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Untouchable in life, untouchable in death: Story of two dalit workers

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By Ravichandran Chakkiliyan, TwoCircles.net, Rs. 200,000 each for the lives of two- a Madiga and a Mangali. Kaleikuri Prasad's Poem 'Karma Bhuumilo' For whom do you search, for what saviours do you wait? If they poison you or burn you, or even if they strangle you with a rope No doctor shall testify for you, no court shall protect you All the laws and the courts promise illusory hope They’re only mirages for the common man (Translated by Kuffir Nalgundwar)

A temple where upper castes bow to Dalits

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By Asit Srivastava, IANS, Lucknow : Stories of socially marginalised people not being allowed into places of worship are common in India. In such a scenario, a Dalit family presiding over an Uttar Pradesh temple for ages is nothing short of exemplary. It's only Dalits who have been priests of the Kali Mata temple, dedicated to goddess Durga, in Lakhna town in Etawah, some 300 km from Lucknow, ever since the shrine came up around 200 years ago.

“We are united to fight fascism”, CPI (ML) candidate Sandeep Saurav aims to bring...

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By Chinki Sinha, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: There was a poem by Punjabi communist poet Pash he stumbled upon in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) during his...

Didn’t protect Dalit family for vote bank: Bihar CM

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Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi Sunday revealed that the risk of losing at least 50,000 votes from a "powerful caste" had once...

Tribals appeal for separate religion code in census

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By IANS, New Delhi: Tribal groups from several states across the country Wednesday held a protest here, demanding they be listed under a distinct 'religion code' in the 2011 population census. Union Minister of Food Processing Industries Subodh Kant Sahay, who visited the protest-site, promised to take their demands to the government. Nearly 150 people of various tribal groups from states like Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh took part in the protest at Jantar Mantar.

JNU gets solidarity from American University of Beirut

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Members and affiliates of the American University of Beirut (AUB) have issued statement in support of students and faculty at...

CPI-M condemns police firing on Dalits

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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...

Mahadalits return to Bihar village after assurance of security

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Patna : Nearly 300 Mahadalits who had fled their Bihar village after being threatened by upper caste men returned home Sunday following assurances of...

Mayawati flays ‘anti-Dalit’ temple ritual in Karnataka

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By IANS,

On Bhima Koregaon, your Janaeu was shining brightly on Republic TV: An open letter...

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By Disha KR for TwoCircles.net Dear Mr Arnab Goswami, Your debate #Endcastepolitics on both 2nd and 3rd of January is a perfect example of a casteist...

Dalits protest in a police station of Usmanabad with woman’s ‘dead body’

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By TwoCircles.net staff reporter, Usmanabad (Maharashtra): Dalit leaders and activists staged a protest by keeping body of Kamlavati Kamble for almost six hours in the Lohara police station premises in the district demanding arrest of those responsible for her death.

‘एआईएमआईएम’के साथ गठबंधन की बात में रत्ती भर भी सच नही : मायावती

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न्यूज डेस्क । Twocircles.net बसपा सुप्रीमो मायावती ने यूपी चुनाव के लिए बसपा और एआईएमआईएम के गठबंधन की खबरों को खंडित किया हैं और...

स्त्री – शिक्षा के लिए सब कुछ दांव पर लगाने वाली सावित्रीबाई फुले

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हमारे जानी दुश्मन का नाम है अज्ञान उसे धर दबोचो मजबूत पकड़ कर पीटो और उसे जीवन से भगा दो! तन्वी सुमन। Twocircles.net उपर लिखे हुए एक-एक शब्द भारत की...

Amid Covid-19 lockdown, Mushar children in Bihar collect rats to feed themselves, families as...

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With a population of 2.5 lakh, Mushar community in Bihar are considered Maha-Dalits (Dalits among Dalits) and discriminated against. Amid the ongoing Covid-19 lockdown...

Mob lynching: All India Momin Conference writes to Modi, questions ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter All India Momin Conference, an organisation of Muslim weavers and artisans, have written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to...

‘I was denied food and beaten,’ the unregistered story of child trafficking in Bihar

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Trafficking is a common story of hundreds of children every year in Gaya and adjoining districts of Bihar including Nawdah, Aurangabad and Jahanabad. Many...

Apex court okays Tamil Nadu quota law

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By IANS, New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday granted protection to Tamil Nadu's quota law which provides 69 percent reservation in educational institutions and jobs to scheduled castes and tribes and other backward classes, but advised the state government to revisit the issue. The apex court bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia and Justices K.S. Radhakrishna Rao and Swatanter Kumar directed the state backward classes commission to revisit the reservation issue in the light of the Mandal case judgement dealing with quotas.

Lakshmipet killing: Dalit Mahasabha demand sacking of Pradesh Congress chief

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By TCN News

USA ought to mobilize UN for transforming global monetary system

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Ref: To avoid man made financial Tsunamis, Federal interest cut not enough.

Dear Sir

Last week's interest rate cut by Federal Reserve of USA which again injected life in share market of India which got decimated after fall of SENSEX from 22,000 to 16,000 has proved (if at all any proof was needed) that sovereignty in contemporary world has no meaning in traditional sense of the term and USA is economically all powerful to influence economies of various countries including of India, especially in this age of globalization.

Poll-by-poll, Mayawati’s appeal shrinking in UP

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By Mohit Dubey, Lucknow : Is former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati's stranglehold on her voter base dwindling? Having drawn a blank in the Lok...

Writing about marginalised communities is like walking a tight rope

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On the sidelines of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), writers reflect on the experiences of writing on the issues of marginalized communities in India. Tabeenah...

Muslim women beaten up in MP for allegedly carrying beef; uproar in Rajya Sabha

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By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: In yet another violence caused due to suspicion of possessing beef, two Muslim women were thrashed and abused by...

University of Oxford expresses concern over rising caste, gender-based violence in India

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TCN News The students, faculty, staff and alumni of the prestigious University of Oxford have expressed grave concerns against the rising caste and gender-based violence...

Woman hanged, beaten, burnt on pyre

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By IANS,

Gandhi’s people in Maoist land

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By Aishik Chanda, Kukurbhukka, Jashpur district (Chhattisgarh): They travel in a van donated by a Gondi Adivasi organization of Bastar. They spend the night with benevolent villagers and eat whatever is offered. The 12-member CGNet Swara team that travels through central India promoting citizen journalism through mobile radio is a diverse lot.

SP to vote against promotion quota bill

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By IANS, New Delhi : The Samajwadi Party Monday said it will vote against the bill to provide reservation in promotion for Dalits and tribals in government jobs.

Government formulates umbrella scheme for ST students

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New Delhi : The union tribal welfare ministry has formulated an umbrella scheme for education of Scheduled Tribes (ST) students by merging a few...

दलितों, आदिवासियों और मुस्लिमों को जेल ही दे पाया है हमारा लोकतंत्र – शिवमूर्ति

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By TCN News, लखनऊ : रिहाई मंच के तत्वावधान में ‘अवैध गिरफ्तारी विरोध दिवस’ के तहत यूपी प्रेस क्लब लखनऊ में ‘अवैध गिरफ्तारियां और इंसाफ का संघर्ष’ विषयक सेमिनार का आयोजन किया गया.

Dalit scholar’s suicide an indictment of BJP’s Hindutva agenda, say Indian Americans

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By TCN News Washington: The Indian American Muslim Council, an advocacy group aimed at safeguarding India's pluralist and tolerant ethos, expressed shock...

Kerala seeks Karnataka’s help in ragging case of Dalit nursing student

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Kozhikode (Kerala) : The Kerala Police has approached its Karnataka counterparts to register a case against two college students for brutally ragging a Dalit...

‘Mayawati insensitive to Dalit woes’

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By IANS, Lucknow: National Commission for Scheduled Castes Chairman P.L. Punia Wednesday accused Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati of being insensitive to the problems faced by Dalits.

DHRM for a new Dalit movement in Kerala

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent Thiruvananthapuram: The Dalit Human Rights Movement (DHRM) has decided to form a new Dalit movement by the time of the coming Assembly elections, reports say. The DHRM will also reportedly vote against the CPI (M) in the coming panchayat elections.

Dalit award winner of Dutch Human Rights award is refused passport

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By TCN News

क्या महज़ राजनीति का मुद्दा है डेल्टा मेघवाल?

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net राजस्थान के नोखा शहर में एक प्रतिभाशाली लड़की को तंत्र की अमानवीयता के चलते अपनी जान से हाथ धोना पड़ा. डेल्टा...

War on Constitution

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By Vidya Bhushan Rawat, TCN Those of us who witnessed what happened when the goons demolished Babari Masjid in 1992 and later assaulted journalists covering...

Court sentences death to Ameerul Islam for rape and murder of Kerala law student

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Kochi (Kerala), (IANS): A sessions court in Kerala on Thursday sentenced to death Ameerul Islam, a migrant labourer from Assam, who on Tuesday was...

BJP relies on caste factor in Bihar last phase

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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...

WPI welcomes Apex Court guidelines on police encounters

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Welfare Party of India, in a statement, appreciated and hailed the apex court guidelines on deaths in police encounter for mandatory registration of FIRs and investigation by CID or any other independent agency.

Retired Generals failed to analyze current disenchantment of Indian youth with armed forces

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Ref: Irrelevancy of martial element the main problem and the only solution is, to make human rights the martial jurisdiction. Dear Sir The...

Justice subverted: Dalit girl thrown into fire by upper caste men

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By Madhu Chandra,

भाजपा के मनुवादी सोच की अभिव्यक्ति है मधु मिश्रा का बयान

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Boston event links Black Liberation and Palestinian movements with the Anti-Caste Struggle

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By Paul Malachi, TwoCircles.net The #DalitWomenFight United States tour reached Boston on Saturday, September 19th, 2015 with a panel titled “Dalit Women Fight – Moving...

How Dalit music in Punjab transformed from a religious to a political soundtrack

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By Manisha Bhalla, TwoCircles.net The elephant of BSP has arrived, The one that will be a companion to all, To end poverty and slavery, This time...

Andhra minister booked for assaulting Dalit youth

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By IANS, Hyderabad : Hyderabad police Sunday booked an Andhra Pradesh minister and his aides for assaulting a Dalit supporter of the Telangana movement.

Gujarat Dalits not to lift carcasses, want firearms

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Ahmedabad : Gujarat Dalit leaders on Sunday asked the government to give them firearms in view of atrocities by Hindu activists as thousands...

नफरत से टकराना यानी रोहित वेमुला हो जाना है

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नासिरूद्दीन ‘गुड मॉर्निंग, जब आप सब यह खत पढ़ रहे होंगे, मैं आपसे दूर चला जा चुका होऊंगा.. मैं इस तरह की चिट्ठी पहली...

Supreme Court suspends bail for Kobad Ghandy

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By IANS,

Main accused arrested in Dalit girl attack

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By IANS, Fatehpur (Uttar Pradesh) : The main accused has been arrested in the brutal attack on a teenaged Dalit girl who was maimed for resisting rape, police said Monday.

भीम आर्मी के समर्थन में अब गांव-गांव लगने लगे हैं ‘द ग्रेट चमार बोर्ड’

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आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net मीरापुर : सहारनपुर से 110 किमी दूर मुज़फ़्फ़रनगर जनपद के थाना क्षेत्र मीरापुर में कैथोड़ा ग्राम पंचायत के अधीन एक गांव...

Uddhav trying to split RPI: Athawale

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Mumbai : Grappling with an intra-party controversy over his decision to ally with the BJP, Republican Party of India (A) President Ramdas Athawale Tuesday...

Encourage marginalised sections in higher judiciary, says outgoing CJI

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New Delhi: Outgoing Chief Justice of India P.Sathasivam Friday said that rules and criteria in the appointment of judges should be relaxed for giving...

Human Rights Watch criticises Modi government over increasing attacks on Muslims and Dalits

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter New Delhi: Hindu vigilante groups attacked Muslims and Dalits over suspicions that they had killed, stolen, or sold cows for beef....

मोदी जी के संसदीय क्षेत्र में महिलाएं नहीं दे सकतीं अपना मांग-पत्र

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TCN News, वाराणसी: नफरत और हिंसा की राजधानी के खिलाफ रोजी-रोटी-रोजगार के लिए ऐपवा ने संविधान दिवस पर महिला अधिकार मार्च निकाला.लम्बे समय से सरकार की...

Backward classes panel for quota in private sector

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New Delhi : The National Commission of Backward Classes has written to the social justice ministry to bring a bill for providing 27 percent...

How Savarna feminism is eroding the discourse on the Hathras case?

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By Pragathi Ravi On September 14, 2020, a 19-year-old Dalit woman was brutally gang-raped by four Thakur men in Uttar Pradesh, where she later succumbed...

Almost month after Dalit woman’s rape, accused surrenders

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Chandigarh : Almost a month after a young Dalit woman was dragged out of her office and later allegedly raped in Punjab's Muktsar district,...

बाढ़ : सुशासित बिहार में 250 दलित सड़क पर रहने को मजबूर

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फहमीना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net बेलसर : बिहार सरकार द्वारा विकास के दावों के बीच आज वहां गया जिले में बेलसर गाँव के दलित टोले में रहने...

Narendra Modi’s victory in Gujarat

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Dear Sir

The reason for Modi's victory (widely covered by Indian and international media) is following and simple as apprehended in my letter (dated October 30, 2007) published in international print media, some paragraphs of which are reproduced below:-

"[This refers to Thursday ''Tehelka' expose on Indian T.V. channels, which was also reproduced next day in prominent print media, exposing State sponsored gory massacre of thousands of innocent Muslims in Gujarat 2002 pogrom.

“Caste is enforced through Dalit women’s bodies”

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By TCN News, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Dalits are at the bottom of caste hierarchy in India and the caste system is enforced through Dalit women’s bodies in the form of violence and abuse, said activists Asha Kotwal and Thenmozhi Soundarajan, who were in town to give details about a month-long “Dalit Mahila Swabhiman Yatra” in India.

Petitions against Scheduled Caste seats in MCD polls dismissed

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By IANS,

Former face of Gujarat Riots to join Azadi Kooch, will work for Dalit Muslim...

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By Amit Kumar, Twocircles.net Dasha, Gujarat: Ashok Parmar, who came into limelight during post godhra riots in 2002 when he was captured by photographer Sebastian...

Another Dalit girl alleges rape in Haryana

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By IANS, Chandigarh : Another Dalit girl in Haryana has alleged that she was gang-raped by two youths, police said Wednesday.

Mayawati: Will her garland turn into noose?

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By Amulya Ganguli, IANS, The apparently bizarre nature of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's politics can be understood by remembering that she is driven by an intense desire to make a mark in politics and, moreover, to do so in a manner which she believes will impress the core group of her supporters, the Dalits. As a newcomer in politics and that too from a depressed community, she has had to build her career from scratch, as it were, without the help of an established party or an influential social network. Hence her unconventional ways.

दलितों की दर्दनाक व्यथा कथा है गुना और दरभंगा की घटना

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मध्यप्रदेश के गुना, बिहार के दरभंगा और उत्तर प्रदेश के मेरठ में यूं तो हजार मील का राऊंड बनता है। मगर दलितों की दशा...

भीम आर्मी चीफ का 23 फरवरी को भारत बंद का ऐलान, तेज़ हुई हलचल

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आस मोहम्मद कैफ।Twocircles.net सहारनपुर। प्रोन्नति में आरक्षण को मौलिक अधिकार मानने से सुप्रीम कोर्ट के इंकार के बाद दलितों में आया उबाल अब आंदोलन की तरफ...

Khobragade did not take permission for interview: MEA

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New Delhi: Diplomat Devyani Khobragade, who had hit the headlines last year following her arrest in the US in an alleged visa fraud case,...

दलितों को तबाह व बर्बाद कर देना चाहता है संघ —मायावती

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter मेरठ : टूटती आशा और डूबती सियासत के सिग्नल ने दलितों की देवी को जनता के चरणों में लाकर खड़ा कर दिया...

Varanasi: Dalit-Muslim unity meet held to counter hate crimes in Uttar Pradesh

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter More than a dozen socio-political groups gathered in Varanasi’s Shastri Ghat on Sunday, February 18 to develop a consensus against the...

SC admits plea against acquittal in Bihar massacre

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By IANS,

Pratik Parmar: Challenging the Savarna hegemony with a camera in hand

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By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Delhi: On a slightly chilly November evening, Pratik Parmar sat with about 30 people in a conference hall in...

Maharashtra CM faces serious threats to life: Prakash Ambedkar

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Mumbai, Jan 10 (IANS) Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis faces serious threats to his life from certain pro-Hindutva elements, Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh President Prakash...

‘Gau rakshaks’ have brought shame to India

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By Amulya Ganguli The decades-old reputation of the Jana Sangh and its successor, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as a Brahmin-Bania party has been reinforced...

Dalit student awarded Rohith Vemula Memorial Scholarship by Lucknow NGO

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

लेखकों ने साहित्य अकादमी अवार्ड वापिस लेने शुरू किए

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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...

Another Dalit party in Maharashtra to support Congress

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Mumbai : The Congress in Maharashtra secured a further advantage with Dalit party, the Panther Republican Party (PRPI), Monday coming out in its support...

Ruckus in Rajya Sabha over Dalits, Mayawati threatens to quit

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New Delhi, (IANS): Sparks flew as the Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day on the second day of the monsoon session on Tuesday as...

Houses set on fire; physically-challenged girl dead

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By IANS, Hisar: An 18-year-old physically challenged Dalit girl was burnt alive after she was trapped in her house which was set on fire by members of a dominant community in Haryana's Hisar district Wednesday. "Some miscreants set some houses in Mirchpur village on fire. A girl, Suman, who could not run out of the house, died of burn injuries. Her father, 70-year-old Tara Chand, is admitted in hospital with 90 per cent burns," O.P. Sheron, deputy commissioner of Hisar, told reporters, here.

Dilution of minority status of AMU and Jamia is an assault on democratic pluralism...

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By TCN News, New Delhi: The national seminar organized by the Welfare Party of India at Indian Law Institute here has expressed deep resentment and...

निर्मल पाठक की घर वापसी: अम्बेडकर के बहाने गांधी के हरिजन को गले लगाती...

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नीरज बंकर Two circles.net के लिए जहाँ एक ओर ओटीटी प्लेटफार्म ने दुनियाभर की फिल्मों, वेब शोज और बाक़ी कलाओं से परिचय कराया जिससे...

‘We Don’t Employ Jai Bhim Walas’: Mumbai-based Event Management Firm Owner Tells Dalit Employee,...

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TCN News New Delhi: In a shocking incident of alleged caste discrimination and that too in a metropolitan city like Mumbai, a 23-year-old Dalit boy was...

रविदास जयंती के पहले बेगमपुरा एक्सप्रेस रद्द, दलितों और सिखों में गुस्सा

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सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net वाराणसी : बनारस में एक मोहल्ला है, सीर गोवर्धन. यहां आप संत रविदास जयंती के दिन घुसेंगे तो पिसने की नौबत आ...

Amend statute for job promotions to SCs, STs: Mayawati

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By IANS,

Swami Prasad Maurya vows to form a majority BJP government in UP

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Lucknow : Former Leader of opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly and senior Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Swamy Prasad Maurya, who joined the...

Lok Sabha witnesses din as Opposition demands debate on lynchings

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New Delhi, (IANS): The Lok Sabha on Monday witnessed noisy scenes as the Opposition members led by Congress created pandemonium, demanding a discussion on the...

Towards an Organic unity of the marginalized: BAPSA and Fraternity Movement Form Alliance...

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By Hisham ul wahab P Towards an Organic Unity of the Marginalized: BAPSA and Fraternity Movement Form Alliance in JNUSU Elections The JNU student community will elect a...

Challenges in Implementation of National Food Security Act discussed

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By TCN News New Delhi: The Institute of Objective Studies (IOS) in association with FIAN India and The Child Trust organised a consultation on “National...

Constitution should be amended for reservation in higher judiciary: Madras High Court Judge

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Chennai: Raising the pitch for reservation to backward classes in the higher judiciary, the Madras High Court sitting judge D....

Aalaap: First movie out of Chhatisgarh will take on Naxalism head on

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By TCN News, Mumbai: Chhattisgarh is caught between Capitalism and Naxalism. A group of people who hail from the region are making a movie to change the perception of the region.

Jamiat Ulama supports NCM chief over SC status to Muslim Dalits

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By TCN News,

Shutdown in Telangana town over Dalit man’s killing

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Hyderabad, Sep 15 (IANS) A shutdown was imposed in Telangana's Miryalguda town on Saturday over the murder of a Dalit man in an apparent...

Rahul challenges Mayawati in her Dalit bastion

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By IANS, Ambedkar Nagar (Uttar Pradesh) :Throwing a challenge to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Wednesday accused her of neglecting the welfare of the poor she claimed to represent. The son of Congress president Sonia Gandhi also asserted that he was confident of bringing the country's oldest political party to power in the state.

Dalit killed for demanding wages

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By IANS, Bhopal : A Dalit in a Madhya Pradesh village only wanted payment of wages due to him -- but what he got was death. Mason Ramesh Jatav was allegedly killed after he demanded Rs.4,000 for the work he had done for farmer Shriram Lodhi, police Sunday said. Thirty-eight-year-old Jatav was killed in Shivpuri district Friday night when he had gone to Shriram's house with his wife to demand back-wages. According to police, Shriram and his relative Gabdu Lodhi took the couple to a nearby field and killed Jatav, a resident of Sirsona village, about 350 km from here.

Dalit girl’s ragging: Karnataka Police arrest three

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Kozhikode/Bengaluru : The Karnataka Police has arrested three female nursing students for allegedly ragging and forcing their junior, Aswathi K.P., to drink a disinfectant,...

एक बार फिर भीम आर्मी चीफ चन्द्रशेखर गिरफ्तार

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आसमोहम्मद कैफ-Twocircles.net देवबंद- भीम आर्मी चीफ चन्द्रशेखर आज़ाद को एक बार फिर गिरफ्तार किया गया है.उनके गिरफ्तारी देवबंद में की गई. गिरफ्तारी के तुरंत बाद चन्द्रशेखर की...

यूपी के हरदोई में दलितों पर बढ़ते उत्पीड़न पर लगातार उठ रहे हैं सवाल...

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लखनऊ- आस मुहम्मद कैफ , TwoCircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश की राजधानी लखनऊ से 80 किमी की दूरी पर स्थित हरदोई जिले में पिछले एक सप्ताह में दलितों...

Dalit party threat to recapture Indu Mills land

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By IANS,

The problem of Rape: Why India is still failing?

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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...

Apex court to go into quota for Dalit Christians, Muslims

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By IANS,

भीम आर्मी सुप्रीमो चंद्रशेखर आज़ाद ‘रावण’ पर जेल में हमला

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आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर : दलितों की महिलाओं पर बेहद आपत्तिजनक टिप्पणी करने वाली वीडियो के बाद अब भीम आर्मी के संयोजक चन्द्रशेखर ‘रावण’...

Jaitanpur: A neglected village an hour away from Lucknow

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By Vanya Mehta, TwoCircles.net, Road to Delhi goes through Lucknow, so they say. After about an hour drive north of UP’s capital on a smooth two-lane Sitapur Road, take a sharp turn down a rickety dirt path and you will reach Jaitanpur, a small village surrounded by fields of wheat, sugar cane, rice, mustard seeds, and groundnuts. Driving past the fields, a mosque, and a traffic jam of trucks carrying bricks, and reach the home of the residents of Jaitanpur, a series of small shacks with haystacks for walls. Just 60 km away from the state capital, government services have yet to reach this part of the state.

JIH concerned over growing crimes against women in India, spying on citizens, 3rd Covid...

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Addressing an online press meet, Secretary of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) Women’s Department Rahmatunnisa condemned the alleged brutal rape and murder of a nine-year-old Dalit...

बुलंदशहर में घुड़चढ़ी के दौरान दलितों के साथ पिटाई के मामले में 5 के...

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जिब्रानउद्दीन।Twocircles.net आज आज़ादी के 74 सालों के बाद भी दलित उत्पीड़न की घटनाएं कम नहीं हो पाई हैं। नया मामला बुलंदशहर जनपद के नरसैना थाना...

Rajya Sabha disrupted repeatedly over Dalit atrocities

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

Ram Vilas Paswan, son Chirag win

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Patna : Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan and his son Chirag Paswan have won from the Hajipur and Jamui Lok Sabha seats,...

BJP Dalit leaders to aggressively counter opposition onslaught on community

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New Delhi : The BJP has decided to aggressively counter the Opposition's onslaught over the recent string of atrocities against Dalits in various parts...

Two Dalits die in police firing in Tamil Nadu

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By TCN News,

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

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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...

Day after Dalit student’s suicide, students’ group points fingers at IIT Bombay

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Ambedkar Periyar Phule Study Circle Bombay called the incident an institutional issue, saying students from oppressed castes (SC/ST) and low-income families face immense...

SC declines early hearing of PIL for SIT probe into Saharanpur violence

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New Delhi, (IANS): The Supreme Court on Friday declined to hold early hearing of a plea seeking direction to the Uttar Pradesh government to...

Himachal court says no to Ramdev holding yoga camps

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Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh High Court Monday rejected a plea of yoga guru Baba Ramdev's Swabhiman Trust to permit it to hold "yog shivirs"...

BSP has cheated Dalits: BJP

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By IANS,

SDPI’s 25-day-long countrywide protest against mob lynching concludes in New Delhi

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TCN News New Delhi: Today Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) organized street demonstrations across the country, in all assembly constituencies and districts of 14...

The decline of Dalits in Bihar politics

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By Soroor Ahmed, TwoCircles.net, In election rallies in Bihar recently Narendra Modi would often be seen flanked by two Dalit leaders–– Ram Vilas Paswan...

Andhra HC strikes down all sentences in Dalit massacre case

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Hyderabad : In a dramatic judgment, the Andhra Pradesh High Court Tuesday set aside an order of a special court that sentenced 21 people...

61 RS members seek impeachment of Andhra and Telangana HC Judge for abusing Dalit...

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By Amit Kumar, Twocircles.net Sixty one members of the Rajya Sabha have submitted a petition to Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari on Monday...

SC moved seeking benefits of backward class quota to ‘most deserving sections’

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New Delhi : Haryana-based Kumhar Maha Sabha on Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking direction to the central government to undertake revision of the...

Dalit girl raped in Odisha, four held

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By IANS, Bhubaneswar : Four men were arrested in Odisha's Jajpur district for the rape of a 15-year-old Dalit girl two days ago, police said Friday.

Savita Ali: Raising her voice to highlight atrocities against Dalit and Muslim women

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By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Patna: Savita Ali remembers the time when she was in school, in a village called Naraina, district Panipat. She had just...

ABVP on the rampage again, this time in BHU

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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...

Varanasi: UP minister hints at ending coalition with BJP; reiterates demand for Purvanchal state

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By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net Omprakash Rajbhar, a cabinet minister in the Yogi-Adityanath led BJP government in Uttar Pradesh, hinted towards ending the coalition with BJP...

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

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

Dalit’s daughter Mayawati now chasing money: Digvijay Singh

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By IANS,

Bahujan Kranti Morcha organises rally in Mumbai, asks for separate courts for Dalit atrocity...

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Text and Video by Shiva Thorat The Bahujan Kranti Morcha, an umbrella organisation of various representatives of marginalised groups, organised a rally in Mumbai to...

Yogesh Maitreya’s Flower on the Grave of Caste gives space and voice to Dalit...

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By Dipankar Kamble for TwoCircles.net Author- Yogesh Maitreya Publisher- Panther’s Paw Publications Cost- Rs 299 ISBN- 9788193290576 Yogesh Maitreya’s stories are not stories which we read in mainstream books....

Upper caste mob lynch Dalit man in Gujarat over land dispute; three detained

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By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net Gujarat: Tension prevailed in Gujarat’s Sodhana village on Friday after Dalit people of the town refused to bury a person from...

BSP wipeout: Is Mayawati losing touch with her vote bank?

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By Ranjana Narayan, New Delhi : The Narendra Modi-led BJP wave has left many political parties reeling, but perhaps the most surprising has been the...

Bihar assembly adjourned over attack on Dalits

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Patna : Amid uproarious scenes, the Bihar assembly was on Thursday adjourned when the opposition sought a debate on the police lathicharge on Dalit...

सवर्णों को आरक्षण से नाराज है दलित

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आसमोहम्मद कैफ-Twocircles.net केंद्र सरकार द्वारा गरीब सवर्ण जातियों को 10 फीसद आरक्षण दिए जाने के बिल को मंजूरी मिलने के बाद सवर्ण जातियों में तो...

Why Dalit organisations stopped Bandaru Dattatreya and NDA’s celebrations in Nanded

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By Shiva Thorat, TwoCircles.net Nanded: Over the past couple of months, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has spent considerable time and resources in celebrating two...

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

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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...

Jamia, DU teachers rally behind Ashis Nandy

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By IANS,

दलितों पर हो रहे अत्याचारों के ख़िलाफ़ आवाज़ बुलंद करे —लक्ष्य

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TwoCircles.net News Desk सीतापुर (उत्तर प्रदेश) : ‘आज़ादी के 70 वर्षो बाद भी इस देश में दलितों की कोई सुनने वाला नहीं है. हर घटना...

डेल्टा मेघवाल के पक्ष में उतरी मुस्लिम महासभा

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net नोखा (राजस्थान): डेल्टा मेघवाल की लड़ाई अब किसी एक वर्ग या जाति की लड़ाई नहीं रह गई है. यह इंसाफ़ की...

Amit Shah had food cooked by non-Dalits, says Telangana CM

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Hyderabad, (IANS): After former Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, BJP President Amit Shah also seems to have landed in a controversy reportedly for eating...

Why the SP-BSP alliance spells doom for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh

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By Aas Mohammad Kaif, Twocircles.net The announcement of an alliance between two arch rivals of UP Politics: Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party may...

Life term for student leader’s killer who shot witness’ father

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By IANS, New Delhi: A Delhi court Saturday sentenced a man, already convicted for gunning down a students union leader of a Delhi University college in 1999, to rigorous imprisonment for life for also killing the father of a witness who had informed the police. Jitender alias Kalla was served with a second punishment days after he was awarded life sentence by the court for murdering Anil Bhadana, the then Satyawati College Students Union president.

Visually challenged Dalit labour rights activist jailed in Haryana, family alleges ‘torture’

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Shiv Kumar is a Dalit labour rights activist who is named in the same FIR as incarcerated activist Nodeep Kaur, but according to eyewitnesses,...

UP Polls: Congress attempts to woo Dalit voters with eight-point agenda

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By Faisal Fareed, TwoCircles.net Ahead of assembly polls, Congress has begun its attempt to woo Dalits with ‘eight’ promises. UP Congress President Raj Babbar...

In Ambedkar University, an afternoon of Dalit assertion and pride with Ginni Mahi

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By Pritam Singh Tinna, Twocircles.net Music events are part and parcel of every University campus, but on February 1, the Ambedkar University campus students witnessed...

New Gujarat CM sets up SIT in Thangadh case

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Gandhinagar : Bowing to pressure, the Gujarat government has finally reopened the sensational case of the killing of three Dalit youths in alleged police...

Dalit student’s suicide ‘murder of democracy’: Kejriwal

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New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday described the suicide of the Hyderabad Dalit student as "murder of democracy, social justice...

In Kerala, Dalit students facing difficulties to get educated

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By Aaliya Rushdi, TwoCircles.net, Nilambur (Kerala): The Dalit Students of the area, who were sent to schools far away in the district, are returning back in groups to their homes. The parents, who are ignorant of the importance of education have not got any complaint on this matter.

योगी सरकार की हाथरस में साज़िश की थ्योरी को भद्दा मजाक बता रहा है...

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लखनऊ से कौशल कुमार , Twocircles.net के लिए उत्तर प्रदेश सरकार ने हाथरस गैंगरेप कांड में जातीय और साम्प्रदायिक हिंसा भड़काने की साज़िश की बात कही है।...

Kejriwal meets Gujarat Dalit victims

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New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal met the Dalit victims at a hospital in Una on Friday and attacked the Gujarat government...

Creating “Muslim as the enemy” is the RSS-BJP mantra: Jignesh Mevani

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By TCN News New Delhi: Creating “Muslim as the enemy” to mobilize the Hindus and manufacture a conflict between the two is...

Left parties demand recall of Hyderabad varsity vice chancellor

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Hyderabad : The Left parties on Monday staged a protest in front of Raj Bhavan here, demanding recall of University of Hyderabad Vice Chancellor...

Over a lakh Ambedkar followers expected in Mhow April 14

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By IANS, Bhopal: Over one lakh followers of Bhimrao Ambedkar are expected to gather at his birth place at Mhow near Indore on the occasion of his 119th birth anniversary April 14 - celebrated as 'Ambedkar Mahakumbh' for the past two years, officials said Tuesday. The Madhya Pradesh government has made elaborate arrangements for the occasion.