Bihar Elections: “Our plight will not change without political representation,” Dom community members decry...

By Sami Ahmad, TwoCircles.net Bihar: Nearly 100 years ago, well-known Bhopuri poet Hira Dom wrote a now famous poem in ‘Achhut Ki Shikayat (Protest of...

JKSSB exams postponed, aspirants approach SC over hiring of blacklisted agency to conduct tests

The postponement has come amid growing protests by aspirants over the administration’s decision to hire tainted Aptech Limited to conduct the exams.  Ubair ul...

“Police beat him on his head with a waist belt,” family of Muslim cab...

By Aparajita Ghosh, TwoCircles.net Mumbai: Family of a 26-year-old cab driver Sohail Sheikh in Chembur area of Mumbai, Maharashtra has accused police of causing his...

2017 elections promise little cheer for UP’s long-dead Communist movement

By Faisal Fareed, Twocircles.net The story of UP elections over the years is often cited as a textbook study of how the Congress has faded...

Economic and ecological disaster predicted as 16 million poplar trees are ordered to be...

Auqib Javeed,TwoCircles.net Srinagar: The Union Territory Administration in Kashmir has started a massive axing and looping programme of Russian female poplar trees locally know as...

“We are neglected as our vote share is less,” Tamil Nadu’s tribal minorities rue...

Tamil Nadu has less than 1 per cent tribal population. The villagers of Kallar question if they have been neglected because their community has...

Former CM of Manipur, Md. Alimuddin remembered

By Dr. Syed Ahmed, for TwoCircles.net,

Residents of Hindustan Park mourn Jyoti Basu’s demise

By IANS, Kolkata : Hindustan Park is in mourning! Oldtimers in the posh South Kolkata locality remember Jyoti Basu as a good longtime neighbour and a perfect gentleman. For over 66 years since 1920, communist patriarch Jyoti Basu's address was 55A, Hindustan Park -- a four-storeyed simple house bought by his father Nishikanta, a doctor. "He was overall a good-natured human being," recalled Partha Ghosh of Keyatala, who was the former West Bengal chief minister's neighbour in Hindustan Park.

Hundreds of demonstrators across U.S. protest Facebook’s role in anti-Muslim hate speech, violence by...

The protests were organized by India Genocide Watch and featured speakers demanding that Facebook’s founder-CEO Mark Zuckerberg end his company’s complicity in extreme Hindu right-wing...

Struggling for Survival: The Untold Story of Varanasi’s Women Weavers Fighting for Survival

Pavan Kumar Maurya, TwoCircles.net Varanasi: Bano Nisha once earned a modest but steady income stitching mirrors and decorative items onto bridal veils and dupattas (head scarves). She...

Smart Muslim Vote Model (SMVM) for dual leadership of Muslims with regards to Nitish,...

By Masood Siddiqui for Twocircles.net The 21st century voter should have the capability to...

Murder in Amroha pits Maliks against Turks, gives Samajwadi Party a headache before UP...

By Faisal Fareed, TwoCircles.net A murder in Amroha has created political storm in the district, and divided the Muslim community on caste lines, which...

Is Jat-Muslim solidarity changing the political landscape of Muzaffarnagar?

From opening the doors of the mosque to farmers, to organizing 'Langers' in Muslim-dominated areas and the slogans of 'Allahu Akbar and Har Har...

Changing the Muslim narrative, one tweet at a time

Against rising hate crimes against Muslims, polarization and widening rift along communal lines, these Twitter pages run by Muslims are making an effort to...

Chattisgarsh: Church vandalised during protest in Narayanpur, senior cop injured

This comes two weeks after Christian families were allegedly assaulted and driven away following coordinated attacks in over a dozen villages in the...

‘फ़ारबिसगंज गोलीकांड’… अब भी ताज़ा हैं ज़ख़्म

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net फारबिसगंज: अररिया से फारबिसगंज जाने वाली सड़क धूप में सोने की तरह चमचमाती है. फोर लेन की यह सड़क जहां ख़त्म...

‘It is our curse & tears’: Hijabi students on BJP’s loss in Karnataka election...

Snobar Khan and Syed Mueen, TwoCircles.net Basavaraj Bommai, former Chief Minister of Karnataka, conceded defeat on May 13, 2023, as the Congress took the lead...

The ordeals of Madrasa education

By Sadiya Rohma Khan The tried and tested sagas, the typical appeasement of Muslim community just before any electoral is just so predictable. The power-packed...

Supreme Court dismisses plea challenging delimitation in Jammu and Kashmir

On March 6, 2020, the Centre constituted a three-member delimitation commission headed by former Supreme Court Judge, Justice Ranjana Desai to redraw the...

Students across Mumbai come out in support of Fathima Latheef, JNU students

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter As the protests across both IIT Madras and JNU surged with more and more students coming out on the streets, hundreds...

योगी सरकार ने लगाया ‘सबका साथ, सबका विकास’ के नारे को पलीता, उन्नाव में...

आस मोहम्मद कैफ़। TwoCircles.net लखनऊ। लखनऊ से सटे हुए उन्नाव ज़िले में शासकीय अधिवक्तों (सरकारी वकीलों) की नियुक्ति को लेकर सियासी बवाल मच गया है। कड़े...

India’s Lithium Discovery Triggers Worry for People of Jammu

Gafira Qadir | Twocircles.net “We thought it was our chance to become rich, so we celebrated the news but the happiness did not last for...

‘We want to be a righteous and uncompromising voice’: MMK

By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net Manithaneya Makkal Katchi (MMK) a political party launched few weeks ago is planning to contest at least 6 Lok Sabha seats in the state. MMK is the political wing of Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam (TMMK). MMK is eyeing six seats that have at least 20% Muslim votes. These are Cental Chennai, Vellore, Mailaduthurai, Thanjavur, Tiruchy, and Ramanathapuram.

“Khursheed died of shock & hemorrhage,” reveals post-mortem report of slain Muslim man from...

The post-mortem report of fifty-year-old Khursheed Ahmad from Sultanpur area of Uttar Pradesh has revealed the victim died of shock and hemorrhage, after he...

Three years after signing MoU, Varanasi remains a long way from turning into Kyoto

By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net     Three years ago, Indian PM Narendra Modi and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which was popularly...

UP elections: No homes for families displaced by Muzaffarnagar riots

Nearly a decade after scores of Muslim families were displaced by the Muzaffarnagar riots in 2013, they still live amid poor living conditions and...

Report card: Muslim Members of Rajya Sabha during July-Aug ’09 session

By TwoCircles.net, Unlike their Muslim counterparts in the Lok Sabha, the majority of Muslim Members of Rajya Sabha have spoken during the July-August 2009 session of the Upper House of the Indian Parliament. In this last part of the two-part series on the performance of Muslim MPs on the floor of the Parliament, we are presenting facts and figures on the participation of Muslim Members of Rajya Sabha.

Indian Americans denounce arrests of Muslims, demolition of Muslim homes in India

Globally renowned US-based Islamic scholar Shaikh Omar Suleiman led the protest in Dallas, which was jointly organized by The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), and North Texas...

Despite being a Hindu, here’s why Congress leader TN Prathapan fasts during Ramadan

By Shafeeq Hudawi As children, we often do a number of things to fit in with our friends. For Congress leader and former MLA TN...

आदिवासी बच्चों को उनकी जड़ों से अलग करते बस्तर के ये स्कूल

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net दंतेवाड़ा/सुकमा (छत्तीसगढ़) : बस्तर में चल रहे स्कूल ज्ञान के केंद्र होने के बजाय अज्ञान के कीड़े साबित होते जा रहे...

बेहतर कल के लिए तालीम से रास्ता बना रहे हैं पिछड़े मुसलमान!

आसमोहम्मद कैफ। Twocircles.net 72 साल के जमील अहमद बीते हुए कल को याद करते हुए गहरी सांस लेते हैं और कुर्सी से टेक लगाकर...

Bihar’s ‘Adolescence Education Programme’: Bridging the gap between Madrasas and modern schooling

Under the Talim-e-Naubalighan or the Adolescence Education Programme for the teenaged, thousands of teachers at government-run Madrasas in Bihar are trained in modern pedagogy...

“His head was blooming like a lotus,” recalls mother of slain 9-year-old Dalit boy...

By Aparajita Ghosh, TwoCircles.net  Mumbai: “His head was blooming just like a lotus”, recalls Mangesh Shivsharan’s mother, who collected parts of his nine-year-old son’s brain,...

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...

GHMC admits that 3.25 acres of land affected due to beautification work of Malkam...

By TCN News: Hyderabad:  The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has admitted in its counter affidavit before the Chief Justice, High Court, Hyderabad on 5th...

‘Left, farmers’ movement ignore distinction between peasants, labourers

Interview with Gita Ramaswamy, author of “Land, Guns, Caste, Woman—The Memoir of a Lapsed Revolutionary” Aatika S | TwoCircles.net In this interview, the author talks...

Bakerwal Children Still Struggle for Education

Shaizan Nadaf and Kaisar Ali/ TwoCircles.netAashiq Hussain Chopan, 14, and seven other children in tattered clothes sit on a mat under open...

Not far from Ghazipur protest site, Gadia Lohar community struggle for housing rights

The Gadia Lohar population has been widely ignored by central and state policies and has been unable to take advantage of government programs. Owing...

Indian Americans hail California Democratic Party’s designation of caste as a protected category

The California Democratic Party is the largest state party in the United States to take a stance on caste discrimination, marking an important step...

Jagan Reddy forms a socially inclusive cabinet with 5 deputy Chief Ministers in Andhra...

TCN News For the very first time in India 5 people have been made Deputy Chief Ministers in Andhra Pradesh. Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan...

Aler Encounter: Mohammed Viqaruddin was made to pay with his life for being a...

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

Making democracy work when the roads don’t: Voting in Katlicherra, Hailakandi

By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Hailakandi: The first thing that strikes you about Hailakandi, Assam, is that given the condition of the roads in its neighbouring...

Interpol cancels red corner notice against Dr Zakir Naik

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter International Criminal Police Organisation, or Interpol, has cancelled its Red Corner notice against Islamic preacher and televangelist Dr Zakir Naik and...

AIMIM vs secular parties discourse: Time to accommodate, not split apart

By Mohammad Shekaib Alam The sea of confrontations Muslims of India are facing today are such that if Muslims do not change their status quo...

सच्चा इतिहासः गांधीजी की शहादत, गोडसे और आरएसएस

-राम पुनियानी हाल में (अप्रैल 2023) में एनसीईआरटी ने स्कूली पाठ्यपुस्तकों में से बहुत सी सामग्री हटाने का फैसला किया। हटाई गई सामग्री में मुगलकालीन इतिहास, गुजरात दंगे, वर्ण...

MIM candidates list clears expansion plans, has 3 non-Muslims for Lok Sabha

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.

In Vaishali ‘birthplace of democracy’ parties pinning hope on caste equations

By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net, Sahebganj/Vaishali: At a rally in Sahebganj in Muzaffarpur District (under Viashali Constituency) Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD) Supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav arrived almost two hours late that originally scheduled time of 3 PM (normal for all leaders in election season with hectic schedule). His supporters though braved the scorching Sun taking refuge in water-melon and shadow of tree, but waited to listen to their leader.

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...

मेहसी: सरकार की मार झेलता ‘बिहार का मोती’

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net मेहसी (बिहार) : एक ज़माने में ‘बिहार का मोती’ कहा जाने वाला मेहसी अब बस एक नाम बनकर रह गया...

Dalits, Adivasis in India pushed out of higher education during Covid-19, new report finds...

A new study by National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) has found out that with stark social divides, the pandemic has visibilised and...

कैराना की पूर्व सांसद तबस्सुम हसन और विधायक पुत्र नाहिद पर गैंगस्टर की कार्रवाई

स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर। Twocircles.net  कैराना की पूर्व सांसद तबस्सुम हसन और उनके विधायक पुत्र नाहिद हसन के विरुद्ध गैंगस्टर की कार्रवाई की गई हैं।इस कार्रवाई में...

Marathi movie Khwada projects the rebel against upper-caste hegemony

By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net After Fandry, the Marathi movie Khwada, released on Oct 22, 2015, does a brilliant job of depicting lower castes’ struggle...

Chandrababu Naidu broke the promise he gave to public by joining hands with BJP:...

By SM Fasiullah, TwoCircles.net, Hyderabad: Muslim leadership is responsible to an extent for the community’s vulnerable and pathetic conditions, says some intellectuals. In such a scenario, the leaders who are sincerely striving for the betterment of the community have to assume added responsibility. Numerous concerned community members are doing their bit to uplift the community from its various levels of backwardness. But with political empowerment, the betterment of the community could be achieved speedily and at a mass level.

Karkare family refuses Narendra Modi’s financial offer

By Abdul Hameed, TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi had to face a kind of insult when ATS chief late Hemant Karkare's wife refused his offer to provide her and her children with the financial assistance. Modi went to the houses of ATS officers Hemant Karkare and Vijay Salaskar who were killed by terrorists and offered for financial assistance. But Karkare’s widow Kavita Karkare and his children clearly refused the offer.

Ensure protection of all five mosques under Central Vista Project: JUH to Govt

In a letter to Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister, Housing & Urban Affairs, Govt of India, Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind National President Maulana Mahmood Madani sought overall...

Maha BJP MLA cries ‘Love Jihad’, alleges 5000 Hindu girls sold in Gulf after...

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Nagpur: In yet another controversial remark, BJP MLA Mangal Prabhat Lodha has claimed that Hindu girls in the state are being converted to Islam through ‘Love jihad’ and sold off in Gulf countries.

Bangalore Municipal elections: 16 Muslims win in Bangalore Municipal election

SDPI Candidate Mujahid Pasha celebrating his victory in BBMP election AIMIM failed to score By TwoCircles.net staff reporter Bangalore: Out of 197 wards that saw the election...

Haryana returns three Muslim candidates, two less than 2009

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.

पसमांदा कोटा ‘लगते ही बदल गई यूपीएससी -2019 की सूरत, अब बनें 9 मुस्लिम...

आसमोहम्मद कैफ़ । Twocircles.net यूपीएससी में सर्विस के बंटवारे के साथ ही मुसलमानों के चेहरे खिल उठे है। अब मुसलमानों के 9 आईएएस बनेंगे। यह...

‘Nothing wrong with Chavhanke’s 2021 speech calling for Hindu Rashtra,’ proclaim his supporters

At a demonstration in support of Suresh Chavhanke at Jantar Mantar on February 5, offensive anti-Muslim speeches and proclamations to make India a...

Ground Report: Struggle of Isolated Kelhadiya Village in East UP Where Tribals Drink Water...

Pawan Kumar Maurya, TwoCircles.net Chandauli (Uttar Pradesh): Tribal villagers in the isolated hills of Kelhadiya, located about 130 km from Varanasi (Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary...

Two days ‘Idea of India’ conclave organised to mark one year of Modi govt

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, New Delhi: A number of civil society groups and activists came together to organise two conclave on the theme Idea of India’ at New Delhi’s Constitution Club on Saturday and Sunday. The Idea of India Collective is a large inclusive collective of persons, including thinkers, students, activists and concerned citizens, who have come together around the core conviction that central to our idea of India is the affirmation of its diversity.

RSS launches help center for Muslim women in Hyderabad

TCN News Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM), which is an arm of the RSS, opened its first family counselling centre in South India at Afzalgunj, Hyderabad. Other...

BJP MLA in Maharashtra convicted for creating ruckus during DCC Bank election in Ahmednagar

By TwoCircles.net Staff reporter, Mumbai : Mr. Shivajirao Kardile, a sitting Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from Rahuri (District – Ahmednagar) constituency in Maharashtra has been found guilty of creating ruckus during election for District Central Cooperative Bank (DCCB) in Ahmednagar. The FIR goes back to 12 years back which was registered on 25/05/2002 bearing CASE NO.121/2002.

Maulana Azad’s idea of India was pluralistic: Prof. Moazzam

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

Environmental issues ignored in Madhya Pradesh polls

By Sanjay Sharma, IANS, Bhopal : The very name of this state capital has become synonymous with ecological disasters, but the election manifestos of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the opposition Congress Party are silent on environment issues. Almost 24 years after tonnes of lethal gases leaked from a Union Carbide factory killing more than 3,000 people instantly and maiming several thousand, the state is still reeling from its after-effects. But environment hasn't become an issue in the elections due to to be held Thursday.

Andhra Pradesh opening budget draws flak from Muslims, TDP on defensive

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Vijayawada: Residuary Andhra Pradesh state’s first budget statement didn’t get down well with the Telugu Muslims who are now feeling let...

वीडियो रिपोर्ट : एक पत्रकार की ‘कैफे कारवां’ शुरू करने की प्रेरक कहानी

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From Tragedy to Triumph: How a Delhi-based IITian Empowering Survivors of Violence Through Education...

Mohammad Aatif Ammad Kanth, TwoCircles.net On February 16, 2024, 36-year-old Sajida, a mother of six, received the most devastating news of her life. Her husband, Mohammad...

Nitish Exposed: Bihar Govt gifted land to sons, daughters of ministers

The story also exposes reason of his inaction on Forbesganj firing By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,

Noam Chomsky speaks on Kashmir turmoil, compares it with Palestine

By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net Boston/Srinagar - In an email conversation with Mehboob Makhdoomi, Expert on Kashmir situation and Socio-Political commentator from Harvard, American linguist and...

यूपी के वक़्फ़ व हज मामलों के राज्यमंत्री मोहसिन रज़ा पर वक़्फ़ सम्पत्ति बेचने...

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Yogesh Maitreya’s Flower on the Grave of Caste gives space and voice to Dalit...

By Dipankar Kamble for TwoCircles.net  Author- Yogesh Maitreya  Publisher- Panther’s Paw Publications  Cost- Rs 299 ISBN- 9788193290576 Yogesh Maitreya’s stories are not stories which we read in mainstream books....

Operation Samadhan-Prahar and the Changing Nature of Indian State

Syed Ali Mujtaba Operation Samadhan-Prahar is the new initiative of the Indian government to combat Maoist insurgency in the tribal pockets of the country. Under...

Karnataka: Sri Rama Sena leader held guilty by court in hate speech case

On January 2, 2015, Siddalinga Swami delivered a speech against Muslims at a public function organised by the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) at...

Why Muslims in India no longer need to answer for composite culture

The article is the author’s rebuttal to Ajai Gudavarthy's article titled Mobilisation and Composite culture published by The Hindu on 21 January.  By Md. Aariz Imam  Contrary to...

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Mumbai CID team visits West Bengal, find out that Bengali workers they arrested in...

By Mirza Mosaraf Hossain, TwoCircles.net Nearly a month after the arrest of four people in Mumbai for being ‘illegal Bangladeshis’, a team of two men...

“I was asked to perform sodomy,” 2 Muslim youth from Jharkhand allege ‘police torture’...

Two Muslim youth from Jamshedpur in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand have accused police of ‘brutal torture’ and forcing them to have sex...

मिज़ाज-ए -बिहार : जब हम दुनिया बदल सकते हैं तो दूसरे पर आश्रित...

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Behind Closed Doors: Kashmiri Women Battle the Silent Burden of PCOS

Shah Khursheed, TwoCircles.net Srinagar: Bareera, 24, a postgraduate student from Pulwama, remembers the first signs of something being wrong with unsettling clarity. In Class 11,...

MIM appeals supporters to join Mumbai’s Dalit mass protest on July 22

By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: In yet another attempt to portray it to be the party of Muslims and Dalits, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen...

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देश भर में वक्फ प्रोपर्टी के अतिक्रमण और राज्यों के वक्फ बोर्ड के द्वारा सुचारू रूप से काम नहीं किये जाने की शिकायत मिलती...

In Kashmir, women diagnosed with PCOS face trauma, infertility

The latest Indian National Family Health Survey (NFHS), published in December 2020,  found that at least 60% of Kashmiri married women report one or...

Kashmiri Pandits must join the fight against tinkering with Article 35 (A): Sampat Prakash,...

Since 1968, he has spent more than 8 years in jail. He is one of the most outspoken men from the Kashmiri Pandit community. Sampat...

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...

How Santosh Thorat is helping rebuild homes, increase literacy in Mumbai’s Dalit colonies

By Shiva Thorat, TwoCircles.net Mumbai: The idea of working for your community does not necessarily mean that you have to be at the forefront...

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