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RSS’s international wing Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh challenged throughout US

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Speakers make 3-city tour to question platforming of HSS by local governments. Pieter Friedrich | TwoCircles.net “I don’t think Mr Friedrich’s here anymore — he was...

OFBJP now listed as foreign agent under US Law, ties with ruling BJP laid...

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By Pieter Friedrich The Overseas Friends of the BJP (OFBJP), after 29 years in operation in the United States, formally registered as a “foreign agent”...

Critics say Blair’s legacy is ‘war and waste’

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By Prasun Sonwalkar

London, May 1 (IANS) With British Prime Minister Tony Blair set to step down after an eventful decade in office, critics are beginning to call the period he spent in office as one of "war and waste". After Blair outlined his 10-year legacy as prime minister in a dossier to his Labour MPs, not a few have begun to recall Enoch Powell's prophecy that all political careers end in failure.

Nepal gays ask UN to save arrested peers in Iran

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By IANS

Kathmandu : In a show of solidarity, Nepal's burgeoning homosexual community is seeking international support for the release of 80 gay men arrested in Iran.

India’s Hindu nationalist movement intrudes into Maryland’s gubernatorial election

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Lieutenant Governor candidate Aruna Miller’s association with US supporters of the RSS-BJP prompts outcry from Maryland voters. Pieter Friedrich | TwoCircles.net MARYLAND (UNITED STATES) —...

Is US Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi handled by leaders of a foreign agent?

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US House Intelligence Committee members’ entire entourage at the campaign debate consisted of activists and leaders in Overseas Friends of the BJP. Pieter Friedrich |...

Gulf Muslims will never accept Islamophobia, in India or anywhere else: Shaikha Hend in...

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By Raqib Hameed and Amina Kausar, TwoCircles.net Sheikha Hend bint Faisal Al Qasimi is an Emirati Royal of the Al Qasimi family of Sharjah, United...

अमेरिका की ब्राण्डेयस यूनिवर्सिटी लाइब्रेरी में बाबा साहब अम्बेडकर की प्रतिमा स्थापित

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TwoCircles.net News Desk बॉस्टन : बाबा साहब भीमराव अम्बेडकर की 126वीं जयंती के अवसर पर उनकी प्रतिमा की स्थापना व अनावरण अमेरिका के बॉस्टन नगर...

New Jersey marks ground zero for growing US resistance to Hindutva

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Modi's regime’s American support base suffers multiple defeats in the Summer of 2022. Pieter Friedrich | TwoCircles.net UNITED STATES — After the Old Paramus Reformed...

St. Paul City Council passes resolution opposing CAA, declares BJP as Islamphobic

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By NAZISH HUSSAIN, TwoCircles.net City of Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota in the USA, has passed a resolution declaring Bhartiya Janta Party led...

California city pressured to renounce Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh praise

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Roseville, California faces sustained pushback for platforming RSS’s international wing. Pieter Friedrich | TwoCircles.net UNITED STATES — When Roseville, a quiet suburb of California’s capital city of...

Biden administration taking a dangerous path with Modi regime

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Communal violence escalates in India as the US embraces its source. Pieter Friedrich | TwoCircles.net Two months ago, Atul Keshap — who was then temporarily serving...

VHP-America’s Narsinghanand controversy is tip of Islamophobic iceberg

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Affiliate of India’s Hindu nationalist movement has a history of platforming hate. Narsinghanand’s host of hateful remarks include a call to “finish off Islam” which...

Running for US Congress, Sri Preston Kulkarni under fire for ties with India’s right-wing...

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By Pieter Friedrich In the middle of his second attempt to secure a seat in US Congress, Sri Preston Kulkarni is under fire for his...

Twitter’s Sewa International donation: Image rehabilitation for RSS-linked charity?

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Beyond a financial boost, Twitter’s donation legitimizes a non-profit tainted by past exposés. Pieter Friedrich | TwoCircles.net As COVID plagues India, Indresh Kumar and Shyam Parande...

American critics of Hindu nationalism risk sustained attacks

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From politicians to academics, Americans who speak against Hindutva face harsh backlash, protests, and violent threats. Pieter Friedrich | TwoCircles.net UNITED STATES — When US...

Why do Muslims sacrifice animals on Eid?

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Every year on the occasion of Eid-ul-Adha, Muslims across the world sacrifice animals to mark the sacrifice made by Prophet Ibrahim (PBUH). The article...

Popular calligraphy artist from Kerala aims to ‘build bridges between communities with his art’

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A graphic designer by profession, Abdul Kareem, who is popularly known as Kareemgrahy, left his job at an American company in Qatar last...

American Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard’s links with RSS condemned

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TCN News Tulsi Gabbard, the Hawaii representative from Democratic Party who will be running for the post of President of USA in the 2020 polls...

Win or Loss, RSS Scandal will haunt Sri Preston Kulkarni

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By Pieter Friedrich “I didn’t know about all this, like all this RSS stuff, to be honest,” Sri Preston Kulkarni, brow furrowed and hands waving, stressed at...

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आस मोहम्मद कैफ़।Twocircles.net "तबलीग़ जमात के मरकज़ हज़रत निजामुद्दीन के ख़िलाफ़ मीडिया ट्रायल और एक बडे राजनीतिक षड्यंत्र के बीच जो सबसे बुरा हुआ वो था यहां...

American Hindus support Chicago City Council’s anti-CAA resolution

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The resolution proposed by the Chicago City Council and introduced by Maria Hadden, a council member and alderperson for the city's 49th ward, classifies...

Crescent obscured: Indian Muslims in Britain

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By Omar Khalidi

US Aligarh Alumni Association lambast AMU Vice Chancellor’s behaviour; call for his resignation

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By NewsDesk, TwoCircles.net The Federation of Aligarh Alumni Associations (FAAA), on behalf of its member associations across the United States, strongly condemn the use of...

US political candidate Padma Kuppa endorses Hindutva agenda of supremacy

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TCN News The news that Padma Kuppa, an Indian-American is running for Michigan’s State House of Representatives, has raised concern among the other Indian Americans...

Tourists reject sound and light show at Mexican pyramids

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By Prensa Latina, Mexico City : A plan for light and sound shows at Mexico's Teotihuacan pyramids, known for its large residential complexes called 'street of the dead', has received a setback with hundreds of tourists voting against it. Most of the tourists who recently visited the pyramids, which were built in the pre-Columbian Americas, opposed the government plan in a signature campaign, saying the beauty of the pyramids is in its natural form.

Anti CAA protest staged by Harvard students in Boston, USA

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TwoCircles.net Harvard student community observed the first 24-hour anti-CAA protest in Boston, US on the occasion of Republic Day of India. This protest started at...

French woman says having six children by her father: Report

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By DPA, Paris : After the case of Elisabeth Fritzl in Austria, a French daily Wednesday reported the story of a French woman who said she was raped by her father for 28 years and bore him six children. Lydia Gouardo, now 45, told the newspaper Le Parisien that her nightmare began when she was only nine years old, shortly after her stepmother plunged her in a tub filled with boiling water. She said she was often raped three times a day. "My stepmother sometimes helped him," Gouardo told the newspaper.

Longform: Sonal Shah’s journey from American Sangh to US Department of Homeland Security

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Has the newly appointed Chief Commissioner of President Joe Biden’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders Sonal Shah put the...

Indian-American organizations demand US Ambassador resign for RSS meet

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Ten diaspora groups signed a joint statement calling for the removal of Ambassador Atul Keshap. Pieter Friedrich | TwoCircles.net “The nature of Keshap’s meeting with the...

39 global rights orgs’ condemn SLAPP suit filed by Hindu American Foundation against a...

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The global rights organizations condemned the ‘aggressive lawsuit’ as an attempt to curtail free speech and free expression exercised by a reputed media house...

Meet Saba Haider: An Indian-Muslim woman running for DuPage county board election in US

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Saba is the only candidate of Indian origin among 19 elected members from the state of Illinois. She came to the United States in...

‘People of South Asian countries are subjected to slavery by mass biometric surveillance like...

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By TCN News, New Delhi: In order to ponder light on various aspects of mass biometric identification projects in South Asian countries, a Press...

Half of India’s under-18 population lives in poverty: Study

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London, (IANS): At least half of India's under-18 population lives in acute poverty, reveals a "deeply disturbing" study from Oxford University. Across the 103 low...

Muslim groups in Australia protest against controversial BJP MP’s Tejasvi Surya’s invitation to youth...

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Several Australian Muslim youths said that they were shocked after hearing about Surya being invited for addressing the events in Australia and called it...

Foreign sex workers begin to eye Nepal

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By Sudeshna Sarkar, IANS, Kathmandu : Once the destination of trekkers and pilgrims, the Himalayan Shangri-la of Nepal is now becoming a hub of foreign sex workers with a bustling network of international procurers and clients. Nepal's police began the first crackdown on international sex trade Wednesday when a nocturnal raid in one of the best locations of the capital netted them six Chinese sex workers, who were caught red-handed with six Nepali customers.

Indian Americans protest against AIPAC’s New York celebration of Babri Masjid demolition

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TCN News Indian American rights group, ‘The Coalition to Stop Genocide in India,’ has organized a mass protest at Times Square on August 5 against...

Separated by a barbed wire, torn apart by politics: Families on the LOC

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Hunderman Brok (Kargil) : A barbed wire can often represent the idea of security, but...

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आसमोहम्मद कैफ। Twocircles.net कबाड़ से इलेक्ट्रिक कार बनाने वाले मेरठ के मजदूर के बेटे अजहरुद्दीन की किस्मत बस बदलने ही वाली है। टीसीएन में...

‘वंडर मदर ‘ बुशरा बानो का एक और कमाल, शादी के 13 साल बाद...

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आसमोहम्मद कैफ़। Twocircles.net भारत की सबसे प्रेरणादायक बेटियों में से एक बुशरा अरशद बानो ने एक और कमाल कर दिया है। सोमवार को सिविल सर्विस...

Urdu mushaira organised in Washington by the alumni of Aligarh University

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TCN News The 44th Annual Mushaira was organized by the Aligarh Alumni Association (AAA), Washington DC on 11th November 2018 in Silver Spring, Maryland. The Aligarh Alumni Association, Washington DC...

17 Indian American students among 141 Presidential Scholars

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By IANS

New York : Seventeen Indian American students are among 141 high school seniors selected as the 2007 Presidential Scholars for their outstanding academic achievement, artistic excellence, leadership, citizenship, and contribution to school and the community.

Who is Nabeela Syed, the Indian-American Muslim woman who made history in US midterm...

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An Indian-American hijab-wearing Muslim woman has made history by becoming the youngest person to win the election for Illinois’ 51st Congressional District. Afnan Habib...

How a Messi fan in Kerala village became a football journalist in Spain

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Jushna Shahin’s passion for the sport made her achieve the unthinkable. Najiya O | TwoCircles.net KERALA — Jushna Shahin’s earliest memories are of watching football matches on...

कौन है फतेहपुर के सय्यद कासिम हसन जिनकी कब्र पर सलाम करने पहुंच गए...

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स्टाफ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net पहले और दूसरे चरण में उम्मीद के मुताबिक मतदान होने के बाद अखिलेश यादव का आत्मविश्वास प्रबल हो गया है। तीसरे चरण...

Eastern Public School in Bhopal accorded with Global Education Award

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By TCN News, Bhopal: The Eastern Public School (EPS) in Bhopal was awarded with highly coveted Global Good Governance (3G) Education Award by Cambridge...

Is anjuman mein aap ko aana hai baar baar: Celebrating Urdu Cultural Mela in...

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By Zafar Iqbal for TwoCircles.net It was so pleasing to watch a beautiful rendition of Urdu poetry through a classical dance by Anupma Sharma, student...

यूपी में मजलिस : खेल बिगाड़ रही है या अपना खेल बना रही है...

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आसमोहम्मद कैफ़। Twocircles.net इरफ़ान मंसूरी मुजफ्फरनगर में रहते हैं। 52 साल के है और वो पेशे से दर्जी है। राजनीति में रुचि रखते हैं। पहले...

भीम आर्मी के खिलाफ तगड़ा क्रेकडाऊन,राष्ट्रीय महासचिव और प्रवक्ता पर गैंगस्टर ऐक्ट

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By आस मोहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर- भीम आर्मी के नम्बर 'दो' कमल वालिया और 'नम्बर तीन' मंजीत नौटियाल के विरुद्ध गैंगस्टर ऐक्ट की कार्रवाई के...

Indian communities in New York call for defense of democracy

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TCN News A wide cross-section of Indians gathered at the Indian Consulate in New York City (NYC) to stand in solidarity with people fighting to...

Two Czechs conquer Mount Everest, another dies

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By DPA

Prague : Two Czech mountaineers conquered Mount Everest last week even as one died before reaching its summit.

Hamtramck becomes 5th US city council to oppose NRC and CAA

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TCN News Hamtramck City Council of Michigan State in the US has passed a resolution opposing the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and Citizenship Amendment...

Indian Muslim leaders call on international community to take immediate action to halt Israeli...

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The leaders appealed to the Muslim Ummah and all peace and justice-loving people of the world to work towards the freedom and fundamental rights...

‘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...

Indian Americans hold protests in multiple US cities against hijab ban in Karnataka

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Protesters held placards saying “my body, my choice,” “revoke hijab ban,” “stop telling women what to do”, “hijab is my right,” and “hijab...

AMU Alumni of Jubail, Saudi Arabia marks bicentennial celebrations of Sir Syed

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By TCN News The Aligarh Muslim University Alumni Association of Jubail, Saudi Arabia (AMU-AAJ) held Bicentennial Celebration of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan at the Marafiq...

1000 global rights orgs, individuals urge US govt to impose “targeted sanctions” against India...

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TCN News Owing to the increase in communal violence and hate speech in India, over a thousand Indian American civil rights organizations, academicians and human...

‘Religious freedom, related human rights in India under constant threat,’ says US body

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The USCIRF report examines how various policies adopted and implemented by the Indian government have cultivated an environment that is increasingly hostile toward...

Can marginalised students in India dream of higher education in foreign universities?

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Students from marginalized communities in India face multiple hurdles in accessing education abroad. Aatika S | TwoCircles.net NEW DELHI — Tejas Harad, founder-editor of The Satyashodhak, an...

“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...

Hundreds of demonstrators across U.S. protest Facebook’s role in anti-Muslim hate speech, violence by...

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The protests were organized by India Genocide Watch and featured speakers demanding that Facebook’s founder-CEO Mark Zuckerberg end his company’s complicity in extreme Hindu right-wing...

Hong Kong rapist whose attack was broadcast on internet jailed

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By DPA, Hong Kong : A Hong Kong fast-food worker whose rape of a 16-year-old colleague was filmed and uploaded onto the internet was Monday jailed for four years. Police arrested Ho Ka-kit after a video of the rape in the office of the Yoshinoya restaurant in Hong Kong's Shatin district was filmed by colleagues and widely viewed on the internet. The attack took place in May 2008 when the victim was summoned to the manager's office by Ho, who was also aged 16, and two work colleagues aged 16 and 19 who filmed the assault.

San Francisco becomes 6th US city to denounce CAA-NRC

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TCN News San Francisco has become the sixth US city to denounce India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) in its...

Immigrant Muslim woman to be the first hijab-wearing senator in Australian parliament

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Fatima Payman is an Afghan-Australian woman whose family fled Afghanistan in 1999 to settle in Australia. Basil Islam | TwoCircles.net NEW DELHI — Labor Party candidate...

Rahul Gandhi all set to visit UAE to woo NRIs

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TCN news: Indian National Congress (INC) president Rahul Gandhi will be visiting Dubai on 11th of January 2019 to address the Indian Diaspora there at...

8 Californian Mayors attend event hosted by RSS’s international wing

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By TCN Staff Reporter Mayors and vice-mayors of eight cities in California’s San Francisco Bay area recently attended an event organized by American branch of...

Noam Chomsky speaks on Kashmir turmoil, compares it with Palestine

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By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net Boston/Srinagar - In an email conversation with Mehboob Makhdoomi, Expert on Kashmir situation and Socio-Political commentator from Harvard, American linguist and...

Indian Americans denounce arrests of Muslims, demolition of Muslim homes in India

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Globally renowned US-based Islamic scholar Shaikh Omar Suleiman led the protest in Dallas, which was jointly organized by The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), and North Texas...

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan awarded with ‘Life Time Achievement’ award by ISNA

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Chicago: Renowned Islamic scholar Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is here awarded with ‘Life time achievement’ award by America’s biggest Muslim...

Aler Encounter: Mohammed Viqaruddin was made to pay with his life for being a...

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On April 7 2015, five people accused in the murder of two policemen were killed in an encounter in Aler, Nalgonda after the police...

Imam from Gujarat to attend World Religion Parliament in US

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Twocircles Staff Reporter Ahmedabad: Maulana Luqman Tarapuri, National President, Global Imam Council and Shahi Imam, Jama Masjid Anand, Gujarat, will try highlighting the role...

25+ US varsities including Harvard, Yale, Columbia celebrating ‘Holi Against Hindutva’

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Twocircles.net As the death toll in the unprecedented Delhi violence rose to 42 on February 29, several in hospitals are being treated for burns and...

दानिश सिद्दीक़ी की मौत पर खुश क्यों हैं नफ़रत के सौदागर !

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-यूसुफ़ अंसारी अफ़ग़ानिस्तानी सेना और तालिबान के बीच चल रही जंग को कवर करने अफग़ानिस्तान गए न्यूज़ एजेंसी रॉयटर्स के फोटो जर्नलिस्ट दानिश सिद्दीक़ी की...

China passes law to make Islam ‘compatible with socialism’

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Beijing, Jan 6 (IANS) China has passed a new law that seeks to "Sinicize" Islam within the next five years, the latest move by...

Ayodhya: Ram Rajya Rath Yatra and Ram Mahotsava to intensify movement for building the...

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By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net With the disputed matter of Babri Masjid-Ram Janmbhoomi reaching the Indian Supreme Court, the movement, mediation and talks around it are...

22 killed as terror attack hits Ariana Grande concert in Manchester

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Manchester, (IANS): At least 22 persons, including children, died and 59 were injured in a suicide terror attack that hit Manchester Arena on Monday...

Hitler had bad breath, says dentist

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By DPA, Hamburg : Adolf Hitler probably had bad breath and unhealthy teeth, according to a German dentist who has studied the Nazi dictator's medical record, a media report said Sunday. "It is likely that Adolf Hitler had very bad breath. He ate very badly and suffered from tooth decay," Menevse Deprem-Hennen told the Sunday edition of Bild newspaper. The dentist reportedly studied Hitler's dental records in the course of her doctorate, which she entitled Dentist of the Devil. She said the research indicated that the Nazi dictator feared dentist.

Thursday is batik day in Malaysia

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By IANS Kuala Lumpur : Thursday is a day of tradition in the government offices across Malaysia. Malaysian civil servants wear colourful batik attires Thursday and have made it a weekly habit so that they acquire a national identity and promote traditional fabric. The new sartorial rule to wear Batik every Thursday was prompted by the fact that the earlier rule of wearing Batik twice a month was not followed diligently.

International Human Rights org’s write to Rutgers University in support of Dr Audrey Truschke

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The organizations that are coming out in full support of Dr Truschke have stated in the joint letter that the real reason behind the...

अयोध्या में कमाल : गांव में एक ही मुस्लिम परिवार और… प्रधान बन...

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Tutankhamen-like curse killed Nepal’s royal family?

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By Sudeshna Sarkar, IANS Kathmandu : One of the most gripping tales to have captured public imagination is the legend of Tutankhamen's curse, the superstition that the mummy of Egypt's boy-king took its revenge on the violators of its tomb, causing the death of the British excavators who discovered the grave in 1923. Though the tales petered out in the 80s, after the woman who was the last link to the expedition died, a similar myth has now sprung up in Nepal, still regarded as a mysterious land that opened up to the outside world only in 1950.

Historic all-India Mushaira in Riyadh

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By TCN News, Riyadh: Prominent Urdu poets from across India enthralled a huge audience of about 2,000 Indians at a historic All-India Mushaira (poetry session)...

AMU connection to Nobel winner in Physics: Prof Sajjad Athar is a collaborator of...

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By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net, Aligarh: Prestigious Aligarh Muslim University has a unique connection to this year’s Nobel winner in Physics. Professor Mohammad Sajjad Athar, a...

Blind dancers of Articulate Ability perform in Boston

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From Darkness Unto Light, they lead us all ... By Umang Kumar, Boston: They ended their performance by dancing to a piece which took its title from a Sanskrit sloka, “Tamaso Ma Jyotirgamaya,” - “Lead me from Darkness unto Light,” - urging the powers Almighty to lead them towards light - and yet it seemed that it was they who were leading us in the audience to ever-increasing light and vision.

Saudi Arabia to introduce physical education in girls’ schools

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Riyadh, (IANS): The Saudi Arabian minister of education decided on Tuesday to start a physical education program in girls' schools for the first time in...

Indian Americans welcomes US Commission report on India as top violator of religious freedom

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TCN News Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) welcomes the report on religious freedom issued by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) placing India...

Indian Americans hail California Democratic Party’s designation of caste as a protected category

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The California Democratic Party is the largest state party in the United States to take a stance on caste discrimination, marking an important step...

Designate India a “country of particular concern”: Global human rights activists

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TCN News Leading American and global human and civil rights activists came together on Monday to reinforce the demand to designate India as a “country...

मुस्लिम औरतों को बदनाम करने की शर्मनाक साजिश

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सिमरा अंसारी Two circles.net के लिए जब हम सभी बीते साल की सभी कठिनाइयों और दुखों को पीछे छोड़कर नए साल में...

Religion as Peace: Countering Hindutva-led negative images of Islam

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In many western media outlets, we are witnessing predominantly Christian spaces and culture being influenced by Hindutva ideology to propagate messages of hatred against...

Students from India, Pakistan exchange greeting cards on Independence Day

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By TCN News In an effort to promote peaceful relations among India and Pakistan, Mumbai-based Ecole Mondiale World School sent greeting cards on Independence Day...

Fraud and bribery-accused Israeli PM Netanyahu visits India amidst protests

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By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, is all set to visit India on Sunday for bilateral talks with the Indian...

Citizenship Amendment Bill is nothing but an ‘irrational fear’ of Muslims

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By Muddassir Ahmad Qasmi for TwoCircles.net Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) is the brainchild of people who think that Muslims will dominate India in the next...

AMU Emirates Chapter celebrates Sir Syed Day in Sharjah

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By TCN News The Emirates Chapter of the Aligarh Muslim University celebrated Sir Syed Day in Sharjah on November 20 to remember and learn from...

A report of the Sir Syed Day in the San Francisco Bay Area

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By Ras H. Siddiqui The Aligarh Muslim University Alumni Association of Northern California (AMUAA) held its 19th Sir...

Makkah Masjid, Hyderabad to Masjid Al Noor, New Zealand – Muslims becoming target of...

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TCN News Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee (CLMC) expresses its anguish on terror attack on Muslims in New Zealand and extended its solidarity to the families...

American human rights group calls for sanctions against 3 Indian extremists for role in...

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Justice for All provided concrete evidence that a command hierarchy was in place that precipitated what can only be described as a premeditated pogrom...

How a hostel in Delhi is keeping hopes of Rohingya students alive

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By Inder Bisht, TwoCircles.net Sitting cross-legged in a small room, Fayaz, Hussain and Saifful are poring over their textbooks as they prepare for their annual...

A sister’s lament: the call that never came

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By Arun Kumar, IANS,

Group protests against US Ambassador Atul Keshap’s RSS visit

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“Keshap has got to go,” say protestors outside US Congressman Ami Bera's California office. Pieter Friedrich | TwoCircles.net As controversy continues to surround US Ambassador Atul...

US Senators urge Mike Pompeo to impose “targeted sanctions” on India for its rising...

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TCN News Concerning the rising hate crimes against minorities in India, fourteen US Senators have written to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stressing US Government...

US Congressperson Tulsi Gabbard denies association with World Hindu Congress, calls it a ‘platform...

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By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Tulsi Gabbard, American politician of the Democratic Party and representative of 2nd Hawaii’s congressional district has dismissed all rumours about her...

Coalition of 100+ South Asian and American organizations oppose APPWW’s hate campaign

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TCN News More than 100 community organizations in the US have condemned Alliance for Persecuted Peoples Worldwide (APPWW) in a latest open statement over its...

From blaming politicians to the media; New Zealand mosques terror attack sparks horror and...

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TCN News The killing of 50 worshippers in two mosques in New Zealand, Christchurch city on 15th March 2019 has sent waves of dismay in...

Indian Americans protest Hijab ban, urge Karnataka court to lift ban

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More than a hundred people in Houston, Texas, United States called on the Karnataka government to stop the discrimination against Muslim girl students who...

नज़रिया : यूरोप में मुसलमान और इस्लाम के ख़िलाफ सर उठाती नफरतों की जड़...

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वसीम अकरम त्यागी स्वीडन में इस्लाम विरोधी नेता रैसमस पालुदन को गिरफ्तार किए जाने के बाद उसके समर्थकों ने कुरान जला दिया। कुरान की बेहुरमती...

एक्सक्लुसिव : मुजफ्फरनगर से ही बिछड़े थे,मुजफ्फरनगर से ही जुड़ेंगे !

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मस्जिद के दरवाजे किसानों के खोल देने से लेकर, मुस्लिम बहुल इलाकों में लंगर लगाने और राकेश टिकैत के अल्लाहू अकबर और हर -हर...

No precursors to Sichuan quake, top seismologist says

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By Bill Smith, DPA, Beijing : No significant precursory seismic activity was detected that could have allowed the Chinese government to issue a clear warning before the devastating earthquake in the south-western province of Sichuan, a leading international seismologist said. "I had nothing unusual at all that you would regard as precursory," Gary Gibson of the Seismology Research Centre at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, told DPA by telephone Friday.

The inspiring journey of Dalit journalists in race for an Oscar award

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The documentary Writing With Fire narrates the story of gutsy women in India’s heartland. Musheera Ashraf | TwoCircles.net UTTAR PRADESH — Nominated for best documentary feature...

In latest video, Indian American comedian Hasan Minhaj calls out ‘desi racism’ in US

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TCN News In his latest video titled ‘We can not stay silent about George Floyd', Indian-American standup comedian Hasan Minhaj has called out 'desi racism' against immigrants...

सहारनपुर के छात्र सुहैल ने बताई युक्रेन की आंखों देखी “धमाके की लगातार आवाज...

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सिमरा अंसारी।Twocircles.net सहारनपुर के क़स्बा नागल के रहने वाले मुहम्मद सुहेल रूस द्वारा यूक्रेन पर हमला किए जाने के बाद यूक्रेन के शहर इवानो...

कोरोना संकट : मुफ्त में ऑक्सीजन बांट रहे हैं जफर और जाकिर

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जिब्रानउद्दीन।Twocircles.net मुंबई शहर में रहने वाले जाकिर चौहान हो या इंदौर में रहने वाले जफर मंसूरी, इन लोगों ने कोरोना से लड़ने के...

IMRC’s health camps sees 600 people examined in Hyderabad

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By TCN News Hyderabad (Telangana): The Indian Muslim Relief and Charities (IMRC) organised a health check-up camp for about 600 people in Hasan Nagar locality...

Dalai Lama declines comment on controversial ‘child saint’

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By IANS, Hyderabad: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama Friday declined to answer queries about a seven-year-old girl who shot into the limelight for claiming she was his childhood friend and disciple in her previous life. The Dalai Lama, who arrived here on a two-day visit, did not answer any questions from journalists about the girl, Sambhavi, or her "caretaker" Usha Rani, who gave a new twist to the "child saint" row by revealing that she is the mother of the girl.

जामिया में पूछा गया आपत्तिजनक सवाल,नाराज़गी

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आकिल हुसैन।Twocircles.net दिल्ली स्थित जामिया मिल्लिया इस्लामिया विश्वविद्यालय के विभिन्न कोर्सेज में एडमिशन को लेकर प्रवेश परीक्षा चल रही है। इसी बीच जामिया मिल्लिया...

Arab Parliament calls for action on Rohingya ‘genocide’

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Cairo, (IANS/WAM): The Speaker of the Arab Parliament has called on international organisations to take immediate action to end the suffering of Rohingya Muslims. In...

Rohingya’s rise to militancy claimed 100 lives, says report

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Naypyidaw (IANS): Members of a Rohingya militant group allegedly massacred as many as 99 people, including women and children, in Hindu villages in Myanmar's...

Indian Americans welcome US State department’s report on ‘deteriorating human rights situation in India’

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The Department of State’s report, released March 30, was a scathing account of the ground situation in India, where millions of social and religious...

US Congressman questions Ambassador’s meeting with “violent” RSS paramilitary

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Rep. David Trone warned Ambassador Atul Keshap against lending “legitimacy” to RSS. Trone warned that by engaging with RSS officials and discussing their ideology,...

European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights cautions against increasing attacks on religious minorities in...

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TCN News Maria Arena, the Chair of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights has cautioned against the increasing attacks on religious minorities in India,...

Woman climber found abandoned on Mt Everest

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Kathmandu : In a year when nearly 500 people are said to have summited the Mt Everest, the darker side of the expeditions has also begun to surface, with six deaths and now the news of a woman climber being abandoned on the way to the summit.

China holds 1 million Muslim ethnic Uighurs in detention camps

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United Nations, Aug 11 (IANS) A UN human rights committee has heard there were credible reports that China is holding a million ethnic Uighurs...

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

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

Massachusetts hosts America’s first-ever Dalit art exhibition

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

Rohingya Human Rights Initiative: A silver lining in the cloud of the Rohingya crisis

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By Saiyed Danish, TwoCircles.net In the narrow bylanes of Uttam Nagar in West Delhi, two Rohingya youths-Sabin and Ali-run the office of the Rohingya Human...

Silicon Valley County passes resolution against draconian Indian laws

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TCN News Alameda County becomes 7th US body to denounce the draconian CAA-NRC that is targeting citizenship of Indian Muslims. Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), an advocacy...

Indo-Canadian couple held for importing ‘gutka’

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By IANS, Toronto: Canadian custom officials have seized an illegal consignment of 'gutka' (chewing tobacco) from an Indian shopkeeper in the city of Winnipeg. Gutka as well as many ayurvedic medicines from India are banned in Canada. The illegal consignment of gutka, weighing 150 kg, was brought into Canada from the US, the authorities said Monday. Fifty-year-old Yog Rahi Gupta, who owns the Indian Spice House in the city, and his 53-year-old wife have been charged for bringing the contraband into Canada.

Indian gets 17 years in jail for killing Singapore prostitute

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By DPA, Singapore : A Singapore court Thursday sentenced an Indian national to 17 years in jail for killing a pregnant prostitute, a media report said. Madhuri Jaya Chandra Reddy, 21, who pleaded guilty to culpable homicide, is to also be caned 12 strokes. After having sex with a prostitute from Sri Lanka, Radika Devi Thayagarajah, 21, he quarrelled with her about the payment and eventually strangled the woman to death in a hotel room Sep 2, the online edition of Straits Times newspaper reported.

A room of one’s own: Why Rohingya refugees keep returning to Aligarh

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Meher Ali for TwoCircles.net Aligarh:-- Guran Miya (30), a Rohingya refugee, returned with his family to Aligarh in mid-2018, just nine months after he had...

Ambedkar King Study Circle conducts its first Annual Conference in California

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A report By TCN: California: The first annual conference of Ambedkar King Study Circle took place in Cupertino, the Bay Area Silicon Valley, California on...

Indian govt abusing anti-terror law UAPA to imprison activists, critics: US, UK legal experts

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John Sifton, the Washington, DC-based Asia Advocacy Director of Human Rights Watch said UAPA violated the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR),...

Silent in the past, why has the Gulf reacted so strongly this time?

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The experts said that targeting Prophet Muhammad, the most revered figure in Islam is a red line for Muslims across the world. Zafar Aafaq |...

Rajasthan govt not interested in contesting Rakbar Khan lynching case, claims prosecutor

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Advocate Nasir Ali Naqvi, who is the public prosecutor in the case, said he would not be able to appear in the case...

India is 8th highest risk country for mass killings, claims US report

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The report cited numerous examples of discrimination against the Muslim minority in the country by the BJP government, both at the national level...

New Moore Island in Bay of Bengal disappears: Report

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By IRNA, New Delhi : About 90 per cent of the New Moore Island that surfaced in the Bay of Bengal in the aftermath of Bhola cyclone in 1970 have submerged as per satellite images collected by the Jadavpur University. "Satellite images have confirmed that about 90 per cent of the Island, about three km long and 3.5 km wide, have submerged," sources in the School of Oceanography Studies of the University said in Kolkata, capital of West Bengal state, Thursday. Local fishermen had also confirmed the disappearance of a major part of the Island, they said.

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