Uproar after Gujarat frees all 11 lifers in Bilkis Bano gangrape case
On January 21, 2008, a special CBI court in Mumbai had sentenced all 11 accused to life imprisonment.
Muhammad Raafi | TwoCircles.net
NEW DELHI — As Prime Minister...
Again, Ramadan in Kerala began one day before the rest of India
By Najiya O, TwoCircles.net
As always, this year also Kerala is ahead of the rest of the country in beginning the fasting month of Ramadan. ...
Jail Bharo agitation by Congress against BJP in Varanasi
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
Waking from the slumber, workers of Indian National Congress protested against BJP government in Varanasi on Wednesday.
Accusing the BJP for not...
Overuse of pre-trial detention continues to violate detainees’ rights, says Amnesty International
By TCN News
Legal safeguards to prevent excessive pretrial detention are routinely flouted across states in India, leading to the violations of detainees’ fair trial...
Reduction in scholarship allocation for Dalit students a major concern, shows that Dalits, Adivasis...
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
The Union Budget presented today by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley received sharp criticism from the National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights...
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TwoCircles.net News Desk
बलिया : भाजपा डॉ. अम्बेडकर के विचारों की हत्या करने के लिए अभियान चला रही है. जिसमें दलित समाज से आने वाले...
IMRC Ramadan feeding program brings relief to poor and needy in Bankura district of...
By Mirza Mosaraf Hossain, TwoCircles.net
Kolkata: US-based Indian Muslim Relief and Charities (IMRC) under its "Ramadan Feeding Program" distributed grains among 280 families in different villages...
‘एआईएमआईएम’के साथ गठबंधन की बात में रत्ती भर भी सच नही : मायावती
न्यूज डेस्क । Twocircles.net
बसपा सुप्रीमो मायावती ने यूपी चुनाव के लिए बसपा और एआईएमआईएम के गठबंधन की खबरों को खंडित किया हैं और...
A broken family, a massive debt and a mortgaged house: How Sajahan Ali’s life...
It is impossible to not hear the term ‘Bangladeshi’ when you are in Assam. It is a term that divides Assam;a region where human...
“Usmani’s speech presented in distorted form,” says Elgar Parishad organizers, extend support to the...
Aaqil Hussain, TwoCircles.net
Uttar Pradesh: Accusing the BJP and RSS of defaming activist Sharjeel Usmani, Elgar Parishad has come in support of Usmani saying the...
Success of Apna Dal, Bhartiya Samaj Party shows caste politics well and truly alive...
By Faisal Fareed, Twocircles.net
Uttar Pradesh assembly polls have also given chance for two smaller parties to expand their wings. In the caste-ridden Hindi belt,...
किसान आंदोलन में उठी सीएए प्रदर्शनकारियों के हक़ में आवाज़
स्टाफ रिपोर्टर। Twocircles.net
दिल्ली में चल रहे किसान आंदोलन के आज 15वे दिन टिकरी बार्डर पर मानवाधिकार दिवस के मौके पर जेल में बंद एंटी...
Calls to murder Muslim men, abduct Muslim women made from yet another ‘Hindu Mahapanchayat’...
On July 4, a large ‘Hindu Mahapanchayat’ was attended by thousands of Hindutva supporters in Haryana's Pataudi. The agenda of the Mahapanchayat at Pataudi,...
Activists and intellectuals call upon Jharkhand government to lift ban on PFI
By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net
Activists and intellectuals drawn from different corners of the country have called upon the Government of Jharkhand to immediately lift the...
झारखंड में कुपोषित बच्चों की संख्या में इज़ाफ़ा, क्या है कारण?
शैलेन्द्र सिन्हा
झारखंड : “आदिवासी महिलाओं को एक तो गर्भावस्था के दौरान पौष्टिक आहार नहीं मिलता. दूसरी ओर वो नियमित रुप से आयरन की गोली...
Indian Americans protest Hijab ban, urge Karnataka court to lift ban
More than a hundred people in Houston, Texas, United States called on the Karnataka government to stop the discrimination against Muslim girl students who...
शान्त नहीं हुई है अभी सहारनपुर की ‘आग’
आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net
सहारनपुर : पिछले डेढ़ महीनों से जातीय संघर्ष की आग में तप रहे सहारनपुर को क़ैद तो किया जा सकता...
अयोध्या में राम की नहीं, काम की बात
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net
फ़ैज़ाबाद/अयोध्या : इस चुनावी मौसम में राम मंदिर की चर्चा अब हर जगह होने लगी है. भाजपा के दिग्गज नेता अब...
Jharkhand bans Popular Front of India for alleged IS links
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
The Jharkhand government, led by BJP's Chief Minister Raghubar Das, has banned the Popular Front of India (PFI) for its alleged...
Prominent anti-CAA leaders charged for violence in Prayagraj
Following the violence in the Atala area of Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh over derogatory remarks made by now suspended BJP leaders, police have booked...
UP ATS arrests two Muslims from Bijnor on suspected ISIS links
Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net
Lucknow : On Thursday early morning, UP Police's special cell Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested two Muslim men from Bijnor district...
“We should record our history, our victory” Dalit poet Mercy Margaret
Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net
Dalit literature that revolves around the struggles and lives of Dalits first emerged in the 1960s and has seen exponential growth since....
In J&K, Gujjar community threatens state-wide agitation against alleged rape and murder of eight-year-old...
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net
Jammu: On Thursday, January 18, Jammu and Kashmir woke up to a terrible news of the death of an eight-year-old...
The Politics of presence in JNU: Najeeb Ahmed and the Muslim identity
By Noel Mariam George for TwoCircles.net
The Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO) is just like RSS-- communal--said one of my dear comrades from the...
Dr Sadathullah Khan’s ‘Discover Yourself’ workshops offer Islamic perspectives on personality development
Dr Sadathullah Khan, who hails from the south Indian state of Bengaluru, is an Engineer by profession. He has conducted more than 450 ‘Discover...
काम तो हम भी वही करते हैं जो ‘धोनी’ करता है, मगर लोग हमें...
आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net
रसूलपुर : बुग्गी में खच्चर की जगह खुद 70 किलोमीटर तक गाड़ी खींचने वाली मीना सलीम पश्चिम उत्तर प्रदेश में इन...
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मोहम्मद कुनैन रज़ा Twocircles.net के लिए
रमज़ान पिछली बार की तरह इस बार भी कोरोना महामारी के दौरान आया है। पिछली बार पूरा रमज़ान...
A Muslim woman’s decade-long struggle to get Khula
By Nadia Hussain, TwoCircles.net
When Shabana (name changed) got married to Javed (name changed) in 2006. she had never imagined the battle she would have...
चल रही है शिया-सुन्नी रिश्ते सुधारने की क़वायद, ईरान का प्रतिनिधिमंडल पहुंचा दारूल उलूम...
आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net
देवबंद : 07 दिसम्बर का दिन दारूल उलूम देवबंद के लिए बहुत ख़ास था. क्योंकि इस दिन पहली बार ईरान से...
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...
Former IFS officer, politician Syed Shahabuddin passes away
By TCN News
Former IFS and MP Syed Shahabuddin passed away at the age of 82 on Saturday morning at a hospital in Noida after...
Prof. Kancha Ilaiah to Deliver Keynote Speech at Ambedkar-King Conference in USA
August 12. Cupertino, California, USA | TCN Staff
Indian political theorist and academic Prof. Kancha Ilaiah has been confirmed as the chief guest and key...
Dalits and Tribals call for Bharat Band on March 5
TCN News
Tribals and Dalits have called for a nation wide bandh tomorrow march 5th, 2019, Tuesday to protest the SC order for eviction of...
Tamil Nadu’s rape survivors are minorities we don’t know about
Society neglects rape survivors, and those who have been to prison and juvenile homes. It’s this exclusion that makes these victims and survivors indulge...
No home for Ghoramara island’s climate refugees
The migration, poor living conditions, and relentless washing off of houses have made climate refugees out of the islanders of Ghoramara in Sunderbans delta...
Dr.Ambedkar’s views on minority rights, democracy and Hindu majoritarianism
By Badre Alam & Sanjay Kumar for TwoCircles.net
Editors: Prof. Christophe Jaffrelot and Dr Narender Kumar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pages: 263
Price (Hardbound): Rs 850
Professor Christophe Jaffrelot...
Indian Americans condemn extremist violence against Muslims across India amid Ramadan
Viral videos have flooded social media showing Hindu extremist mobs armed with swords, guns and rods, taking out processions through Muslim areas, blasting Islamophobic...
The case against Zafarul Islam, and why Delhi Police must be questioned for invoking...
By Yusuf Ansari, TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Sunday booked Chairman of Delhi Minorities Commission, Zafarul Islam Khan under sedition charge, two days after...
Najeeb Ahmad case: University officer in tussle with CBI as it reached hostel with...
By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net
In a rather strange episode on Tuesday night, one University official from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) landed in a tussle with...
Srinagar youth participates in United Nations Conference
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
A Srinagar-based entrepreneur and social activist Affan Yesvi participated in a 3-day United Nations Global Sustainability Development Goals SDGs Conference -...
BHU’s Urdu department to establish Chair in the name of Mirza Ghalib
By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net
Banaras Hindu University (BHU) is gearing up to establish a research chair in the name of Mirza Ghalib, the renowned poet...
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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net
यूपी का ‘चुनावी संग्राम’ अपने तीसरे चरण में है. इस सबसे बड़े चुनावी अखाड़े में कई सारे वायदों के बीच भाजपा...
यूपी : जुमे की नमाज़ को लेकर दस गुना अधिक फोर्स तैनात,उलेमाओं ने जारी...
स्टाफ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net
उत्तर प्रदेश में पिछली 10 जून को जुमे की नमाज़ के बाद हुए बीजेपी की निलंबित नेता नुपुर शर्मा की गिरफ्तारी को...
बस्तरिया आदिवासी संस्कृति का हिस्सा नहीं है “दीपावली”
By राकेश दर्रो, TwoCircles.net
यह कहना गलत नहीं होगा कि आदिवासी संस्कृति का हिस्सा नहीं है दीपों का पर्व दीपावली क्योंकि बस्तरिया आदिवासी दीपावली पर्व...
संजीव बालियान का आदर्श ग्राम – न एक मुसलमान, और न एक भी पूरा...
आस मोहम्मद कैफ, TwoCircles.net
रसूलपुर जाटान(शाहपुर): मुज़फ्फरनगर के सांसद और केंद्र सरकार में राज्यमंत्री संजीव बालियान का आदर्श ग्राम 'रसूलपुर जाटान' के नाम से जाना...
Indian pilot to be freed Friday as ‘peace gesture’, says Imran
Islamabad, Feb 28 (IANS) The captured Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot will be freed on Friday "as a peace gesture", Pakistan Prime Minister Imran...
जामिया के 6 छात्रों का पीएम फैलोशिप के लिए चयन
आकिल हुसैन। Twocircles.net
जामिया मिल्लिया इस्लामिया के छह शोधार्थियों का प्रधानमंत्री रिसर्च फेलोशिप के लिए चयन हुआ है। इन शोधार्थियों को दिसंबर 2020...
दिल्ली में पहला लिटरेचर फेस्टिवल,अपने अधिकारों के लिए दलित लेखकों ने बुलन्द की आवाज़
आसमोहम्मद कैफ TwoCircles.net
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How a US-based charity organisation provides food to thousands of poor and needy in...
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net
Every year, more than one billion people across the world welcome the holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast from...
BJP workers attack Imam in Nadia, West Bengal; Imam hospitalised
By Mirza Mosaraf Hossain, TwoCircles.net
After a series of mob lynching of Muslims across the nation in the name of protecting cows, the BJP and...
भीम आर्मी सुप्रीमो चंद्रशेखर आज़ाद ‘रावण’ पर जेल में हमला
आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net
सहारनपुर : दलितों की महिलाओं पर बेहद आपत्तिजनक टिप्पणी करने वाली वीडियो के बाद अब भीम आर्मी के संयोजक चन्द्रशेखर ‘रावण’...
India’s attacks on press freedoms similar to a dictatorship: RSF Asia-Pacific Director
The congressional briefing focused on India’s steep decline in the latest Press Freedom Index ranking by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which plunged from 142...
Protests continue against revocation of Article 370 both in India and outside
TCN News
Even before the bill was tabled on Monday, there was growing anxiety among the people of Kashmir valley as they read the signs...
सादगी काबिलयत की मिसाल है यूपीएससी में चुनी गई रामनगर की बुशरा अंसारी
आस मोहम्मद कैफ, TwoCircles.net
रामनगर : मुरादाबाद से नैनीताल मार्ग पर 65 किमी चलने पर रामनगर नाम वाला एक कस्बा है. उत्तराखंड के सौंदर्य की...
Former MP contestant, many others find names missing from voter list in Telangana
By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net
Hyderabad: Dr Lubna Sarwath, who contested from Malakpet constituency on behalf of the Aam Aadmi Party in the 2014 Lok Sabha...
‘Religious conversion a serious issue, don’t make it political’: Supreme Court
Earlier, the Supreme Court had said the issue of forced religious conversion is a “very serious issue” and emphasised that charity is welcome,...
‘गौ-रक्षक दल’ हत्यारों का दल है —रवि नितेश
सिराज माही
नई दिल्ली : पिछले दिनों टीवी पर जो सबसे ज़्यादा ख़बर चली, वह राजस्थान के अल्वर में पहलू खां को कथित गौ-तस्करी के...
Exclusive: What led to Mukhtar Ansari’s death in Banda prison? Here’s what his son...
Special Correspondent, TwoCircles.net
Ghazipur (Uttar Pradesh): Former MLA Mukhtar Ansari, who represented eastern Uttar Pradesh’s Mau constituency in the state assembly for five consecutive terms...
Prakash Ambedkar, Asad Owaisi announce alliance in Maharashtra to unify Dalit-Bahujan-Muslim votes
By Daisy Katta, TwoCircles.net
In a move that has the potential to play a major role in Maharashtra politics, Adv. Prakash Ambedkar of BHARIP (Bharatiya...
Situation of Dalits in India similar to Blacks in US, says renowned HR activist...
TCN News
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder in US, renowned human rights activist Martin Macwan from India has written an open letter to...
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...
डेल्टा मेघवाल को मिला न्याय, गुनाहगारों को उम्र कैद की सज़ा
आकिल हुसैन।Twocircles.net
2016 में राजस्थान के बीकानेर के नोखा में हुए बहुचर्चित डेल्टा मेघवाल हत्याकांड को लेकर बीकानेर की पोक्सो कोर्ट ने बड़ा...
मदरसों के छात्रों को भी आरटीई की सुविधाएं देने की सिफ़ारिश
TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
नई दिल्ली : एक बार फिर से मदरसों के आधुनिकीकरण व उन्हें शिक्षा के अधिकार (आरटीई) के दायरे में लाने की बहस...
South Kashmir girl receives 100% scholarship offer to pursue Mechanical Engg. in University of...
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net
Srinagar: Eighteen-year-old Adeeba Tak from Shopian district in south Kashmir has brought laurels to the valley by securing admission in...
Farmers suffer most, as govt turns blind eye to floods in North Western Bihar
By Nafis Haider, TwoCircles.net
Bihar: Flood is a regular event in Bihar, but this year' the water in Ganga and its tributaries including Sone, Gandak,...
Sharmila to quit politics but continue fight against AFSPA
Imphal, (IANS): Handed a humiliating defeat on her maiden foray into electoral politics, Manipur's human rights activist Irom Sharmila on Saturday announced she would...
कैराना में पुलिस के उत्पीड़न से परेशान होकर सड़कों पर हजारों लोगों ने किया...
मोहम्मद वसीम Twocircles.net के लिए
कैराना पुलिस पर रुपये लेकर पीडित को छोडने तथा पीडित व्यक्तियों को अवैध तरीके से हिरासत में रखने गंभीर आरोपों...
Yet again, three Muslim men lynched in West Bengal on suspicion of cow-theft
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
Lynching of Muslims is now becoming a scary routine in India. For a second day in a row, three Muslim men...
Global activists demand a UN Declaration on elmination of Discrimination based on Work and...
By TCN News
The first Global Forum on Discrimination based on Work and Descent (DWD) was convened on 20-23 September in New York, which took...
तीर कमान से लैस ग्रामीणों के विरोध के बावजूद दंतेवाड़ा जिले के पोटाली में...
By मंगल कुंजम, TwoCircles.net
छत्तीसगढ़ दंतेवाड़ा :- जिले से दूर नक्सल प्रभावित अरनपुर थाना क्षेत्र में नए कैम्प खोलने को लेकर इलाके के ग्रामीण लगातार...
Who is Gulam Ali Khatana, BJP’s Rajya Sabha nominee from J&K?
51-year-old Ghulam Ali Khatana from Jammu has worked with the RSS affiliated Muslim Rashtriya Manch and has held several positions within the BJP.
Ubair Ul...
What happens when Muslims unite to defeat the BJP?
Reports from the ground indicate that this time a section of Muslims is unperturbed about the saffron party’s win in Uttar Pradesh compared to...
Jamia Millia Islamia students express solidarity with students in Kashmir over security force brutality
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
New Delhi: Jamia Millia Islamia students on Monday, April 9, staged a protest inside the campus to extend their solidarity with...
Azharuddin Quazi of Yavatmal secures AIR-315 in UPSC exam
By Maariyah Siddique, TwoCircles.net
“I faced poverty and misery since childhood and my father took up odd jobs to support the family financially,” recalls Azharuddin....
जानिए! पिछले दो सालों में अंतर्राष्ट्रीय योग दिवस पर सरकार ने कितना किया खर्च?
TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
नई दिल्ली : अंतर्राष्ट्रीय योग दिवस पर होने वाला खर्च आपके होश उड़ा देगा. हालांकि यह खर्च सिर्फ़ एक विभाग का है...
JIH concerned over growing crimes against women in India, spying on citizens, 3rd Covid...
Addressing an online press meet, Secretary of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) Women’s Department Rahmatunnisa condemned the alleged brutal rape and murder of a nine-year-old Dalit...
ज़मानत पर रिहा होने के बाद अल्पसंख्यकों को पीट रहे हैं लातेहर कांड के...
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net
लातेहार : बीते साल लातेहार में दो मुसलमानों की हत्या करने वाले गो-रक्षकों का आतंक ज़मानत पर रिहा होने के...
COVID-19 and mounting woes of Indian farmers
By Mohammed Junaid
Ompal Singh, a 50-year-old farmer from Muzaffarnagar, sugarcane belt of Uttar Pradesh, ended his life on 4 June 2020 allegedly over the...
वर्धा विश्वविद्यालय-पहले बिना कारण दलित-ओबीसी छात्रों को निष्कासित किया, अब निष्कासन लिया वापस
By मीना कोटवाल, TwoCircles.net
Photos by Chandan Saroj
महाराष्ट्र का केन्द्रीय विश्वविद्यालय वर्धा में 9 अक्टूबर को एक कार्यक्रम किया गया था, जिसमें हिस्सा लेने वाले...
Known for his honesty and simple life, Alam Badi becomes MLA for the fifth...
Between the politics of muscle power and money power in Purvanchal, Alam Badi has made a mark for himself due to his simplicity and...
Farmer’s movement: Is ethics at issue?
In the modern world, in the world of industries and metropolis and the world governed by centralized rule, the farmer and the village have...
A new environmental world order awaits post Covid-19 (Corona) era
By Anwar Khursheed and Zoony Zainab, TwoCircles.net
The human race takes it upon itself to perform the dual role of both the destroyer and the...
मेरठ में अमित शाह ने रद्द की पदयात्रा, गठबंधन पर किया हमला
फहमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net
मेरठ: उत्तर प्रदेश की चुनावी सरगर्मी के बीच भारतीय जनता पार्टी के राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष अमित शाह आज प्रदेश के मेरठ जिले पहुंचे....
#HajFacts : सुप्रीम कोर्ट के आदेशों का उल्लंघन कर रही हज कमिटी, आरएसएस के...
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net
नई दिल्ली : भारत से हज जाने के लिए हमेशा आवदेन-कर्ता ज़्यादा होते हैं और सीटें कम. ऐसे में बहुत से...
23-year-old Kashmiri girl becomes first from her village to crack civil services
By Asma Hafiz, TwoCircles.net
Srinagar: Twenty-three-year-old Nadia Beigh hailing from Punzwa village in Kupwara district of North Kashmir is the first girl from her village...
‘Chalo TISS’ earns solidarity from across India over scholarship protests; strike enters day 14
By Daisy Katta, TwoCircles.net
The ‘Chalo TISS’ call given by the General Body of TISS students was highly successful, with more than 500 people all...
COVID-19 pandemic will not end until December 2021
By Shamsuzzaman Ansari, TwoCircles.net
The question, when will the coronavirus go away is on everyone’s mind. Healthcare experts and analysts can only attempt to estimate...
दम है मायावती बनने का!
आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net
बहुजन समाज पार्टी की अध्यक्ष बहन मायावती हमेशा से ही अपने फ़ैसलों से राजनितिक पंडितों को आश्चर्यचकित करती रही हैं. शुरुआत...
Do renewed attacks on police, increase in civilian killings belie govt claims of ‘all...
For the citizens of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, notwithstanding the perception of an increase or decrease in violence, the situation has...
त्रिपुरा मॉब लिंचिंग : ज़ाहिद को माना अपराधी, बीमा क्लेम देने से किया...
आस मोहम्मद कैफ | मुज़फ्फरनगर
लगभग ढाई महीने पहले त्रिपुरा में मुज़फ्फरनगर, उत्तर प्रदेश के रहने वाले जाहिद की भीड़ द्वारा पीट कर हत्या कर...
Appointment of SRP Kalluri in Chattisgarh a betrayal of democracy, say activists
TCN News
SRP Kalluri has been given two prominent offices that of Inspector General, Anti Corruption Bureau and Economic Offences Wing – of Chhattisgarh state...
दिल्ली में नई बन रही मस्जिद को उग्र भीड़ ने तोड़ा
TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
नई दिल्ली : दिल्ली के सोनिया विहार इलाक़े में आज एक नई बनाई जा रही मस्जिद को कुछ असामाजिक तत्वों द्वारा ध्वस्त...
Farmer’s protest versus public inconveniences
By Dr Ahmed Raza
Experiencing frequent and long-lasting public agitation and protest against government policies can never be a good sign for developing countries like...
In UP’s Saharanpur, fear of NRC fuels search for documents
By Musheera Ashraf, TwoCircles.net
Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh) :“It will be better if they give us poison,” says 35-years-old Ayesha from Nawabganj, the sole breadwinner in...
Do Muslim life convicts in Tamil Nadu prison face discrimation in claiming premature release?...
According to the letter by the Director of Prisoner Rights Forum, P. Pugalenthi, 38 Muslim life convicts from Coimbatore central prison, Vellore central prison,...
Varanasi Smart City Project: Government ousts Municipal Corporation, private company to carry out work
By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net
In a strange turn of events, the Varanasi Municipal Corporation has outsourced the city’s Smart City project to a private conglomerate...
रविदास जयंती के पहले बेगमपुरा एक्सप्रेस रद्द, दलितों और सिखों में गुस्सा
सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net
वाराणसी : बनारस में एक मोहल्ला है, सीर गोवर्धन. यहां आप संत रविदास जयंती के दिन घुसेंगे तो पिसने की नौबत आ...
Why is BJP championing extremely backward castes’ reservation in Bihar?
While the BJP is trying hard to posit Nitish Kumar as anti-EBC after the lost case of reservation in court, Kumar's party Janata...
जर्जर हालत में पहुँच गया है देवबंद का सबसे पुराना और पहला मदरसा
By आस मोहम्मद कैफ, TwoCircles.net
देवबंद-मदरसों की राजधानी कहे जाने वाले देवबंद में कुल 400 मदरसे है।इनमे से एक दारुल उलूम देवबंद भी है।जिसे उम्मुल...
Re-reading Allama Iqbal’s “Syed ki Lauhe Turbat” on 200th birthday of Sir Syed Ahmad...
By Muhammad Naved Ashrafi
Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) is celebrating this year (2017) as bicentenary birth year of their founder and India’s social reformer Sir...
Domes at bus stand in Karnataka’s Mysuru removed after objection by BJP leader
The three-dome structured bus stop on the Kerala Border-Kollegala section of NH-766 were demolished and rebuilt after an objection of Bharatiya Janata Party...
Day 2 of AMU Litfest focuses on threats to literature and democracy
Sharjeel Usmani for TwoCircles.net
The Cultural Education Centre (CEC) of the historic Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on the second day of the AMU Literary Festival...
Gorakhpur: Like 2014, by-elections will be a fight between Brahmin and OBC candidates
By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net
Akhilesh Yadav, national president of Samajwadi Party and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, has decided to field Praveen Kumar Nishad,...
Malabar Struggle leader Variyamkunnath Kunjahammed Haji’s martyrdom day marked in Kerala
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
The name of the great revolutionary Variyamkunnath Kunhahammed Haji should be inscribed on the India Gate along with other freedom fighters,...
Giving a Damn to EC’s Directions, BJP Appeals for Vote Invoking Religion Displaying Ram...
TCN News
New Delhi: A day before the first phase of polling (April 19) of the general elections 2024, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is...
Social activist Teesta Setalvad detained in Varanasi
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
Social activist Teesta Setalvad was detained by the Police in Varanasi today soon after she landed in Varanasi. She was coming...
Ramadan 1438: Mohammad Yousuf
By Nawal Ali Watali, TwoCircles.net
"This Lake had many more Willow trees before and was cleaner, all this little dirt comes through streams from Srinagar."...
IUML terms Centre’s actions following E Ahamed’s death an insult to Nation
By Twocircles.net Staff Reporter
The first meeting of Indian Union Muslim League held in Malappuram after E Ahamed's demise termed the ill treatment of its...
ये घटनाए बताती है कि उत्तर प्रदेश में पत्रकारों के लिए सब कुछ सही...
हिना मंसूर ।Twocircles.net
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न्यूज़ वेबसाइट 'स्क्रॉल' की कार्यकारी संपादक सुप्रिया शर्मा ने लॉकडाऊन खत्म होने और अनलॉक के प्रारंभ होने के तुरंत बाद भारत के...
Second phase of UP elections will be a big test for Muslim leaders
By Faisal Fareed, Twocircles.net
As the second phase of polling begins tomorrow, all eyes are again focussed on Muslims voters, especially among the 11 districts...
Four months after Faisal’s murder, Kodinhi residents continue fight for justice, support his family
By Amit Kumar and Shafeeq Hudawi, Twocircles.net
The state of Kerala is not short on tourist attractions. Every district boasts of something that separates them...
Does technology spoil or enrich the Hajj experience?
By Hassan Hoque for TwoCircles.net
Live feeds, Snapchats and iPhone apps bring the Hajj closer to us all and help us identify with collective events...
International Women’s Day: Meet UP’s Rehana Adeeb, a ‘rebel’ for men, but a ‘messiah’...
Social activist Rehana Adeeb, who is fighting for the rights of women in areas such as Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, Baghpat and Saharanpur in western Uttar...
16-year-old Muslim youth stabbed to death, three injured in mob attack over allegations of...
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
In yet another incident of mob violence over alleged beef consumption, one Muslim was stabbed by a mob when he along...
लखनऊ में जोमैटो बॉय के साथ जातीय भेदभाव
आकिल हुसैन।Twocircles.net
उत्तर प्रदेश की राजधानी लखनऊ में एक शर्मसार कर देने वाला मामला सामने आया हैं। लखनऊ में एक आदमी ने जोमैटो से...
यह बिल मुस्लिम समाज के प्रति सरकार की नीयत का अक्स है
नासिरूद्दीन, TwoCircles.net के लिए
पिछले दिनों हमारे मुल्क में यह माहौल बनाने की कोशिश की गई कि सभी मुसलमान महिलाएं तीन तलाक़ क़ानून के...
How media framed Indian Muslim when Pakistani beat India in a cricket match
By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net
When India lost the first two wickets in the Final of the ICC Champions Trophy 2017 against Pakistan on Sunday, firecrackers...
एक सुनहरा सबक़ है शामली की नग़मा मंसूरी का यूनिवर्सिटी टॉपर बनना
आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net
शामली : पश्चिमी उत्तर प्रदेश में ग्रामीण पृष्ठभूमि और पिछड़ेपन से जुड़ी ख़बरों को लेकर चर्चा में रहने वाले शामली ने...
For Kerala politicians, Abdul Nasar Madani is now a victim who has been denied...
By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net
In the last 17 years, Abdul Nasar Madani, the founder-leader of People’s Democratic Party, has spent less than three years outside...
MNF takes office in Mizoram after a decade
Aizawl, Dec 15 (IANS) The Mizo National Front (MNF) government led by Chief Minister Zoramthanga on Saturday assumed office in Mizoram, ending the Congress'...
Iftar Programme with Domestic Workers
TCN News
Khudai Khidmatgar organisation organised Iftar for domestic workers on 8th May, the 2nd roza of Ramadan at 'Sabka Ghar'.
Khudai Khidmatgar meaning 'servants of...
प्रयागराज में दलितों की हत्या से प्रदेश का राजनीतिक पारा गर्म
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...
COVID vaccine: Is it Halal or not?
By Asad Mirza, TwoCircles.net
It’s not only the Muslims, even Hindus and Jews have raised questions about the use of the COVID vaccine, due to...
Week on, family of slain Muslim man from Sultanpur, UP seek answers, allege ‘lynching’,...
A fifty-year-old mentally-unsound Muslim man Khursheed Ahmad from Sultanpur area of Uttar Pradesh was found dead on June 23. While the family claims that...
How a variety of factors, not just anti-incumbency, contributed to BJP’s demise in three...
By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net
The election results of five states on December 11 made good reading for people who have been wishing for the defeat...
Kiran Vissa’s grassroot movement in Telangana to resist CAA-NRC [Interview]
By Musheera Ashraf, TwoCircles.net
Kiran Vissa is a social activist based in Hyderabad working at the community level to raise awareness about the Citizenship Amendment...
दंगों के बाद क्या होगा मुज़फ्फरनगर में चुनाव का रुख?
आस मोहम्मद कैफ, TwoCircles.net
मुज़फ्फरनगर : ये शहर अब चुनावों में उतर रहा है, लेकिन सच है कि इस इलाके ने चुनाव के पहले क़त्लेआम...
AMU ranked 6th best among Indian universities
TCN News
Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has been placed sixth among Indian universities and 22nd in all Indian educational institutions by the Centre for World...
India’s human rights situation is very serious, says UN Special Rapporteur
UN Special Rapporteur asks India to free 16 Human Rights Defenders accused in Bhima-Koregaon case
By TCN News
The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), an advocacy...
Coronavirus and the myth of freedom
By Muhammed Tauqeer
It’s been more than 70 years since the independence of India, an arduous journey of freedom from the British colonial rule; a...
These Muslims from UP performed last rites of Hindus who died of Covid-19,...
As the second wave of coronavirus is creating havoc across the country, stories of tragic loss have been far too frequent. What is lost...
“We have been in lockdown since we were born,” Kashmir’s transgender community face neglect,...
By Asma Hafiz, TwoCircles.net
Srinagar: Anjali remembers the day before Kashmir was put under a military and communications lockdown on August 5 last year. It...
‘बारूद की ढ़ेर पर है उत्तराखंड, खुदा खैर करे’ —मुफ़्ती रईस क़ासमी
इस साल मार्च 2017 में उत्तराखंड में भाजपा की सरकार बनने के साथ ही यहां बहुत कुछ बदल गया है. मुसलमान हालांकि यहां कम...
EXCLUSIVE: सिमी एनकाउंटर पर बने जुडिशियल कमिशन की रिपोर्ट तैयार, एमपी पुलिस को क्लीनचिट
शाहनवाज़ नज़ीर, TwoCircles.net के लिए
31 अक्टूबर 2016 की सुबह भोपाल से सटे ईंटखेड़ी इलाक़े में हुए एनकाउंटर पर न्यायिक आयोग ने अपनी जांच पूरी...
Using pellets, force on Shia mourner’s points to declining religious freedom in Kashmir
By Auqib Javeed, TwoCircles.net
Srinagar: Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Muharram processions in Kashmir this year became sites of protests in which over 200 people...
Shaheen Bagh activists call for diaspora action to support Indian Muslims against genocide
Activists in the panel stated the need for the global community to not only remember Shaheen Bagh but also to take action before...
Our Muslim brothers fast in Ramadan; we have been fasting for 5 years waiting...
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: “For our Muslim brothers, Ramadan comes once a year, but we have been fasting continuously for the past...
Rights groups condemn ‘pressure’ against USCIRF to report on religious persecution in India
In a letter to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom on April 10, several rights-based organizations and individuals said the commission must...
‘Dharmik Jan Morcha’ formed in Rajasthan for promoting love, amity among religious communities
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Vice President Prof. Mohammad Saleem Engineer said that the violence happens when people do not follow their religion properly.
TCN News
New Delhi: Leaders...
बहुत सवाल पैदा करते है आज अलीगढ़ के क़त्ल
आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net
अलीगढ : सवाल यह है कि अच्छी तरह साफ़ की गयी अलीगढ की सबसे व्यस्त सड़क पर सफेदी तो दिखाई देती है...
HR groups, activists, scholars seek action against Hindutva groups for issuing threats to Mangalore...
Scores of human rights organizations, activists and scholars have written an open letter to Mangalore district administration in Karnataka seeking action against Hindutva groups...
Renowned Muslim women scholars call for adopting Islamic teachings for ‘happy family, stronger society’
TCN News
New Delhi: Muslim women intellectuals and scholars from around the world on Tuesday unanimously gave a clarion call to adopt Islamic teachings for...
Hundred days of Yogi Adityanath and Muslims: Challenging times ahead
By Faisal Fareed, TwoCircles.net
As Yogi Adityanath completes 100 days in office, Muslims in Uttar Pradesh are still apprehensive about their future. Soon after Yogi...
Why Assam govt sealed a museum showcasing Muslim culture and arrested five people?
Traditional farming tools, including the plough, gamusas (traditional hand-woven clothing), and bamboo fishing equipment, were displayed in the museum to preserve and showcase the...
“Probe Hindu supremacist organizations co-opting US Covid-19 funding,” say Indian Americans
Broad coalition says expose published by Al Jazeera shows lack of proper safeguards resulted in diversion of Covid-19 relief to fund hate and bigotry...
8 महीने से जेल में है सपा विद्यायक नाहिद हसन, अखिलेश यादव से अब...
मोहम्मद वसीम । Two circles.net के लिए
तबियत खराब होने पर कैराना के विधायक नाहिद हसन को मुजफ्फरनगर अस्पताल में भर्ती कराया है...
Jharkhand: Police drag 19-year-old Muslim out of his house, shoot him dead
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
In another case of police brutality against Muslims, a 19-year-old Muslim boy in Jharkhand was dragged out of his house and...
Why was a Muslim principal of MP law college forced to quit after allegation...
After the right-wing student outfit, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) accused the Muslim faculty at the government law college in Indore of promoting...