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By TCN Staff Reporter Thiruvananthapuram: Radhika Vemula, the mother of Rohith Vemula, called for political unity among Muslims, backward communities and Dalits and said she...

Ref: - For consolidating diarchy, Musharraf may capitalize on USA support. Dear Sir

Musharraf has proved all the skeptics wrong who were saying that there would be no free and fair elections in Pakistan. Now the same skeptics (including most of the noises through Indian media) are clamoring and leading the vicious propaganda that Musharraf ought to resign in the face of electoral defeat of PML (Q), allegedly Musharraf's party and resounding victory of PPP and PML (N), the parties of Late Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif.

By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net The Gau Raksha Dals can stand and take notice now. For the past few years, these vigilantes, in the name of...

Hyderabad : MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday demanded withdrawal of cases against students and professors of Hyderabad Central University. The Member of Parliament from...

New Delhi : The NHRC Friday issued a notice to the Tamil Nadu government, demanding a report on the human rights violations of the...

By IANS, New Delhi : Dalit land rights activists Friday said they would start a two-day agitation in the national capital beginning Saturday to press for their various demands.

Rajkot : Seven Dalit youngsters on Monday attempted to commit suicide in two separate incidents in Saurashtra the entire region erupted into a wave...

By IANS, Shimla : States should set up special courts to try cases related to atrocities on Dalits, union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Mukul Wasnik said Friday.

Ref: - Was India dishonest when gave assurance to Muslims after 1947 partition? Dear Sir This refers to Thursday 'Tehelka' exposure 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.

By Ram Puniyani, Caste hierarchy is a major obstacle to the goal of social justice and it continues to be a major obstacle to social progress even today. There are many a theories, which have tried to understand its origin. The latest in the series is the attempt of RSS to show its genesis due to invasion of Muslim kings. Three books written by RSS ideologues argue that Islamic atrocities during medieval period resulted in emergence of untouchables and low castes. The books are ‘Hindu Charmakar Jati’, ‘Hindu Khatik Jati’ and ‘Hindu Valmiki Jati’.

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.

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

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Patna : Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has filed yet another petition in the Patna High Court that some people have occupied a land...

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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...

By IANS, New Delhi : In a blow to the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government, the Supreme Court Wednesday transferred the trail of those accused of attacking Dalits in Haryana to New Delhi.

Committee for the Protection of Democratic Rights (CPDR), Mumbai calls beef ban in Maharashtra ‘unconstitutional’. By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Mumbai: The Republican Party of India...

Ahmedabad : The protests by Dalits over the July 11 flogging of Dalit boys in Una by self-styled cow protection vigilantes continued for the...

By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net, Pune: Sambhaji Brigade, an extremist organisation and proponent of Maratha reservation and Shiv-dharma, has received an anonymous packet containing explosives here. The...

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By Althaf Shajahan, Running regressions and making sense of data is my job. We were working on a sort of data analysis where we had to consider different socio-economic groups and using data on three variables, viz. household income, consumption and assets which would together measure something we may term us material well-being and compute an inequality adjusted index value for each group. As expected, Dalits, Adivasis and Muslims fared the worst. Yeah! What’s new in this? Sachar report and every possible report speak about this. Well here, the index needs to be explained. Our index measures household indicators of well. While it aggregates across all the members of the groups, it discounts for the inequality among the members. (Refer the original computations in the figure below ). While searching the data for Muslim cases, I did see observations on Muslim community members who belong to the top percentiles and quintiles of either income or wealth. It is this inequality that makes me mull over. Intra-community inequality is not the concern of the state. While it is possible for Muslims as citizens of this nation to ask for state support and schemes citing their vulnerability as much as Dalits or Adivasis are, public policy may or may not consider it. But the inbuilt poverty and inequality targeting systems needs to be looked at.

By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net Mumbai: Kishor Jagtap is on fast again. The eminent activist and senior social worker from Mumbai, known for his history of...

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

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

By Asghar Ali Engineer

Mumbai : Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray Monday made an embarrassing revelation here that he had personally intervened to secure a Rajya Sabha seat...

New Delhi : The Indian embassy in Qatar is making preparations for an appeal to the country's Supreme Court on behalf of two Indians...

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

By IANS, Mumbai : Activists Thursday demanded a probe by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) into the brutal killing of three Dalit youths in a Maharashtra village earlier this month.

By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent, Thiruvananthapuram: The Dalit Human Rights Movement is the beginning of a new political culture in Kerala, said famous journalist BRP Bhasker. He was inaugurating the meeting organized in front of the state Secretariat welcoming the party’s chairman Selvaraj who was released from prison.

Perumbavoor (Kerala) : Even as the rape and murder of a Dalit law student continued to rock the poll-bound state of Kerala, police on...

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Mhow (Madhya Pradesh): Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday attacked the NDA government over "centralisation" of power and de-recognition of a student group...

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By Parveen Qamar, India is included among developing nations. Of course, there are areas where we have achieved much better results than expectations but there are areas which, even after 68 years of Independence, remain neglected.

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, New Delhi: Days after the police action against FORWARD Press following the complaint by saffron organisations regarding a painting of Goddess Durga published by the magazine, its consulting editor Pramod Ranjan has said the controversy possibly has roots in the Bahujan rendition of the narrative of a mythical character called Mahishashur.