PM Modi has not spent even a single rupee from MPLADS funds on adopted...
By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net
Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India and Lok Sabha MP from Varanasi, has not spent a single rupee from his...
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...
Setting up of Balakrishnan Commission is a delaying tactic: Dalit Christian Groups
The case for treating Dalit Muslims and Dalit Christians as Scheduled Castes was further delayed after the Supreme Court set up a Commission...
Month on, Kerala journalist Siddiq Kappan still in UP jail, family yet to meet
By Najiya O, TwoCircles.net
It’s been a month since Kerala journalist Siddiq Kappan was arrested by the UP police, while on his way to Hathras...
Saurashtra’s caste factor holds the key in Gujarat
By Rajeev Khanna, IANS
Rajkot : The acrimonious campaign for the first phase of the Gujarat elections Tuesday is over and all eyes are now on Saurashtra, where the caste equations will possibly decide who will rule the state.
Saurashtra, the drought-prone arid region that has given birth to personalities such as Mahatma Gandhi and Mohammed Ali Jinnah, has 52 assembly seats. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 37 of them in 2002.
Manipur Violence: Tribal Groups Stage Protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, Demand Centre’s Intervention
Mohsina Malik | Twocircles.net
Hundreds of Manipuri tribals gathered at Delhi's Jantar Mantar on May 31, demanding an end to the violence in Manipur, which...
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...
ग्राउंड रिपोर्ट करोली : पहले धर्म पहचाना और फिर लगा दी दुकानों में आग
अहमद कासिम Twocircles.net के लिए
2 अप्रैल 2022 की शाम राजस्थान के शहर करोली में हिन्दू नववर्ष की शोभायात्रा निकाले जाने के दौरान साम्प्रदायिक...
Fetish of Hindu supremacists to see Muslim houses crumbling, and Muslims going to jail:...
Transcript of the interview given by student activist Afreen Fatima to Maktoob Media on June 16. Fatima’s house was demolished by Prayagraj (Allahabad) authorities...
BJP MP Kamlesh Paswan hired shooters to kill my brother: Dr Kafeel Khan
By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net
A week after Kashif Jameel was shot by unidentified shooters in Gorakhpur, his brother Dr Kafeel Khan organised a press conference...
Opinion: Kashmir Files weaponizes grief for propaganda
The gut-wrenching story of Kashmiri Pandits should not be weaponized for stoking anti-Muslim violence.
Alishan Jafri | TwoCircles.net
After a friend shared Chetan Bhagat's recent op-ed in the Times...
Closure of slaughter houses in UP brought 400-year-old bone carving trade to an end
Over-400-year-old bone carving trade in UP has been hit hard by the government’s crackdown on illegal slaughter houses.
A Tripathi | TwoCircles.net
UTTAR PRADESH — Abrar Ahmed,...
Making 10,000 Dalit Adivasi leaders for dignity and development in Odisha
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...
From the complaining eyes of Azamgarh
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...
पल्लबी घोष : मासूम बेटियों की रिहाई के लिए जूझने वाली बहादुर एक बेटी
जाकिर अली त्यागी Two circles.net के लिए
पल्लबी घोष नाम वाली एक लड़की अब तक विंभिन्न जगहो पर कैद 5 हजार से ज्यादा मासूम लड़कियों को आज़ाद...
यूपी में मजलिस : खेल बिगाड़ रही है या अपना खेल बना रही है...
आसमोहम्मद कैफ़। Twocircles.net
इरफ़ान मंसूरी मुजफ्फरनगर में रहते हैं। 52 साल के है और वो पेशे से दर्जी है। राजनीति में रुचि रखते हैं। पहले...
“3 साल पहले मैंने अपना शौहर खो दिया था अब सहारा खो दिया ”...
शामली में मॉब लिचिंग, कोहनी लग गई तो पीट-पीट कर मार डाला
बनत के प्रेमनगर से ग्राऊंड रिपोर्ट। आसमोहम्मद कैफ
24 साल के समीर...
Death of a Doctor: A year later, family still looking for justice
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...
Assam’s trial by the Indian media: Mainstream media’s NRC discourse as an exercise in...
By Sanjana Pegu & Sabina Yasmin Rahman for TwoCircles.net
On July 30, 2018, people of Assam woke up to find themselves at the centre of...
Unveiling the Truth: Women of Kashmir Break Silence on social media to confront molestation
By Fahim Mattoo, TwoCircles.net
The safety and protection of women in Jammu and Kashmir hang in the balance following the dissolution of the State Commission...
Dear Rahul Gandhi, it is time you learnt how to be truly inclusive
By Asma Anjum Khan for TwoCircles.net
I felt like writing to you after your being hailed as the new messiah of Indian secularism.
Today you charm...
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...
In riot-hit Khargone, WhatsApp forwards advocate economic boycott of Muslims
More than two weeks after the communal clashes, calls for boycotting Muslims are repeatedly being made both offline and online causing fear among the...
Muslim Personal Law Board to approach Supreme Court on Assam child marriage issue
A case related to the minimum age of Muslim girls getting married is pending before the Supreme Court.
Huneza Khan | TwoCircles.net
NEW DELHI – The...
‘Govt doesn’t care about religious minorities in Kashmir:’ Kashmiri Pandit leader after fresh killing
In the latest attack, a Kashmiri Pandit man was shot dead by suspected militants in the Pulwama district on Sunday.
Afnan Habib | TwoCircles.net
SRINAGAR...
‘वंडर मदर ‘ बुशरा बानो का एक और कमाल, शादी के 13 साल बाद...
आसमोहम्मद कैफ़। Twocircles.net
भारत की सबसे प्रेरणादायक बेटियों में से एक बुशरा अरशद बानो ने एक और कमाल कर दिया है। सोमवार को सिविल सर्विस...
दिल्ली हिंसाः अपने घर नहीं लौटना चाहते शिव विहार के मुसलमान, पुलिस और पड़ोसियों...
दिल्ली के उत्तर-पूर्वी ज़िले के ज़ाफ़राबाद, मौजपुर ब्रह्मपुरी, मुस्तफ़ाबाद, कर्दमपुरी, खजूरी ख़ास और शिव विहार इलाक़ों में हुई हिंसा में 45 लोगों की मौत...
UP: Controversial Arrests of Muslim Minors in Varanasi Spark Legal Concerns
Pavan Kumar Maurya, TwoCircles.net
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh): Eleven Muslim minors, aged between 11 and 15 years, at Tadiya village under Varanasi's Lohata police station threw...
In Memory of Babri
By Waseem R.S
“Krishna, what is the case with your grave?”
I asked suddenly and he replied, excited. “We won in the High Court, Bhavanechi”
“What do...
EMS’ daughter a volunteer in CPI-M party congress
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.
MIM looks for expansion but its own bastion is crumbling
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.
Khalid, Imam and the conventional Muslim prisoner
To show complete solidarity, they need a conventional Muslim who's left-leaning, has been painted as an atheist and has not made Islamic references in...
Madrassa students to receive modern education under Jamiat Open School
The Jamiat Open School will work in the framework of NIOS all across the country and is supported by the Madarsa community. The program is...
Bharat Jodo Yatra: Rahul Gandhi hoists national flag at Srinagar’s Lal Chowk
The Kanyakumari to Kashmir yatra started from the southern tip of the country on September 7 and will culminate today in Srinagar after...
Why are Jharkhand’s tribals demanding a separate religious code?
The fight for the Sarna Adivasi religious code is quite old. On November 11, 2020, Jharkhand Assembly passed a resolution asking for a separate...
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...
Muslims hate BJP but BJP often wins Muslim-dominated seats
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.
हरियाणा सरकार ने बदला बादशाह खान अस्पताल का नाम ,अब अटल बिहारी के नाम...
आकिल हुसैन। Twocircles.net
हरियाणा सरकार ने फरीदाबाद में सरकारी अस्पताल बादशाह खान के नाम से पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री अटल बिहारी वाजपेई के नाम पर किये जाने...
MBT offers fig leaf to Owaisi brothers of MIM
By TCN News,
Hyderabad: The Majlis Bachao Tahreek (MBT) has announced that it would openly support and even work for its arch rival Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslameen if MIM President Asaduddin Owaisi or his younger brother Akbaruddin Owaisi accepts the challenge of State BJP President G Kishan Reddy for a contest from Amberpet Assembly constituency.
Welfare Party of India: Can it make a mark in Karnataka?
By Mohd Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net
Out on bail, serving humanity: The story of Dr Salman Farsi
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...
Alleging sexual exploitation by Dr. Ayyub, Peace party candidate returns ticket
By Faisal Fareed, TwoCircles.net
Objectionable questions found in written test for Mumbai Railway Police
By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net
Mumbai: Questions about Somnath temple destruction, Shah Bano, and Sawarkar features among the questions asked in a written test conducted in...
Parallel Literature Festival will attempt to counter the elitist nature of the Jaipur Lit...
By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net
The world-famous Jaipur Literature Festival, or JLF, has entered in its eleventh chapter this year. JLF has been inviting writers - both...
Rajya Sabha – the backdoor entry?
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.
Zahida Khatun Sherwani: The walled poetess of Urdu literature
Zahida Khatun Sherwani (1894-1922) is one of the early female poets of Urdu literature who took the giant leap of challenging the normative structure....
Silent workers: how poverty, minimal govt. initiative scars future of India’s child labourers
According to the 2011 census, the number of child labourers in India is 10.1 million. This is the story of one such girl Sunita...
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...
भीम आर्मी के खिलाफ तगड़ा क्रेकडाऊन,राष्ट्रीय महासचिव और प्रवक्ता पर गैंगस्टर ऐक्ट
By आस मोहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net
सहारनपुर- भीम आर्मी के नम्बर 'दो' कमल वालिया और 'नम्बर तीन' मंजीत नौटियाल के विरुद्ध गैंगस्टर ऐक्ट की कार्रवाई के...
Why workers of a Manesar auto parts company covered their mouth with black bands...
By Media Collective for TwoCircles.net
At 5.30 am on April 6, 2017, Shatrughan Prasad, a contract worker at SPM Autocomp Systems Pvt. Ltd. got accidentally...
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...
निम्मी की कहानी : मुजफ्फरनगर दंगे में विधवा हुई एक कमज़ोर औरत , जिसे...
निम्मी अब मुजफ्फरनगर के किदवईनगर में रहती है। हो सकता है उसका नाम नईमा हो मगर स्कूल वो कभी गई नही और नईमा उसे...
“My writing is informed by personal, collective resistance:” Meena Kandasamy on genocidal violence against...
In an interview with TwoCircles.net, writer, poet and activist Meena Kandasamy discusses Eelam struggle, Tigresses, Tamil nationalism, Dalit consciousness, poetry as resistance, her unconcealed...
Modi not ‘chowkidar’ but ‘bhagidar’, launches ‘jumla’ strikes: Rahul
By IANS:
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the debate...
Tamil Nadu Thowheed Jamath takes out a massive protest in Chennai against Ayodhya verdict
By TCN News
Tamil Nadu Thowheed Jamath organised a massive demonstration against the Supreme Court verdict regarding the Babri Masjid verdict, condemning the decision, saying...
Chhattisgarh elections: an analysis of Muslim representations
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.
Karnataka: Controversy after Hindu groups object to conversion of house into mosque in Belagavi
The Muslim leaders maintain that the property in question belongs to the Waqf board.
Sana Ejaz | TwoCircles.net
NEW DELHI — After a private house was...
SP gets many leaders into its fold including Anuradha Choudhary of RLD
By Faisal Fareed, TwoCircles.net,
Muslim Contested Candidates for General Elections 2009
By Aariz Mohammed,
Center for Minorities Empowerment, Hyderabad. AP.
The Doctor and a Rebel: an enduring opposition against Akbaruddin Owaisi
By Mohd Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net,
Hyderabad: Undeterred by successive defeats a middle aged doctor comes down to rustic political fight in every five years to keep opposition ignited against Akbaruddin Owaisi in his own political turf of Chandrayangutta assembly segment.
In Shinde’s home turf, MIM finds its ‘Pehelwan’
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.
They only come for the poor: Tughlakabad residents who received demolition notices
The Archeological Survey of India (ASI) posted notices in over 1000 homes in Tughlakabad area of New Delhi earlier this month, causing consternation...
The new ‘no news’ in Kerala: sexual abuse of minor orphan girl by teacher
By Najiya O, TwoCircles.net
Kerala: In a country where attacks on women and girls are nothing new, the alleged rape of a nine-year-old orphan girl...
मुस्लिम रिक्शेवाले की पिटाई के बाद कानपुर में गर्म हुआ माहौल
आकिल हुसैन।Twocircles.net
कानपुर के बर्रा में हुई एक मुस्लिम रिक्शेवाले के साथ मारपीट का मामला अब गर्माता जा रहा है। इस मामले में पुलिस ने...
‘It’s a constitutional issue, not a Christian one:’ Women groups protest violence against Adivasi...
Over the last few months, hundreds of Adivasi Christians have fled their homes across several villages of Chhattisgarh after alleged attacks by Hindutva...
2010 Bareilly Riots: Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan Declared Absconding by UP Court, May Lose...
Tarique Anwar/ TwoCircles.net
The cleric-turned-politician has been described as the “mastermind” of the violence in a controversial order passed on March 5 by Additional District...
Reservations and Muslims in Telugu States
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...
BJP MP’s grandson, Yuva Morcha member arrested in Pune for communal comments over social...
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.
‘Cow Holy, Dalit Unholy?’: Ambedkar group raises slogan during protest rallies in USA
BY TCN News,
Detroit: Giving a global voice to the ongoing protests against the caste atrocities committed in India against Dalits, the Ambedkar Association...
बिहारगढ़ में सूफी संत पीर खुशहाल की चिल्लेगाह पर चला बुलडोजर
मोहम्मद वसीम twocircles.net के लिए
मोरना में पीर ख्वाजा खुशहाल मियां की चिल्लागाह पर पिछले तीन दिनों से ध्वस्तीकरण की कार्रवाई चल रही है। स्थानीय प्रशासन का...
टीपू सुल्तान को लेकर कर्नाटक में सियासी हलचल
आकिल हुसैन। Two circles.net
टीपू सुल्तान की मौत के लगभग 220 साल बीत चुके हैं। लेकिन टीपू सुल्तान आज भी कर्नाटक की राजनीति में मुद्दा...
मुसलमानों ने पत्थर खाकर बचाई मंदिर की लाज, हिंदुओं ने मस्जिद नहीं जलाने दी
इसरार अहमद, Twocircles.net
नई दिल्ली। उत्तर पूर्वी दिल्ली के कई इलाकों में 38 लोगों की मौत और 200 से ज़्यादा घायल होने के बाद हिंसा...
Muslim League presents Man of Harmony award to Karunanidhi
By Shafee Ahmed Ko, TwoCircles.net,
‘हमारी धरोहर’ से जगी अल्पसंख्यकों में उम्मीद!
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...
Ambedkar Age Digital Bookmobile: Displaying centuries-old songs, and artworks on anti-caste struggle of Maharashtra
The project aims to collect Maharashtra’s long history of social reform, accessing 500-year-old traditions of song-writing, performances and poetry against caste-based exploitation and untouchability.
Riya...
The Cult of Godmen: India’s Spiritual Crisis in a Modern Age
Shriya Sharma/Devanshi Batra, TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: Abhinav Arora, a spiritual content creator from Delhi, became the center of a controversy recently. Claiming that his spiritual...
6,000 miles away, son sees father in Kashmir on TV
By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net
Ever since the unilateral decision of the Government of India to revoke the special status of Kashmir and to severe all...
‘Consider us human’: Stigmatised, vulnerable sex workers at Kolkata’s Khidderpore, Bowbazar urge world
Atika Sayeed, TwoCircles.net
“Vaishya aur ba-ismat aurat ka muqaabla hargiz-hargiz nahi karna chahiye. In dono ka muqabla ho hi nahi sakta. Vaishya khud kamaati hai...
MP: Three arrested for vandalising, torching church in Narmadapuram
Some religious texts and furniture were destroyed in the fire and the word 'Ram' was written on the wall inside the prayer hall.
Huneza...
BJP demolished 300 temples in Gujarat says congress candidate
Congress to expose Advani’s Hindutva at Gandhi Nagar
By Andalib Akhter, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: Congress party is all set to expose BJP’s Hindutva at its hinterland. The party has decided to highlight the issue of demolition of over 290 temples in Gujarat, particularly in Gandhinagar. Modi government had demolished over 290 big and small temples in the name of development causing much resentment in the local people. BJP’s prime ministerial candidate L K Advani is seeking re-election from Gandhinagar.
विद्रोही : कवि के लिबास में क्रांतिकारी, जिससे लोग कन्नी काटते थे
By अविनाश चंचल
पिछले हफ्ते रामाशंकर यादव विद्रोही नहीं रहे. पिछले मंगलवार यूजीसी के खिलाफ छात्रों के एक विरोध प्रदर्शन में जाते हुए उनका निधन...
How will SC verdict impact women who follow Sharia: Zafaryab Jilani
New Delhi, (IANS): Zafaryab Jilani, a member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), on Tuesday welcomed the Supreme Court (SC) decision striking...
“Glad that BJP has not come to power,” West Bengal Muslims heave sigh of...
With Trinamool Congress (TMC) winning a landslide victory over the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the strongly contested West Bengal Assembly elections, Muslims from...
In photos: Kozhikode sewage treatment plant faces stiff opposition from locals
Since January this year, a Muslim fisherman community in Kozhikode, Kerala is up in arms against the administration for its plan to construct a...
छत्तीसगढ़ में प्रेम विवाह, आरएसएस ने लव जिहाद कह कर किया अलग
By अनुज स्रिवास्तवा, TwoCircles.net
छत्तीसगढ़: धमतरी ज़िले के रहने वाले मो. इब्राहिम उर्फ़ आर्यन आर्य और अंजली जैन ने 4 साल तक प्रेम सम्बन्ध में रहने...
Dharam Sansad hate-speech: Hear it from the journalist who led to Yati Narsinghanand’s arrest
Senior journalist Qurban Ali talks about his plea in Supreme Court against hate speech, his expectations and rising hate speech cases in India.
Snobar...
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: What Led BJP to Abandon ‘Development’
Anwar ST. TwoCircles.net
Eighty-eight constituencies across 13 states went to polls on April 26 in the second phase of ongoing Lok Sabha elections. With the...
Anti-Terror conference of Barelvi Muslims turned out to be anti-Wahabi conference
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...
मध्यप्रदेश: पुलिस कस्टडी में आदिवासी की मौत, परिवार लगा रहा हत्या का आरोप!
सतीश भारतीय, TwoCircles.net
खंडवा। बीते दिनों 23 अगस्त को खंडवा के पंधाना थाने से एक आत्महत्या का मामला सामने आया है।
बताया जा रहा है कि...
‘Fascism has arrived in India’: For many, BJP’s performance is a triumph of bigotry
Muslims intelligentsia blamed communal polarization and delay on the part of Akhilesh Yadav to take the BJP head on.
Zeyad Masroor Khan| TwoCircles.net
UTTAR PRADESH — As...
‘Lower Court allowing appeal for survey is against High Court order:’ says Lucknow Mosque’s...
Additional District Judge-I (ADJ-I) Praful Kamal allowed the Hindu litigants to appeal in a lower court for a survey of the Teele Wali...
सीमांचल के 27 साल के साकिब ने नौकरी छोड़ गांव के बच्चों के लिए...
बिहार के सीमांचल में बच्चों की जिंदगी में खुशियां भरने के लिए 27 साल के नौजवान साकिब गांवों में लाइब्रेरी खोलने की मुहिम चला...
पप्पू यादव का मदरसा शिक्षकों के साथ धोखा
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...
विद्या प्रकाशन ने छापी पैग़म्बर मोहम्मद की तस्वीर, सहारनपुर में जबरदस्त रोष
स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर। Twocircles.Net
सहारनपुर में विद्या प्रकाशन की कक्षा चार की सामाजिक विज्ञान की पुस्तक में इस्लाम धर्म के पैग़म्बर मोहम्मद साहब की तस्वीर...
A week after reinstating Ravidas Jayanti as school holiday, UP government cancels it
By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net
The UP government has once again cancelled the state holiday on Ravidas Jayanti from its list of holidays of state-run schools...
How ‘citizenship documents’ is becoming a topic of family discussion among Kerala Muslims
By Najiya O, TwoCircles.net
The backlash against the passing of the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (now an Act) has been fierce across the nation. Assam...
There is resistance and hope in Kashmir: Sanna Irshad Mattoo
Najiya O, Twocircles.net
It has been more than five months since the revoking of the Article 370 and the bifurcation of the state of Jammu...
Indian Americans hold protests in multiple US cities against hijab ban in Karnataka
Protesters held placards saying “my body, my choice,” “revoke hijab ban,” “stop telling women what to do”, “hijab is my right,” and “hijab...
What does EWS quota mean for SC, ST, OBCs?
The Supreme Court's reservation for economically weaker sections, especially for the forward castes, has sprung up a debate that it will only create...
Madhya Pradesh elections: An analysis of Muslim representations
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.
Aligarh Film: Muslim outfit headed by Modi supporter protests against the title of movie...
By MahtabNama
While acclaimed director of Shahid and City Lights, Hansal Mehta’s latest film Aligarh is scheduled to release today (26 Feb ‘16 ) for...
AsmaNama: Is Shehla Rashid Muslim? Muslim Discussions
#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...
BJP moves privilege motion against Rahul Gandhi
By IANS:
New Delhi, July 20:Targeting Congress President Rahul Gandhi for levelling "baseless allegations" against the government on the Rafale deal in his speech during...
Muslims in/of India: surrogate oppressors or colonizers?
A Muslim woman deconstructs how dominant majoritarian narratives reconstruct Indian Muslim women as the perpetual Other.
Misria Shaik Ali | TwoCircles.net
This is an article, an...
आखिर क्यों लोगों के दिलों में बसते थे मौलाना वली रहमानी!
न्यूज़ डेस्क । Twocircles.net
ऑल इंडिया मुस्लिम पर्सनल लॉ बोर्ड के महासचिव हजरत मौलाना वली रहमानी साहब का शनिवार को देहांत हो गया। उन्होंने...
RJD MP Motiur Rahman dies after heart attack
By IANS
Patna : Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Rajya Sabha member Motiur Rahman died at his residence in Bihar's Motihari district Tuesday after suffering a massive heart attack. He was 58.
Rahman was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2005. He was also national general secretary and spokesman of the RJD.
Rahman was considered close to RJD chief and Railway Minister Lalu Prasad.Lalu Prasad and leader of the opposition in the state assembly Rabri Devi have condoled Rahman's death.
Jyoti Basu met Vajpayee and me secretly, Advani says
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.
Welfare Party of India delegates visit Kashmir; talk about the ground realities there
TCN News
The delegates from National President of Welfare Party of India comprising Dr. SQR Ilyas and National general secretaries Ms Sheema Mohsin and Subramani...
‘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...
Varanasi: UP minister hints at ending coalition with BJP; reiterates demand for Purvanchal state
By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net
Omprakash Rajbhar, a cabinet minister in the Yogi-Adityanath led BJP government in Uttar Pradesh, hinted towards ending the coalition with BJP...
Pellet Guns: Non-lethal weapon bringing silent deaths to unarmed protestors in Kashmir
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net,
Srinagar: Ever since the security forces changed ways to tackle protests in the Valley in 2010 – the time when...
कोरोना का केंद्र नहीं है हज़रत निजामुद्दीन, मुसलमानों को ज़लील करना बंद कीजिए
डाॅ. तारिक़ अज़ीम
तुम्ही ने दर्द दिया तुम्ही दवा देना,
मेरे कुछ फाज़िल दोस्त अब एक आईटी सेल मेंं तबदील हो चुके है !
उनको एक एजेन्डा...
Booked for ‘resisting ABVP’, Muslim student from Karnataka vows to fight for right to...
After a video of her confronting male students went viral, 18-year-old Hiba Sheik has emerged as a face of the fight against the Hijab...
Tribal groups aghast with no mention of relief for Adivasis in PM’s Atma-Nirbhar Bharat
TCN News
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced an economic package of Rs. 20 lakh crores for a “self-reliant” India on Tuesday with no mention of...
‘There is rift after 2020 riots,’ say Brahmpuri residents after posters surface urging Hindus...
Most residents of Brahmpuri expressed displeasure against the appearance of such posters while some supported it.
Shruti Sharma | TwoCircles.net
NEW DELHI — Early last...
Why does a group of women walk at midnight in Delhi?
Aatika S. |TwoCircles.net
It's been seven years that the group- Women Walk at Midnight has been walking in various cities. For Mallika Taneja, the person...
A week after protests, AMU keeps peaceful dissent alive
Text and photos by Meher Ali, TwoCircles.net
Aligarh: On the night of 15 December, Ayesha (20) and Tuba (21), two students of AMU sat in...
Beating of 3 Paraya boys in Kozhikode unpack existing caste-violence in Kerala
By Ashfaque EJ, TwoCircles.net
Kozhikode: “It’s been a week after we got beaten and casteist slurs were used against us. The police have failed to...
2008, 2010, 2016: The years may have changed, but in Kashmir the state brutality...
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,...
How did Indian Universities get alienated from the societies they exist in?
By Mohammad Sajjad for TwoCircles.net
At any given moment, stock-taking of institutions is a necessary exercise. In recent times, universities have started facing more difficult...
Gujarat BJP minority cell leader and his son shot dead in Rajkot
By : TwoCircles.net, Staff Correspondent,
Rajkot (Gujarat) : In a brazen midnight attack, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Minority...
18 castes to be included in ST category
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...
How Three Muslim Women of Northeast Delhi Were Caught In A Legal And Financial...
By Arbab Ali, TwoCircles.net
On her wedding day, Tabassum was issued an arrest warrant for missing a court hearing. The previous day, November 10, 2022,...
DU professor on why legislation is needed to prevent caste discrimination in higher educational...
Professor N. Sukumar's new book studies the exclusion and discrimination against Scheduled Caste (SC) students in the Indian higher education system and the...
Jahangirabad Institute of Technology, Barabanki announces admission for B.Tech courses
By TCN News
Lucknow: Admission for the new session has started at the AICTE-approved Jahangirabad Institute of Technology (JIT), Barabanki (Uttar Pradesh) in different degree...
“वो दर्द से कराह रहे थे और हम उनका इलाज़ करते हुए खुद से...
आसमोहम्मद कैफ़।अलीगढ़ , TwoCircles.net
अलीगढ़-
नागरिकता संशोधन कानून के विरोध के दौरान जामिया में हुए पुलिस कार्रवाई के बाद अलीगढ़ के छात्रों के साथ भी अलीगढ़...
Divisive politics in India: Operation ‘Provoke Muslims & Christians’
Dr Syed Zafar Mahmood
During the last seventy one years since India became independent its sovereignty has been considerably strengthened, internal peace has been well...
Post Article 370: Immediate Police Reforms needed in Jammu & Kashmir
By Dr Raja Muzaffar Bhat
It has been more than 7 years since Omar Abdullah led government in Jammu & Kashmir, before tabling J&K Police...
“Dalit community needs business leadership,” Padma Shri Ravi Kumar Narra in exclusive chat with...
Padma Shri Ravi Kumar Narra is an entrepreneur and social activist. He is the National President of the Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and...
‘The existing assertion of Hinduism is not free from caste’: Understanding UP elections with...
Uttar Pradesh has the highest number of assembly’s seats (403) for any state in the country. Parts of UP voted on Monday (February 14)...
SDPI Will Play a Key Role in People’s Politics
By MK Faizy, Newly Elected President, SDPI
Bangalore: Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) held its 2-Day event National Representative Council at Paalana Bhavan Bangalore on 7-8...
Varun Bahar singer of ‘bhejo kabristan’ arrested
TCN News
Varun Bahar, supposedly a 'devotional singer' was arrested today at 3 am from his village Bandarah, Gonda District of Uttar Pradesh for uploading...
TMMK launches its own political front
By TwoCircles.net news desk,
New Delhi: The Manithaneya Makkal Katchi (Humanitarian Peoples' Party) has been floated by Tamilnadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam (TMMK) last week in a grand conference attended by more than two lakh people in Tambaram, Chennai.
मायावती से मुसलमानों का मोहभंग, उपचुनाव में नही मिला उनका वोट!
By आस मोहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net
लखनऊ- लोकसभा चुनावों में 10 लोकसभा सीट जीतकर वापसी करने वाली उत्तर प्रदेश में मायावती के नेतृत्व वाली बहुजन समाज...
Shocking display of police brutality at AMU on Dec 15-16, says preliminary fact-finding report
Here is the full text of the Preliminary Fact-Finding report conducted by Legal experts. The Text has been produced as is.
Introduction
A three-member fact-finding...
Dalit auto rickshaw driver Chitralekha attacked allegedly by CPI (M) workers
By Shafeeq Hudawi
Kozhikode: While the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and its associate organisations have been vociferously protesting against the crackdown in JNU and...
Funeral of a native son: A creative resistance against state terror
By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net
Kozhikode: There is a chance that you may have heard ‘Native Bapa’. But in case you haven’t, we recommend that...
The cruel irony of Human Rights Day
By Abdullah Khan
10 December is internationally celebrated as the International Human Rights Day. In 1950, the United Nations declared 10 December as the International...
Owning a House Under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Is Still a Distant Dream for...
Abdul Basit | Twocircles.net
Launched in 2015, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), promised to provide affordable housing to the poor. However, owning a house under the...
Why are Yadavas vilified?
By IndScribe
Why Yadavas are made villains so easily and why it is so common to talk about Yadav-raj or use words like Yadav-gardi?
Aren't there...
कर्नाटक चुनाव में एससी और एसटी 51 सीटों पर भाजपा की करारी हार, सिर्फ...
कांग्रेस ने इस बार 14 मुस्लिम प्रत्याशी को मैदान में उतारा, 8 जीते
जेडीएस ने सबसे ज़्यादा मुसलमान प्रत्याशी उतारे, पर एक प्रत्याशी...
“This is clear attack on our identity,” anti-CAA activist on father’s arrest in Lucknow,...
By Amit Pandey, TwoCircles.net
Lucknow: It has been over twenty days since fifty-two-year old Mohammed Naem Siddique from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh was arrested on charges...
Muslim lawyer in UP vows to fight cases of detained foreign Tablighi Jammat members...
By Aas Mohammad Kaif, TwoCircles.net
Uttar Pradesh: A fifty-six-year-old Muslim lawyer from Saharanpur Uttar Pradesh has vowed to fight for the release of 57 foreign...
Do you know these women who won their right to Hijab?
These four Muslim women across the globe are resisting discrimination and reasserting their right to wear their Hijab.
Naila Khan | TwoCircles.net
NEW DELHI — The Karnataka...
एक और ख़्वाब का अंत , ‘पढ़ो प्रदेश ‘ योजना बंद
आकिल हुसैन। twocircles.net
मौलाना आजाद फेलोशिप के बाद अब केंद्र सरकार के अल्पसंख्यक मंत्रालय ने अल्पसंख्यक छात्रों की विदेशों में पढ़ने के लिए दी जाने...
Survivors of 2002 Gujarat riots still live a wretched life sans govt aid
Mahesh Trivedi
Star-crossed survivors of India’s bloody Hindu-Muslim riots in 2002 have still been leading a dog’s life, thanks to the lackadaisical attitude of the...
Dalit-Muslim Unity Shines at Historic Chavdar Talab with Iftar Gathering on Samta Diwas
Imran Inamdar, TwoCircles.net
Mahad, Raigad (Maharashtra): Historic Chavdar Talab in Mahad became the venue for an expression of communal harmony and social unity on March 20...












































































































