A fashion designer turns her village home into garment manufacturing unit
Tabassum Jabeen's entrepreneurial journey began amidst the Covid lockdown.
Sufi Parween | TwoCircles.net
PATNA (BIHAR) — A whirring sound from a nondescript building in the middle...
Empowering Wardha’s Dalits through e-commerce
Sanghamitra Store is an online e-commerce platform run by five Dalit youth that showcases affordable handicrafts and art made by the community.
Riya Talitha...
Giving shoes a new life in Patna
Shazia Qaiser runs the state’s first shoe laundry service.
Sufi Parween | TwoCircles.net
PATNA (BIHAR) — A black and green board reading “Revival: Service Centre for...
‘Nothing will be same ever again,’ say residents of Delhi’s Shiv Vihar three years...
In northeast Delhi's Shiv Vihar area, most of the Muslim residents are yet to recover from the traumatic episodes of violence and the...
‘Won’t injunct media’, SC refuses plea to gag media from reporting Adani-Hindenburg issue
The Hindenburg report released last month sparked a heated debate about the business practices of one of India’s largest companies and raises serious...
2020 Delhi riots: ‘My soul trembles when I recall that day,’ shopkeepers at Gokulpuri...
Shopkeepers at Gokulpuri tyre market, where 97 shops were set ablaze during the 2020 Delhi riots, are still struggling to rebuild their lives...
Property tax in J&K from April; political leaders oppose move
The Jammu and Kashmir administration ordered on Tuesday the imposition of property tax in municipal areas of the Union Territory from April 1.
Afnan...
Widespread anxiety in J&K amid intensified anti-encroachment drive
The administration has recovered thousands of acres of state land throughout the Union Territory, and hundreds of structures erected on the encroached territory...
Why are minorities disappointed with Union Budget 2023?
Slashing the budget for minority affairs from Rs 5020 crore last year to Rs 3079 crore this year has led some to question...
‘No transparency in anti-encroachment drive:’ Kashmir traders’ body as govt intensifies ‘state land’ retrieval...
Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industries (KCC&I) held an urgent press conference today and urged the government to bring a formal order in...
231 days and counting: Sanitation workers at LHMC decry illegal termination
Sanitation employees from Lady Hardinge's Medical College (LHMC) and other institutions held a protest outside the Delhi hospital director's home on June 28...
“Was greeted with hearts full of love, not grenades,” Rahul Gandhi on concluding Bharat...
Gandhi said he did not take this Yatra for Congress or himself but for the country's people.
Afnan Habib | TwoCircles.net
SRINAGAR (JAMMU & KASHMIR) — Amid heavy...
They only come for the poor: Tughlakabad residents who received demolition notices
The Archeological Survey of India (ASI) posted notices in over 1000 homes in Tughlakabad area of New Delhi earlier this month, causing consternation...
Van Versus Vikas: New documentary dismantles mythology of India’s “progress” from worldview of Adivasi...
The film chronicles the resistance of an Adivasi family, along with other city activists and residents, to stop the Mumbai Metro Rail project...
Explained: Why is resentment growing in Ladakh three years after UT status?
Leaders from two regions of Ladakh - Kargil and Leh, have put forth four agenda points for the Centre to fulfill.
TCN Staff Correspondent
SRINAGAR...
‘There is rift after 2020 riots,’ say Brahmpuri residents after posters surface urging Hindus...
Most residents of Brahmpuri expressed displeasure against the appearance of such posters while some supported it.
Shruti Sharma | TwoCircles.net
NEW DELHI — Early last...
Bihar: Hopes and hurdles for minority communities in much-hyped caste census
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...
Demonetisation order ‘unlawful’: What dissenting judge BV Nagarathna said on SC’s majority ruling
The demonetisation move by the BJP government in late 2016 was cataclysmic for economically marginalised communities in India and led to scores of...
Uttarakhand: Muslim area residents protest court order for demolition of over 4000 houses, demand...
The High Court ordered the authorities to evict unauthorised occupants of the railway land adjacent to Haldwani Railway Station, known as Gaffur Basti,...
‘Discontinuing Maulana Azad fellowship blow to students from minority community,’ say experts
The objective of the now scrapped scheme was to provide integrated five-year fellowships in the form of financial assistance to students from minority...
‘Picked up from garbage, dropped in gutter,’ Muslim slum dwellers in Ahmedabad see no...
Local Muslims residing in the ghettos of Vatva and Ajit Mill complained about negligence from government officials and elected representatives.
Aquilur Rahman and Vipul...
Why are tribals from Jammu and Kashmir protesting inclusion of Paharis in ST list?
Members of the Gujjar Bakarwal community in Jammu and Kashmir are on a protest march from Kupwara to Jammu against the government of India's...
What does EWS quota mean for SC, ST, OBCs?
The Supreme Court's reservation for economically weaker sections, especially for the forward castes, has sprung up a debate that it will only create...
This Muslim-run NGO run in Hyderabad helps women build sustainable livelihoods
SAFA is an NGO that has changed the lives of thousands of women from poor economic groups in Hyderabad and given them hope...
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ग्राऊंड रिपोर्ट : दलितों की बस्तियों का नाम बदलने से नही सुधरेगी उनकी हालात
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BJP सरकार के द्वारा सभी राज्यों एवं केंद्र शासित प्रदेशों को ये आदेश देने के बाद कि सरकारी...
Khargone riots aftermath: Why a Muslim businessman’s shop was demolished?
Following riots in Khargone district of Madhya Pradesh in April this year, a local bakery owner has alleged that he has been targetted by...
एक बार फिर जंतर मंतर पर जुटे किसान, लगाया वादाखिलाफी का इल्ज़ाम
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दिल्ली के जंतर-मंतर में आज संयुक्त किसान मोर्चा अराजनैतिक ने लखीमपुर हिंसा में मारे गए किसानों को इंसाफ और केंद्रीय मंत्री अजय...
‘Inside the heart of the conflict’, a new book on Bastar & Kashmir challenges...
A new book ‘Flaming Forest, Wounded Valley: Stories From Bastar and Kashmir’ by author and journalist Freny Manecksha investigates how places can be drastically...
World Tribal Day: 2-day tribal fair in Jharkhand showcases tribal artworks, culture
The two-day tribal fair held at Morhabadi ground in Ranchi saw boisterous music, mouth-watering cuisines, tribal artworks and discussions on tribal history and affairs.
Sami...
Ragpickers seen through the prism of art
The underprivileged and marginalized ragpicker community has rarely been depicted in art forms in India.
Aatika S | TwoCircles.net
NEW DELHI - The work of progressive...
Hit by plastic ban, Delhi’s ragpickers search for better livelihood
Scores of rag-pickers in the national capital New Delhi have been left stranded and without a livelihood, after the government banned plastic earlier this...
Adivasi villages in Jharkhand, Odisha face severe neglect, reveals new report
The report titled “Status of Adivasi Livelihoods 2021” highlights the difficulties and scarcities faced by the tribal communities.
Muhammed Nihad PV | TwoCircles.net
NEW DELHI —...
In photos: Kozhikode sewage treatment plant faces stiff opposition from locals
Since January this year, a Muslim fisherman community in Kozhikode, Kerala is up in arms against the administration for its plan to construct a...
President-elect Droupadi Murmu revives new hope in her nondescript village
101 years after the first tribal leader was elected to the legislature in pre-independent India, Odisha-born Droupadi Murmu from the Santhal community has been...
‘We are living like prisoners’: Muslims from riot-hit Khargone decry construction of wall separating...
While the Khargone administration argues that ‘barricading’ will help maintain peace in the city, the local residents told TwoCircles.net that it has added...
‘No designation and delayed salaries’: Hard lives of Delhi’s Dengue Breeding Checkers
Even after rendering their services for more than 25 years now, these contractual workers feel exploited and left out.
Sanjana Chawla | TwoCircles.net
NEW DELHI — Thousands...
Remarks on Prophet Muhammad: Sale of Indian products hit in Gulf
Several calls for the boycott of Indian products flooded social media with several hashtags critical of the Indian government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
‘Was forced to change name of restaurant & menu, fire Muslim staff, and hire...
In the temple city of Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, a Muslim hotelier claimed to change the name of his restaurant from Hotel Taj to...
Credit society run by Muslims offers respite for low-income wage groups
Headquartered in a small building in the state capital Patna, Al-Khair Co-operative Credit Society, with thirteen branches in four states, has transformed lives by...
Uttar Pradhesh’s Tharu tribals fear growing privatization will result in lack of govt jobs
Growing privatization of public sector units during the current government is giving sleepless nights to the people belonging to the Tharu tribe in Uttar...
For many rural women in Bihar, Kheta embroidery work aims to boost livelihood
Kheta is said to be a 500-year-old quilting heirloom practised exclusively by Shershahabdi women. Today, Kheta embroidery work is getting popular among non-Shershahabdi people...
In riot-hit Khargone, WhatsApp forwards advocate economic boycott of Muslims
More than two weeks after the communal clashes, calls for boycotting Muslims are repeatedly being made both offline and online causing fear among the...
Closure of slaughter houses in UP brought 400-year-old bone carving trade to an end
Over-400-year-old bone carving trade in UP has been hit hard by the government’s crackdown on illegal slaughter houses.
A Tripathi | TwoCircles.net
UTTAR PRADESH — Abrar Ahmed,...
Jahangirpuri demolition drive aftermath: Local vendors live in terror, afraid to restart work
The pain and helplessness of the street vendors is hard to miss in the violence-hit C-block of New Delhi's Jahangirpuri area. Many who lost...
Odisha’s applique artisans are struggling to conserve this 12th century traditional artform
Once known as the hub of applique works in Odisha, a market in Chandua has lost its shine with most of the shops selling...
Meat sellers in Delhi live in fear after purported ‘ban’ on selling meat
Meat shop owners and labourers said they will comply with the ban out of fear. The shop licences are due for renewal this month....
Dalit cattle skinners in UP desperate to resume work
With cow vigilantism at its peak and a dearth of private skinning orders, Dalit cattle skinners of BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh have been left with...
Unorganized mica workers in mineral-rich Jharkhand in disarray as govt disallows ‘illegal mining &...
For nearly two lakh unorganized workers involved in mica business in Jharkhand, the March 2 directive by the government has put their livelihood at...
Dalits in Punjab bank on land reforms for economic, social prosperity
With the new Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government promising to bring reforms, it will be interesting to see how things unfold for Dalit farmers...
Modern slavery: Adivasi labourers in Gujarat’s sugarcane fields
Every year more than two lakh Adivasis from the Maharashtra-Gujarat border region immigrate to work in sugar mills as sugarcane harvesters—but without any...
Sanitation workers at Delhi’s all-women university allege caste discrimination
On February 12, scores of sanitation workers under the banner of SKU started a protest demonstration against the IGDTUW authorities for transferring two...
Hundreds of Anganwadi workers from Delhi, Haryana demand govt worker status, pay hike, other...
The Anganwadi workers have been protesting since January 31 in New Delhi. They said they will not stop until their demands are met.
Suchitra...
“We have lost our livelihood,” How closure of Kashmir Press Club rendered four men...
For these four individuals—who are not professional journalists—the closure of Kashmir Press Club (KPC) was felt the hardest and directly impacted their livelihood.
Auqib...
Ahead of UP polls, report on socio-political condition of Muslim community paints a picture...
The report by the Centre for Development Policy and Practice (CDPP) ‘Development of Muslims in Uttar Pradesh—released on January 9, paints a picture...
Jharkhand: For last 56 days, Adivasis are on hunger-strike against ‘illegal’ mining; govt unmoved
While the government of India makes claims of Sab Ka Vikaas (Development for everyone)—the concerns and voices of Dalits and Adivasis are often...
टीसीएन 2021 : साल भर हम उठाते रहे वंचितों और पिछड़ों की आवाज़,पढ़िए...
बीते वर्ष, 2021, में कई तरह की बदलती हुई राजनीतिक और सामाजिक गतिविधियां देखने को मिली। इस बदलती परिस्थिति में, हाशिए पर खड़े...
On the right side of the border in Assam and Mizoram
The no man's land—the disputed region between Assam and Mizoram saw violent clashes between the forces of the two states leading to the...
Experts urge govt to increase national budget for minorities
Drawing the government's attention to the increasing educational needs of minorities, in view of their educational backwardness, Dr Javed demanded the government to...
Bihar gets increased budget for minority welfare, observers raise questions on implementation
After Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar recently announced an increase in the budget allocation for minority welfare in the state, observers from the...
Raising legal age for marriage for women in India: Here’s why it’s bad news...
While worry over early marriage is a start in the right direction, legislative action on the subject is equivalent to addressing symptoms rather...
Odisha: Villagers protesting construction of steel plant allege ‘police brutality during siege’
According to civil liberties group People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) Odisha the bone of contention between the people of Dhinkia and law enforcement...
Why Bihar’s only Muslim majority district Kishanganj is ailing behind on development indices?
The latest NITI Aayog report states that 64.75 per cent of Kishanganj’s population are multidimensionally poor. This TCN Ground Report looks at the reasons...
“Land is our only source of income,” Kashmir village erupts against land transfer to...
On November 29, scores of villagers from Pulwama assembled in Press Enclave Srinagar and protested against the "allotment of their agricultural land to CRPF"...
“Want affected people to have security,” activists raise concern over world’s second-largest coal block...
The Deocha Pachami Harinsingha Dewanganj Coal Mine Project, in Birbhum, West Bengal is the second largest coal mining block in the world. While the...
Azadi ki or Chalo: The future of India’s farmers’ protest
One battle appears won but the war for India’s soul rages on.
Pieter Friedrich | TwoCircles.net
When the Kisan Morcha — the Farmers Protest — was...
India’s much neglected periodic Haats or weekly markets: An equitable model for small farmers?
Amid the farmers' protests in India, a TCN Ground report from the weekly markets or haats of West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand demonstrates a...
Gujarat Adivasis object to Govt’s “misuse” of tribal development funds for Ram temple visit...
Neglecting Adivasi deities, rituals and culture, the Gujarat government announced an aid of Rs. 5000 to tribals for a trip to the Ram temple...
Meet Shiekh Asif from Kashmir, a tech entrepreneur who believes an idea can change...
Twenty-eight-year-old Sheikh Asif from Kashmir’s capital Srinagar never thought that "an idea" will change his life and he will become an owner of a...
“Death knell for our trade,” almost year after new anti-cow slaughter bill, cattle traders...
The introduction of the controversial new anti-cow slaughter bill in Karnataka in December 2020 has badly impacted the cattle traders and meat sellers of...
Bogey of ‘economic jihad’: a conspiracy to target livelihood of Indian Muslims
The purpose of these bogus conspiracy theories is to target the livelihood of Muslims and weaken them economically.
Md Asif Khan | TwoCircles.net
The term ‘economic...
Adivasis from Chhattisgarh march to save their habitats from ‘hazards of coal mining’
Nearly 350 residents from the villages of central Chhattisgarh are on a 300-km long march that started on October 2 to reach the capital...
Assam Evictions: “No longer having land to cultivate is death sentence to us,” 250...
The Darrang district authorities in Assam have taken over the farmland of over 250 Muslim families in Niz Shalmara village and asked them to...
“We celebrated abrogation of Article 370 but we didn’t know Jammu will be its...
Two years after the BJP government abrogated Article 370 of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, the region where it promised the abrogation...
Islamic religious bodies demand rehabilitation of Assam evictees, action against culprits
A high-level joint delegation of Muslim organisations including Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind and Students Islamic Organization of India (SIO) visited Assam to assess the...
“Nothing has been left our homes. Where will we go?” Patna’s Nat community face...
Scores of families belonging to the marginalized Nat community of Patna, Bihar were left homeless after a demolition drive carried out by the Patna...
“We are still begging for meals 30 years after migration,” Why are Kashmiri Pandits...
On September 18, hundreds of Kashmiri Pandits held a protest demonstration at Jagti township in the outskirts of Jammu city against the delay in the payment...
“We need employment, not help,” Nagpur’s sex workers decry ban, barricading of area
Ganga Jamuna area of Nagpur in Maharashtra is the oldest Red Light area of the city and has always been bustling with people. In...
Challenges for the Taliban and the road ahead for governance and stability
The Taliban, having, secured a highchair on the power table of war-torn Afghanistan will be faced with a host of challenges. The foremost task...
Socio-economic development is impossible without freedom: FDCA chairman Prof. Muchkund Dubey on Independence Day
Chairman of Forum for Democracy and Communal Amity (FDCA), Professor Muchkund Dubey said the country achieved Independence after a great struggle. He said that...
“We struggle for our basic needs, don’t have time to think if we are...
Golla(s) are nomadic tribes from the state of Andhra Pradesh. For generations, the gollas have been practising migratory pastoralism. Gollas in other states are...
Locals of a West Bengal village decry construction of Dolomite factory in area, say...
The construction of a Dolomite factory in Sishujhumra village of West Bengal has left residents aghast as the factory poses health and environmental hazards....
In Pictures: Amid pandemic, award winning Chennai based Dalit folk artist Karthick Annan takes...
Karthick Annan is a 35-year-old Dalit folk artist from Chennai, mastered in different folk art forms produced from an indigenous culture in Tamil Nadu...
“They only demolish homes of defenseless and weak,” despite UN intervention, demolition at Khori...
The Supreme Court ordered the demolition of a settlement in Khori Gaon in Faridabad, Haryana on June 7 and given the municipal corporations until...
In Pictures: The last Bhil Adivasi folk artists of Gujarat
The Bhil Adivasi folk musicians of the Narmada district in western Indian state of Gujarat are facing extinction as these musicians and artists are...
Covid-19, state repression and the decline of people’s movement
The outbreak of Covid-19 shattered the whole world and everything was on a standstill except the state. The state managed to get absolute control...
“Will affect livelihood,” Kashmir photographers unhappy with new order banning drones
On July 4, a week after the Jammu drone attack, which was the first of its kind in Jammu and Kashmir, the district administration...
Devoid of work, artists of Kathputli colony in Delhi turn to odd labour jobs
As part of India's first in-situ slum redevelopment project in a public-private partnership, Kathputli Colony in Shadipur, Delhi, is being developed as a mall...
“Corona has left us in trauma,” Bihar locals recount surviving a ‘devastating health crisis’
The past two months have left the residents of the north Indian state of Bihar reel under the impact of the second wave of...
Life after Article 370: Kashmiri farmers decry not getting benefits from progressive central laws...
Following the abrogation of Article 370 by the Indian government in August, 2019, a total of 165 laws of the erstwhile state of Jammu...
Part II: Gujjar-Bakerwal community in Jammu and Kashmir face depleted livelihood, exclusion, fear of...
The Gujjar-Bakarwal community live in the hilly areas of the Indian subcontinent, especially in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Pakistan, and Tibet. In...
Gujjar Lung or Covid-19: Explaining cause of deaths in Gujjar-Bakarwal community in Jammu and...
The Gujjar-Bakarwal live in the hilly areas of the Indian subcontinent, especially in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Pakistan, Tibet. The nomadic community...
“No one’s helpers,” West Bengal’s women domestic helpers stare at bleak future as livelihood...
The predominance of informal employment in the unorganized sector has been one of the central features of the labour market scenario in India. According...
Meet Manjuwara Mullah from Assam’s riverine sandbank who is leading Muslim women to social,...
Manjuwara Mullah from the north-eastern state of Assam is a social activist whose initiative Amrapari has changed the lives of many women in the...
May Day: ‘No way out of tea estates,’ housing woes, low wages compel workers...
Assam’s tea estates contribute to more than fifty percent of the total tea production in India. However, the workers working at these estates have...
Rebuilding homes: the life around Delhi’s Bawana slums
A fire that erupted in a slum cluster in New Delhi's Bawana on March 30, 2021, destroyed approximately 60 Jhuggis (a slum dwelling typically...
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साल 2020 पूर्ण होने पर हैं। यह साल देश के लिए तमाम कठिन परिस्थितियों से गुज़रा है। कोरोनावायरस का प्रकोप, लाकडाउन,दिल्ली दंगे,लाकडाउन...
For these underprivileged girl students in Bihar, availing higher education is a long mile
By Sami Ahmad, TwoCircles.net
Rumi Khatoon is an aspiring graduate but the online selection system for admission in the colleges is keeping her running and...
As Jamia turns 100, journalist revisits its beginnings aimed to ‘free education from British...
By Ayushi Malik, TwoCircles.net
Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), which was ranked as a top among all central universities in India by the Ministry of Education,...
Jharkand’s Bamboo artisans experience livelihood crunch amid lockdown, worry for future of profession
By Nazish Hussain, TwoCircles.net
Jaggarnath Mahli of Hesal village, situated 20 kilometres from Ranchi city, makes bamboo articles for a living. Due to the coronavirus...
Weaver’s in Uttar Pradesh decry lack of govt support amid lockdown, worry for future
By Musheera Ashraf, TwoCircles.net
Uttar Pradesh: “While the country is struggling to fight the pandemic, the Uttar Pradesh government seems to have unleashed a war...
“Modi talks about self-sufficient India but in Kashmir, they are doing opposite,” 15000 engineers...
By Shakir Mir
Srinagar: Hilal Rasool (now 45) was a young engineering graduate in 2003 when Kashmir was starting to emerge out of a decade...
Different economic strokes to COVID’s single stroke
By Asad Mirza
While the countries across the globe are grappling with Covid-19’s current situation and its aftermath, they are also focussing on how to...
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Hunar Haat – Modi govt’s mega mission for economic empowerment of artisans
TCN News
Indore (MP), 09th Feb, 2020: Celebrated as “mega mission” of economic empowerment, “Hunar Haat” has been inaugurated at Vijay Nagar in Indore by...
‘Urban manifesto’ ahead of Maharashtra elections highlights issues of the marginalised
By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net
With elections in Maharashtra just a week away, members of the civil society have prepared a manifesto with urban livelihood issues...
Pray tell us where is the economy going?
Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam
Over the last several months we have been hearing claims about the economy going great guns. Government leaders tell us that...
Sustainable development goals for char areas presented at Al Ameen meeting in Guwahati
TCN News
The 16th annual general meeting of Al-Ameen Welfare Society (AWS), a leading welfare organisation of Assam, was held at the Bishnu Nirmala Bhawan...
Farmers march in Delhi for loan waiver, higher crop prices
New Delhi, (IANS) Thousands of farmers from across the country on Friday marched from Ramlila Maidan to Parliament Street in the heart of the...
Maharashtra proposes 16 per cent quotas for Marathas
Mumbai, Nov 29 (IANS) The Maharashtra government has proposed to give 16 per cent reservations to the politically influential Maratha community under a new...
Civil society forums to campaign against hunger, starvation in Bengal
Kolkata, Nov 15 (IANS) A civil society network on Thursday claimed that starvation was a major problem in West Bengal and said several people's...
Nowheera Shaik arrested for allegedly duping investors
Hyderabad, Oct 17 (IANS) Hyderabad police on Tuesday arrested leading entrepreneur-politician Nowheera Shaik on charges of allegedly cheating the investors.
Nowheera, Managing Director of Heera...
Rahul Gandhi reaches Gwalior to support protesting landless poor
Gwalior, Oct 6 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi reached Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior on Saturday to support the protesting landless poor who are marching towards...
Dying of hunger in an age of food apps
By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net
For most of us especially those living in urban spaces, food items are now available at the mere touch of a...
Landless poor march towards Delhi from Gwalior
Gwalior, Oct 4 (IANS) More than 25,000 landless poor on Thursday begun their march to Delhi from Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior town demanding land reforms.
Days...
Taj Mahal area should be no-plastic zone, polluting industries shut: UP to SC
By IANS:
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh government, in its first draft report of its 'Vision Document' on protection and preservation of...
CBI charge sheet in Mallya case will name ex-Minister: BJP lawmaker
By IANS:
New Delhi, July 19:BJP's Nishikant Dubey on Thursday said in the Lok Sabha that the CBI will file a charge sheet against Vijay...
‘Modi regime fascist, must be dethroned at any cost’
By IANS:
Kolkata, July 18: Terming the Narendra Modi regime at the centre as a "fascist power" that is destroying the country's economy and creating...
India need not fear oil shortage: UAE envoy
By Aroonim Bhuyan for IANS:
New Delhi, July 18: Even as the US-imposed sanctions on Iran has put India's energy security in jeopardy, UAE Ambassador...
Petrol, diesel prices fall after 10 days
By IANS
New Delhi, July 16 (IANS) Petrol prices fell around 10 paise across the four metro cities on Monday after rising nearly a rupee and a...
Modi to face farmers’ anger in 2019: Yogendra Yadav
New Delhi (IANS): Swaraj India leader Yogendra Yadav on Tuesday warned that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will face the anger of the farmers in...
Modi government spent over Rs 4,300cr in publicity, reveals RTI
Mumbai (IANS): The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has so far splurged a whopping Rs 4,343.26 crore only for advertisements and publicity through...
‘Long March’ succeeds, Maharashtra concedes farmers’ demands
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...
Increase in funds for Dalits, Tribals in Union Budget
New Delhi (IANS): The allocation of funds for Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) has been increased to Rs 56,619 crore and Rs...
India’s GDP growth fell to 7.1% in 2016-17 from 8.2% in 2015-16
New Delhi (IANS): In line with the earlier official estimate of the country's GDP growth in the last fiscal, demonetization-hit India's gross domestic product...
India’s growing rich-poor divide: Richest 1% gross 73% wealth in 2017
Davos (IANS): India's richest, just 1 per cent of its 1.3 billion people, grossed 73 per cent of the wealth generated in 2017 while the...
Thousands denied drinking water, farmers denied water for irrigation: The true cost of Sabarmati...
By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net
The ‘Sabarmati Riverfront’ has been for many, one of the crowning jewels of the Gujarat government during the period of Narendra...
Is Bitcoin Shariah Compliant?
By Mansoor Durrani
Islamic finance is not just a business. It is, essentially, a system to ensure economic justice followed by economic growth. This is achieved...
Lok Sabha passes bills to extend GST to J&K
New Delhi, (IANS): The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed legislation to extend the Goods and Services Tax (GST) to Jammu and Kashmir, making it part...
Chidambaram attacks GST in its present form, says it will lead to inflation
Karaikudi (Tamil Nadu), (IANS): In a scathing attack on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in its current form, senior Congress leader and former Finance...
Stray violence in Maharashtra as farmers begin indefinite strike
Mumbai, (IANS): Minor incidents of violence marred the start of an unprecedented 'indefinite strike' by over half a million farmers in Maharashtra in support...
GST Bills passage fails to cheer Indian equities
Mumbai, (IANS): The passage of a major tax reform in the country failed to cheer the Indian equity markets on Thursday.
The key indices were...
Lok Sabha passes all four GST Bills
New Delhi, (IANS): India moved a step closer to becoming a unified market in line with the federalist vision of the architects of its...
Government approves printing plastic notes
New Delhi, (IANS): The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been authorised to conduct field trials for printing plastic Rs 10 denomination notes which...
Holding scrapped currency notes beyond December 31 ‘illegal’: Centre to SC
New Delhi, (IANS): Holding scrapped currency notes of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 after the deadline of December 31 is "illegal", the central government...
24% MPs/MLAs say they don’t need to pay tax or have no income
By Manoj K.
In tax returns filed a year before they were elected, 72 per cent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress MPs and MLAs...
Cash withdrawal limit to be Rs 50,000 from February 20; no limit from March...
Mumbai, (IANS) : The limits on savings bank cash withdrawals post-demonetisation are to be withdrawn in two stages, the Reserve Bank of India announced...
‘Where are the fake notes? Even RBI doesn’t know’
Mumbai, (IANS) : The Reserve Bank of India has admitted it has no confirmed data of the number or value of fake currencies detected...
BJP welcomes PM’s nudge to banks to give poor preference
New Delhi : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's appeal to banks to give preference to the needs of...
Demonetisation fallout: Jan Dhan deposits rise over 50%
New Delhi : Deposits in Jan Dhan accounts have grown by more than 50 per cent since the demonetisation announcement on November 8, an official...