Journey of a slum dweller to fight illiteracy among poor
More than 6000 kids from underprivileged families are benefiting from schools run by Mamoom Akhtar in West Bengal.
Partho Burman | TwoCircles.net
KOLKATA — It was...
Thirsty Streets in Photos: The Plight of Kusumpur Pahari Amid Delhi’s Water Crisis
Anushka Kogta and Mohsin Javed, TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: Nestled within a 1 km radius of the upscale enclave of Vasant Vihar, Kusumpur Pahari grapples with persistent...
JIH condemns police firing, Dholpur eviction in Assam
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) demanded immediate rehabilitation to the homeless as mandated by the Supreme Court of India.
NEW DELHI - Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) Vice President Prof...
“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...
Nearly 8 months after fire destroyed their camp in Delhi, Rohingya refugees await basic...
Scores of Rohingya families living at a makeshift camp in near New Delhi’s Madanpur Khadar area are living a meagre existence, with poor access...
Rohingya Muslims housing row: What is India’s refugee policy?
A recent row over the housing and rehabilitation of Rohingya refugees in the national capital New Delhi has brought India’s refugee policy into the...
‘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...
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...
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...
सब कुछ बर्बाद मगर टूटी नही उम्मीद …आग के बाद शरणार्थी रोहिंग्यो की मदद...
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दिल्ली में कालिंदी कुंज के पास मदनपुर खादर इलाके के रोहिंग्या शरणार्थी कैंप में पिछले दिनों आग लग गई थी जिसके...
Police searches at slums in Hyderabad spark fear among slum dwellers
The recent searches carried out by police in several slums in Hyderabad has drawn the ire of the slum-dwellers, who are predominantly Muslim, Dalits...
Ashraful Madaris – An Urdu medium school fighting for survival
By Nikhat Fatima, twocircles.net
Building character and integrity and not just building careers is what the teachers strive for, in this 110-year-old school ‘Ashraful Madaris’...
“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...
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...
Broken promises, political disillusionment: The struggle of slum dwellers in Faridabad
Shriya Sharma, TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: Despite flagship missions such the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Urban (PMAY-U) or the Mukhyamantri Shehri Awas Yojana being in place...
‘We were loyal supporters of BJP,’ Bengali Colony residents anguished with eviction notices
A Dalit majority area consisting of more than 25,000 houses situated near the Tughlaqabad Fort in New Delhi is facing the threat of...
Amid pandemic, rains, residents of Ramesh Park rendered homeless
Residents of Ramesh Park have been rendered homeless after a demolition drive by Delhi Development Authority (DDA). Most of the residents, who are either Muslim...
‘We were promised rehabilitation,’ 40 families homeless after railway demolishes Ranchi slum
Nearly 40 families, most of whom Dalits and Adivasis, were rendered homeless after railways destroyed their basti on December 28 last month.
Aquilur Rahman...
ग्राऊंड रिपोर्ट : बिहार में बाढ़ के बाद राहत शिविर में भी बदतर हालात
जिब्रानउद्दीन।Twocircles.net
बिहार में पिछले एक महीने से लाखों लोग अपने डूबते घरों को छोड़कर राहत शिविरों में शरण लेने पर मजबूर हैं। शिविरों में खराब...
तबाही : मुम्बई में झुग्गियों पर गिरी दीवार ,17 की दर्दनाक मौत
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मुंबई में बारिश का कहर देखने को मिला हैं। भारी बारिश ने मुंबई को बेहाल कर दिया है। मुंबई के दो इलाकों...
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...