Rahul Gandhi assures voices of NRI will be heard in Indian parliament at public...
By TCN News
Rahul Gandhi, President of the Indian National Congress (INC), was given a huge welcome at the airport on Thursday evening. And on...
BSP-SP announce tie up for LS polls, keep Congress out of it
Lucknow, Jan 12 (IANS) Arch rivals for over 25 years, the BSP and SP announced on Saturday that they will contest the coming Lok...
Ram Rahim convicted in journalist’s murder case
Chandigarh, Jan 11 (IANS) A special CBI court in Haryana's Panchkula town on Friday convicted Dera Sacha Sauda sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh...
Tripura orders magisterial probe into police firing on tribal youths
Agartala, Jan 10 (IANS) The BJP-led Tripura government on Thursday ordered a magisterial inquiry into the police firing on Tuesday injuring six tribal youths,...
SC defers Ayodhya case to Jan 29
New Delhi, Jan 10 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday deferred the Ayodhya title dispute to January 29, saying that the five judge bench...
Upper caste quota challenged in SC
New Delhi, Jan 10 (IANS) Challenging the Constitutional validity of the 10 per cent reservation in jobs and education to upper castes, a petition...
Citizenship Bill excluding Muslim immigrants taking India further into an abyss of bigotry say...
TCN News
The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), an advocacy group dedicated to safeguarding India's pluralist and tolerant ethos, has called the bill passed by the...
Shah Faesal quits IAS to join Politics
TCN News with inputs from S N Ansari
Shah Faesal has resigned from the civil services and has shown inclination to join politics. He announced...
LS passes bill providing quota for upper castes
New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) The Lok Sabha on Tuesday night passed the "historic" Constitution amendment bill to provide 10 per cent quota for...
Citizenship Bill biggest betrayal: former Meghalaya CM
Shillong, Jan 8 (IANS) Leader of Opposition in the Meghalaya Assembly Mukul Sangma on Tuesday described the passage of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in...
Lok Sabha passes Citizenship Bill , Congress, Trinamool stage walkout
New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) The Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 that seeks to remove hurdles in eligible migrants...
Former Gujarat BJP leader shot dead in train
Surajbari (Gujarat), Jan 8 IANS) A former BJP MLA, Jayanthi Bhanushali, was shot shot dead in a moving train by some unknown persons in...
In defense of the indefensible -Triple Talaq and Sabarimala issue
By Md. Aariz Imam
Courtesy ANI, Narendra Modi has clarified his position on both the Triple Talaq Bill as well as the Sabarimalatemple entry movement. Though...
Telangana demands Muslim, ST quota in proposed Bill
Hyderabad, Jan 8 (IANS) The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) on Tuesday urged the Centre to amend the proposed Bill to provide 10 per cent reservation...
Stray incidents mar NE shutdown in Assam
Guwahati, Jan 8 (IANS) Assam witnessed a total shutdown on Tuesday in response to a shutdown called by the North East Students Organisation (NESO) in...
AAP demands special Parliament session over upper caste reservation
New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) Calling the upper caste quota an election stunt by the BJP, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday demanded...
Rahul Gandhi all set to visit UAE to woo NRIs
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...
AIMIM legislator to be Pro-tem Speaker of Telangana Assembly
Hyderabad, Jan 5 (IANS) Mumtaz Ahmed Khan of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) will be the Pro-tem speaker of the newly-elected Telangana Assembly,...
SC to decide on course of Ayodhya hearing on Jan 10
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday said the bench that will hear a batch of cross petitions challenging the 2010...
Attempt to link Kashmiri struggle with global terror: Geelani
Srinagar, Jan 4 (IANS) Senior separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani said on Friday that the desecration of the Jamia Masjid was an attempt to...
SC to hear contempt plea against Sabarimala tantri for closing temple for purification
New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) The Supreme Court will hear on January 22 a contempt plea against the Sabarimala temple tantri for shutting the...
Journalists attacked by Sangh Parivar activists in Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 3 (IANS) Around 100 media personnel, including women, have been attacked in Kerala in the last two days since protests erupted after...
RJD leader shot dead, boy killed in revenge
Patna, Jan 2 (IANS) A local Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader in Bihar was shot dead near his village by unidentified men, police said...
Sabarimala temple shuts after two women pray at shrine
Sabarimala, Jan 2 (IANS) The Sabarimala temple in Kerala was shut on Wednesday "for purification" after two women from the hitherto banned age group...
People whose voter IDs were deleted by mistake may have committed perjury, say activists;...
By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net
A few months before Telangana elections, many voters found their names deleted from the voters list. Those who checked their names...
Asaduddin Owaisi : Political Dividend Vs Price of friendship with KCR
By Muhammed Tauqeer
In the recently concluded Telangana assembly elections, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) got a thumping win with 2/3rd majority. This inspite of Congress'...
Police claim arrest of prime accused in Bulandshahr violence
Lucknow, Dec 27 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh police on Thursday claimed to have arrested the prime accused in the killing of police inspector Subodh...
Liberal media to Modi’s aide
After the recent reverses BJP suffered in the assembly elections, many scions of so-
called liberal media have got busy theorizing the loss as anti-incumbency....
All 22 accused in Sohrabuddin encounter case acquitted
Mumbai, Dec 21 (IANS) A special CBI court on Friday here acquitted all 22 accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati encounter case...
Priest admits to mixing poison in Karnataka temple food: Police
Bengaluru, Dec 20 (IANS) A priest and three others, including a woman admitted to have poisoned the food (prasad) resulting in the death of 15...
Drop in women MLA numbers in Telangana stresses need for 33% reservation
By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net
The number of women in Telangana State Assembly has come down this year as compared to the previous elections of 2014,...
Politics and psychology: a study of political campaign in Indian democracy
By Yash Nawaz
What is politics and psychology? How are both related to each other? I have tried to figure out these questions to understand political...
राजस्थान: ऑस्ट्रेलियाई एनआरआई वाजिब अली बने मेवात से विधायक
आस मोहम्मद कैफ | नगर (भरतपुर), TwoCircles.net
हाल में ही संपन्न हुए विधान सभा चुनाव में राजस्थान के भरतपुर जिले की नगर विधानसभा सीट से...
Azad calls for probe into civilian killings in Kashmir
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Congress veteran and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad, on Monday called for a probe into...
Triple Talaq bill introduced in Lok Sabha
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2018, commonly known as the Triple Talaq Bill, was introduced...
Jamiat condemns killing of innocent civilians in Pulwama and demands punitive action
TCN News:
New Delhi: Maulana Mahmood Madani, General Secretary of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind has expressed his deep concern over and condemned killing of six civilians including a...
Breaking news: Delhi HC convicts Sajjan Kumar in 1984 anti-Sikh riot case
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Reversing a lower court order, the Delhi High Court on Monday convicted Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in a 1984...
Bloody Saturday: Soldier, 3 militants, 7 civilians killed in Valley
Srinagar, Dec 15 (IANS) It was a blood-soaked Saturday in Kashmir in which 11 persons, including seven civilians, an Army soldier and three militants,...
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'...
Punjab Assembly passes resolution urging Centre for women’s reservation
Chandigarh, (IANS) The Punjab Assembly on Friday unanimously passed a resolution urging the Central government to enact the Women's Reservation Bill to provide 33...
Gehlot to pilot Rajasthan again
New Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS) Ending the intense jockeying for power in Rajasthan, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday picked party veteran Ashok Gehlot...
When protectors become perpetrators: Amnesty India and how it deals with dissent against it
By Mariya Salim for TwoCircles.net
What happens when a young Muslim Woman Human Rights Defender questions the structural issues that are plaguing the development sector...
Gehlot to be Rajasthan CM
Jaipur, Dec 13 (IANS) Veteran Congress leader Ashok Gehlot appears to have pipped Sachin Pilot in the race for Chief Minister in Rajasthan.
The name...
KCR takes oath as Telangana CM
Hyderabad, Dec 13 (IANS) K. Chandrashekhar Rao on Thursday took oath as the Chief Minister of Telangana for a second term in a row.
Governor...
Congress to form MP government as Shivraj Singh Chouhan resigns
Bhopal, Dec 12 (IANS) The path for the formation of a Congress government in Madhya Pradesh was cleared with Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan...
Congress bags 31 of the 59 reserved seats in Rajasthan; BJP falls from 53...
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
With the Congress all set to return to power in Rajasthan after five years, the reign of Vasundhara Raje will come...
India hands over houses built for Rohingya refugees in Myanmar
Nay Pyi Taw, Dec 11 (IANS) India on Tuesday handed over to Myanmar the first 50 housing units built for the displaced Rohingya Muslim...
Congress leads in three BJP-ruled states, TRS in Telangana
New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) Congress candidates on Tuesday took significant leads in BJP-ruled Rajasthan and was inching ahead of the BJP in both...
Soldier allegedly involved in Bulandshahr firing detained
Srinagar, Dec 8 (IANS) A soldier allegedly involved in the Bulandshahr firing in Uttar Pradesh in which a police Inspector and a civilian were...
72.65% voting recorded in Rajasthan elections
Jaipur, Dec 7 (IANS) Overall 72.65 per cent voting was recorded in Rajasthan when polling in the Assembly elections came to a close on...
About 70 percent voter turnout in Telangana
Hyderabad, Dec 7 (IANS) About 70 percent of 2.8 voters votes in the Telangana Assembly election on Friday as the polling ended on a...
On Babri Masjid demolition anniversary, lone surviving Muslim litigant receives death threat
By TCN News
December 6 marks the 26th anniversary of Babri Masjid demolition. But the wait for justice in the matter continues and the ones...
इंस्पेक्टर सुबोध के बलिदान से नाकामयाब हो गई बुलंदशहर जलाने की साज़िश ??
आस मोहम्मद कैफ बुलंदशहर, TwoCricles.net
नंदलाल जाटव (43) स्याना के चेयरमैन है. वो बताते हैं कि दुनिया मे सबसे अच्छे लोग यहां रहते हैं,यहां के मुसलमानों ने...
Family demands CBI probe into attacks on Meghalaya women’s activists
Shillong, Dec 4 (IANS) The family members of two prominent women's rights activists, who were injured in a mob attack in Meghalaya, on Tuesday...
Voting underway for 7th phase of J&K panchayat polls
Jammu/Srinagar, Dec 4 (IANS) Voting was underway on Tuesday for the seventh phase of the panchayat polls across Jammu and Kashmir amid tight security.
Voters...
Cow vigilantes torch truck transporting bovine animals
Jammu, Dec 3 (IANS) Police used batons and tear smoke to disperse protesters on Monday after cow vigilantes torched a truck carrying bovine animals...
Sohrabuddin case: Final hearing begins
Mumbai, Dec 3 (IANS) The final arguments in the politically-sensitive case of the twin encounters of Sohrabuddin Anwar Shaikh and Tulsiram Prajapati, and the...
Farmers march in Delhi for loan waiver, higher crop prices
New Delhi, (IANS) Thousands of farmers from across the country on Friday marched from Ramlila Maidan to Parliament Street in the heart of the...
A manifesto with a difference, one that covers all aspects of development: Dr Lubna...
TCN News
Dr Lubna Sarwath, Contesting Candidate for Karwan Legislative Assembly, Telangana, Hyderabad, Socialist Party(India) has released the manifesto for her constituency which is a...
Maharashtra proposes 16 per cent quotas for Marathas
Mumbai, Nov 29 (IANS) The Maharashtra government has proposed to give 16 per cent reservations to the politically influential Maratha community under a new...
Demonetisation is massive, draconian, monetary shock: Arvind Subramanian. Chief Economic Adviser, breaks his silence
New Delhi, Nov 29 (IANS) Arvind Subramanian kept a studied silence on demonetisation as long as he was Chief Economic Adviser but six months...
Gujarat government collecting data of Muslim students
Gandhinagar,(IANS) The BJP-ruled Gujarat government has been collecting data of Muslim students, appearing for Class 10 and 12 board examinations, for the last five...
Polling begins amid tight security in Mizoram
Aizawl, Nov 28 (IANS) Amid tight security, polling began at 7 am for the 40-member Mizoram assembly election on Wednesday, officials said.
According to senior...
Trans, gender Nonconfirming & Intersex Collectives strongly condemn Kinnar Akhara’s support for Ram temple...
TCN News
We the undersigned strongly condemn the statements made by the representative of the Ujjainbased Kinnar Akhara, Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, supporting the right-wing call for...
First transgender person contesting elections from Goshamahal goes missing; police complaint filed
By TCN News
Chandramukhi, the very first transgender to contest elections for the seat of MLA from Goshamahal constituency has been missing since today morning....
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind relieved at peaceful end to Ayodhya gathering
TCN News
New Delhi: The President of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari hasexpressed satisfaction at the peaceful conclusion of the gathering assembled by...
Muslim body seeks President’s intervention in Ayodhya situation
New Delhi, (IANS) The All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat (AIMMM)on Sunday wrote to President Ram Nath Kovind seeking his intervention in the Ayodhya situation where...
Election 2108-High time to save Democracy in Telangana State
TCN News
Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee in its press release have stated that in view of the coming Assembly elections in the month of December...
Maharashtra Muslims demand 5% reservations
TCN News
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has given the green signal for 16% reservation in education and employment to the Marathas causing unrest among the...
Election Commission, NGOs step up to increase voter turnout in Telangana
By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net
A network of NGOs and civil society organisations have taken up an initiative to campaign to increase the percentage of voters...
SC rejects PIL demanding return to ballot papers
New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a PIL demanding junking the electronic voting machines (EVMs) and a return to...
National Election Watch: Preliminary Analysis of Candidate List released by BJP & INC for...
TCN News:
The National Parties, BJP and INC announced the list of candidates for Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 2018 recently.INC (Indian National Congress) has declared...
भीम आर्मी ने जनसँख्या के हिसाब से आरक्षण की मांग उठाई
फ़हमीना हुसैन | पटना
पश्चिमी उत्तर प्रदेश से शुरू हुई भीम आर्मी ने बिहार प्रदेश की राजधानी पटना में अपनी पहली रैली करके जनसँख्या के...
J&K Assembly dissolved amid claims for power
Jammu/Srinagar, (IANS) In a dramatic development, the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly was dissolved on Wednesday night after three mainstream parties came together to stake...
Funds meant for Bhopal gas tragedy survivors misused by BJP minister
By Pervez Bari
Bhopal: The representatives of the four NGOs (non-Government organizations) working for the welfare of the survivors of the Union Carbide Bhopal gas tragedy,...
Voting ends for final phase of Chhattisgarh Assembly polls
Raipur, (IANS) Polling for the second and final phase of Chhattisgarh Assembly elections entailing 72 constituencies spread across 19 districts officially ended on Tuesday,...
4,288 nominations filed in Rajasthan
Jaipur, Nov 20 (IANS) A total of 4,288 nomination papers have been filed by 3,295 candidates for the Rajasthan Assembly elections, Chief Electoral Officer...
SIT opposes Zakia’s plea against clean chit to former Gujarat CM
New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) The Supreme Court-appointed SIT on Monday opposed the plea of Zakia Ahsan Jafri -- the widow of Congress leader...
Senior Telangana congress leader Abid Rasool Khan resigns
TCN News:
Abid Rasool Khan, senior congress leader from Telangana tendered his resignation not only from the post of the vice president Telangana Pradesh congress...
Civil society forums to campaign against hunger, starvation in Bengal
Kolkata, Nov 15 (IANS) A civil society network on Thursday claimed that starvation was a major problem in West Bengal and said several people's...
Kathua victim’s family drops lawyer Deepika Rajawat
Jammu, Nov 15 (IANS) The family of the eight-year-old Kathua rape and murder victim has decided to drop their lawyer Deepika Rajawat as she...
Sardar Patel, Maulana Azad, and national mythology – Part II
By Umair Azmi
In the first part of this series, Rajmohan Gandhi's defence of Patel as fair and not communally prejudiced was compared with Maulana Azad's...
Karnataka’s mining baron Reddy arrested in Ponzi case
Bengaluru, Nov 11 (IANS) Karnataka's mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy was arrested here for allegedly shielding the accused in a multi-crore Ponzi scheme, a...
Fasting saints could become a curse for politics of Hindutva
By Sandeep Pandey
Former Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur Professor Guru Das Agrawal, who became an ascetic in 2011 at the age of 79 years...
The lesser known Maulana who sought ‘United India’ to the bitter end
By Saeed Naqvi
This day, Sunday, November 11, happens to be Maulana Abul Kalam Azad's birth anniversary, forgotten this year as it has been in...
Tipu Sultan Jayanti celebrated in Karnataka admist security despite protests from BJP
TCN News with inputs from IANS
Bengaluru: Security has been stepped up across Karnataka in view of the birthday celebration (Jayanti) of the erstwhile Mysuru...
Federation of Telugu churches demand Christian minority issues to be included in election...
TCN News
Federation of Telugu Churches (FTC), a registered apex body of Bishops & Church Heads of major Christian Denominations in Telugu States, in their...
Demonetisation biggest scam after Independence: AAP
New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) As the country completed two years of demonetisation, Delhi's ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday called it the...
Karnataka’s ruling alliance bets on retaining seats in by-polls
Bengaluru, Nov 5 (IANS) The ruling Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) and Congress alliance is upbeat on retaining their hold in the Saturday's five by-elections ahead...
Activists unhappy with SC’s Aadhaar Act order on social benefits
New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) About 170 members of various campaigns working with vulnerable groups on Monday expressed disappointment with the Supreme Court's September...
No terror funding in Haryana Mosque construction: Delhi Minorities Commission
TCN News
A number of national, local daily newspapers, channels and media agencies on 15 October
2018 reported an alleged case of terror-funding related to the...
Netaji Bose, Nehru and anti Colonial Struggle
By Ram Puniyani
Indian anti colonial struggle has been the major phenomenon which built modern India into a secular democracy. Many of the political streams...
अदालत के फैसले के बाद हाशिमपुरा : वो ईद का ‘तोहफा’...
आस मोहम्मद कैफ, TwoCircles.net
मेरठ- हाशिमपूरा, मेरठ की गली के लड़के अब नहीं पढ़ते हैं. ना पढने की वजह उनकी तीन दशक पुरानी हैं.
हाशिमपुरा को...
Gujarat police detain tribal activists ahead of Sardar Patel’s statue inauguration
Ahmedabad, Oct 30 (IANS) Apprehending protests, the Gujarat police on Tuesday detained several tribal leaders and activists in the Narmada district ahead of the...
SC to hear Ayodhya title suit in January 2019
New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) In a move that could see the Ayodhya issue not decided before the Lok Sabha elections, the Supreme Court...
Rift in UP Congress out in open after Muslim leaders express dissent in Varanasi
By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net
Over the past few years, political parties have been trying every trick in the book to consolidate the vote bank against...
Adityanath Yogi as Commissar From Allahabad to Prayagraj: What’s in the name?
By Ram Puniyani
Adityanath Yogi, Chief Minister of UP seems to be on the name changing spree. In his latest move he has changed the name...
Oppression in Kashmir will push more scholars towards armed resistance, says slain militant’s mother
TCN Correspondent
Srinagar: Hajira Begum, 58, is shedding tears inside her modest house, but one would be wrong to assume they are tears of grief. “No...
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...
Riot affected victims of Malegaon await justice from 18 years
TCN News
Today 26th October 2018 completes 18 years of injustice for the riot affected victims of Malegaon.
18 years back on 26th October 2001 it...
भाजपा का संवेदनशील मुद्दों पर मौन धारण करना कहीं राजनीतिक जोड़-तोड़ तो नहीं?
संदीप पाण्ड्य
चाहे ऋषिकेश के अखिल भारतीय आयुर्विज्ञान संस्थान में थोड़ा अधिक मात्रा में पोटैसियम से पड़ा दिल का दौरा हो या 112 दिनों तक...
Popular Front condemns arrest of Waman Meshram
TCN News
Popular Front of India general secretary M. Mohammed Ali Jinnah in a statement issued today condemned the illegal arrest of Bharat Mukti Morcha...
Jamiat to launch nationwide movement for enlisting missing names in voter’s lists
TCN News
A daylong meeting of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind’s working committee under the presidentship of Maulana Usman Mansoorpuri, JUH National President was hel yesterday at its...
Assam bandh call over Citizenship Bill gets total response
Guwahati, Oct 23 (IANS) The call for a 12-hour Assam bandh on Tuesday given by over 60 organisations against the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016...
Kisan Khet Mazdoor Congress holds protest against anti-farmer policies of the Government
New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) Hundreds of workers affiliated to Kisan Khet Mazdoor Congress (KKMC) held a protest here against "anti-farmer" policies of the...
SC wants response from Centre, Assam on Hajela not favouring allowing five left-out documents...
New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought response from the Centre and Assam government on the report by the State...
आखिर क्यों है ख़तरे में सूचना का अधिकार…?
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“#MeToo” के शोर ओ गुल में भारत दुनियाभर के 119 देशों के भुखमरी दूर करने वाले सर्वे में 55वें पायदान से गिरकर 103वें...
Who shall lead the opposition front at the hustings?
By S.M. Anwar Hussain
There is an undercurrent realisation among the non NDA party workers and common masses, that the big promises made by BJP have...
10 vehicles torched in Jharkhand clashes
Ranchi, Oct 20 (IANS) Ten vehicles were torched and more than 11 people were injured in clashes that broke out between two communities during...
Sexual harassment case against Pachauri heads to trial
New Delhi, Oct 20 (IANS) A Delhi court on Saturday paved the way for trial as it framed sexual harassment charges against noted environmentalist...
Sacrifice at the altar of development
By Medha Patkar and Sandeep Pandey
The legendary Professor Guru Das Agrawal, who got promoted from a Lecturer directly to Professor at the prestigious Indian Institute...
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...
Former Uttarakhand, UP Chief Minister N.D. Tiwari dead
New Delhi, Oct 18 (IANS) Former Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand Chief Minister N.D. Tiwari died on Thursday -- on his 93rd birthday -- at...
Nowheera Shaik arrested for allegedly duping investors
Hyderabad, Oct 17 (IANS) Hyderabad police on Tuesday arrested leading entrepreneur-politician Nowheera Shaik on charges of allegedly cheating the investors.
Nowheera, Managing Director of Heera...
Indian-Americans Demand Minister M J Akbar’s Resignation
TCN News:
A week ago about 10 women journalists made public allegations of sexual harassment against current BJP central government minister MJ Akbar. These women...
How the UP govt is trying every trick to save Yogi Adityanath in hate...
By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net
A couple of weeks ago, the Uttar Pradesh police arrested Parvez Parwaz, a journalist and civil rights activist from Gorakhpur over...
Major General among 7 given life sentence by Army court for fake encounters
Guwahati, Oct 14 (IANS) A Summary General Court Martial (SGCM) of the Indian Army has convicted seven personnel, including a Major General, in a...
Muslim Students Federation to stage nationwide protest over Najeeb
TCN News:
Najeeb Ahmed M.Sc., student of JNU, the most prestigious educational institution in India, has been missing from last two years. Superior investigation agencies...
JMI students in Solidarity with Kashmiri Students at AMU
TCN News:
The students of Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University) have expressed unconditional solidarity with Kashmiri students studying at AMU at the same time showing...
Bengali-speaking minority students of Bodoland protest in Delhi to demand justice for slain leader...
By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: The All BTC Minority students Union (ABMSU) Assam, staged a protest at the Jantat Mantar, Delhi on October 12 to...
Muslims protest in 20 cities to demand Equal Citizenship
TCN News:
New Delhi, Oct 13, 2018: With 2019 elections just months away, members of the Muslim community across India observed a ‘Day of Resistance’...
4 injured in Assam blast, ULFA faction claims responsibility
Guwahati, Oct 13 (IANS) A explosion ripped through the bustling Pan Bazaar area here on Saturday injuring at least four people, police said.
The explosion...
Throat slit and left to die: Victim of state torture in Kashmir tells his...
Text and photos by Sheikh Saqib, TwoCircles.net
Srinagar: Feroz Hajam, 25, is lying on bed number 32 inside Srinagar’s famed Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital (SMHS)....
Mumbai NIA Court attaches televangelist Zakir Naik’s properties
Mumbai, Oct 12 (IANS) A Special NIA Court here has ordered attachment of five prime properties belonging to absconding tele-evangelist Zakir Naik, an official...
Muslim groups call for #EqualCitizens, October 13 to be observed as ‘Resistance Day’ across...
By Daisy Katta, TwoCircles.net
In the run-up to the 2019 elections, Muslim youths across India have given a joint call of protest gathering, under the...
Need for Reconciliation with Justice Babri Demolition and aftermath
By Ram Puniyani
In a recent judgment, the Supreme Court in a 2-1 majority verdict refused to refer the Dr. Faruqui verdict to Constitution bench....
Government mum on allegations against Akbar
New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) The government on Wednesday continued to maintain silence on the allegations of sexual misconduct against Union Minister M.J. Akbar...
In #MeToo wake, Producers Guild of India to set up committee
Mumbai, Oct 9 (IANS) The Producers Guild of India on Tuesday extended its support to the movement to call out and report sexual harassment...
Valley residents stay away from local elections over Article 35-A, militant warning; region records...
By Auqib Javeed, TwoCircles.net
Srinagar: - Ghulam Hassan Najjar, 56, of North Kashmir’s Bandipora district had always cast his vote along with his family in every...
J&K municipal polls: Subdued polling in valley; brisk in Jammu
Jammu/Srinagar, Oct 8 (IANS) Brisk voting was seen in almost all the wards in Jammu region with Rajouri registering the highest votes on Monday...
Tripura will go in for NRC if exercise successful in Assam: CM Deb
New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Saturday said that he will go in for National Register of Citizens...
Rahul Gandhi reaches Gwalior to support protesting landless poor
Gwalior, Oct 6 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi reached Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior on Saturday to support the protesting landless poor who are marching towards...
India deports 7 Rohingya immigrants to Myanmar
New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) India on Thursday deported seven Rohingya immigrants, who have been staying in Assam illegally since 2012, to Myanmar, constituting...
Landless poor march towards Delhi from Gwalior
Gwalior, Oct 4 (IANS) More than 25,000 landless poor on Thursday begun their march to Delhi from Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior town demanding land reforms.
Days...
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...
Farmers protest turns violent, stir to continue
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) As the nation celebrated Gandhi Jayanti, hundreds of farmers on Tuesday clashed with police at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border...
Naqvi faces wrath of ASHA, Anganwadi workers in Rajasthan
Alwar, Oct 1 (IANS) Dozens of Accredited Social Health Activists (Asha) and Anganwadi workers dissatisfied with central governments 60 per cent pay hike, heckled...
A Bill to tackle identity based discrimination in educational institutions
By TCN News:
A National Convention ‘Towards Zero Discrimination in School Education’ was jointly organized by Swadhikar-National Dalit Movement for Justice (NDMJ-NCDHR), Centre for Social Equity and Inclusion (CSEI) and...
Why Jharkhand’s Pathalgadi movement is worrying the state government
Shukoh Albadar, TwoCircles.net
Merely 40 km away from the Jharkhand’s state capital Ranchi, Khunti, a newly-carved out district is in the limelight across the national...
Vivek Tiwari’s murder a cold reminder of the trigger-happy nature of UP Police
By Mazhar Farooqui, TwoCircles.net
The Uttar Pradesh police have always been very communal and trigger happy. The paramilitary forces, particularly the PAC is even worse.
As...
Black flags shown to BJP leaders in Bihar
Patna, Sep 30 (IANS) Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi and two MPs of his party -- Bihar BJP President Nityanand Rai and...
Witnesses in the Pehlu Khan Lynching case attacked
By TCN News:
The hearing of the Pehlu Khan’s lynching case was to begin yesterday 29th September 2018 at the court of the additional Judge...
Civilian’s ‘cold-blooded’ murder by Security forces sparks massive protests in Srinagar
By Auqib Javeed, TwoCircles.net
Srinagar: “Have you satisfied your bloodthirst by killing my son? Are you happy now as you will get awards? How will...
Foul play? Rape charges filed against lawyer who filed hate speech case against Yogi...
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
In a shocking turn of events, Parvez Parwaz, a lawyer-cum-activist who had filed a complaint against Yogi Adityanath for his hate...
SC rejects plea for Constitution Bench on Ayodhya dispute
New Delhi, Sep 27 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a plea for referring the Ramjanambhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute to a larger Constitutional Bench...
12 incidents of violence against Christians in 15 days in just one district of...
By TCN News:
New Delhi: In this month, September 2018, this district of Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh has witnessed 12 incidents of violence against Christians. The...
SC upholds Aadhaar but with modifications
New Delhi, Sep 26 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar document but with modifications. It ruled it...
SDPI demands formation of joint parliamentary committee to enquire about Rafale deal
By TCN News:
Social Democratic Party of India has alleged that the Rafale fighter aircraft deal is the biggest ever defense scam, witnessed by India....