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3D stereo caste: A sophisticated way of treating caste discriminations in music

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By Abdul Basith, TwoCircles.net,

Gujarat law exam hit by reservation row

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By IANS,

NRI Ambedkarites demand immediate prosecution of Hathras rape accused

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TCN News Scores of NRI Ambedkarites from the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Nederland, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Japan, Korea, Singapore, New Zealand, Belgium, Hungary, Australia,...

मुसलमान बनने की धमकी क्यों देते है दलित

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आस मोहम्मद कैफ, TwoCircles.net  मेरठ : पिछले दिनों मेरठ के एक मंदिर में एक नवांगतुक पुजारी ने दलितों को पूजा करने से रोक दिया उन्हें...

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 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...

Mayawati loses UP, BSP draws zero

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By Mohit Dubey, Lucknow : The Modi blitzkrieg Friday destroyed the BSP, leaving Mayawati, who once harboured hopes of becoming India's first Dalit prime minister,...

NSUI paid tribute to Rohith Vemula on this birthday

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By TCN News, Jammu: Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir unit of National Students Union of India (NSUI) today lit candles outside Jammu University and paid tribute...

Ramdev booked in Rajasthan, faces court case in Bihar

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Jaipur/Patna : Troubles seem to be mounting for Baba Ramdev for his remarks on Dalits and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with the yoga guru...

Dalits stage protest against Anna Hazare’s Jan Lokpal

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By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net,

Dattu Thorat: A mechanic working to improve education levels in Shirpur

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By Shiva Thorat, TwoCircles.net Most people expect a cycle repair mechanic to do just that: repair cycles, and make a living. Dattu Thorat also does...

Citizens demand heritage city status for Agra

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By Brij Khandelwal, IANS, Agra : Ahead of the polls, several citizens' groups have asked candidates of various political parties to support their demand for heritage city status to Agra visited by millions of tourists every year. Party candidates are being asked to clarify their stand on various issues that concern the development of this historic city.

Owaisi seeks withdrawal of cases against Hyderabad varsity students

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

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

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

NHRC seeks report over attack on Dalits in UP

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By IANS,

‘Dalit terrorism’: DHRM demands CBI probe into Hindutva-police conspiracy

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent, Thiruvananthapuram: The CBI should investigate the Hindutva-police conspiracy behind the cruel Dalit hunt of the Kerala police in the name of Dalit terrorism, demands a complaint submitted by the Dalit leader Selvaraj to Home Minister P Chidambaram.

Ambedkar Foundation appoints AMU prof. to manage Urdu translation of Ambedkar writings

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By TCN News, Aligarh: Professor Mohammad Asim Siddiqui from the Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has been appointed as the managing editor...

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

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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...

Need Support for start Madrasa in Hubli

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“Establishment of a madrasa separately for girls and boys in every district is necessary for removing educational backwardness of the Muslim community, said president of All India Deeni Madaris Board, Maulana Mohammad Yaqoob Bulandshahri. These madras as must be of such a high standard that their students may be able to secure admission in modern arts, science and technology subjects, he further said.”

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

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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...

Scholar’s suicide: Rahul seeks action against Dattatreya

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

More than 50% Dalits landless, 40% of people displaced for ‘development’ are Adivasis, says...

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: Even as the NDA government completes three years in power amid tall claims of development, the India Exclusion...

No pride in caste prejudice

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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...

[EXCLUSIVE] “हम तीनों को वैसी पब्लिसिटी मिली, जैसी हम नहीं चाहते थे” – अनिर्बन...

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सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net नई दिल्ली- जेएनयू प्रकरण में बेहद उतार-चढ़ाव आए. इस मामले में उमर ख़ालिद और कन्हैया कुमार कई दिनों तक अखबार की सुर्ख़ियों में छाए रहे. लेकिन इस मामले में सबसे कम नाम जिस शख्स का सुना गया, वह नाम है अनिर्बन भट्टाचार्य का. दो दिनों पहले जेएनयू के एड ब्लॉक पर अनिर्बन से हमारी बात हुई. नीचे पढ़ें वह बातचीत.

2016-17 saw over 45,000 cases of atrocities against Dalits

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Kolkata, (IANS): Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale on Tuesday said over 45,000 cases of atrocities against Dalits were...

India’s IT capital caught in silly controversies

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(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.

Poultry farming brings prosperity to Rajasthan Dalit village

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By IANS,

Kanhaiya Kumar’s family objects to Mayawati remarks against him

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Patna : Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar's family on Friday took a strong objection to Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati's remarks...

For Dalit liberation, Dalit-Muslim unity must: Dalit leader

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By TCN Staff Reporter, New Delhi: “Dalits are victims of both Hindu atrocities and Hindutva, and for the liberation of Dalits, Dalit-Muslim unity is must,” said Dalit leader and President of Ambeker Samaj Party, Bhai Tej Singh. He was speaking at a function for release of the book “End Of Casteism”here in on Sunday. The book is written by T M Mani, a well-known Dalit leader from Tamilnadu who waged a long war against casteism and caste atrocities. The book is documentation of his own struggle, sufferings and achievements.

PMO protecting Bhima-Koregaon violence accused: Prakash Ambedkar

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New Delhi (IANS): Dalit leader Prakash Ambedkar on Monday alleged that the PMO had given orders not to arrest Hindutva leader Sambhaji Bhide, booked...

BJP forms panel over atrocities on Dalit women in Kerala

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

यूपी में दलित किशोरी की बलात्कार के बाद हत्या, दो गिरफ्तार

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.Net    उत्तर प्रदेश के लखीमपुर खीरी में बेहद दरिन्दगी का एक मामला सामने आया है। यहां पकरिया गांव में दलित समुदाय की एक नाबालिग़...

Should caste matter?

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By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Caste system in India, according to a large number of historians and intellectuals began with the advent of the Aryans and...

Three Ambedkar statues vandalised in UP

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By IANS,

मोदी सरकार के तीन साल और दलितों में टकराव व बदलाव की नई चेतना

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फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net देश में आज से तीन साल पहले भाजपा की मोदी सरकार बनने के साथ ही लोगों में ये उम्मीद साफ़ देखने को...

Parents protest ‘lower caste’ women cooking food in schools

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By Adnan Alavi, The outrage among parents over Dalit or Lower Caste [sic] women cooking food for their children in schools has once again demonstrated the casteist face of our society. 'Upper caste' families are insistent that they would not send the kids to school if the children are served food cooked by Dalit women. In several places, villagers have turned violent and the cooks had to be sent away.

Give up ‘hypocrisy’ of love for Dalits, BJP tells Rahul

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By IANS, New Delhi : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday asked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to stop his "hypocrisy of love for Dalits" and instead ensure rehabilitation of the 150 families of the community forced out of their homes by upper castes in Haryana. The party also slammed the state Congress government for its failure.

Dalit Mahila Swabhiman Yatra culminates after month long journey

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By Lalita, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: On March 12, 2014, hundreds of Dalit women from many states, including Bihar, Chattishgarh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, arrived at Jantar Mantar in Delhi for a large public meeting to share experiences and express collective declaration for their rights and dignity.

SIO to distribute school kits to 25,000 students

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent Kozhikode: The Students Islamic Organisation will distribute school kits to about 25,000 poor students of Adivasi families, coastal areas, etc in the beginning of the academic year, state office-bearers said in a press conference. Education Minister MA Baby inaugurated the service-oriented programmes prior to the SIO state conference by receiving the organisation’s contribution to the Kerala Higher Education Scholarship Fund.

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...

‘Jungle Raj’ in Rajasthan

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By IndScribe One after the other, shocking incidents of crimes and atrocities on the Dalits are being reported from Rajasthan. The latest incident has occurred in...

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...

Labourer killed in Agra over a mere Rs.100

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Agra : An unskilled labourer was killed by the grandson of a retired army Major in the Katra Wazir Khan locality here late Tuesday...

Bihar liquor ban: Boon or bane debate back into focus

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Even as some political bigwigs are demanding ease or an end to liquor ban, women in the state are firmly standing with chief...

Agra gears up for biggest Dalit empowerment show

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By IANS, Agra: Agra is gearing up for the annual three-day Ambedkar Jayanti celebrations starting April 14 that are seen as a demonstration of Dalit empowerment over the past decades. Each year, a Bheem Nagri - the venue of the celebrations - comes up in a different area, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Arvind Pushkar told IANS. "The main focus is on the Bheem Manch that has a new theme each year. Last year, it was the Parliament House. This year, the theme is Buddhist culture and trends," Pushkar added.

उत्तर प्रदेश : दलित वोटों का बंटवारा और बसपा का विकल्प

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विद्या भूषण रावत उत्तर प्रदेश में बहुजन और दलितों का नेतृत्व करने वालों की कतार लग गयी है. ये कोई बुरी बात नहीं है क्योंकि...

27 अगस्त को पटना में दलित उत्पीड़न के विरूद्ध राज्य स्तरीय कन्वेंशन

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter पटना : देश में दलितों पर हो रहे अत्याचारों और उनके उत्पीड़न का सिलसिला एक बढ़ोतरी की ओर है. गुजरात के ऊना...

Dear Prime Minister, are you sure the rich are not sleeping well post...

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By Soroor Ahmed for Twocirlces.net As a son of a poor ‘chai-wallah’, Narendra Modi knows well how comfortably––‘aaram se’, to use his own expression––the...

No more skinning of dead cows, say Dalits marching from Ahmedabad to Una

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By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Ahmedabad: The Azaadi Kooch (Azadi March) oragnised by Una Dalit Atyachar Ladat Samiti from August 5 to August 15, starting...

Tension in Ghaziabad after Ambedkar statue vandalised

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Ghaziabad : The defiling of a statue of the chief architect of the Indian Constitution and Dalit icon Bhimrao Ambedkar here has led to...

Empowerment Conference by AMU Alumni Forum- UAE to revive the Aligarh Movement

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By TCN News Sharjah, UAE: In an attempt to revive the spirit of Aligarh Movement of Sir Syed Ahmad, an Empowerment Conference 2016 is being...

‘Come Eat With Me’: Exploring caste through cooking Dalit cuisine in upper caste kitchens

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In an interview with TwoCircles.net, award winning Dalit theatre artist Sri Vamsi Matta talks about his experiences as a Dalit which inform the questions,...

Indian Muslim Organizations memorandum on Gaza

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Presented to the Hon'ble Prime Minister and Hon'ble Minister of External Affairs, India

 Respected Sir,

The Indian civil society, in general and Indian Muslims in particular, are horrified by the unfolding events in the open air prison called "Gaza", housing 1.5 million people, which the Israeli occupying power has condemned to slow death by imposing a complete siege since 20th January 2008. This was the culmination of the policy of throttling Gaza into death unleashed by the occupying power since June 2007.

‘Rise of Maoists due to injustice with tribals’

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By IANS, Shillong: Maoist activities are growing in India's tribal areas because the traditional forest dwellers have been denied justice, a tribal leader said Saturday.

‘दूषित मानसिकता वाले लोग अब बहुजन समाज को कमज़ोर समझने की भूल न करें…’

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TwoCircles.net News Desk लखनऊ : दलित मुद्दों पर काम करने वाली भारतीय समन्वय संगठन ‘लक्ष्य’ द्वारा बहुजन समाज के अधिकार, उन पर बढ़ते हुए अत्याचार...

Caste or Creed? Dalit Christian Identity Sparks Reservation Row in Karnataka Census

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TCN News Desk Bengaluru: Identity of Dalit Christians has become a hotly debated and controversial issue amid the ongoing census for internal reservation of Scheduled...

Dalits and Minorities demands inclusive Women Reservation

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By TCN Staff Reporter, New Delhi: Just 3 days before the 100th Anniversary International Women Day, various religious Minority and Dalit groups rejected the Women Reservation Bill in its present form and urged for an inclusive one. The proposed bill is likely to be presented in Parliament for passage on March 8, 2010, which is also 100th Anniversary International Women Day. The Union Cabinet has already given its nod.

विडम्बना : शमशान में जलाने से रोक दिया दलित महिला का शव

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर । Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के आगरा से एक बेहद शर्मनाक घटना सामने आई है। यहां दलित समाज की एक नवविवाहिता का शव श्मशान...

BSP leaders protest park wall demolition in UP’s Lucknow

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Lucknow: BSP leaders and workers on Thursday held a sit-in in the state capital to protest against the demolition of a wall of Ambedkar...

A Dalit Girl Dreamed of Belonging – Until She Saw What They Really Thought

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Swastika Verma, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: Feminism in India remains a tender and often misunderstood subject. Half the population is unfamiliar with its meaning, while the...

Bihar: Hopes and hurdles for minority communities in much-hyped caste census

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The ongoing caste-based census in Bihar is considered a possible game-changer in policy-making for all the backward castes of the state. Muslims too...

US State Department’s scathing report on persecution of religious minorities in India a step...

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Released on May 12, the 2021 Report on International Religious Freedom, provided in-depth coverage of massive rights violations faced by religious minorities, especially Muslims, Christians...

Amit Shah woos Delhi’s Dalits ahead of election

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

In this Gujarat town, no place to bury dead as high-caste residents flood Dalit...

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By Mahesh Trivedi, TwoCircles.net Gujarat: Dalits in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s wealthy state of Gujarat are named and shamed during their entire lives but, for...

Mayawati misguiding Dalits: BJP

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By IANS,

15 leaders from different parties join BJP

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New Delhi : A total of 15 leaders from different political parties, including the Congress and the AAP, Tuesday joined the BJP here expressing...

BSP calls Congress anti-Dalit

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By IANS,

Will not allow any dilution in SC/ST Act: Rajnath

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By IANS: New Delhi, July 18: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday assured the Rajya Sabha that the government will not allow any dilution in any...

Dalit women in Haryana to march for redressal of cases of atrocities committed by...

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By Lalita Sharma, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch (AIDMAM) is organizing a Pad Yatra (long-march) in in Kurukshetra for redressal of pending cases against atrocities faced by Dalits, particularly women, beginning February 17. They organized a similar march last year as well.

चंद्रशेखर ने संयुक्त राष्ट्र में उठाया मानवाधिकार का मुद्दा

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर। Twocircles.net भीम आर्मी चीफ चंद्रशेखर आज़ाद रावण ने संयुक्त राष्ट्र मानवाधिकार परिषद के समक्ष किसान आंदोलन एवं सीएए विरोधी आंदोलन के दौरान...

Dalits denied water, NHRC issues notice to Bihar

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By IANS, New Delhi : The NHRC Wednesday sought a report from the Bihar government over the denial of water to Dalits by upper caste people in Kishanganj.

Reaching out to Bihar’s Mahadalits – by radio

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By Imran Khan, IANS,

Success in Bihar victory against RSS, Modi: Rahul

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

Indian Americans demand CBI inquiry into atrocities against Dalits and Muslims under the pretext...

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By TCN News, The Indian American Muslim Council, an advocacy group dedicated to safeguarding India's pluralist and tolerant ethos today joined millions of Indians and...

Mayawati slams Dikshit for diverting Dalit funds to CWG

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By IANS, Lucknow : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati has lashed out at her Delhi counterpart Sheila Dikshit for allegedly "diverting" huge amount of funds meant for Dalit upliftment to the Commonwealth Games. Mayawati also questioned the constitutional validity of the Delhi government's decision to divert Rs.750 crore in this manner.

नैतिकता का पाठ पढ़ाकर, रोहित के दोषियों को बचाने की फ़िराक़ में मोदी

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TwoCircles.net News Desk लखनऊ : बाबा साहब भीमराव अंबेडकर विश्वविद्यालय में रोहित वेमुला की आत्महत्या के लिए मोदी को जिम्मेदार मानते हुए ‘मोदी गो बैक’...

TCN launches an internship program

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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...

Jamia students celebrate Ambedkar’s 125th birth anniversary

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Paying tribute to Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar on his 125th birth anniversary, students of Jamia MIllia Islamia gathered at Jamia Hall...

Acid attacks: SC raises compensation, asks pvt hospitals to provide full treatment

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By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: In a remarkable judgment, the Supreme Court has ruled that compensation amount to the acid attack victim cannot...

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

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

Ambedkar, Hedgewar similar, put country before self: Bhagwat

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Panaji : RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday said B.R. Ambedkar and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh founder K.B. Hegdewar always put the nation before self...

Mandal-II vs Kamandal-II: Social justice and Bihar assembly election

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By Sanjay Kumar & Badre Alam, "For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a...

RSS-BJP want to end reservation in the country: Nitish Kumar

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Patna: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) want to end reservation in the country, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar...

बहन मायावती की वापसी के साथ ही शब्बीरपुर में फिर बवाल, एक की हत्या,...

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आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCorcles.net सहारनपुर : बसपा सुप्रीमो मायावती के शब्बीरपुर पीड़ितों से मुलाक़ात कर लौटने के तुरंत बाद बड़गांव चन्दपुर मार्ग पर शब्बीरपुर से...

हाथरस कांड : राहुल -प्रियंका के दम से काँग्रेस ने लड़ी मुख्य लड़ाई

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महमूद रियाज़ हाशमी  महान वैज्ञानिक अल्बर्ट आइंसटीन ने कहा था, “फीजिक्स से ज्यादा पॉलीटिक्स कठिन है” और जो लोग इस बात से सहमत हुए बिना...

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,...

Harvard India Conference sees protests against Rohith Vemula’s suicide

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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...

Mayawati to give land holdings to poor dalits

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By IANS, Lucknow : After prolonged upper caste baiting, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati is back to focussing on her core support base of dalits. She has begun the exercise by issuing directives to allot 'pattas' (small land holdings) to landless and homeless dalits in the vast rural expanse of the state. In a circular issued by the chief minister's office Friday, Mayawati directed all divisional commissioners and district magistrates to undertake a special drive for allotment of 'pattas' to "eligible persons", which primarily include landless dalits.

MPs demand special session for Ambedkar’s birth anniversary

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New Delhi : A Lok Sabha member on Friday demanded a special session of parliament to commemorate 125th anniversary of B.R. Ambedkar. Biju Janata Dal...

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...

Dalit students attacked allegedly by SFI cadre for organising a collective in Kottayam

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By Twocircles.net Staff Reporter A Dalit student was beaten allegedly by SFI activists at Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam on Thursday. Vivek Kumaran, an M...

बिहार चुनाव: जीतनराम मांझी का भगवा चोला

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सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.Net पटना/ नई दिल्ली: बिहार में विधानसभा चुनाव के संभावित समय का ऐलान होते ही अब सारी रणनीतियां रंग दिखाने लगी हैं. पुराने...

A marriage of, for and with self-respect: Remembering Periyar 140 years after his birth...

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By Daisy Katta, TwoCircles.net The news of the caste killing of Pranay in Telangana has sent shockwaves throughout India. This is not an isolated incident...

Bring legislation to ensure no one faces the same fate as my son: Radhika...

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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...

Pansare murder suspect knew Goa blast mastermind: Police

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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...

Struggle against caste-based discrimination comes to the US

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By TwoCircles.net staff reporter Washington, DC: The struggle against caste-based discrimination practiced in South Asia has come to the shores of the United States with...

‘Cow Holy, Dalit Unholy?’: Ambedkar group raises slogan during protest rallies in USA

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BY TCN News, Detroit: Giving a global voice to the ongoing protests against the caste atrocities committed in India against Dalits, the Ambedkar Association...

Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani rejects invite to CPM programme in Kerala

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By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net Kozhikode: Kerala CPI (M) leadership was left red faced after Jignesh Mevani, Una agitation leader, rejected the party’s invitation to attend...

Strong case for deleting Presidential Order of 1950: A response to Social Justice Minister...

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By Dr Syed Zafar Mahmood, Plato has once again been proved right: politics is the art of gaining power and the craft of retaining it. Media has reported the current central government saying that opening up the list of Scheduled Castes beyond Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism - would encourage religious conversions. He said this in the context of the demand of Muslims & Christians that the definition of 'scheduled caste' should be made religion-neutral by deleting para 3 from the presidential order of 1950. That's what has been stated a couple of days ago by the union Social Justice Minister Thavar Chand Gehlot, "Allowing SC status (to converts to Christianity & Islam) would provide a fillip to religious conversions. The demand is not constitutional and we want to work within the parameters of the statute for the welfare of 'these communities' (read Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists)."

First Congressional Briefing on Caste Discrimination in the United States

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TCN News For the first time in the United States a Congressional Briefing on Caste Discrimination is going to be hosted on 22nd May at...

Art festival at TISS celebrates the colours of Bahujan resistance

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter The Mumbai campus of Tata Institute of Social Sciences was abuzz with the colours of Bahujan Art the past weekend as...

In Amul town, Dalits drink milk to protest

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

Tension, Dalits’ migration in Haryana village: CM sends minister

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Chandigarh, (IANS): The migration of Dalit families from a Haryana village due to tension in the wake of stone-pelting over 'ghurchari' was raised in...

Tribal villagers help nab kidnappers in Orissa

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By IANS, Bhubaneswar: Residents of a tribal hamlet in Orissa helped police rescue a man within a few hours after his abduction, an official said Saturday.

Set up special courts for Dalit cases: Wasnik

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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.

National Commission for Minorities: A year of inaction

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net Minorities Commission as a non-statutory body was set up in 1978. In the days following Babri Masjid demolition it was made a statutory body and in 1993 it came to be called National Commission for Minorities (NCM). Its main object is to safeguard the interest of minorities but its power is even less than the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, and National Human Rights Commission. Lacking any effective tool it is merely a spectator that can make some noise but not be part of the game.

Brinda Karat demands probe in tribal girls’ deaths in Andhra Pradesh

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By IANS, New Delhi: Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Brinda Karat Monday asked Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to order a probe into the deaths of four tribal girls given a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination by an NGO in Andhra Pradesh. In a letter to Azad, Karat said a programme of HPV vaccination was launched in several districts of Andhra Pradesh, exclusively among young, mainly tribal girls from the ages of 10-14 years by an NGO.

Attack on Dalit students in Osmania Unv condemned

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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.

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

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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.

Students, teachers associations seek removal of Hyderabad varsity VC

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New Delhi : Students' and teachers' associations here on Monday sought immediate removal and arrest of University of Hyderabad (UoH) Vice Chancellor P. Appa...

For Asit Sapkale, music is synonymous with resistance

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By Shiva Thorat, TwoCircles.net 'Music for a cause' has been used, and abused by artists so often that one cannot help but become a little...

Two more arrested in Una case, 24 now in custody

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

BJP a party of greedy people, not Hindus, says Kejriwal

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New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday hit out at the BJP, saying it claims to be a party of the...

Complaint filed against caste panchayat in Rajasthan

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Jaipur : A complaint was registered Tuesday against some members of a caste panchayat in Rajasthan's Rajsamand district after they allegedly ostracized members of...

Two men arrested for attacking Dalits in Karnataka village

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Raichur (Karnakata) : The Karnataka police have arrested two men so far for barging into the Dalit colony and attacking...

This rally will question why untouchability is prevalent in India

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As India will celebrate the 75th year of independence this year, well-known Dalit rights activist Martin Macwan will lead a rally at the Indian...

Haryana pleads for reservation to more castes

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By IANS,

‘Entire society must come forward to fight fascist forces’

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Daya Pawar Memorial Award received by Pratima Joshi and Bhimsen Dethe By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net, This year, ‘Padmashri Daya Pawar Smruti Puraskar’ (Padmashri Daya...

Dalit group to ‘spearhead reconstruction of Babri Masjid’

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By M. Reyaz, TwoCircles.net

British parliamentarians visit Jan Sahas and met Dalit women

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Dewas, MP: A delegation of British Parliamentarians of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association visited Jan Sahas intervention village Chinnotha in Madhya Pradesh on 20 February 2014 and participated in the community meeting with the liberated manual scavenger women, bonded labours, victims of rape, sexual abuse and dalit atrocities.

Boston NRIs condemn Telangana Government brutality at University of Hyderabad

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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...

10000 KM yatra to liberate 1.2 million people from the caste ridden practice of...

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By TCN Staff Reporter,

छत्तीसगढ़ में पादरी के साथ मारपीट,बजरंग दल पर आरोप

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आकिल हुसैन।twocircles.net छत्तीसगढ़ में एक थाने के अंदर हिंदूवादी संगठन के लोगों द्वारा पादरी से मारपीट का मामला सामने आया हैं। हिंदूवादी सगठन के...

Dalit activist Mevani detained for seeking land rights

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Ahmedabad : Gujarat Dalit rights activist, Jignesh Mevani and 200 supporters, who were demonstrating outside the Ahmedabad District Collectorate, were detained on Monday. Two women...

Railway to raise women security force from minorities, backward classes

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By TCN News, New Delhi: The Railway Budget 2010 has just short of disappointment for the minorities as Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee today in her second budget did not offer any new scheme to them except the announcement to raise special women railway security force preferably from minorities, SC/ST, OBC and economically backward classes. Presenting her second budget as Railway Minister in the UPA Government, Mamata Banerjee presented a populist railway budget with no hike in passenger fares and freight tariffs besides more than 100 new trains.

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

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

Court accepts terror charges against Kobad Ghandy

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By IANS, New Delhi: A Delhi court Monday accepted a fresh set of formal charges filed by police against Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy for prosecuting him under terror charges.

A prosperous, Muslim-majority district? No wonder Subramanian Swamy wants it under AFSPA

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By Shafeeq Hudawi, Twocircles.net What would you call a district where female literacy is more than 90%? Where the sex ratio is much better than...

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

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

Sonia raises ‘distressing rise’ in attacks on Dalits with Modi

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New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday raised the issue of "distressing rise in incidence of atrocities against Dalits" with Prime Minster Narendra...

Book on discrimination against Dalits creates buzz in the US

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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...

Activists express solidarity with HDRC for controversial advertisement on sanitation

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By TCN News, Several human and civil rights activists have come out in support of the content of an advertisement for sanitation worker by the...

Government slammed for ‘anti-farmer policies’, lynching

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New Delhi, (IANS): The Bhumi Adhikar Andolan (BAA) on Sunday condemned the central government for its "anti-farmer policies" and lynching of minorities and Dalits through...

Dalit woman branded a witch, thrashed in Rajasthan

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By IANS, Tonk (Rajasthan) : A Dalit woman was labelled a witch and beaten up badly in Rajasthan's Tonk district, police said Sunday. Kamla Bairwa of Jhalra village in Tonk district, over 100 km from Jaipur, stated in her First Information Report (FIR) filed with the police Saturday that some villagers tagged her as a witch, insulted her and then beat her up. "The villagers, especially the women, call me a witch. They insult me, torture me and beat me up. They wanted me to leave the village," Kamla, a labourer, told IANS.

Abducted student found murdered in Guragaon

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Gurgaon : An 18-year-old student, who was abducted last weekend, was on Thursday found murdered, police said, adding she might have been sexually assaulted...

Government sets up fund for Dalit entrepreneurs

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By IANS, New Delhi : With the Lok Sabha polls only months away, the government Monday announced a Rs.200 crore venture capital fund to promote...

Bihar liquor ban should be ‘participatory’, not agenda: Experts

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By Bhavana Akella and Sushil Kumar New Delhi : Bihar on Thursday joined the states that have banned liquor, with newly elected Chief Minister...

Lalu blames Modi, RSS for violence in name of cow protection

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Patna : RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Saturday blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his BJP and the RSS for the hatred and violence across...

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.

‘Safar-e-azadi’ by JKLF may usher in Federation of India.

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Ref: Federation of SAARC in the making. Dear Sir The chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Muhammad Yasin Malik reportedly said that JKLF would resume its 'Safar-e-Azadi' (March for freedom) from May 20 for the inclusion of Kashmiris, in the ongoing process for the resolution of Kashmir problem.

All governments failed to protect Dalits, now arm them for self defence: BJP ally...

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By TwoCircles.net, Staff Reporter, Nagpur : ...

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...

Cancelling Andhra court bail to Kobad Ghandy meaningless: SC

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By IANS,

Sibal apologises after Ambedkar cartoon row rocks parliament

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By IANS,

SC to hear Ramdev’s plea on clubbing of cases

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court will Friday hear a plea by yoga guru Baba Ramdev seeking the clubbing together of all cases against him...

यूनाइटेड अगेंस्ट हेट: नफरती हमलों के विरोध छिड़ा आंदोलन

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TCN News पटना : यूनाइटेड अगेंस्ट हेट के बैनर तले पटना में आयोजित अबकी बार नफरत की हार कार्यक्रम का आयोजन पटना में किया गया।...

BSP walks out over Dalit funds for Games

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By IANS, New Delhi : Alleging that funds meant for Scheduled Castes had been diverted by the Delhi government to the Commonwealth Games, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MPs Tuesday walked out of the Lok Sabha. Soon after the house re-assembled at 11.40 a.m. following an adjournment, the BSP MPs created an uproar. BSP's leader in Lok Sabha, Dara Singh Chauhan, alleged that Rs.750 crore meant for the welfare of Dalits had been diverted by the Delhi government for the October Games.

वीडियो रिपोर्ट : अब वन गुर्जरों की जंगल से ज़मीन की और जाने की...

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आसमोहम्मद कैफ़। Twocircles.net हिमाचल ,उत्तराखंड और उत्तर प्रदेश की शिवालिक रेंज में लाखों वन गुर्जर रहते हैं वो पशुपालन करते हैं और दूध को बाजार...

In Maharashtra, a unique attempt to bring a smile to the faces of Dalit...

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By Imran Inamdar, TwoCircles.net Apart from fasting, the pious month of Ramadan is also seen as an ideal time to spread the messages and teachings...

No diversion of Dalit funds for CWG: Sandeep Dikshit

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By IANS, New Delhi : Contrary to an RTI reply, Congress MP Sandeep Dikshit Thursday said there was no diversion of funds meant for Dalits to Commonwealth Games projects, an issue that has raised a storm in parliament. "There is no question of diversion of funds," Dikshit told reporters outside parliament. The Congress MP from East Delhi is the son of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
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