ali Haider for TwoCircles.net, The brutal and harrowing rapes in Kerala have revealed that women in India are unsafe when it comes to...

Book review: Kanshiram: Leader of the Dalits

By Chandra Sen for Twocircles.net Author: By Badri Narayan Publisher: Penguin, Delhi Price: Rs 374 at Amazon.in ‘The caste has come into politics’, ‘the standard...

Pakistanis to be careful before laying down lives

Ref: - (i)- Democracy will not come in charity. (ii)- Need to be on guard against Indian example & media propaganda. (iii)- UN / USA & its democratic allies can't be relied upon.

Mayawati blames BJP, RSS for Dalit atrocities

Ahmedabad : BSP chief Mayawati on Thursday visited the Dalits beaten up by self-styled cow vigilantes and blamed the BJP and RSS for rising...

Modi resorting to despicable politics, should disclose caste: Mayawati

Lucknow: BSP chief Mayawati Tuesday hit out at BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, accusing him of making false claims of being targeted because...

Parched summer again for Bihar Mountain Man’s village

By Imran Khan, Dashrath Nagar (Bihar) : Bhagirath Manjhi and his neighbor Ramesh Manjhi are struggling to get drinking water for themselves and their families...

UK Dalits infuriated over PM Modi unveiling Ambedkar Memorial in London

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, London : Two leading Dalit (the former untouchables) organisations have condemned the inauguration of Dr Ambedkar...

VCK gets one more constituency

Chennai: Mollifying its dissatisfied ally VCK, the DMK Saturday offered one more Lok Sabha seat to the Dalit party. With this, the VCK will...

Four shot dead in Bihar for refusing to share fish

Patna : Four people were shot dead in Bihar allegedly by a group of people belonging to upper caste for refusing to share the...

Bhim army supremo Chandrashekar Azad arrested again in Deoband, UP

TCN News Chandrashekar Azad, Chief of Bhim Army was arrested today and taken in police custody Deoband's Kasimpura village. The Dalit leader was on his way...

Success in Bihar victory against RSS, Modi: Rahul

New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said the success of the Grand Alliance in Bihar was a victory against the RSS,...

सहारनपुर में फिर गरजी भीम आर्मी, चंद्रशेखर के लिए चलाएगी जेल भरो आंदोलन

आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर : ‘सरकार के बढ़ते अत्याचार से दलित और अधिक मज़बूत हो रहा है. चन्द्रशेखर भाई दलितों की आवाज़ हैं....

Prof. Kancha Ilaiah to Deliver Keynote Speech at Ambedkar-King Conference in USA

August 12. Cupertino, California, USA | TCN Staff  Indian political theorist and academic Prof. Kancha Ilaiah has been confirmed as the chief guest and key...

“Dalit community needs business leadership,” Padma Shri Ravi Kumar Narra in exclusive chat with...

Padma Shri Ravi Kumar Narra is an entrepreneur and social activist. He is the National President of the Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and...

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

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

Bihar Assembly election: Pasmanda Muslims may support BJP

By Abhay Kumar for TwoCircles.net, Patna/New Delhi: An association of Pasmanda Muslims has said that it may consider supporting the Bharatiya Janta Party if it...

ज्योतिबा फुले से उपेंद्र कुशवाहा तक…

काशिफ़ यूनुस जो लोग उपेंद्र कुशवाहा के उन दिनों के संघर्ष से वाक़िफ़ हैं, जब वो राष्ट्रीय लोक समता पार्टी के गठन का प्रयास...

It feels like Babasaheb’s blessing: Woman whose Bhimgeet video went viral overwhelmed with response

By Imran Inamdar, TwoCircles.net Kakhet lekru, Hatat jhadan, Doi war Shenachi Paati, Maye Bhima na sonya ne bharli woti” (Child in arms, broom in the hand...

आज सहारनपुर में दलित महापंचायत, प्रशासन ने लगाया धारा —144

आस मोहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर : शुक्रवार को सहारनपुर के शब्बीरपुर गांव में हुए जातीय संघर्ष के बाद अब दलितों ने अपने पंचायत का ऐलान...

Congress, BJP treat Dalits as vote bank: Mayawati

Lucknow : Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and BSP chief Mayawati lashed out at the Congress and the BJP on Tuesday, accusing the two...

Akhilesh Yadav hopes inclusion of 17 castes in SC category will help SP, relieve...

By Faisal Fareed, TwoCircles.net Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav mooted the development agenda for forthcoming assembly polls, ushering in a new wave and...

How the life of a Sufi leader paved way for interfaith harmony in Kerala

By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net Malappuram: At a time when inter-religious conflicts are rearing their ugly heads across the country, Mamburam Makham in Malappuram...

अपने अधिकार के लिए संगठित हो रही हैं इस गांव की महिलाएं

TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter मधुबनी (बिहार) : मधुबनी ज़िले के कलुआही प्रखंड के काज़ीटोला व हरपुर के ग्रामीण इन दिनों अपने गावं में हो...

California textbooks: new battleground for Hindutva groups

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

Punia files papers as Congress candidate for RS polls

Lucknow : Congress leader and chairman of the Scheduled Castes Commission P.L. Punia Friday filed his nomination papers for the Nov 20 Rajya Sabha...

Attack on marginalised students shows SFI is losing the plot in Kerala

By Shafeeq Hudawi, Twocircles.net For the past year, campus politics in India has taken up a sizeable space in the media; but the focus has...

Ambedkar statue vandalized in UP

Lucknow, (IANS): A statue of Dalit icon Bhimrao Ambedkar was vandalized in Meerut district in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, police said. The incident took place in...

What does EWS quota mean for SC, ST, OBCs?

The Supreme Court's reservation for economically weaker sections, especially for the forward castes, has sprung up a debate that it will only create...

Scholar’s suicide: Rahul seeks action against Dattatreya

Hyderabad : Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday favoured the students' demand for action against union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya, the Hyderabad University vice...

Real-tough times ahead for Kashmiris

Ref: - 'Kashmiri Nationalism' is the reality. Dear Sir The first-ever Indo-Pak poll sponsored by Indian Express, Dawn News and CNN-IBN published on August 12, 2007 along with survey carried out by CSDS and Jammu University in 2002 should be enough for the Kashmiris to wake them up from their slumber and gird up for the arduous diplomatic fight and tough periods ahead. Without going into the details of the entire findings of these surveys what is presently relevant is that: -

SC junks PIL seeking job quotas based on income

New Delhi : The Supreme Court Monday junked a PIL seeking to do away with caste-based job reservation for Dalits, tribals and others and...

Book on discrimination against Dalits creates buzz in the US

New York, (IANS): A highly anecdotal and touching account of caste-based discrimination in India by an "untouchable born in Andhra Pradesh", who emigrated to the...

विशेष : कांशीराम परिनिर्वाण दिवस पर एच -एल दुशाध का लेख

जिसकी जितनी संख्या भारी : बदल सकती है राजनीतिक परिदृश्य ! -एच.एल.दुसाध,Twocircle.net के लिए चुनाव जीतने में नारे बहुत अहम् रोल अदा करते हैं, ऐसा राजनीति...

Pansare murder suspect knew Goa blast mastermind: Police

Panaji: Hindu right-wing outfit Sanatan Sanstha member Rudra Patil, a suspect in leftist Govind Pansare's murder, was in regular touch with the mastermind of...

Social distancing being used to reinforce caste bias, justify Manusmriti, says Dalit activist Ramesh...

Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net  The COVID-19 continues to spread in India, with latest death toll figures close to over 20,000. While many reports and studies have...

Ambedkar statue vandalised in Uttarakhand

Haridwar, (IANS): A statue of Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar was on Friday found vandalised by miscreants in a village in Haridwar district of Uttarakhand, sparking...

In Vaishali ‘birthplace of democracy’ parties pinning hope on caste equations

By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net, Sahebganj/Vaishali: At a rally in Sahebganj in Muzaffarpur District (under Viashali Constituency) Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD) Supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav arrived almost two hours late that originally scheduled time of 3 PM (normal for all leaders in election season with hectic schedule). His supporters though braved the scorching Sun taking refuge in water-melon and shadow of tree, but waited to listen to their leader.

BJP has done nothing for farmers: Kharge

New Delhi : The Congress leader in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday accused the central government of "not doing anything for farmers"...

Safai karamcharis demand a separate Ministry to rehabilitate Manual scavengers

TCN News Dalit Adivasi Adhikar Andolan released a 10 point manifesto for Safaikaramcharis to ensure that political parties take note and implement their demands. The Safaikaramcharis...

रिजर्व सीट यूपी : 62 आरक्षित सीटों पर जीती बीजेपी, 17 पर सपा ने...

स्टाफ रिपोर्टर। Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के विधानसभा चुनाव के चुनावी समीकरण का एक रोचक तथ्य सामने आया है कि जिस दल ने सबसे ज्यादा आरक्षित...

Seven held guilty for lynching five Dalits in Haryana

By IANS, Jhajjar (Haryana): A district court here Saturday held seven people guilty and acquitted 19 others in a case relating to the 2002 lynching of five Dalits in this Haryana district. The punishment for the convicts will be announced Monday. All the seven people held guilty were sent to judicial custody by Additional District and Sessions Judge A.K. Jain Saturday.

Bihar election will decide India’s future: Tejaswi Yadav

Patna: The Bihar assembly election will determine the future of India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, says the cricketer-turned-politician son of Rashtriya Janata Dal...

भूख से लड़ते भारत के बच्चे

फहमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net भारत में कुपोषण की शुरुआत मां के गर्भ से ही हो जाती है. गर्भवती महिलाओं को जीवन भर पौष्टिक भोजन का अभाव...

लेखकों ने साहित्य अकादमी अवार्ड वापिस लेने शुरू किए

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter नई दिल्ली: लंबा वक़्त नहीं बीता जब विचारकों और लेखकों ने एमएम कलबुर्गी, नरेन्द्र दाभोलकर और गोविन्द पान्सारे की हत्याओं और...

Attack on Dalit students in Osmania Unv condemned

By TCN News, Hyderabad: Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee (CLMC)has condemned the attack on Dalit students and burning of Sarath Naliganti room who is a student leader, research scholar of Osmania University and MLA contested candidate of MIM from Amberpet constituency by Hindutva student wing ABVP at Osmania University campus.

Dalits protest across Maharashtra over Pune riots, state braces for Wednesday shutdown

Mumbai, Jan 2 (IANS) Angry Dalits staged rail, road blockades and took out processions in Mumbai and agitations in different parts of Maharashtra on...

India’s IT capital caught in silly controversies

(LETTER FROM BANGALORE) By V.S. Karnic, Bangalore, May 17 (IANS) A new visitor to India's IT capital would be bemused as well as flummoxed - is this the same city that has become an international metaphor for outsourcing of jobs, particularly in its booming software industry? The most talked about issues in the last two weeks have been the city civic authority's inability to find space for the hundreds of tonnes of garbage generated daily and whether women should be allowed to work in the night, particularly in its scores of call centres.

Yashica Dutt’s book ‘Coming Out as Dalit’ to be released in 2017

By TCN News, A book written by Yashica Dutt, a journalist living in New York, who concealed her identity of being a dalit for a...

The Old Boys’ Public School (OBPS) Implementation Scheme

The Association has launched an ambitious project of establishing a chain of English medium schools with the brand name Old Boys' Public School (OBPS) under clause 2 (vi) of the rules of the association. The objective is to nurture pure morality, free inquiry and large hearted tolerance in students and impart purposeful education so that they can face the challenges posed by the modern and emerging societies. The OBPS board of management has worked out an effective scheme for implementing the OBPS project. The management is offering

चन्द्रशेखर की रिहाई को लेकर हिमांशु कुमार की पदयात्रा आज सहारनपुर पहुंचेगी

TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter मुज़फ़्फ़रनगर/सहारनपुर : भीम आर्मी सुप्रीमो चन्द्रशेख़र की रिहाई के लिए मानवधिकार कार्यकर्ता हिमांशु कुमार की पदयात्रा आज सहारनपुर पहुंच जाएगी. हिमांशु कुमार फिलहाल...

BJP relies on caste factor in Bihar last phase

By Imran Khan, Patna : More than Narendra Modi's appeal, the BJP seems to be banking on the caste arithmetic when the last lot of...

Dalit student awarded Rohith Vemula Memorial Scholarship by Lucknow NGO

By TCN News Lucknow: Chandan Kumar Ram, a Dalit student whose parents work as labourers, was awarded the first Rohith Vemula Memorial Scholarship by...

Two BSP MLAs accuse Mayawati of selling tickets for crores

Lucknow : Two Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislators raised the banner of revolt against the party leadership on Wednesday and accused party chief Mayawati...

Yet another couple attacked over intercaste marriage in Hyderabad

Hyderabad, Sep 20 (IANS) A man attacked his daughter and son-in-law with a machete and baldy injured them here on Wednesday, in another case...

TISS students’ strike enters Day 4, support pours from Universities across India; demands yet...

By Daisy Katta, TwoCircles.net The strike in Tata Institute Of Social Sciences called by the students of all the four campuses has entered day 4...

Dalit intellectuals’ voices should be heard on Arundhati Roy’s Ambedkar introduction

By Vanya Mehta, TwoCircles.net, Since the publication of Arundhati Roy’s introduction to The Annihilation of Caste, called “The Doctor and the Saint,” intellectuals and Dalit activists have spoken out against her as a choice for the introduction as well as her over-emphasis on Mahatma Gandhi’s story over Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar’s story.

AAP seeks Gujarat High Court help for rally in Surat

Ahmedabad : The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the state government on an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) petition that Surat police...

Dalit lorry driver killed by Tamil Nadu Special Forces in custody, alleges family

By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Kancheepuram (Tamil Nadu): On the evening of February 12, Suresh, 33, from Gandhi Nagar, Orikkai, in Kancheepuram district of Tamil...

Aaghaz’s Rohith Vemula Memorial Scholarship awarded to a Dalit student

By TCN News, New Delhi:Aaghaz Foundation, an organisation that has been working towards reducing drop-out rate among minorities has announced the winner of ‘Rohith Vemula...

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

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.

ABVP on the rampage again, this time in BHU

They disrupted a program featuring a JNU professor, threatened TCN reporter By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net Varanasi: Earlier today Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad(ABVP) members tried to stop...

UC Raman, the Dalit face of IUML, aims to strengthen Dalit-Muslim alliance in Kerala

By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net Kozhikode: Hardly a day after his candidature was announced, U C Raman made a beeline to Panakkad Syed Hyderali Shihab...

SDPI protests at Jantar Mantar against thrashing of dalits in Gujarat

By TCN News, New Delhi: The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) today held a protest demonstration at Jantar Mantar here and termed the incident...

Voting rises in UP’s reserved Lok Sabha seats

By Puja Awasthi, Lucknow : There is a marked rise in the number of people voting in the Lok Sabha constituencies reserved for Dalits in...

अलीगढ़ : खेत मे मिला दलित किशोरी का शव,ग्रामीणों में आक्रोश

स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर । Twocircles.Net  अलीगढ़ में जंगल मे चारा लेने गई  एक लड़की का शव मिलने के बाद हड़कंप मच गया है। लड़की दलित समुदाय...

Patan Gang Rape- Request Public hearings in Gujarat

Submitted by dn.rath, New Delhi The Visiting Team of NCW on Patan to Gujarat National Commission for Women 4, Deen Dayal Upadhayaya Marg, New Delhi-110 002. Sub- Patan Gang Rape- Request Public hearings in Gujarat association with NCW

Atrocities on Dalits following pattern during NDA rule: Congress

New Delhi : The Congress on Thursday said atrocities against the Dalits across India during the National Democratic Alliance government's rule since May 2014...

Boston NRIs condemn Telangana Government brutality at University of Hyderabad

Demands resignation of VC Podile Appa Rao By TCN News, On Sunday March 27, several dozen NRIs in Boston gathered to express outrage at the brutal...

Three murders and a lynching

By Ram Puniyani for Twocircles.net Laws of nature cannot be applied to human society so directly. Still, sometimes, these have been used to explain...

‘नीट’ में ओबीसी आरक्षण को लेकर भीम आर्मी का प्रदर्शन

स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net देशभर में मेडिकल परीक्षा नीट में अन्य पिछड़ा वर्ग का आरक्षण खत्म करे जाने का मुद्दा अब गरमाता जा रहा हैं। राजनैतिक...

Mayawati rejigs party organisation, eyes set on 2017 polls

Lucknow : Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati late Sunday affected major changes in the party hierarchy by sacking all the coordinator booth in-charges...

क्या है भीमा कोरेगांव का इतिहास और 200 साल बाद की सियासत?

कलीम अज़ीम, TwoCircles.net के लिए 1 जनवरी 1818 को ईस्ट इंडिया कंपनी और पेशवा के बीच पुणे ज़िले के ‘भीमा कोरेगांव’ में लड़ाई हुई थी....

BJP’s defeat is seldom analyzed deeply

By Soroor Ahmed, TwoCircles.net, When the Bharatiya Janata Party performed badly in the August 21 by-polls in Bihar––it could win only four out of 10 seats––it was attributed to the coming together of RJD, JD(U) and Congress. But how will the BJP explain losing three out of nine seats in prime minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat, three out of four in Rajasthan and eight out of 11 in Uttar Pradesh. After all the BJP-led alliance had won 124 out of 131 Lok Sabha seats in these three states in the parliamentary election held in May 2014.

In UP, the truth is that no Muslim party plays a major role in...

By Faisal Fareed, Twocircles.net With UP going to elections this weekend, it is clear that the gloves are off and everyone is either trying to...

Shut courts if they can’t protect rights: SC/ST Act vedict judge

By IANS New Delhi: Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, who headed a bench which delivered the judgment forbidding immediate arrest under SC/ST Act, on Friday said...

CPI-M demands quota for SC, ST in private sector

Visakhapatnam : The Communist Party of India-Marxist on Thursday demanded reservations for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in the private sector and...

Sikhs protest over atrocities against minorities, Dalits

By Arul Louis  United Nations, (IANS): A group of Sikhs held a protest against atrocities against minorities and Dalits in India during B.R. Ambedkar's birth...

Can marginalised students in India dream of higher education in foreign universities?

Students from marginalized communities in India face multiple hurdles in accessing education abroad.  Aatika S | TwoCircles.net NEW DELHI — Tejas Harad, founder-editor of The Satyashodhak, an...

Dhanya Raman: Giving a voice to the marginalised in Kerala

By Shafeeq Hudawi Thiruvananthapuram: In March 2016, while the entire mainstream media was still busy with the incidents in JNU,...

जानिए कौन है सहारनपुर में ‘आग’ लगाने वाली ‘भीम आर्मी’

आस मोहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर : मंगलवार दिन भर सहारनपुर के जलने के बाद देर शाम सहारनपुर के एसएसपी सुभाष चंद्र दुबे ने आखिरकार कह...

In EFLU, five Dalit students ‘defamed’ a professor. How? By speaking against oppression

By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net On January 17, Rohith Vemula, a Dalit student at the University of Hyderabad, committed suicide. For the whole year, his...

National workshop on Urdu translation of Babasaheb Ambedkar’s writings begins at AMU

By TCN News Aligarh: Today Aligarh Muslim University organized the inaugural session on the Second Two Day National Workshop on ‘Urdu Translation of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s...

Amnesty International asks Chattisgarh govt to investigate rape complaints of Adivasi women

By TwoCircles.net, Staff Reporter Chhattisgarh: Two weeks after rapes and assaults were reported from Chhattisgarh while security forces were conducting anti-Maoist operations, Amnesty...

Dalit woman raped in Odisha, one arrested

By IANS, Bhubaneswar: A 50-year-old man was arrested Tuesday for raping a Dalit woman in Odisha, police said.

SC to hear challenge to amendment to SC/ST law from March 26

New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would commence hearing from March 26 on a batch of petitions challenging...

Dalits still fear returning home after arson attack

By IANS, Hisar (Haryana) : Nearly 20 terrorised families are still camping outside Haryana's Mirchpur village after last month's arson attack on Dalit houses, in which two people were burnt alive. They refuse to return home despite assurances of financial help and security from the state government.

Radhika Vemula has a message for the PM this Women’s Day

An open letter from Radhika Vemula to the Prime Minister Jai Bhim everyone, My name is Radhika Vemula. I am Rohith Vemula’s mother. This International Women’s...

NDA government is anti-Dalit: Congress

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

The ‘undefined love’ of a left-leaning Defence Committee for the Bhim Army

By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net On Tuesday, a few activists and lawyers from Delhi joined hands to protest against 'Modi-Yogi governments' in light of the oppression...

Fear grips Dalits in Gujarat village after youth’s killing

Bhadraniya (Gujarat), (IANS): An atmosphere of fear hung over a colony of Dalits in this Gujarat village after the killing of a young man from...

NCDHR condemns “calculated” expulsion of three marginalised EFLU students

By TCN News New Delhi: The National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) strongly condemned the “calculated expulsion” of three marginalised students from the English...

Dalit posts being given to general category, says Buta Singh

By IANS, Bhopal : National Commission for the Scheduled Castes (NCSC) chairman Buta Singh Sunday said that Dalits were being denied their fundamental right in Madhya Pradesh and that the government was recruiting general category candidates to fill the backlog of vacancies reserved for these castes. Singh, who was on the fact-finding mission to Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's native village in Sehore district, 100 km from here, after media reports that Dalits were not allowed entry into the three temples there, was accompanied by NCSC member from Madhya Pradesh Mahendra Boudh.

दंगाइयों को समझा रहे पूर्व बसपा विधायक को पुलिस ने भेज दिया जेल, वीडियो...

आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net मेरठ : दलितों के 2 अप्रैल को किए गए भारत बंद के दौरान हुई हिंसा के बाद अब राजनीति गहरा...

Don’t politicise Dalit issue: Rajnath

New Delhi : Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday urged against politicise the issue of atrocities on the Dalits and said society...

Probe into Vemula death a farce: Mayawati

New Delhi: BSP chief Mayawati on Friday alleged that the government was protecting people with RSS links who forced Dalit scholar Rohit Vemula to...

Taking cue from Black Lives Matter, ‘Dalit, Minorities, Tribal Lives Matter’ campaign launched in...

By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net Taking a cue from the ongoing mass campaign Black Lives Matter, South Asian Minorities Lawyers Association has decided to launch a...

SC/ST amendment bill to be introduced in Parliament in this session

New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said a bill to amend the SC/ST Atrocities Prevention Act, approved by the Cabinet on Wednesday,...

Religious leaders stress on strengthening mutual love, harmony in India

TCN News New Delhi: A get-together of the prominent leaders of different religions was organised at the Archbishop House here on Monday to strengthen mutual...

Kedarnath to Kanhaiya: Sedition law a tool to muffle the voice of dissent

By Azim Hussain Mazumder, The arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar on sedition charges following the so called ‘Anti-national’ incident at Jawaharlal Nehru University sparked the debate...

30 years of SC/ST PoA Act: Lacks and loopholes

By Sukanya Roy, TwoCircles.net Kolkata: On 5 November, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court ruled that insulting a Dalit or tribal person would not...

“Secularists” & Muslim leadership enemy of secularism in India

Ref: - ECI being allowed to derelict in BJP CD case Dear Sir What communal politics did to Muslims of India during last two decades can not be fully comprehended merely by the stories of demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992 (despite Supreme Court's observe over there) and by the horrifying details of the massacre of thousands of innocent Muslims since late eighties including in 2002 Gujarat pogrom.

‘मूकनायक’ जैसी पत्रकारिता आज भी जरूरी क्यों है!

मीना कोटवाल, twocircles.net नई दिल्‍ली। ‘मूकनायक’ के सौ साल पूरे होने की खुशी में देशभर में इसका आयोजन किया गया। देशभर के आंबेडकरवादियों ने एकजुट होकर...

Hundreds protest in Delhi against lynchings, communal divide

New Delhi, (IANS): Hundreds of people, including film stars and social activists, on Wednesday gathered at Jantar Mantar here to protest against the recent incidents...

No pride in caste prejudice

By Fatima Zehra for TwoCircles.net The recent suicide of Rohith Vemula, a Dalit student of the University of Hyderabad sparked outrage across India and resurrected...

Global activists demand a UN Declaration on elmination of Discrimination based on Work and...

By TCN News    The first Global Forum on Discrimination based on Work and Descent (DWD) was convened on 20-23 September in New York, which took...

‘गाय तुम्हारी माता है तो गाय तुम रखो, हमें तो हमारी ज़मीन दो’

कलीम सिद्दीक़ी अहमदाबाद : ऊना दलित-मुस्लिम आन्दोलन की बरसी पर ‘राष्ट्रीय दलित अधिकार मंच’ द्वारा निकाली गई ‘आज़ादी कूच’ यात्रा बनासकांठा के धनेरा में मंगलवार...

‘दलितों व मुस्लिमों पर अत्याचार, दूषित मानसिकता वाले लोगों की एक सोची समझी चाल’

TwoCircles.net News Desk सीतापुर : दलितों के बीच काम करने वाली ‘लक्ष्य’ नामक एक संस्था की सीतापुर टीम ने बहुजन जनजागरण अभियान के तहत एक...

Bihar chief minister to learn Urdu

Patna : Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi will soon take lessons in Urdu and may hire a teacher for the purpose. "I will try...

Nitish, legislators reach Delhi; Manjhi announces quotas

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

8 मार्च को देश भर में गिरफ़्तारी देगी भीम आर्मी, चंद्रशेखर ने जेल से...

आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर : भीम आर्मी ने अपने सुप्रीमो चंद्रशेखर रावण की रिहाई को लेकर अब सख़्त फैसले लेने शुरू कर दिए...

ग्राऊंड रिपोर्ट : जिस गांव में दलितों के खिलाफ मुनादी हुई,वहां हो गया है...

वसीम अहमद और निखिल Two circles.net के लिए पावटी खुर्द में जाने के लिए आपको मुजफ्फरनगर -देवबंद मार्ग पर स्थित रोहाना से जाना पड़ता...

AMU Alumni Forum – UAE dedicates empowerment conference to UAE National Day

By TCN News On the occasion of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) bicentennial celebrations across the world, the AMU Alumni Forum UAE, under the patronage of...

‘बीफ़ के मुद्दे पर धार्मिक ध्रुवीकरण करके ब्राह्मणवादी सरकार मूलनिवासी बहुजनों को आपस में...

TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter नई दिल्ली : बामसेफ की राष्ट्रीय उपाध्यक्ष डॉ. मनीषा बांगर ने देश की मौजूदा स्थिति को लोकतंत्र के लिए ख़तरनाक बताया है....

CPI-M condemns police firing on Dalits

New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) The CPI-M on Monday denounced the police firing on Dalit activists protesting against the Supreme Court's decision to dilute the...

Benazir should be under house arrest rather up to elections to provide level field...

Ref:- Time running out fast for Musharraf to declare joint martial & civilian rule in Pakistan. Dear Sir Musharraf so far has shown uncanny acumen & dexterity in State / political matters where:- (1)- Elections to National & State assemblies of Pakistan are announced in January 2008. This should please international community especially USA & its democratic allies who were breathing on Musharraf's neck for early elections in Pakistan.
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