U.S. NGO names Modi among world’s seven worst persecutors, clubs RSS with Taliban

In a report, “2021 Persecutor of the Year Awards,” released here this month, the International Christian Concern (ICC) clubbed the “Sangh Parivar,” India’s Hindu extremist...

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By Mohamed Ajmal for TwoCircles.net The month of Muharram, is an evidently an historical month for Muslims, and also which highlights the differences between Sunni...

101 former officials demands action against those who spread hatred against the Muslims, letter...

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RSS’s international wing Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh challenged throughout US

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By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.Net Kolkata: In 2015, 15 Muslims qualified in the West Bengal Civil Services. Nearly half of them came from the coaching entre...

Lifelong struggle against the caste system to create a life of dignity

By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net Sushma Andhare is well known today among Dalit/Ambedkarite movement. She is a professor and teaches sociology and political science. But that...

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

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?

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

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G Gopalakrishnan has built mosques all his life, soon he will start work for 102nd By Shafeeq Hudavi, TwoCircles.net Kozhikode: He is not a...

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Hindu nationalists at an event in India mimic Nazi Germany with a vow to “fight, die, and kill”. Pieter Friedrich | TwoCircles.net In 1933, as...

Bihar Elections: 24 Muslim candidates win as AIMIM draws a blank

By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Bihar : The Mahagathbandhan (Garden Alliance) of JDU, RJD and Congress, led by Bihar Chief Minister...

Badruddin Ajmal promises medical college and university for Hojai

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New Jersey marks ground zero for growing US resistance to Hindutva

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UP Government confers Yash Bharti award to 46 people, list includes nine Muslims

By TCN Staff Reporter Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh's highest honour Yash Bharti award was given to 46 personalities on Monday. Among them, nine Muslims were conferred...

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Book on Muslim Generals of Maratha warrior Shivaji tries to underline his secular image

By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Solapur, Maharashtra: In an effort to portray Maratha warrior Shivaji as a secular king, a forty-page book has been...

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“We are at peace now,” says wife of slain UP cop killed in Bulandhshar...

Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh was killed two years ago in Chirangavathi, Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh. His wife was responding to the news of the Supreme...

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Mr PM, listen to Muslim women who faced sexual harassment in Delhi violence before...

Very shameful acts have happened to Muslim women during Delhi violence There are allegations ranging from tearing clothes to rape, many girls...

Biden administration taking a dangerous path with Modi regime

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...

Is Javed Ahmad Ghamidi phenomena a New Fitna?

By Mushtaq Ul Haq Ahmad Sikander Recently a book release function was held in Kashmir Valley in which a book Fikr e Ghamidi: Ek Tajziyati...

Abandoned “Mosques of India” are crying for attention, one Muslim youth is bridging the...

Mohammad Mirza is a travel writer and a social media executive from Hyderabad. He is currently based in the Middle East. His Instagram page “Mosques of...

California city pressured to renounce Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh praise

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...

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...

Meet Bushra Arshad from UP, who cracked civil services thrice to land her dream...

A mother of two, Bushra Arshad Bano's story is one of grit and determination. Cracking the civil services exams for the third time last...

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Pyare Khan: the journey of a socially conscious entrepreneur

Pyare Khan from Nagpur has spent around Rs 1 crore for procuring oxygen tankers, oxygen concentrators and cylinders. Through newspapers, he learnt about the...

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आसमोहम्मद कैफ। Twocircles.net मुजफ्फरनगर के मशहूर मीनाक्षी चौक से जब आप शामली बस अड्डे की तरफ चलते हैं तो ऐतिहासिक शहीद चौक से लगभग...

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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...

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

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...

How Rahmani 30 has made a difference in these Muslim students career

At least 65 students, including one girl, of Rahmani 30 – an educational movement for underprivileged students started in Patna, Bihar by late Wali...

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UPSC topper among Muslim aspirants, Sadaf Chaudhary of Roorkee uttarakhand, who secured the overall 23rd rank, is of firm opinion that improvement in the...

Bihar’s NEET topper Zeya Bilal credits success to Rahmani 30

Mohammad Zeya Belal from a remote village in Bihar has topped the list of successful candidates from Bihar in this year’s NEET. A Rahmani...

Texas doctor demands “retribution” after Kashmir Files film

The film has incited widespread calls for anti-Muslim violence. Pieter Friedrich | TwoCircles.net UNITED STATES — “Retribution,” declared Rajiv Pandit, a doctor based in Dallas, TX,...

The Telegraph redefine newspaper front pages

By IndScribe Telegraph, the Calcutta-based English newspaper, has redefined the front pages of newspapers. Creative, catchy and often shocking headlines, apart from unique presentation has...

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Almost 60 years later, Deekshabhoomi continues to draw Ambedkarites

By Nivedita Khandekar Nagpur (Maharashtra): Hemlata Sontakke, 60, was too young to remember the epoch making event she had attended with...

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By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net Kolkata: Mohammed Mursalin Islam, a resident of village Bamanpukur of Nadia district of West Bengal did his family and friends...

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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...

Journalists in Kashmir anxious after admin’s “militant sympathizers” remarks

The remarks made by the region’s top administrator in a fact-finding report by Press Council of India (PCI) has caused worry among the journalists...

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...

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The new Amir (Chief) Ahmad Wali Faisal Rahmani of Imarat-e-Shariah has the challenging task of carrying forward and better the legacy of Imarat-e-Shariah which...

American critics of Hindu nationalism risk sustained attacks

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Dr Mustafa Hashmi is the only Muslim candidate from the south Indian state of Telangana making the UPSC list. He is one among the...

Why do Muslims sacrifice animals on Eid?

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...

Aler Encounter: Mohammed Zakir was killed for helping Viqaruddin rent a house, says sister

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

A fashion designer turns her village home into garment manufacturing unit

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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...

Malayalam Daily’s insult of Prophet sparks protests in Kerala

By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net Kozhikode: Malayalam Daily Mathrubhumi’s reproduction of a comment which insulted Prophet Mohammed sparked wide protests of Muslim organisations in Kerala. Accusing...

Journalist harassed by J&K police in Jammu for ‘keeping a beard’

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

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...

Uttar Pradesh: 16-century historic mosque demolished in Prayagraj under ‘road widening’ project

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“I want to break the othering of Indian Muslims in media,” says film-maker Fahim...

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By Najiya O, TwoCircles.Net Maya Pramod, a research scholar who received the prestigious Bluestone Rising Scholar Prize instituted by the Brandeis University, USA, believes ownership...

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Suffocating dissent: the Modi regime’s COVID strategy

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