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LJP demands Bihar CM’s resignation over Mahadalits’ exodus

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Patna : Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan's LJP Friday demanded Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi's resignation following the exodus of hundreds of Mahadalits...

आदिवासी बच्चों को उनकी जड़ों से अलग करते बस्तर के ये स्कूल

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net दंतेवाड़ा/सुकमा (छत्तीसगढ़) : बस्तर में चल रहे स्कूल ज्ञान के केंद्र होने के बजाय अज्ञान के कीड़े साबित होते जा रहे...

Over 300 Dalit atrocity cases in Himachal

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By IANS, Shimla : More than 300 cases of atrocities against Dalits were reported in Himachal Pradesh in the past three years, Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal Monday told the state assembly.

Tax-free fun ahead of Karnataka’s power transfer deadline

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By V.S. Karnic Bangalore, Sep 18 (IANS) Two weeks remain for Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) to hand over power to coalition partner Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Karnataka but there is complete uncertainty as to whether the transfer will actually take place Oct 3. The conflicting signals from the JD-S on the power transfer for more than a month now and the number of theories on the differences within the BJP on the issue has been aptly described by a harried leader of that party as "tax-free entertainment".

This Dalit woman activist is taking Dalit history to grassroots in Rajasthan

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Suman Devathiya is a senior Dalit activist from Rajasthan who has been at the forefront of fighting for Dalit women’s rights and taking Dalit...

Lal Singh Dil wrote about wretched of the earth: Dalit poet’s translator

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By Sourabh Gupta, IANS,

Why was the right arm of Dr. Ambedkar’s statue broken in UP’s Gautam Budh...

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Aatika S | TwoCircles As the internationally celebrated event of Dalit History month comes to an end, the Indian subcontinent is reeling with an increased...

Mayawati did nothing for Dalits, says Rahul Gandhi

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Lucknow: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday launched a frontal attack on Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati, saying she was unlike her mentor and...

उन्नाव प्रकरण में भ्रामक ट्वीट पर 8 के खिलाफ मुकदमा

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आकिल हुसैन। Twocircles.net उन्नाव के असोहा थाना क्षेत्र के बबुरहा गांव में बुधवार को घटित हुई घटना को लेकर ट्वीटर पर भ्रामक ट्वीट करके ग़लत...

समस्तीपुर लाइव : ‘छोटी जातियों’ का समर्थन महागठबंधन को

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पहले चरण के मतदान से पूर्व बातचीत में रोसड़ा के दलितों ने दिए इशारे राजन झा रोसड़ा, समस्तीपुर: दलितों के वोट की मदद से बिहार चुनाव...

Bihar Elections: “Our plight will not change without political representation,” Dom community members decry...

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By Sami Ahmad, TwoCircles.net Bihar: Nearly 100 years ago, well-known Bhopuri poet Hira Dom wrote a now famous poem in ‘Achhut Ki Shikayat (Protest of...

TMC doing vote bank politics over Rohith: Smriti Irani

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Durgapur (West Bengal): Union Minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday accused the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal of indulging in a vote bank politics...

Civil society adopts 7 point resolution over “Liberty and Fraternity in the Constitution: A...

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Many social activists, academicians, researchers and prominent citizens took part in a discussion on “Liberty and Fraternity in the...

NHRC notice to Kerala over Dalit student’s rape, murder

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New Delhi : The National Human Rights Commission on Tuesday issued a notice to the Kerala government over the alleged rape and murder of...

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...

Aadhaar linkage threatens voter exclusion among Dalits, Adivasis

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Lakhs of people are victims of deprivation ever since mandatory Aadhaar-linking to various social security benefits was introduced. Countless such Catch-22 like cases...

SIO and GIO hold state conference in Kerala; Fatima Nafees attends

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By Najiya O, TwoCircles.net The joint state conference of the Students Islamic Organisation and the Girls Islamic Organisation was held at the Al Jamia al...

Caste on my back

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By Aishik Chanda for TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: “Jai Mahar” read one, “Jai Maratha” read another. Several autorickshaws of Greater Mumbai region display caste identities on the...

Protest against Lokmat Chairaman Vijay Darda for his anti-reservation article

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Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net Pune: An editorial written by editor and chairman of Lokmat Vijay Darda has come under severe criticism from Dalit activists. The editorial published...

50 Dalit families accept Islam in UP after series of attacks by upper caste...

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter Moradabad: About 50 Dalit families from Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh have decided to convert to Islam after the recent spate...

बिहार : एक जिला, दो महीने और 21 दलितों की हत्या

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फहमीना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net बिहार : बिहार में जहां एक तरफ राजनीतिक सरगर्मियां बढ़ती जा रही हैं वहीँ दूसरी तरफ आपराधिक घटनाओं का ग्राफ भी तेजी से बढ़ा...

The University is a Graveyard. Burn it down

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By Anubhuti Agnes Bara for TwoCircles.net “…It leads to no good if institutions that grant titles, qualifications, and other prerequisites for life or a profession...

‘Long March’ succeeds, Maharashtra concedes farmers’ demands

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Mumbai (IANS): The gruelling 200-km, six-day long 'Long March' by over 35,000 farmers ended on a positive note, with the Maharashtra government conceding most...

सफ़ाई-कर्मियों की हो रही लगातार मौत का ज़िम्मेदार कौन?

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सुनील कुमार, TwoCircles.net के लिए दिल्ली और एनसीआर में पिछले दो माह से लगातार सिवरेज में दुर्घटना होने की ख़बरें आ रही हैं. इन दुर्घटनाओं...

Has RSS and its cohorts Talibanized Hinduism in India?

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Taliban doesn’t necessarily need to be turban clad, swinging AK47, loitering around the streets of Kabul, aiming to kill those who don’t necessarily agree...

Justice in Communal Riots cases has become a victim of Vote Bank Politics

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About 60 years ago, on the night of 14th/15th August, 1947, Pakistan and India became independent nations. The partition of the pre-Independence India was made on communal basis. So, it resulted in unprecendented communal riots in the history of mankind where more than a million of Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims were killed mercilessly by each other and millions more were made homeless.

Left’s terror blame against Muslims, Dalits rejected in Kerala election

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By Anas Nilambur,

‘Ambedkar would have found notion of Ghar Vapsi abhorrent’

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New Delhi : Former West Bengal governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi on Tuesday criticized attempts by various parties, especially of the right, to take the legacy...

Haryana told to arrest all Dalit attack accused by Monday

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By IANS, New Delhi : The Supreme Court Thursday slammed the Haryana government for its failure to arrest all those who looted and burnt Dalit houses in Mirchpur village in Hisar district April 21 and told it to arrest by Monday all accused who are on the run. If those responsible for committing atrocities could not be arrested then what right does the director general of police have to continue in office, asked an apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice A.K. Ganguly.

Bihar chief minister to learn Urdu

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

Thousands mourn slain Dalit litterateur Kirwale

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

BSP calls Congress anti-Dalit

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JNU students’ elections put BAPSA in the national spotlight

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter In two days time, students will be voting for representatives in the university-wide student union elections in Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi....

Advise PM for ordinance on SC/ST protection, Mevani tells Athavale

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Gandhinagar, (IANS): Gujarat legislator and Dalit activist Jignesh Mevani on Monday asked Union Minister Ramdas Athavale to advise Prime Minister Narendra Modi for an ordinance...

JNU gets solidarity from American University of Beirut

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

Dalit literature festival to be held in December

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New Delhi : The first edition of the Dalit Literature Festival will be held from December 6 to 8 on the 62nd death anniversary...

Opportunity for Muslims to stop injustice by Hindu majority Indian State.

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Ref: - Muslims to come in main stream in the interest of SAARC also.

Dear Sir

Despite constitutional-legal protections, Muslim community for no apparent reason has been behaving so meekly & submissively in Independent India as if they do not have any constitutional-legal / political rights in India.

Without going into much detail, the following two major instances should be enough to support this view:-

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

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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...

FIR against IAS officer, 15 others in Bihar SC/ST scholarship scam

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Patna : An IAS officer, along with 15 other officials, was booked on Wednesday for alleged irregularities in disbursement of post-matric scholarship among...

Four-day Tribal conclave starts in Jamshedpur

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By TCN News Jamshedpur : In a bid to mark the birth anniversary of Birsa Munda, the iconic tribal...

Two Dalits thrashed for refusing to clear carcass

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Rajkot : A group of self-styled cow vigilantes thrashed two Dalits in a village in Gujarat's Saurashtra region for allegedly refusing to dispose the...

Nitish Kumar bats for reservation to Dalit Muslims

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By TCN News, Patna: Giving hope to the dalit Muslims and dalit Christians, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has advocated for increasing reservation quota...

NHRC notice to UP over torture of Dalit

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New Delhi/Lucknow : The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Friday issued notice to the district magistrate and senior superintendent of police in Jhansi over...

उना दलित मार्च में आने वालों की सवर्णों द्वारा पिटाई, विरोध प्रदर्शन जारी

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सिद्धांत मोहन और अमित कुमार, TwoCircles.net उना(गुजरात) - उना में आज स्वतंत्रता दिवस के अवसर पर दलित स्वाभिमान यात्रा का आयोजन किया है. इस यात्रा/ मार्च में गुजरात ही नहीं, देश के अलग-अलग हिस्सों से दलित और तमाम संगठनों से जुड़े लोग पहुंच रहे हैं.

While SP fights, BJP prepares extensive roadmap for upcoming UP elections

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By Faisal Fareed, TwoCircles.net The Samajwadi Party may be busy with its infighting, but it is clear that the BJP is doing all it...

‘Sangma not representative of tribals’

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By IANS,

A Portrait of the Indian as a Young Dalit Girl: Part 2 – Sister,...

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(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...

Indian P.M.’s plea should be rejected.

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Ref:- Separation of state (politics) & religion a must, whether secular state or not.

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This refers to Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan's statement widely reported in Indian electronic and print media that in the backdrop of three Indians allegedly found involved in Glasgow terror blast, Manmohan talked to Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister, where he implored Brown to not label the communities such as Indians or Muslims or Asians etc. as terrorists because as a Sikh he understands the trauma of being labelled.

Dalit boy in UP commits suicide after being boycotted for killing a Calf

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter Lucknow: On Saturday, an 18-year-old Dalit boy named Ramu committed suicide in Gonda district of Uttar Pradesh by jumping in front...

Obama supports Raj Thackeray

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

Manjhi shares his bitter experience with JNU students

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By Mahmood Asim, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: Former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi is of the opinion that in the complicated and sophisticated game of politics, the race against prevalent casteism can be won only if people coming from non-elite background are united. Manjhi was speaking at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University on the topic of ‘Caste, Politics and Discrimination: Experiences of a Dalit Chief Minister’ at a programm organized by Dalit students’ body Birsa Ambedkar Phule Student Association (BAPSA).

कोरोनाकाल मे दलित महिलाओं की हालत चिंताजनक,सह रही है अधिक उत्पीड़न

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सुमन देवठिया समय कोरोना महामारी पूरे देश मे फ़ैल रही है जिसकी चपेट मे भारत भी है, इस कोरोना ने ना केवल इंसान के स्वास्थ्य...

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

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

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.

Mirchpur violence: Delhi, Haryana told to protect witnesses

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By IANS,

Agnivesh to lead peace march from Dadri against ‘intolerance’

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Kolkata: Terming Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "deafening silence" on the raging issue of "intolerance" as an endorsement of the "communal statements" of union ministers...

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.

Curfew relaxed in Jaipur

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

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

Year after journalist Siddique Kappan, 3 others were booked under UAPA on way to...

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Even after a year has passed in the arrest of journalist Siddique Kappan and three others under the draconian Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA),...

Marathi book on Tipu Sultan shines light on his contributions to India

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By Imran Inamdar, TwoCircles.net Solpaur (Maharashtra): In an attempt to bring out the role and contributions of the great Mysore king Tipu Sultan, Sarfaraz...

Vidyarthi Sena goondagiri on Christian educational institutions

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URGENT PRESS RELEASE THE BOMBAY CATHOLIC SABHA CONDEMNS INTIMIDATORY TACTICS BY BVS ON SCHOOLS AND URGES THE DEPUTY CM / HOME MINISTER R.R PATIL TO PROVIDE PROTECTION TO SCHOOLS AND ITS PERSONNEL. The Editor, Dear Madam / Sir, We are watching with dismay the goondagiri and strong arm tactics of the BVS on the Principals and Convent Schools in Dadar. We condemn such attempts to terrorise the Convent Schools and its Personnel. There are better ways to handle issues across the table and sort them out. We have also learnt through reliable sources that the grouse with

“Azad fights war of weak in a powerful way,” well-wishers of Bhim Army leader...

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Bhim Army Chief supremo Chandrashekhar Azad has been featured in TIME magazine’s annual list of 100 “emerging leaders who are shaping the future”. TwoCircles.net...

Hundreds of Mahadalits flee Bihar village after threats

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Patna: Their caste kinsman may be the Bihar chief minister but that brings no solace to hundreds of Mahadalits who fled their village in...

Demonstration in support of Dalits of Hissar

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

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

Panther Sena protests against move to install Shivaji statue in BAMU using students’ fund

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By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net It would be normal to assume that providing adequate facilities to students would be a priority for the administration of any...

Congress MLAs suspended after Gujarat assembly ruckus over Dalits

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Gandhinagar : Gujarat assembly Speaker Ramanlal Vora on Tuesday suspended all Congress MLAs -- barring Leader of Opposition Shankersinh Vaghela and Balwantsinh Rajput --...

Rupesh Kumar: A filmmaker, academic, journalist with the sole aim of destroying casteism

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By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net The world of activism cannot function within boundaries, and for Kannur resident Rupesh Kumar, this statement is apt: he is...

बसपा सुप्रीमो मायावती की मां रामरती देवी का निधन

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर।twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश की पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री और बहुजन समाज पार्टी की अध्यक्ष मायावती की मां रामरती देवी का शनिवार शाम दिल्ली के एक...

JNU scholar complains about discrimination at campus

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New Delhi: A week after having threatened to commit suicide over not getting his research grant extended, a Jawaharlal Nehru University scholar on Wednesday...

Persecution of activists an expression of fascism say Indian Americans

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By TCN News: The Alliance for Justice And Accountability (AJA), an umbrella coalition of progressive organizations across the United States, today condemned the attacks against...

JD-U may be headed for split over CM Manjhi

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Patna: Bihar's ruling JD-U Friday appeared headed for a split over the likely replacement of Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi by his predecessor Nitish...

Dalit lover lynched in Rajasthan

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By IANS,

Dalit youth beaten to death in Bihar

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Patna, Sep 18 (IANS) A Dalit youth was bludgeoned to death by a mob on suspicion of theft in Bihar's Nawada district, police said...

‘मूकनायक’ जैसी पत्रकारिता आज भी जरूरी क्यों है!

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

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...

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...

I got Rajya Sabha seat for Athawale: Uddhav

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

“Snooping won’t deter us,” say Indian journalists, activists listed on Pegasus snoop list

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Jharkhand based freelance journalist Rupesh Kumar Singh, his wife Ipsa Satakshi, Ludhiana based journalist Jaspal Singh Heran and Chhattisgarh based activist Degree Prasad Chouhan...

I Feel Unmistakable Sense of Belonging: Rishab Dahiya, the Photographer Behind Powerful Photographs of...

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Aatika S | Twocircles.net Aatika S. interviews Rishab Dahiya, a dalit photographer and a filmmaker who is famous for clicking powerful pictures of members of...

Telangana Police files closure report in Rohith Vemula suicide case, claims research scholar wasn’t...

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TCN News New Delhi: Doubting Rohit Vemula to be a Dalit and speculating that he ended his life out of fear that his true caste identity...

Mayawati slams Khattar over Dalit attacks

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Lucknow: BSP chief Mayawati on Friday accused the Haryana government and its Chief Minister M.L. Khattar of being insensitive to the attacks on Dalits. She...

Attacks on Ambedkar statues in Andhra condemned

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

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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...

Writer returns award, says Dalit suffering won’t end

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Ahmedabad : Gujarati writer Amrutlal Makwana has returned a state award he got to protest against the beating of some Dalit youths in the...

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

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

Seven get life term for lynching Dalits in Haryana

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By IANS, Jhajjar (Haryana): A court here Monday awarded life imprisonment to seven people for the 2002 lynching of five Dalits in this Haryana district. All the convicts were produced in the court of Additional District and Sessions Judge A.K. Jain, amidst heavy security. After the sentencing, the accused were sent to Rohtak jail. The court acquitted 19 people in the case Saturday.

Two Dalit girls’ rape and murder in Badaun draws international flak

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By A. Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: The alleged gang rape and murder of two dalit girls on 27 May 2014 in the Katra village of Budaun district, Uttar Pradesh has been condemned largely throughout the country by every section of the society. The condemnation did not stop within the borders of the country but international organizations have also expressed their dissatisfaction towards lack of adequate sanitation facilities and growing sexual violence of women resulting into the violations of human rights in India. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appalled by the brutal rape and killing of two dalit girls in UP whereas Amnesty International has criticized the police machinery of India who have time and again found to have derelict towards registering and investigating cases of rapes of low caste girls and their lackadaisical behavior in booking higher caste culprits in those cases.

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

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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...

अंबेडकर नगर में दलित युवक की पिटाई से मौत, परिजनों ने पुलिस पर लगाया...

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर।twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के अंबेडकरनगर में पुलिस की पिटाई से एक दलित युवक की मौत का मामला सामने आया है। मृतक के परिजनों ने...

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

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

Tension in Haryana village as arson victims’ bodies cremated

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By IANS, Hisar (Haryana) : Two days after they were killed in an arson attack allegedly by members of a community, the last rites of an elderly Dalit man and his 18-year-old physically challenged daughter were conducted here Friday amidst tight security in the presence of senior police and local officials. Tara Chand, 70, and his daughter Suman were burnt alive in a blaze Wednesday after their house was torched by members of the dominant community in Mirchpur village in this district.

Rape Raj: Shrouded in Shadow

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By Shahnaz Islam, TwoCircles.net A frenzied attack or bouts of insanity; “rape is rape”! Every 30 minutes one rape is committed in India. A woman...

IMRC का स्वास्थ जागरूकता अभियान: तीन दिनों में हुआ 1500 मरीजों का इलाज

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter लखनऊ/बाराबंकी: भारत के कोनों-कोनों तक पहुंचकर राहत कार्य करने वाली अमरीका संस्था इन्डियन मुस्लिम रिलीफ एंड चैरीटीज़ यानी IMRC के सातवें...

WPI welcomes Apex Court guidelines on police encounters

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

Goyal visits Dalit’s house, says government will implement reservation

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Bengaluru, (IANS): Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday visited a Dalit's house in south Bengaluru for breakfast and assured that the Narendra Modi...

प्रयागराज में दलितों की हत्या से प्रदेश का राजनीतिक पारा गर्म

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उत्तर प्रदेश के इलाहाबाद में एक दलित परिवार के चार सदस्यों की बेरहमी से हत्या का मामला सामने आया हैं।मृतक के परिवार के अन्य...

Dalit killed for using hand pump

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By IANS, Patna: A Dalit man was beaten to death in a Bihar village by upper caste henchmen for drawing water from a common hand pump, police said Saturday.

The story of minors: A note on the practice of untouchability in Uttar Pradesh

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The mainstream Manuwadi media and Savarna liberal media are always desperate to take note of the atrocities on Dalit-Bahujans in a particular fashion. The...

Rahul Gandhi continues protest at Hyderabad varsity

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Hyderabad: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday continued his protest along with the students who are on hunger strike at the University of...

Will continue to speak my mind, says Manjhi

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Patna : Ignoring warnings and advice of his party JD-U over his controversial remarks in recent days, Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi Sunday...

Seven more Dalit suicide bids in Gujarat; 30 attempts so far

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Ahmedabad : Seven persons, including two women, from the Dalit community, on Friday tried to commit suicide as protests continued against the July 11...

‘It’s a constitutional issue, not a Christian one:’ Women groups protest violence against Adivasi...

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Over the last few months, hundreds of Adivasi Christians have fled their homes across several villages of Chhattisgarh after alleged attacks by Hindutva...

Atrocities on Dalits: Panel frowns on low conviction rates

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By IANS,

Government mulling review petition in SC/ST Act case

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New Delhi, March 29 (IANS) The government is mulling to file a review petition in the Supreme Court pertaining to the apex courts order that...

Sabarimala: All women face backlash, but the worst is being reserved for Dalit women

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By Najiya O, TwoCircles.net Several women tried to enter the Sabarimala temple in southern Kerala following the Supreme Court order allowing entry for all women...

पसमांदा मुस्लिम समाज के राष्ट्रीय अधिवेशन में CAA का जबरदस्त विरोध

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By आस मोहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net लखनऊ- शनिवार को आयोजित किए गए पसमांदा मुस्लिम समाज के 8वें राष्ट्रीय अधिवेशन में CAA का मुद्दा छाया रहा।यहां वक्ताओं...

Politics lures another senior Maharashtra ex-IPS officer

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Mumbai : The lucre of politics has lured yet another Maharashtra senior IPS officer. Former additional director general of police P.K. Jain joined the...

Civil society members visit Sunped, condemn role of state and central governments

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By TCN News New Delhi: A civil society delegation that included activists and senior Gandhians visited the Sunped village of Haryana on Thursday, meeting the...

House attacked because I am Mahadalit: Bihar speaker

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Patna : Bihar assembly Speaker Uday Narain Choudhary Wednesday said his house was pelted with stones by Rashtriya Janata Dal workers because he hails...

Students across Mumbai come out in support of Fathima Latheef, JNU students

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter As the protests across both IIT Madras and JNU surged with more and more students coming out on the streets, hundreds...

Manjula Pradeep: Working tirelessly to ensure equal rights for Dalits

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By Amit Kumar For Manjula Pradeep, growing up in Baroda and attending an English-medium school meant her childhood was like any other child, at least...

Ambedkar Jayanti celebrated; Dalits stage sit-in

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By IANS,

A letter to NHRC

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Chairman, Human Rights Commission. Chairman, National Commission for Minorities. Dear Sir, With regard to the two alleged bomb blasts that took place in `Lumbini-Park' and `Gokul Chat' at Hyderabad, we would like to express our deepest grief and regret at this turn of events and join with the government in trying to identify the perpetrators and bring them to book.

Democratic groups in Nanded seek to file complaint against V. K. Singh

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By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: The brutal incidence of burning Dalit children and the irresponsible remarks of Union Minister of State for External Affairs...

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.

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

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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...

Does India face tyranny of the majority?

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Hindus and especially Muslims in India have to make efforts to acknowledge the luggage of the past few centuries which is a mix of...

Parliamentary panel slams JNU on SC/ST vacancies

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

Erasing tolerance? HAF’s changes can only be described as ahistorical edits to history books

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The HAF and its allies may have PR machinery and hundreds of thousands of dollars in their war chest to selectively change textbooks, but...

‘हमारे 3 विधायक 240 पर भारी पड़ेंगे’

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net बिहार में लालू-नीतिश के जीत की शोर में एक बेहद ही दिलचस्प घटनाक्रम दब कर रह गया. यह घटना भाकपा माले...

BJP desires ‘Hindu Rashtra’, Modi has failed, says Mayawati

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Lucknow : BSP chief Mayawati on Sunday accused the BJP of trying to convert India into a "Hindu Rashtra" and said Prime Minister Narendra...

Dalit land remains loyal to Mayawati

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By IANS, Agra : Agra, the Dalit capital of northern India, Tuesday dominantly stood by Chief Minister Mayawati even as her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) suffered blows elsewhere in Uttar Pradesh.

Nitish, legislators reach Delhi; Manjhi announces quotas

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

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

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

Film Review: From Hindu to Hindutva

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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.

Nearly 2 weeks after killing of Dalit girl in Bihar, only 2 accused arrested...

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The family of the slain 20-year-old Dalit girl from Bihar is demanding the arrest of all the accused, a speedy trial and compensation...

‘Ambedkar was a national, not just Dalit, leader’

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New Delhi : It is "grossly unfair" to describe B.R. Ambedkar as a Dalit leader, says a new biography, adding that the architect of...

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

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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...

Attack on Soni Sori is an attempt to suppress the voice of voiceless: CLMC

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Condemning the attack on Adivasi activist Soni Sori, Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee (CLMC), a Hyderabad-based civil rights group has criticized...

मध्यप्रदेश में एक और अमानवीय घटना, आदिवासी युवक को गाड़ी से बांधकर घसीटा

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net मध्यप्रदेश में लगातार अमानवीय घटनाओं में बढ़ोत्तरी देखने को मिल रही है। इंदौर,देवास के बाद अब नीमच ज़िले में एक आदिवासी के...

SC admits plea against acquittal in Bihar massacre

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By IANS,

Rahul visits Haryana village hit by anti-Dalit violence

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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.

Where Even Water Was Denied – How G. Kalyan Rao’s ‘Untouchable Spring’ Bleeds the...

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Swastika Verma, TwoCircles.net “Let’s die, let’s die here, We aren’t born only to die…” — Untouchable Spring, G. Kalyana Rao In the fertile yet fractured rural landscape of...

Tribals demand release of detained villagers in Midnapore

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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.

गुजरात के दलितों से कब सबक लेंगे मुसलमान

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net गुजरात के दलितों से सबक़ लीजिए. गाय की खाल उधेड़ने के नाम पर ऊंचे तबक़े की गुंडागर्दी का किस क़दर क़रारा...

“My writing is informed by personal, collective resistance:” Meena Kandasamy on genocidal violence against...

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In an interview with TwoCircles.net, writer, poet and activist Meena Kandasamy discusses Eelam struggle, Tigresses, Tamil nationalism, Dalit consciousness, poetry as resistance, her unconcealed...

Dalit party threat to recapture Indu Mills land

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By IANS,

If Owaisi can criticise every leader in UP, why does he spare Mayawati?

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By Soroor Ahmed, Twocircles.net The strategy of All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen in the poll-bound Uttar Pradesh is different from the one adopted during the campaign ahead...

Fear grips Dalits in Gujarat village after youth’s killing

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

यूपी में जंगलराज : दलित बस्ती में लगाई आग, दो मासूम जले

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TwoCircles.net News Desk लखनऊ : सीतापुर के लहरपुर थाने के पट्टी देहलिया गांव में दलित बस्ती के 35 घरों में आग लगाने और 2 मासूम...

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...

Construct memorial for Ayyankali: SDPI to Kerala Govt

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent, Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government should be ready to construct a memorial for the noted Dalit leader Ayyankali, said Abdul Majeed Faisy, state general secretary of the Social Democratic Party of India. He was delivering the chief address at the Ayyankali memorial conference organized by the party in Thiruvananthapuram. Ayyankali was a famous Dalit leader and reformist who fought for Dalit rights in the state.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kejriwal meets Gujarat Dalit victims

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

Quota for faculty members at IIMs on anvil: Javadekar

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Ahmedabad : The Union Human Resources Development Ministry is considering introducing reservation for faculty positions at Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). Union HRD Minister Prakash...

‘Summary and Recommendations’ of the Kundu Committee

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By TCN News, New Delhi: The Post-Sachar Evaluation Committee, headed by Prof Amitabh Kundu, presented its final report to Dr Najma Heptullah, the Union Minister for Minority Affairs. The Centre has not yet clarified whether it has accepted the recommendations of the Kundu Committee, as it later came to be known as.