Arson attack on Dalits in Faridabad sees two children dead, parents critical

Faridabad: Two children were burnt alive while their parents were reported to be critical when the house of a Dalit family in Haryana's Faridabad...

SCs growing interest for Engineering in contrast with Muslims in Tamil Nadu

By A. Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Chennai: Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) in Tamil Nadu has released Engineering admission statistics community wise over the past few years which reveals that SCs are getting more inclined towards Engineering stream with exponential growth every year where as Muslims figures display steady admission rate – nor significantly increasing nor declining.

Dalit group members try to damage Rajkot stadium pitch

Ahmedabad : At least four members of the Rashtriya Dalit Mahasangh on Friday tried to damage Khanderi Cricket Stadium pitch in Rajkot to protest...

हाथरस कांड : सीबीआई ने माना, गैंगरेप के बाद ही हुई थी दलित युवती...

स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर। Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के हाथरस में गैंगरेप और हत्याकांड मामले  की जांच कर रही सीबीआई ने शुक्रवार को मामले की एससी/एसटी कोर्ट में...

Hyderabad students’ bail plea not opposed

Hyderabad : A court on Monday was set to pronounce orders on bail petitions of 25 students and two faculty members of University of...

‘I want to break the hands of the people who attacked our brothers in...

By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net (The following is a first-person account of a youth from Amreli district) Amerli, Gujarat: My name is Sagar Bagada. I am...

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...

पीएम-सीएम की फ़ोटो कूड़ा गाड़ी में लें जाने पर संस्पेंड हुआ सफाई कर्मचारी दबाव...

आकिल हुसैन। Twocircles.net यूपी के मथुरा में कचरा गाड़ी में प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी और मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्यनाथ की तस्वीरें मिलने के बाद बर्खास्त किए गए...

Kashmiris to emphasize and practise ‘Unified J&K’

Ref: - Present goodwill of India , Pakistan & international community be utilized

Dear Sir

Normally any community which lays down the lives of its so many people does not remain without being master of its political destiny. But Kashmiris (despite sacrificing more than 80,000 people as per Nicholson's report adopted by EU's Parliament vide A6-0158/2007 on May 24, 2007) are still groping in the dark mainly due to:-

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

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...

9 months on, families evicted during building of RSS stalwart’s statue in Varanasi still...

By Rohit Ghosh, TwoCircles.net Varanasi: Every season is harsh in Uttar Pradesh. Temperature touches the 45 degree Celsius mark in summers, while floods ravage the...

Dalit student suspended from Ambedkar University alleges harassment, discrimination at the hands of faculty

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter Photos courtesy Feminism in India In another case of alleged discrimination against Dalit students in Indian Universities, Akunth, a second-year BA student...

Clarity or confusion: The word ‘Dalit’ has become a playground

By Shiva Thorat, TwoCircles.net Recently, the debate on the usage of the word ‘Dalit’ was highlighted again. The petition of one Pankaj Liladhar Meshram...

अनाथ नज़र आता है मायावती का आदर्श ग्राम ‘माल गांव’

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net माल/ मलीहाबाद (लखनऊ) : ‘हमें बहन जी ने गोद में लिया कब था, ये अलग बात है कि गोद में लेने...

The untold story behind the Sabarmati riverfront

By Vanya Mehta, TwoCircles.net, The Sabarmati riverfront, for Ahmedabad residents, is a welcomed respite of clean walkways and greenery. Young middle class teenagers safely venture out with their friends in the evening to enjoy the pleasant views of the river, watching the riverfront light up. The elderly take their morning walks nearby adolescent trees, before the heat settles in for the day. Gujarati tourism, boasted by Chief Minister and BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, is given a further facelift by the presence of this cultural landmark that stretches 11 kilometers across the length of the Sabarmati River.

One acerbic comment cracks BJP’s Dalit dream in UP

By Mohit Dubey Lucknow : In politics, fortunes change overnight. They certainly did in Uttar Pradesh within just 24 hours for two players -- the...

Empowering Wardha’s Dalits through e-commerce

Sanghamitra Store is an online e-commerce platform run by five Dalit youth that showcases affordable handicrafts and art made by the community. Riya Talitha...

Jamia to deliberate on implications of 2014 elections on Dalit and Minorities

By TCN News, New Delhi: Dr. K.R. Narayan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia is going to organize an International Conference on “Election 2014: Implications for Dalit and Minorities in India” on September 2 and 3, 2014.

BHU anti-reservation scam: How the University is denying jobs to Dalit-Bahujans

By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net Earlier this month, we had written about how Banaras Hindu University (BHU) was defying reservation in the appointment process and discussed...

Partial shutdown in Bihar over acquittals in Dalit massacre

Patna : Road and rail traffic in Bihar was partly hit Friday during a shutdown called by the CPI-ML to protest against the acquittal...

यूपी विधानसभा चुनाव : 143 हारी हुई सीटों पर सपा के 27 मुस्लिम प्रत्याशी

TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter लखनऊ– उत्तर प्रदेश का चुनाव नज़दीक आते ही सूबे में राजनीतिक गतिविधियां गर्म हो गयी हैं. सत्ताधारी समाजवादी पार्टी ने आज यहां 2012 विधानसभा चुनाव में हारी हुई सीटों पर प्रत्याशियों की पहली सूची जारी कर दी है.

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.

परमाणु ऊर्जा के खिलाफ चुटका में संघर्ष जारी

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

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

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...

International community & India should take cognizance of Pakistan’s declared war for Kashmir.

Ref:- Indo - US nuclear deal bound to be jeopardized. Dear Sir This refers to report in Pakistan media (The News) dated Aug 8, 2007 that while taking part in foreign policy debate in the house, Parliamentary Secretary for Defense Syed Tanveer Hussain said on Tuesday in National Assembly session that: -

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 killings: Haryana orders CBI probe, Rahul slams Khattar

Faridabad/Chandigarh : The Haryana government on Wednesday ordered a CBI probe into the arson attack by upper castes in Faridabad district that left two...

Main accused arrested in Dalit girl attack

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.

Bihar Elections: Meet Gopal Ravidas, a Dalit who couldn’t complete his law education but...

By Sami Ahmad, TwoCircles.net Bihar: Gopal Ravidas, 51, could not complete his law education but he is now a lawmaker in Bihar Legislative Assembly. Son of...

Unspent money for Dalits/tribals, $42.6 bn = 8 times agri budget

By Nikhil M. Babu It was raining heavily last monsoon when Heerabai's youngest child, Seshkumari, 4, collapsed with a fever. The family could only...

Prominent Ambedkarite Raju Kamble no more

By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Rajkumar Daulatrao Kamble, popularly known as Raju Kamble, the founder of Ambedkar International Mission breathed his last on 16th August 2018...

Rahul Gandhi meets assaulted Uttar Pradesh girl

By IANS, New Delhi : Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Monday met at a hospital here a Dalit girl who was blinded by her assailants after she resisted rape in Uttar Pradesh, officials said.

In murder of Dalit man in Rajasthan, caste atrocities surface despite lockdown

In spite of the ongoing country wide lockdown in India, enforced by the government to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, caste based violence reared its...

संघ की छांव में जलता मध्य प्रदेश

जावेद अनीस मध्य प्रदेश वह सूबा है जहां संघ परिवार अपने शुरुआती दौर में ही दबदबा बनाने में कामयाब रहा है. इस प्रयोगशाला में संघ ने सामाजिक स्तर पर अपनी गहरी पैठ बनाने में सफल रहा है और मौजूदा परिदृश्य में हर तरह से हावी है.

Remembering Fatima Sheikh, the first Muslim teacher who laid the foundation of Dalit-Muslim unity

By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net Over the past few years, a number of political forums and parties have experimented with uniting Dalits and Muslims, given their...

WPI welcomes Apex Court guidelines on police encounters

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.

एक साल बाद आज भी सहमा है शब्बीरपुर ,बदल गई है दलितो की जिंदगी

आस मोहम्मद कैफ, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर : "पिछले साल 5 मई, हम सब लोग अपने खेतों में काम कर रहे थे औरत मर्द सब...इतनी भीड़ इस...

UGC releases Rs 11 crore for TISS following students’ strike but not for Scholarship...

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter As the ongoing strike at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences enters its 27th day, the UGC announced the release of...

Obama supports Raj Thackeray

Ref: - MNS should resort to legal / international approach Dear Sir

Congress stages walkout in Lok Sabha over attacks on Dalits

New Delhi : The Congress on Monday staged a walkout in Lok Sabha on the issue of attacks on Dalits and hit out at...

Massachusetts hosts America’s first-ever Dalit art exhibition

Organized by Adavi Myah, an art collective led by Dalit and Bahujan women, the exhibition will run for four weeks until May 30, 2022. BOSTON,...

Reservations for Minorities and all Dalits

Misra Commission’s Recommendations Welcomed By Iqbal A. Ansari, Retired Professor of AMU, Aligarh 1. We welcome the recommendations of the National Commission For Religious and Linguistic Minorities headed by Justice Ranganath Misra for reservation of ten per cent public services for Muslims and five per cent for other religious minorities under Article 16(4) of the Constitution, and for extending the benefits of reservation to all persons of Dalit social origin irrespective of faith.

Violence-hit Saharanpur tense but under control: Official

Lucknow, (IANS): A day after clashes between Dalits-Rajputs left one dead, the situation in a violence-hit village in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur district remained tense...

Doms in Varanasi seek justice through honorable rehabilitation

By Vidya Bhushan Rawat, Hundreds of pilgrims seek to see the sunrise on the banks of Ganges in Varanasi and the boatmen go on live commentary of these ghats narrating the mythological details.The most poignant moment come when you see the Manikarnikaghat, Dashashwamegha Ghat and Harishchandraghat reminding you the stories of Raja Harishchandra’s loyalty to his ‘profession’. In an indirect reference, these are the same ‘preachings’ which ask you to do thy duty while ‘result’ is not thy concern.

Amit Shah visits Dalit woman’s family in Kerala, BJP forms panel

New Delhi : BJP president Amit Shah on Thursday set up a three-member committee to look into incidents of atrocities against Dalit women in...

राजस्थान तो दलितों के लिए नरक जैसा है: रेनू मेघवंशी

आस मोहम्मद कैफ, TwoCircles.net रेनू मेघवंशी राजस्थान में दलित उत्पीड़न के खिलाफ लड़ाइयां लड़ने के लिए जानी जाती है,यह वही है जिन्होंने डांगबास में दलितों...

Dalit bodies want SC/ST Act restored through ordinance

New Delhi, (IANS): A number of Dalit organisations on Thursday asked the Narendra Modi government to "restore" through an ordinance the SC/ST Act that...

I&B Ministry denies permission to exhibit three documentaries, draws ire from Kerala government

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter The refusal of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to give permission for three documentaries to be exhibited in the International...

Film Review: From Hindu to Hindutva

By Ram Puniyani, Kandhmal violence has been the most ghastly communal violence in the Adivasi areas in India. Close to two years after the violence the tragedy of the area continues, the victims of violence, the rehabilitation, the justice to victims, most of these are no where close to what they should be.

मज़हब की राजनीति में गायब होते मुस्लिमों और दलितों के सवाल

आसिफ़ इक़बाल यह अजीब मज़ाक़ है कि राजनीतिक नेता न केवल विभिन्न धर्म के मानने वालों के मार्गदर्शक बने हुए हैं बल्कि समाज भी आमतौर...

Three Dalit parties support Congress-NCP in Maharashtra

Mumbai : In a big boost to the Congress and the NCP, three Dalit parties Wednesday joined the ruling alliance in Maharashtra. The Peoples' Republican...

मजदूरों की आवाज बन चुकी नवदीप कौर का आज जन्मदिन है … वो अभी...

तन्वी सुमन।Twocircles net दलित श्रम अधिकार एक्टिविस्ट और मजदूर अधिकार संगठन (MAS) की सदस्य, 24 वर्षीय नवदीप कौर लगभग 29  दिनों से जेल में है।...

Dalits, tribals call for ‘hunkar’ rally against MP government

Bhopal : Protesting against "harassment and exploitation" by the Madhya Pradesh government, Dalits and tribal groups under an umbrella organisation on Sunday called for...

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

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

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

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...

TCN launches an internship program

By TCN News Come learn about exciting world of online journalism. TwoCircles.net (TCN) is a US-based non-profit news organization working on unreported stories of the...

संडे स्पेशल : तो क्या भीम आर्मी सुप्रीमो चंद्रशेखर का सूरज अब डूब रहा...

आसमोहम्मद कैफ़।Twocircles.net पिछले कुछ सालों में राजनीतिक सरगर्मियों में तेजी से उभर कर सामने आए और दुनियाभर का ध्यान आर्कषित करने वाले भीम आर्मी के...

‘Gau rakshaks’ have brought shame to India

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...

Notice to Himachal over caste discrimination in temple

Shimla : The Himachal Pradesh High Court has issued notice to the state over caste discrimination in the ancient Maheshwari Devi Temple in Shimla...

Tribals demand release of detained villagers in Midnapore

By IANS, Kolkata: Hundreds of tribal women Sunday staged a protest at a police station in West Bengal's West Midnapore district to demand release of 37 villagers detained during the joint forces' search for an abducted school teacher. The demonstration took place at Goaltore police station in the district. Police said the villagers were detained for interrogation as they tried to obstruct the security personnel during a search operation in the village.

The Muslim factor in 2014 Lok Sabha Polls

By Syed Ali Mujtaba, It is high time to call off the bluff of Muslim vote bank in Indian politics. The Dalits like to vote the party that favors them, so are the Hindu caste groups, and even their Jatis are doing the same. Everyone wants to seek affiliation with the nearest similar identities and try to influence the electoral process. It’s the rule of the game of ballot box democracy and there is nothing unusual about it. In fact such designs are encouraged by the political parties who give tickets to the candidates that have significant electoral base.

Made to work as bonded labour, ‘fined’ Rs 1.5 lakh: The story of Jasgeer...

By Amit Kumar This is the last of the four-part series on cases of Dalit atrocities in India which were brought up during a tribunal...

Dalit woman gangraped in Greater Noida

By IANS, Greater Noida : A 20-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly gangraped at gunpoint in the Jewar area of Greater Noida, police said Tuesday. The incident came to light Tuesday when the woman complained to the police. "Shalini (name changed) was sleeping on the terrace of her parents's house in Karoli locality of Jewar area Monday night when two neighbourers, identified as Bunty and Bhura, raped her at gunpoint. She was sleeping alone as her parents were away and her siblings were sleeping inside the house," said Superintendent of Police Atul Saxena.

Muslims will consider supporting AAP, if it offers concrete programme for them: Amir JIH

New Delhi: Amid the talk of communal forces emerging stronger, India is going to polls. The fear of BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is perhaps more felt by the Muslim minority than anyone else. The “secular” Congress—charged with corruption and misrule—does not seem much energetic and confident at this moment. At this crucial juncture what strategy should the largest religious minority community of the country adopt in the upcoming General and assembly elections? What are the options available for them? To learn about this and more, Mishab Irikkur, Mohammad Raghib and Abhay Kumar interacted with Maulana Jalaluddin Omari, the Amir (national president) of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) last week at the New Delhi headquarter. The seventy-nine year old Amir--who is an Islamic scholar and author of dozens of books--spoke on a host of issues such as elections, politics, the social and economic problems of Muslims, reservation, framing of innocent Muslim youth on terror charges etc. The JIH---which came into existence soon after the Jamaat-e-Islami had split into two separate organisations during Partition -- is one of the most influential Islamic organizations among Muslims that mainly does “intellectual” work and carries out welfare activities as well. The excerpts are as follows.

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...

In Hyderabad University, Dalit students pay heavy price for protesting against Hindutva brigade

By Hana Ashraf and Anees M for Twocircles.net There is nothing more important in ‘student politics’ than the ongoing tension in FTII Pune, if one...

Marginalization of BJP’s Dalit MPs

By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net Out of 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, 71 returned Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates. Two returned BJP ally Apna Dal...

Encourage marginalised sections in higher judiciary, says outgoing CJI

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...

Will Islam ‘liberate’ Dalits of Bhagana?

By Vidya Bhushan Rawat, It was around 11 am on August 8 when the ‘Bhagana Kand Dalit Sangharsh Samiti’ had called a meeting at...

Union Budget continues to ignore real issues of Dalits and Adivasis: NCDHR

By TCN News New Delhi: The Union Budget looks like a “very glossed over budget” for Dalits and Adivasis with reduction in allocations for key...

Five point programme for Indian muslims

we are living in a society where interest is collected for every work.under inevitable circumstances lakhs of indian muslims converted into pan brokers,bankers etc.They never lend money to their muslim brothers without interest.why? they have to survive. Crores of indian muslims addicted to dowry.They wont marry a girl without taking dowry.

India’s human rights record to be discussed at US Capitol

Date: Tuesday, June 7, 2016 - 3:00pm Location: 1334 Longworth House Office Building By TwoCircles.net special correspondent Washington DC: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is yet again...

FIR lodged against Mayawati in Lucknow

Lucknow : An FIR was lodged against Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati and three others by the family of former BJP Vice President...

Court tells MCD to compensate families of drowned kids

By IANS, New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Thursday directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to pay compensation of Rs.750,000 each to the families of the two boys who drowned November last year after falling in a pit at a park in Shakarpur area. A division bench of Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw asked the MCD to pay compensation to the families of both children who died. It told the civic agency to pay Rs.50,000 to the mothers of Arshad, 4, and Armaan, 8, and deposit the rest in fixed deposits.

Parliamentary panel slams JNU on SC/ST vacancies

New Delhi : A parliamentary panel has flayed the JNU administration for what it said was "insouciant attitude" on faculty vacancies meant to be...

Azadi Kooch, a rally to mark one year of Una uprising, stopped in Mehsana,...

By Payal for TwoCircles.net All Photos courtesy Nayan Jyoti A year ago, four Dalits were publicly beaten, stripped and humiliated by Gau Rakshaks in Una, Gujarat...

तेलंगाना के नल्लामाडूगु गांव में अंबेडकर प्रतिमा के लिए रंग लाया दलितों का संघर्ष

निकहत फ़ातिमा । Twocircles.net भारत के संविधान के वास्तुकार और समाज सुधारक डॉ बीआर अंबेडकर को सम्मानित करने के लिए उनकी  प्रतिमा के  निर्माण  के...

Dalit leader Udit Raj joins BJP

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, New Delhi : Dalit leader Udit Raj Monday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) here. Welcoming Udit Raj in the party, party...

Rohith’s death was institutional murder: CPI-M leader

New Delhi : CPI-M leader M.B. Rajesh on Wednesday said Hyderabad Central University student Rohith Vemula's death was an “institutional murder”. “Rohith's death is an...

The anxieties around Dalit-Muslim unity: Part Two

By Ambedkar Reading Group-Delhi for Twocircles.net Much of the present-day discussions use the category of caste to abandon the Muslim question and see it anew...

UP: Dalit farmer dies after loan agents throw him down from tractor

Lucknow (IANS): At a time when the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh is vouching for its work in easing farmer loans, in a...

100 Gujarat Dalits embrace Buddhism

Amreli (Gujarat), (IANS): At least 100 Dalits in Amreli district in Gujarat on Thursday embraced Buddhism in protest against government inaction over the death of...

Muslim fundamentalist militancy, the product of western secularism.

Ref:- Improvised Shiv-Sena model (as UN controlled IPP) can be the solution Dear sir The various terrorist attacks like 9/11, terrorist attacks in UK, terrorist attacks in India, Lal Masjid fight etc. by Muslim militants, during last 6 years, have made the Muslim fundamentalism a burning issue which is testing the competence & sagacity of politicians / statesmen / political scientists of the entire world. And now after Glasgow terror attack in which three highly qualified Indian Muslims (Engineer and Doctors) are alleged to be accused, it has become a political head-ache for India.

Hyderabad varsity JAC reiterates demand for arrests in Rohith case

Hyderabad : The Joint Action Committee for Social Justice at University of Hyderabad has reiterated the demand that union minister Bandaru Dattatreya and vice...

Five bodies found missing from Bihar graveyard

Patna : In a bizarre incident, miscreants have dug out five bodies from a graveyard in Bihar’s Purnea district, police said Wednesday. Purnea superintendent of...

Government to blame for cow vigilantes’ violence: CPI-M

New Delhi : The CPI-M on Sunday blamed the Narendra Modi government for the rising number of attacks by so-called cow vigilantes on Dalits...

Maha dalit killings: Film industry faces to join demonstration in Mumbai

By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: Social activists, common citizens and even some faces from the film industry are likely to participate in a demonstration march on Saturday in Mumbai to show solidarity with three dalit victims from Ahmednagar district.

Courts in 20 UP districts hit by Ambedkar statue row

Ghaziabad, (IANS): Work in courts in 20 districts of Uttar Pradesh remained suspended on Wednesday after the state bar association declared a strike over the...

Thousands mourn slain Dalit litterateur Kirwale

Kolhapur (Maharashtra), (IANS): Thousands of people on Saturday gathered at the home of noted Dalit litterateur Krishna Kirwale, who was murdered by a carpenter...

Soren rules out change in tribal land right acts

By IANS, Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren Monday said that no changes would be made in legislations governing the tribal land rights. "There is no move to make any amendments in the existing two acts formulated to protect the land right of the tribals," Soren said while replying to a query by a Congress legislator in the state assembly. Last week Soren reportedly said that amendments would be made in the Chhota Nagpur Tenancy (CNT) Act.

Activists disrupt Hindu supremacist conclave in Chicago, evoke violent reaction from extremists

By TCN News: The Alliance for Justice and Accountability (AJA), an umbrella organization of progressive South Asian groups across the United States in coordination with...

Gujarat CM Anandiben finally offers to quit

Ahmedabad : Ending months of speculation, Gujarat's first woman Chief Minister Anandiben Patel on Monday offered to quit in keeping with the BJP's...

UK’s Dalit organizations urge Modi to act against BJP leaders named by Cobrapost in...

By TwoCircles.Net Staff Reporter, New Delhi: Four prominent Dalit organisations from United Kingdom have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, expressing their dismay about the...

Reservations for Dalits will stay, assures Modi

Coimbatore: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday assured Dalits that the reservation to them in jobs and education will not be cut and hit...

38 wounds on murdered woman’s body, police profile suspect

Perumbavoor (Kerala) : A poor Dalit woman whose brutal murder has shocked Kerala had 38 wounds on her body, her autopsy revealed, as police...

भारत में सरकार नाम की कोई चीज़ है या नहीं?

डॉ. खजान सिंह हाल ही में दबंगो द्वारा गुजरात के ऊना में दलितों के साथ किए गए अमानवीय व्यवहार ने सारे देश के बहुजनो को...

NGOs protest against Honour Killing of a Dalit Boy

By TCN News, Puducherry: Periyar Viduthalai Kazagam, a Tamil Nadu based organization along with Puducherry unit of Khudai Khidmatgar jointly protest against the brutal honour...

आखिर दलित-मुस्लिम पर ही रासुका क्यों…

TCN News उत्तर प्रदेश के खतौली मुज़फ्फरनगर में एक प्रतिनिधि मंडल ने तीन दिवसीय दौरा किया. जहां 2 अप्रैल भारत बंद के दौरान रासुका के...

Logic of women’s reservation

By M. Burhanuddin Qasmi It is an unfortunate fact that in a democracy nothing is achievable without united agitations. This time again the Muslim social and political leadership in India is failing to unite strongly against a very genuine demand and clear hypocrisy against them in guise of women empowerment.

बिजनौर में बन रही है बसपा की दलित-मुस्लिम एकता की नर्सरी

आस मोहम्मद कैफ, TwoCircles.net बिजनौर: दलितों की देवी के तौर पर प्रचार पाने वाली मायावती ने अपना पहला चुनाव बिजनौर लोकसभा से लड़ा था. उनका...

A Portrait of the Indian as a Young Dalit Girl: Part 3 – Meeting...

(Editor’s note: This was first published on Yahoo.com as a single piece. We are reproducing the long form report in parts for TwoCircles.net readers.) You...

MIM goons attacked a social worker

Hyderabad : Mr.Masood Khan a Social Worker of Hafiz Baba Nagar Under Chandrayangutta Assembly Constituency who was rectifying Street Lights along with GHMC (Electrical ) Workers was attacked by Majlish Ittehadul Musleemin (MIM) goons.Later he was sfifted to Osmania General Hospital in a Serious condition.MBT leader Mr.Amjed Ullah Khan Visited the hospital and demanded stern action against the culprits by the police.

Submitted by Amjed Ullah Khan

JD-U leaders slam Manjhi for ‘upper castes’ remark

Patna : At least six leaders of ruling JD-U, including ministers and legislators, have openly criticized their own Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi for...

भीम आर्मी सुप्रीमो चन्द्रशेखर ‘रावण’ को मिली ज़मानत, मगर अभी नहीं होंगे रिहा

TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter इलाहाबाद/सहारनपुर : सहारनपुर दलित बनाम ठाकुर हिंसा में मुख्य आरोपी बनाए गए भीम आर्मी सुप्रीमो चंद्रशेखर ‘रावण’ को ज़मानत मिल गई है....

JNU gets solidarity from American University of Beirut

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...

Anti-caste crusader Kausalya remarries

TCN News: Kausalya whose husband Shankar was brutally murdered in a honour killing by her own family in 2016 re- married Sakthi in a self-respect...

दिल्ली की आरक्षित सीट पर क्या हैं इस बार के मुद्दे?

मीना कोटवाल, Twocircles.net संकरी गलियां, बहती नालियां और साइड में रखा नालियों से निकला मलबा। दिल्ली की ज्यादातर झुग्गियां शायद ऐसी ही दिखती हैं। सर्दी में धूप...

Himachal tribal women don’t come under inheritance law

By IANS, Shimla: Tribal women in Himachal Pradesh do not come under inheritance law if there is a male member in the family, Revenue Minister Kaul Singh said Tuesday.

In Sangrur, Dalit face ostracisation, death and Jail for demanding land

By Pritam Singh Tinna, TwoCircles.net For the past few weeks, most of the attention towards Punjab has been regarding the upcoming elections, and whether...

‘गाय को मां बताने वालों के लिए दलित मां की क्या इज़्ज़त है, बलिया...

TwoCircles.net News Desk लखनऊ : बलिया में सूदखोरों द्वारा ज़िन्दा जलाई गई दलित महिला रेशमी की मृत्य के बाद गांव में संघर्ष जारी है....

Protest in Boston against arbitrary arrest of human rights defenders in India

By TCN News: Boston, MA, US: Over 50 people assembled at Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to protest against the arbitrary arrests of human rights defenders...

दलित युवाओं के लिए ‘आदर्श मानव ‘ बन गए है चन्द्रशेखर

आस मोहम्मद कैफ, सहारनपुर- छूटमलपुर से 90 किमी दूर बिजनोर बाईपास के पास मीरापुर में कुछ लड़के क्रिकेट खेल रहे है,गेंद को अपनी रेंज में...

Congress terms RSS top brass’ comment on reservation anti-Dalit

New Delhi (IANS) : Condemning head of RSS' communications department Manmohan Vaidya's call to abolish reservation, the Congress party on Friday said that BJP and...

Rahul visits Haryana village hit by anti-Dalit violence

By IANS, Hisar (Haryana): Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Thursday paid a surprise visit to Mirchpur village in this Haryana district which was rocked by an arson attack on Dalit houses last week, in which two people were burnt alive. Accompanied by senior Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan, Rahul Gandhi reached Mirchpur village in an Innova car that was escorted by two other vehicles at around 12.30 p.m.

Budget 2016: Schedule castes, tribes protest after Jaitley offers a penny, snatches a dollar

By TCN Staff Reporter Delhi: In his Budget speech, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was at his eloquent best while allocating Rs 500 crore for scheduled...

AAP: The construction of a fantasy!

By Yogesh Maitreya, A day afterthe Delhi Assembly Election results wereannounced, Indian media has started to exercise its usual prejudiced, hegemonic commentary and telecast over AAP’s win. Meanwhile discriminatory practices (continuously reported by Marathi dailies like Samrat and Mahanak) in Indian villages on the caste lines or even in its urban pockets have been neglected as usual by ‘popular media’ as if AAP’s victory has resolved issues related to most marginalised sections of society or of all Aam Indians. In this process public imagination fed by Delhi’s election result, has further created a biased perception towards AAP in people’s mind.

Bhagana Dalits get open death threats from Haryana Khap Panchayats for converting to Islam

By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net New Delhi : Death threats have started pouring in for protesting Bhagana Dalits by the Khap Panchayats...

JNU suicide: ABVP seeks CBI probe, teachers’ suspension

New Delhi, (IANS): The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Monday demanded a CBI probe into JNU student J. Muthukrishnan's suicide and sought suspension...

फिर से दलित-ठाकुर संघर्ष : दलितों की लड़की छेड़ी, बाबा साहब की मूर्ति तोड़ी

TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter मुजाहिदपुर भूपखेड़ी : मुज़फ़्फ़रनगर व मेरठ के बॉर्डर पर स्थित भूपखेडी गांव में पिछले दो दिनों से भारी तनाव है. बस्ती सुनसान...

British aid worker killed in Afghanistan

By DPA, Kabul : Taliban fighters killed a British woman aid worker for "spreading Christianity," Monday as she was going to her office in the western part of Kabul, officials said. The attackers, who were riding on motorbike, fled the area after the shooting, interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said. Bashary had earlier said that the aid worker was from South Africa and was working with an aid organization that was helping disabled people in Afghanistan. But the British embassy in Kabul later said that one of the its nationals was killed in the city.

UP cop to woman: Who will rape you at your age?

By IANS, Lucknow : A Dalit woman, who petitioned a senior Uttar Pradesh Police officer seeking registration of her rape complaint, was told that her's was not an age to be raped.

Dalits oppose invitation to ‘only’ upper caste speakers for yearly memorial lecture at Ambedkar...

By TCN News, New Delhi: The members of Dalit Bahujan Adivasi Collective have written an open letter to the Vice Chancellor, Ambedkar University, Delhi (AUD)...

PM’s Dalit comment sounded like film’s dialogue: Yechury

New Delhi : Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Communist Party of India-Marxist General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said on Tuesday that his...

BJP is anti-Ambedkar, anti-Constitution: Mayawati

Lucknow : Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Tuesday dubbed the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the Centre as anti-Ambedkar and anti-Constitution. Addressing...

Himachal court says no to Ramdev holding yoga camps

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"...

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

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

Students flock to Hyderabad varsity for protest

Hyderabad: Tension prevailed in the University of Hyderabad on Monday with students from other states reaching here for a massive protest over the suicide...

APCR ensures freedom for seven marginalised prisoners on Independence day

By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Seven prisoners got back their freedom on the occasion of Independence Day this year through Association for protection of Civil Rights...

SC notice on reservation in legislatures

New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the central and the state governments on a PIL seeking increase the SC/ST...

Family refuses to cremate murdered Punjab Dalit youth

Chandigarh : The family of a 20-year-old Dalit youth, who was brutally murdered in Punjab's Mansa district, on Wednesday refused to cremate the body...

Maya govt. is anti-Dalit and anti-farmers: Dr. Udit Raj

By TCN News, New Delhi: Dr. Udit Raj, president of the Indian Justice Party, said that the Maya Government is anti-Dalit and anti-farmers, and has gone upon fueling the privatisation in U.P. “Recently, the government sold four sugar mills, viz. Chandpur (Bijnor), Jarwal (Behraich), Shishwan Bazar and Amroha and three of them are making profits. The Chandpur Sugar Mills has been sold to a liquor baron who had amassed thousand of crores through manipulation of business activities in liquor, mines, mid- day meal, etc.” alleged Dr. Raj.

Two more arrested in Una case, 24 now in custody

Ahmedabad : The Gujarat Police on Friday arrested two more persons for flogging four Dalit youngsters in Una on July 11, taking the total...

Amit Shah woos Delhi’s Dalits ahead of election

New Delhi : BJP chief Amit Shah Tuesday urged the city's Dalit community to support the party and ensure its victory in the upcoming...

Glorifying self: Modi’s gimmick of washing feet of sanitary workers

By Ram Puniyani Gimmicks are a part of Modi's style of politics. Rather they form the core of his strategies. His act of washing the feet...

Mayawati demands more security for UP polls

Lucknow : Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati said Tuesday that free and fair polls were not possible in the state under the Samajwadi party...

In Rural Telangana, How a Dalit Women-Run Radio Station Is Changing Lives

Mohini Kapoor, TwoCircles.net Hyderabad: Not long ago, in a corner of southern India where caste and gender boundaries still hold strong, the idea of Dalit women...

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...

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बीते वर्ष, 2021, में कई तरह की बदलती हुई राजनीतिक और सामाजिक गतिविधियां देखने को मिली। इस बदलती परिस्थिति में, हाशिए पर खड़े...

Spat with minister: Haryana transfers woman police officer

Chandigarh : The Haryana government transferred IPS officer Sangeeta Kalia on Saturday, a day after she refused to leave a meeting when Health and...

Emergency can never be imposed again: Ravi Shankar Prasad

New Delhi : Another emergency can never be imposed in India and the country can run only as a democracy, union minister Ravi Shankar...
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