India Politics

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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Srinagar: Five candidates, including the second-highest rank, have been selected from the Kashmir Division of J&K for the Union Public...

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By M Reyaz, Over the years, several private universities – Amity University to IIPM and Lovely Professional University – that have mushroomed in country often have the owners, varying from educationist, philanthropist to hard core businessmen or even realtors, appointing themselves as Chancellors while they hire professionals, often semi-professionals, as Vice Chancellors.

Social media outraged over PM Narendra Modi following Amitesh Singh, who tweeted communal comments inciting to kill minority people By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Pune: An engineering youth, who is also the grandson of BJP MP Nandu Singh from Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh, has been arrested here by the cybercrime cell of city police for purportedly posting hate comments against minority community on social networking site Twitter.

People who had appealed to Congress to ‘Keep Modi away’ cozy up to Modi’s Muslim link By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net, Aligarh/ New Delhi: “The biggest problem which Muslims are facing today is that they are not Muslim (enough). They have distanced themselves from Islam.” One may easily be led to think that this is an observation by a religious cleric or a high level academic known for his philosophical studies. But this comes from Zafar Sareshwala, an industrialist from Gujarat.

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

TwoCircles.net forecasts Muslims winning two seats and a decent chance on one more seat. Read full analysis by Kashif-ul-Huda of TwoCircles.net Chhattisgarh goes to poll in two phases on 14th and 20th of this month. This is only the second election since Chhattisgarh become a state in 2000. According to the 2001 census, only 2% of the population of the state is Muslim. In the last Assembly, out of 91 state legislators only one was a Muslim- Mohammad Akbar represented Virendranagar.

By Sadiq Zafar for TwoCircles.net, Azamgarh has been the land of oriental learning since the colonial times and a center of religious excellence in...

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net पटना: बिहार के 737 मदरसों के 2459 कोटि के शिक्षकों का आंदोलन रंग लाया. उनकी सारी शर्तें नीतीश सरकार ने मान...

By IANS, New Delhi : Is the Rajya Sabha a backdoor entry into parliament as opposed to the Lok Sabha? It's not just the Bharatiya Janata Party that has used such a taunt against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who represents Assam in the upper house. M.K. Stalin, Tamil Nadu's minister for rural development and local administration and the son of chief minister M. Karunanidhi, is the latest to hurl this jibe at his archrival, PMK leader Anbumani Ramadoss.

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: The political party Muslims hate the most is BJP. The political party which often wins Muslim-dominated seats is also BJP. Interesting, isn’t it? Over a decade this was the phenomena in the country’s largest state Uttar Pradesh. In the recent Lok Sabha elections Bihar has left UP far behind.

By Afroz Alam Sahil, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: Bharatiya Janta Party may strongly pitch for beef ban across the country, but the ruling party...

Afroz Alam Sahil, TwoCircles.net भारत और विश्व में पारसियों एवं ज़ोरोएस्ट्रियनिज़्म के योगदान का यशोगान के तहत ‘दि एवरलास्टिंग फ्लेम अंतर्राष्ट्रीय कार्यक्रम’ शनिवार को आरंभ...

#Sarcasm#JNU#JNUSU#ShehlaRashid#Discussions#Muslim#Moslem#Kafir #Kanhaiyya#RohithVemula Dr.Asma Anjum Khan for TwoCircles.net, We Muslims, Moslems, Musalmans or Muhammedans are very interesting peoples. We have many nice habits. Like, we discuss...

By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net, If Muslims are most disenfranchised anywhere in India, it is in Madhya Pradesh. According to the 2001 census, Muslims are 6.4% of the population of the state but only 2 of the 230 assembly seats are represented by Muslims. The dismal Muslim representation is not expected to improve in this year's election.

By Twocircles.net Correspondent, Ahmedabad: The 64-year-old Aziz Tankarvi, who worked as editor of a Gujarati daily Gujarat Today for about 19 years since its launch in 1991 till a month ago, is now trying his luck in politics. Gujarat Today is the only newspaper run by a Muslim trust – Lokhit Prakashan Sarvajanik Trust. Tankarvi is a founder member of the trust and still continues to be its member even after he resigned from editorship a month ago to contest polls.

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New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) Communist patriarch Jyoti Basu held a clandestine meeting with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L.K. Advani when the National Front was in power although publicly the Communists loathed the BJP, Advani says in his autobiography. Advani has said in his "My Life, My Country" that the former West Bengal chief minister sought a meeting with him and Vajpayee because he felt that the multi-party National Front government led by V.P. Singh was not functioning well. But Basu laid a pre-condition: the meeting had to be under cover.

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Ranchi: Jharkhand's Bhokta and Puran are among the 18 communities across India that are likely to be designated as Scheduled Tribes (STs) by the...

By TCN News, New Delhi: Several religious leaders belonging to Barelvi sect of Muslims in India have condemned Wahabi ideology and demanded government to reduce...

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In the last of the three-part series on Malegaon blasts, we bring you the story of a Unani doctor who was one of the...

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By Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net Guwahati: Asma Khatun, 25, had almost given up hope of seeing her husband again, even though he is alive....

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Bhubaneswar: National Confederation Dalit Adivasi Organisations (NACDAOR) has decided to train Dalits and Adivasis in the state of Odisha to...

By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Srinagar: Four dozen dead. Thousands injured. Hundreds, mostly teenagers, blinded forever. Mobile internet shut; local cable channels off air,...

By IANS Coimbatore : E.M.S. Namboodiripad may have been a legendary leader for the communists. But his daughter, someone who has been a Marxist for more than three decades, is just a volunteer at the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)'s 19th party congress here. Although many major personalities were roaming in and around the SRN Auditorium, where 722 delegates were deliberating on the CPI-M's policies and future strategies, ordinary workers were more keen to be photographed with E.M.Radha, the third daughter of the veteran Marxist and former Kerala chief minister.

By Twocircles.net Staff Reporter New Delhi: For the 40-45 people who gathered near Rajghat, the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi, it was a day to protest...

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By Shafeeq Hudawi Kozhikode : The history of Islam in Kerala goes back more than a thousand years, with the first mosque in the...

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By Mohd Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net, Solapur: Majlis-e-Itehaudl Muslimeen (MIM) entry in Maharashtra assembly elections is generating lot of debate among its cynics and supporters alike. But the party riding on firebrand leadership of Owaisi brothers is certainly raising a storm by their massive public meetings and road shows in Muslim dominated seats.

By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Panipat (Haryana): The move by Haryana Waqf Board to take under its direct control the properties of Hazrat Hafiz Shamsuddin Panipati...

By Shaik Amer Arafath for TwoCircles.net, When our Constitution was framed, the framers made a special provision with intention to provide equal opportunity in the...

By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net, Kolkata: Local elections are being held today in 144 wards of the city for the Kolkata Municipal elections Corporation. A...

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: The newly elected 15th Lok Sabha will see women members in highest number since the 1st Lok Sabha in 1952. Among 59 women Lok Sabha members in the new house there will be three Muslims. This will be the third time in all 15 Lok Sabhas that the number of Muslim women MPs will be three.

By Aariz Mohammed, Center for Minorities Empowerment, Hyderabad. AP.

By TwoCircles Staff Reporter, Chandigarh: In the overwhelming saffron surge in the 90-member house, Haryana returned just three Muslim MLAs this election, result for which was announced on Sunday. Naseem Ahmed (Indian National Lok Dal) beat Independent Mamman Khan to win the Ferozpur Jhirka seat by 3245 votes; at Nuh, Zakir Hussain (INLD) defeated nearest rival Aftab Ahmed of INC by 32796 votes and Rahish Khan, an independent candidate, won the Punahana seat by a margin of just 3141 votes over his nearest rival Mohammed Ilyas of the INLD.

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Hyderabad: Majlis-e-Itehadul Muslimeen (MIM) second and third list of candidates have finally lifted the curtains from party’s expansion plans. Second list released on Friday and third list on Saturday by party president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi contains 3 parliamentary and 11 assembly segments. All the three Lok Sabha candidates are non-Muslims.

By Mohd Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net, Hyderabad: All India Majlis-e-Itehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) is contesting on 34 assembly and 5 parliament seats in the length and breadth of Telangana and residuary Andhra Pradesh, but the party’s nerve, its bastion, the hinterland of old Hyderabad seems to be drifting away from its fold.

By TCN News Hyderabad: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad believed India is a land of multiple languages, religions and cultures, said Prof. Anwar Moazzam while...

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Barpeta: Most unexpected things often happen in India and the elections are also no exception from it. Like many others one Sahjahan Kaji of Assam’s Barpeta is also branded as a Doubtful voter or D voter for his ‘doubtful identity’ as an Indian citizen and he has been barred from voting since 1997.