Police provided free hand to saffron forces during riots in Jamod, Maharashtra: Jamiat
By TwoCircles.net staff reporter
Buldhana (Maharashtra): Police did not act impartially during the riots and provided opportunity to saffron forces to run their rage...
Hyderabad Urdu editors on Urdu press, Muslim problems
By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
Like their counterparts in Delhi, Urdu Editors in Hyderabad also see educational backwardness as the major issue confronting the Muslim community in India. Lack of education has led the community to economic and social backwardness. Despite some confronting views, Zahid Ali Khan, Editor, Siasat daily and Naseem Arifi, Editor, Etemaad daily tell Mumtaz Alam Falahi of TwoCircles.net that there is no Indian Express or Tehelka in Urdu because Urdu media lack resources and professionalism.
Rehab India Foundation conducts talent search exams in Murshidabad
By TCN News,
Kolkata: Over 200 students, from class X, in Murshidabad district of West Bengal appeared in the Rehab Nation Talent Search Examination 2014 on Sunday, July 20, at Al Falah Mission English School in Berhampore. The applications were invited from the top rank students in Class X from different schools located in the different blocks of Murshidabad district.
In Nanded, thousands participate in march for Muslim reservations
By TCN News
Muslim Aarakshan Sangharsh Kruti Samiti, an umbrella organisation of various political and religious groups, organised a ‘Million March’ in Nanded on...
Thousands of Muslims in Bihar take out a rally to demand 5% reservations
TCN News
On 23rd February, under the Muslim Arakshan Morcha, thousands of Muslims from different districts gathered in Patna to participate in the rally demanding...
HR Day: Shocking status of ‘Right to Healthcare’ in India
By Dr Kafeel Khan
10 December is celebrated as the Human Rights Day across the world. On this day, let us talk about the most...
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...
Dr. Syed Hasan: Life of a humanitarian
By Saba Syed Hafeez for TwoCircles.net,
Leaving behind a charming life and promising future in America, a humble servant of mankind arrived in the...
Protests in Maharashtra against ‘derogatory’ images in a Marathi daily
FIR registered against Lokamat- A popular Marathi daily at many police stations in Maharashtra
By TwoCircles.net Staff reporter,
Mumbai: Copies of Marathi daily –...
Tribal boys in Wayanad under POCSO threat
By Shafeeq Hudawi
Kozhikode: Babu, a 21-year-old from the Paniya community, came out of jail in March after spending close to three months in jail....
After rejection of ‘favorable’ bill, Raja Mahmudabad won’t take politicians’ help
By Faisal Fareed, TwoCircles.net,
kise vakil karen, kis se munsifi chahen?
Unheard & Unspoken: Terror stories from Madhya Pradesh: Part 11
By Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net
Cautious welcome to Centre’s proposed Central Madrasa Board
By Najam Gilani and Manzar Bilal, TwoCircles.net,
Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Arjun Singh has recently announced that a Central Madrasa Board will be created and thereafter madrasa certificates will become equivalent to those of CBSE and affiliates of the Council of Board of School Education (COBSE). TwoCircles.net reporters visited some madrasas in Mumbai and Patna to get their views.
Kasargod firing: Transfer for SP Ramdas Pothen
By TwoCircles.net,Staff Correspondent,
Malappuram: The Superintendent of Police in Kasargod, Ramdas Pothen, who has been in controversy related to police firing and death of a youth, has been transferred by the Kerala government. The transfer came along with the transfer of several other top police officers.
Four-day free medical camp concludes in Barabanki; 1,020 patients treated by US doctors
By TCN News
Barabanki: Continuing its journey as part of the 8th India Health Initiative and treating 2,474 people in Hyderabad, the US-based doctors volunteering...
Muslims around the world observe Ramadan
Madrid, (IANS): Muslims across the world observed the holy month of Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar which brings the faithful together...
Jharkhand starvation death: Victim’s mother thrown out of village
Ranchi, (IANS): The mother of an 11-year-old girl, who allegedly died due to starvation on September 28, was on Saturday thrown out of her village...
In J&K, Gujjar community threatens state-wide agitation against alleged rape and murder of eight-year-old...
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net
Jammu: On Thursday, January 18, Jammu and Kashmir woke up to a terrible news of the death of an eight-year-old...
“Her New World” project launched by Shaheen Academy at Guwahati
TCN News:
“Her New World” a project for both rural and urban women of Assam was launched on 15th of October by Shaheen Academy. The...
In memory of Professor Ataullah Siddiqui, a leading figure in multi-faith dialogue and religious...
By Rafat Ali
Professor Ataullah Siddiqui passed away on the night of 8 November 2020 aged 66, after battling cancer courageously for six months, at...
Girls education mandatory: Farangi Mahal fatwa
By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,
Lucknow: In a fatwa issued on Monday the Darul Uloom Firangi Mahal of Lucknow has made it mandatory on all muslims to make efforts for providing education to girls. The fatwa came as a silver lining after a series of fatwas issued by Islamic seminary Darul Uloom, Deoband attracted much media attention reportedly painted as anti-women.
Dynasty rooted in Indian political tradition: Writer Zareer Masani
By Madhusree Chatterjee
Research scholars of Kolkata-based CSSS protest humiliation of staff by the Registrar
By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net,
Kolkata: A group of research scholars of Kolkata-based reputed The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences protested on Thursday...
BJP Kerala Chief’s Communal Statement Draws Heavy Criticism
By TCN Staff Reporter
Kozhikode : The newly elected BJP chief of Keralat, Kummanam Rajasekharan’s latest statement that commercial spaces should not be allowed for...
The missing Kerala youth and the state’s connections with a Salafi town in Yemen
By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net
Malappuram: There is a good chance that you may not have heard of Dammaj, a small town in the Sa'dah...
क्या अखिलेश के साथ है समाजवादी पार्टी का फेसबुक पेज?
सिद्धांत मोहन, TwoCircles.net
वाराणसी : बीते दिन उत्तर प्रदेश की राजनीति में एक बड़ा फेरबदल करते हुए सपा सुप्रीमो मुलायम सिंह यादव ने मुख्यमंत्री अखिलेश...
11,500 pilgrims to leave for Mecca from Kerala through State Government’s Haj quota
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
This year, more than 11,500 pilgrims will leave for Mecca from Kerala through State Government’s Haj quota. The Kerala Haj Committee...
Following student protests, Jamia VC assures students he will reconsider the deregistration of PhD...
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
New Delhi: The students of Jamia Millia Islamia on Wednesday, September 27th registered a strong protest against the ousting of PhD...
Discussion on reactionary politics prevailed in Jamiat’s general body meeting
TCN News
New Delhi: A meeting of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind’s Central General Body held under the organization’s president Maulana Qari Mohammad Usman Mansoorpuri, in which over...
No scarcity of Namaz space in India; Central Waqf Council must be strengthened
By Dr Syed Zafar Mahmood for TwoCircles.net
The Haryana State Waqf Board has submitted to the district administration a list of 19 Waqf properties in...
Begum Hazrat Mahal National Scholarship
By TwoCircles.net
The Scheme of "Begum Hazrat Mahal National Scholarship" for Girl Students belonging to the Minority Communities was earlier known as "Maulana Azad National...
त्रासदी : हसन अली ने दिया चितरंजन को कंधा तो यूनुस ने निभाई परिवार...
आसमोहम्मद कैफ।Twocircles.net
राजीव चौधरी अपने परिवार के साथ बिजनोर जनपद के किरतपुर कस्बे में रहते हैं। 23 अप्रैल को उनके छोटे भाई चितरंजन चौधरी...
Indian Americans protest Hijab ban, urge Karnataka court to lift ban
More than a hundred people in Houston, Texas, United States called on the Karnataka government to stop the discrimination against Muslim girl students who...
Meet Saima Noor, a Wheelchair-Bound Woman Artist in a Kashmir Hospital
Ilhak Tantray and Mohsin Mushtaq | Two Circles Network
There is a profound sense of melancholy in the dimly lit ward number six of Srinagar's...
Space for women in Masjid, that is, room for women in Muslim community
By Najiya O., TwoCircles.net,
Mewat madrasas reforming themselves to cater to modern needs
Series on Mewat – Part 2
By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net,
List of sarkari Hajis; they include Imams, Muftis
By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: Government of India every year sends Haj Goodwill Delegation to Saudi Arabia. Members of delegations are handpicked. Have a look at the list of nine such delegations (from 2000 to 2008), and you will conclude: They are politicians, journalists, clerics, bureaucrats and social workers, seemingly picked to please them, award them or silence them.
Jamia Millia teacher wins National Film Award for Best Audiography
By TCN News,
New Delhi: Mateen Ahmad, Assistant Professor (Sound) at AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia won the Award for Best Audiography for the film “Children of the Pyre” in the 56th National Film Awards for 2008.
Accusing AIMPB of sidelining Bareilvis Maulana Kichhauchvi resigns from the Board
By Faisal Fareed, TwoCircles.net,
Lucknow: Accusing sidelining of Bareilvi sect by the Deobandis, Maulana Syed Zafar Masood Kichhauchvi tendered his resignation from the membership of All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Monday. Masood while announcing his resignation from the board in a press conference at Lucknow also levelled serious allegations against the board's style of functioning.
BJP lifts now ANHAD’s photo for its “Kashmir Bachao Divas” ad
By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: BJP did it again. Guess what? It is another instance of blatant misuse of photo of a secular organization by the party for the propagation of its communal ideology. This time, it used ANHAD’s photo without its permission in its “Kashmir Bachao Divas” ad.
The BJP lifted illegally a photograph of an ANHAD demonstration on Kashmir issue,held on July 8, 2010 at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, and misused it in its advertisement on “Kashmir Bachao Divas” in the Indian Express on August 20, 2010 and Navbharat Times on August 21, 2010.
Nitish Kumar inaugurates IMRC skill development centre
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
Araria: Bihar Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar on Wednesday, December 7 inaugurated the skill development centre established by US-based Indian Muslim...
Farmer’s daughter Tasleem Fatima grabs third spot in Telangana IPE exam
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net
Hyderabad: The modest house of Mohammed Samad in Murtazaguda area of Rangareddy district has been flooded with people visiting him...
Journalists detained in Rajasthan after they tried to report on Bajrang Dal’s weapons training...
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
Three journalists from Delhi were arrested yesterday in Hanumangarh district of Rajasthan, after they tried to report on a Bajrang Dal's...
Gujarat HC rejects Zakia’s plea against SIT clean chit to Modi
Ahmedabad, (IANS): The Gujarat High Court on Thursday rejected the plea of Zakia Jafri, the wife of slain former MP Ehsan Jafri, challenging a clean...
Modi to face farmers’ anger in 2019: Yogendra Yadav
New Delhi (IANS): Swaraj India leader Yogendra Yadav on Tuesday warned that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will face the anger of the farmers in...
मस्जिद में गैर मुस्लिमों को दी गई दावत,मुंबई में ट्रस्ट की पहल हमें जाने...
जिब्रानउद्दीन। Twocircles.net
इस रविवार को मुस्लिमों के प्रति बढ़ते हुए गलतफहमी और नफरतों को मिटाने के लिए मुंबई की जुमा मस्जिद बॉम्बे ट्रस्ट ने...
डेल्टा मेघवाल को मिला न्याय, गुनाहगारों को उम्र कैद की सज़ा
आकिल हुसैन।Twocircles.net
2016 में राजस्थान के बीकानेर के नोखा में हुए बहुचर्चित डेल्टा मेघवाल हत्याकांड को लेकर बीकानेर की पोक्सो कोर्ट ने बड़ा...
Tension prevails in Malappuram after Muslim convert’s murder
By Twocircles.net Staff Reporter
Malappuram: Tension prevailed in Malappuram after a 32-year-old man who converted to Islam six months ago was murdered on the wee...
Manipur Floods: Sahayata Trust starts relief work for flood victims
By TwoCircles.net, Staff Reporter
Manipur: Responding to one of the worst floods in Manipur’s recent history, Hyderabad-based Sahayata Trust has initiated immediate relief work providing...
Timings of Ram Lalla ‘darshan’ in Ayodhya extended
Lucknow, (IANS): In view of the heavy rush of devotees in the temple town of Ayodhya, the timing for ‘darshan at the makeshift temple housing...
SIO organized Shiksha Samvad on “Madarsa Education: Issues and Challenges”
TCN News
Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO), conducted a survey of 500 Madarasas covering diverse schools of thought in different states and released the...
9,612 poor and needy patients treated free by IMRC doctors in 12 days in...
By TCN News
Manipur: The ninth annual India Health Initiative (IHI), a program created by US-based NGO India Muslim Relief and Charities (IMRC) to provide...
Kerala: Bharat Dharma Jana Sena withdraws support from BJP in by-election
Alappuzha (Kerala) (IANS): The BDJS, the BJP's strongest ally in Kerala, announced on Wednesday that it won't back the Bharatiya Janata Party in the...
Dear Mr Naqvi, able-bodied cheats, not physically-challenged Indians, beg in Saudi Arabia
The Union minister must apologise for being insensitive to physically-challenged Haj pilgrims
By Shaheen Nazar for TwoCircles.net
Begging by pilgrims is a reality in Saudi Arabia....
पुरानी दिल्ली के लोग देश भर में दंगा रोकने की बन गए मिसाल
आसमोहम्मद कैफ।Twocircles.net
दिल्ली -
पुरानी दिल्ली के लाल कुआं इलाके में इसी महीने की शुरुआत में पार्किंग में हुए एक विवाद को लेकर मारपीट हो गई...
Retaliating against the Pen with the Sword is not the Way of Islam: Understanding...
By Abhik Bhattacharya
The falling of Bhoomi Puja in Ayodhya and the celebration of the first anniversary of Kashmir being constitutionally stripped off its special...
Muslim liberals’ problematic noises on Karnataka anti-hijab row
To discuss whether the hijab is essential or not, whether all Muslims wear the hijab or not, whether those who wear it do it...
Dance of death and violence in Udalguri
Muslims under siege in Assam: Part I
By Diganta Sharma for TwoCircles.net,
Guwahati: Shoot at sight orders were issued on October 4 in Assam's curfew bound district of Udalguri, where seven people were killed and more than 50 injured in clashes between two communities.
Chidambaram appoints Muslim officer as OSD
By Andalib Akhter, TwoCircles.net
New Delhi: The New Home Minister of India P Chidambaram is in the process of overhauling whole set up in the ministry that looks after internal security of the country. After getting two crucial Bills passed by Parliament, Chidambaram is making major changes in the bureaucratic set up of the ministry.
Haj Committee of India opens centre to train Muslim Civil Services aspirants
By Manzar Bilal,TwoCircles.net ,
Mumbai: In a formal meeting held yesterday at Haj House in Mumbai, Haj Committee of India gave the final shape to the much awaited training center for Muslim aspirants of Indian Administrative Service examination at central Haj House building in Mumbai.
Three Muslim youth innocent, discharged by court in 2006 Guj railway station blast
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Mumbai: In yet another setback to Gujarat’s Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS), three Muslim youths have been discharged by a local court in Ahmadabad in an 8-year-old case pertaining to a bomb blast at the Kalupur railway station in the Gujarat capital.
Sania Mirza can represent India even after marriage with Pak cricketer: Sports Minister
By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net,
Bhopal: Federal Minister of State for Sports and Youth Affairs Pratik Prakashbabu Patil has stated that tennis star Sania Mirza could continue to represent India, even after tying the nuptial knot with the Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Malik.
Patil stated this while talking to the media persons during his visit to Bhopal here. He said marriage is a personal choice of an individual. "If Sania is marrying Shoaib then it is her choice and the issue should not be linked to her sports career", he remarked.
Floods in Bihar: Is River Gandak going to become Kosi of 2010?
By Adam Ali for TwoCircles.net,
Dulla Bhatti and communalization of history
By Japal Singh for TwoCircles.net
Today is Lohri, a festival that is celebrated in Punjab with great gusto. Few days before, young boys go around...
रामपुर सीआरपीएफ कैंप पर हुए आतंकी हमले पर रिहाई मंच की स्वतंत्र रिपोर्ट
By TCN News,
नये साल का जश्न सभी लोग अपने-अपने तरीके से मनाते हैं. लेकिन 31 दिसंबर 2007 की रात को रामपुर सीआरपीएफ कैंप के सिपाहियों ने ऐसा जश्न मनाया, जिसने छह परिवारों की जिंदगी बर्बाद कर दी. कई स्वतंत्र जांच संगठनों ने अपनी जांच में पाया कि यह कोई आतंकी घटना नहीं थी. सीआरपीएफ के जवानों ने नए साल के जश्न में शराब के नशे में आपस में ही गोलीबारी कर ली थी. इसमें सात जवानों सहित एक रिक्शा चालक भी मारा गया.
Maulana Wali Rahmani exhorts Muslim community to emulate Rahmani-30
By Manzar Bilal and Mudassir Rizwan, TCN,
Patna: Overwhelmed with the accolades flowing in from across the country for the remarkable success of the Rahmani-30 coaching centre in IIT-JEE, its patron and Sajjada Nashin, Khanqah Rahmani of Munger, Maulana Syed Mohammad Wali Rahmani has urged the community leadership to emulate and expand the experience of Rahmani-30.
Ahangran, Mansoori communities bringing educational revolution in Pink City
Series on Jaipur – Part 3
By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
It will take Jaipur Muslims about a decade or more to see the full results of the educational awareness that has touched them and is now taking concrete shape. Different communities within the Muslim community in the city are doing tremendous job by setting up regular as well as vocational educational institutes. The Ahangar and Mansoori communities stand out from the rest in this field.
Muslim leaders condemn brutal killing of Sikhs by Taliban in Pakistan
By TCN News,
New Delhi: South Asian Council for Minorities(SACM) strongly condemned the brutal beheading of two innocent Sikhs by the Talibans in Pakistan.
Here is the text of the statement:
The inhuman and un-Islamic act of killing innocent civilians has once again exposed the true face of the terrorists whose only aim is to use the name of Islam, the religion of peace and mercy, for their nefarious designs, ulterior motives and worldy pleasures. These are the people who denigrate the name of Islam and bring disrepute to all Muslims of the World.
AMU Murshidabad Centre celebrates 199th Birth anniversary of Sir Syed
By TCN News,
Murshidabad (WB): The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Murshidabad Centre celebrated the 199th Birth Anniversary of the founder of AMU Sir Syed Ahmad...
Fatima Nafees issues legal notice to Times of India, Times Now, Zee News, etc....
TCN News
Delhi : Fatima Nafees, mother of missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmed, has sent legal notices to Times of India (TOI) and other prominent...
Musician TM Krishna attacks Modi over Gujarat riots
New Delhi, (IANS): Carnatic music vocalist T.M. Krishna, who received the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration on Tuesday, made a veiled attack on Prime...
Signature campaign to boycott hate mongering newspaper
TCN News
A signature campaign was organised today after the Friday prayers in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand district in more than 35 mosques against Dainik Jagran Hindi...
“Only justice will aid in reducing our trauma,” students of Jamia, AMU recount violence,...
By Huda Mohammad, TwoCircles.net
Jamia: 15 December, 2019, will be remembered as a harrowing day in the history of independent India. It was a day when...
West Bengal Assembly Elections: 9 Muslim candidates, two with PhD’s, test fate in volatile...
Among the nine Muslim candidates who contested in the second phase of the election, one is a female. She is Firoza Bibi, a Trinamool...
J&K: CPW workers on the verge of committing suicide over delayed and meagre wages
Arjumand Shaheen, TwoCircles.net
Srinagar J&K: While the world celebrated the International labourers' day on 1st May, the Contingent paid workers/Sweepers (CPWs) in the department of...
Now Rajasthan Govt. lifts TCN photo of Azamgarh girls
By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
Singur, six years later: Case of Jama Masjid land
By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net,
Part 2 of the three part series on Singur.
Happy Birthday in advance to Bapu: Swachtaa Abhiyaan by Hanifa School
By TCN News,
Borsad (Gujarat): Ahead of the 145th birth anniversary of Father of the Nation on October 2, students of Hanifa School (English medium) here had a gift for him by cleaning the city, famous for the Dandi March heritage route.
TNTJ organises rally against terrorism
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Chennai: As a part of anti-terrorism campaign led by Tamil Nadu Thowheed Jamath (TNTJ), North Chennai unit of TNTJ organized a rally against terrorism on Sunday the 26 October, the rally started from Kannagi statue at Marina beach in which hundreds of men, women and children participated.
Election tickets: TRS says sorry to Muslims
Party feels Muslims cannot win in ‘present environment’
By Mohd Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net,
Hyderabad: Telangana Rashtriya Samithi (TRS) supremo K. Chandrashekar Rao has finally pricked the balloon which he has been filling with dreams and promises to Muslims of political empowerment for over a decade.
Sir Syed Mosque: Where Religion means Tolerance
Metaphor for Muslims: The kind of tolerance practiced here is, possibly, unparalleled in the world with green, white and black caps shining together, five times a day.
By Mujahid I Mughal,
The greatest tragedy that Muslims today are facing is not their poor socio-economic conditions, least educational advancement and insignificant technological development but acute disintegration and vanished Muslim brotherhood.
Imam hacked to death in Kasargod, police clueless
By Twocircles.net Staff Reporter
Kasargod: Tension prevailed in the district of Kasargod following the brutal murder of an Imam at Choori in Kasargod town. Riyas...
Extremism can be defeated with Sir Syed’s vision, said AMU VC in Department of...
TCN News
Aligarh: The Department of Shia Theology, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in collaboration with Iran Cultural House, New Delhi today organised an International Seminar...
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...
तबलीग़ जमात पर फैलाई जा रहींं झूठी खबरों से लड़ रही है यूपी पुलिस!
आस मोहम्मद कैफ , TwoCircles.net
लखनऊ। अवनीश अवस्थी उत्तर प्रदेश सरकार के सबसे वरिष्ठ आईएएस अफ़सर है। उनकी लोक गायिका पत्नी मालिनी अवस्थी की अक्सर...
‘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...
Educated youths taking up arms in Kashmir; a big no to govt jobs
Continued cases of educated youth joining militant ranks becoming a matter of great concern
By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net,
Srinagar: Militant Ashiq Hussain Dar, who was killed in an encounter in Heff Shermal area on Wednesday morning, had MA (English) and B Ed degrees to his credit besides a government job.
Ashiq, son of Ghulam Hassan Dar, a resident of Turkewangam village from south Kashmir’s Shopian district, was selected as Village Level Worker in the Jammu and Kashmir government in May 2014. Sources said, he joined militant ranks in August 2014 after working for three months.
Threats and hate campaign force writer Sharmila Seyyid from Sri Lanka to go in...
The writer-activist now lives in self-imposed exile in Chennai
By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net,
Sri Lankan woman rights activists Sharmila Seyyid and her family are being harassed for years. Facing attacks in Sri Lanka, where she and her sister used to run a school, she now lives in exile in Chennai, in hiding.
It is noteworthy here that Muslims as a minority in Sri Lanka has been facing ethnic violence for years – there was upsurge in 2014 – under Sinhalese Buddhist majority. Seyyid has been very vocal in her works against several conservative practices vis a vis women. She has already published two anthologies of poems and a novel Ummath that critiques rising conservatism in Sri Lanka, besides highlighting the everyday injustices that Tamil-speaking Muslims face there.
Neha Dixit wins Red Cross award for writing on women raped during 2013 Muzaffarnagar...
By TwoCircles.nets Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: Freelance Journalist Neha Dixit has won the prestigious international Committee of the Red Cross award for her story 'Shadow...
Campaign for India Islamic Cultural Centre elections getting intensified
By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: One week left for the election of the managing body of New Delhi’s India Islamic Cultural Centre (IICC), the campaign has been intensified as the election, with veteran Congress leader and former central minister Salman Khursheed in the fray for the presidency, has become a high-profile one.
Socially-engaged Islam: A view from Kerala
By Yoginder Sikand,
Unlike much of the rest of India, Islamic organizations in Kerala are heavily involved in various forms of social activism, not limiting themselves simply to religious education and preaching or to petitioning the government for sops. This is one of the major reasons for the remarkable social, economic and educational progress that Kerala’s Muslims, who account for around a fourth of the state’s population, have witnessed in recent decades.
Biography of Shihab Thangal released
By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent,
Kochi: The biography of late Panakkad Syed Muhammedali Shihab Thangal was released by Ramesh Chennithala, president of Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee. ‘Shihab Thangal Videsha Rajyangalil’ (Shihab Thangal in Foreign Countries) was written by Mujeeb Thangal Konnaru and published by the Al Ain Sunni Youth Centre. Panakkad Basheerali Shihab Thangal received the first copy of the book.
Political parties wooing Muslims in Uttar Pradesh elections
By AnIndianMuslim.com,
Most of the political parties are wooing Muslims, who constitute 20% of the electorate in the state. It is not that other caste groups are not being wooed.
Hijab banned at Karnataka college: Protest of Muslim girls enters 10th day
By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net,
DDA offers alternative plot for the demolished Jangpura mosque
By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net,
Now, AIMIM to field 60 candidates for Aurangabad civic elections
Enthused with support from SCs and dalits, AIMIM has also decided to contest from saffron bastions – Gulmandi, Raja Bazar, Khadkeshwar and Aurangpura.
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Aurangabad: Buoyed after winning two seats in 2014 assembly election in Maharashtra – one of it being the Aurangabad (Central) seat – the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) is now aiming at the forthcoming civic body polls in the city by declaring to contest 60 of the 113 wards.
NHPC helps martyred Assam Police Officer Gulzar Hussain’s family
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: Hundreds bid tearful adieu to Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) of Assam’s Sonitpur District, Gulzar Hussain, at his hometown on January 28, 2014. If the 21 gun salute brought more tears to the family, friends, and relatives of the 37 year old dynamic Police Officer, the State Police promised not to let go his sacrifice waste. But that’s all.
AMU nursing students light lamps for the spirit of nursing
By TCN News,
Aligarh: The environment filled with an enlightening breeze when the nurses of the School of Nursing, JN Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) took oath at the Lamp Lighting & Oath taking Ceremony of the School.
MP has highest foeticide & infanticide cases in India: Asian Centre for Human Rights
By TCN News
New Delhi: Madhya Pradesh has reported the highest number of female foeticide and female infanticide in India, said the Asian Centre...
गुजरात के अल्पसंख्यक अपने अधिकारों से महरूम, शुरू हुई अल्पसंख्यक आयोग के लिए मुहिम
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net
नई दिल्ली/अहमदाबाद : केन्द्र की मोदी सरकार भले ही ‘सबका साथ —सबका विकास’ की बात करती हो, लेकिन सच्चाई यह है...
Nine years and counting: Zakkariya, injustice and jails of the ‘Agrahara’
By Fayiza CA for TwoCircles.net
It's been a decade of fights and tears for Beeyumma, a mother from Parappanangadi in the Malappuram district of Kerala....
How Shanimol Osman, the lone Muslim woman candidate from Kerala, finally got a Congress...
By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent
After waiting for years on end, and at the same time working tirelessly for the Congress party, Advocate Shanimol Osman has...
दिल्ली हिंसा: टारगेट, सेट एंड फायर …..करावल नगर में यह हुआ- ग्राऊंड रिपोर्ट
आसमोहम्मद कैफ़।Twocircles.net
दिल्ली। भजनपुरा मज़ार अब करावलनगर का गेटवे है। मज़ार जला दिया गया था लेकिन उम्मीद तो अभी तक जिंदा है। इसलिए अक़ीदतमंद यहां...
“Modi talks about self-sufficient India but in Kashmir, they are doing opposite,” 15000 engineers...
By Shakir Mir
Srinagar: Hilal Rasool (now 45) was a young engineering graduate in 2003 when Kashmir was starting to emerge out of a decade...
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...
Islam is the other name of humanity: Shankaracharya
By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net,
Yazeed Bashamakh: Son of a TV mechanic will enter IIT
A Year-long Series on Education, Sponsored by The Aligarh Forum : - A Mirror on our Efforts, our Successes & our Shortcomings ; Stories...
Man arrested for sending threat message to bomb railway station and Sachkhand Gurudwara in...
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Nanded (Maharashtra): Police have succeeded in locating and arresting a man behind sending threat message to Railway Police Force (RPF) of bombing Nanded Railway Station and SachKhand Gurdwara in the city.
The special squad set up by the Nanded Superintendent of Police for investigating the threat message on Tuesday arrested Shrikant Janardhan Bhosale, 24, from the vicinity of city railway station.
Kishanganj MP among 25 who failed to utilize development funds in Bihar
Latest MPLADs report for one year of 16th Lok Sabha show statistics that should worry voters
By Mohammad Mudassir Alam,
Kishanganj (Bihar): Maulana Asrarul Haque Qasmi, Kishanganj’s Member of Parliament, has yet again disappointed the people of the district with his poor performance in one year since he was voted to power in May 2014.
Foundation stone laid for third boys’ hostel in JIT, Barabanki
By TCN News,
Barabanki (Uttar Pradesh): Manzoor Ghori, Chairman of Jahangirabad Educational Trust and Executive Director of Indian Muslim Relief and Charities (IMRC) on Wednesday...
Security forces issue Shoot at Sight orders in Kashmir ahead of Friday prayers
By Siddhant Mohan and Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net
Srinagar: A week after the death of Hizbul commander Burhan Wani, Kashmir valley continues to remain tense...
Muslim Personal Law Board opposes Fatwa issued by Shia body against beef and Triple...
By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net
Lucknow: All India Shia Personal Law Board(AISPLB) has passed a Fatwa against cow slaughter and beef eating, a move to ban...
Benefit of not having Aadhaar: Police may kill you if you don’t have one
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
It may sound strange but it is claimingly true that Police may kill you if you do not have a Aadhaar...
कोच आबिद अली के नमाज पढ़ने से आहत हुए हिंदूवादी संगठन,दे दी तहरीर
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उत्तर प्रदेश के पीलीभीत में हिंदूवादी संगठनों ने हाकी कोच आबिद अली पर स्टेडियम में नमाज़ अदा करने का आरोप लगाते...
Talat Mahmood’s daughter pays homage to him in Poland
By Surender Bhutani, IANS,
Warsaw : It was on this day 10 years ago that legendary singer Talat Mahmood died. At that time his daughter Sabina, who lives in Poland, had not been able to reach Mumbai to see her father's body.
Sabina's brother Khalid did not wait for her and her husband Riki Rana for the funeral. Many of Mahmood's admirers felt let down because they could not pay their last respects to the legendary singer.
MIECT announces scholarships for Muslim university students
By TwoCircles.net staff reporterNew Delhi : The Muslim India Educational and Cultural Trust (MIECT) has announced 60 scholarships  of Rs. 2,53,200 for Muslim university students,...
Akbaruddin Owaisi and other MIM leaders booked in Yafai murder case
By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net
Sufi ideology integral part of Indian ethos: Modi
New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the ideology propounded by Sufi saints is an integral part of Indian ethos,...
मुसलमानों को राम मंदिर से कोई समस्या नहीं, लेकिन मस्जिद भी वहीं बने —बाबरी...
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net
नई दिल्ली : अयोध्या की विवादित बाबरी मस्जिद-राम मंदिर मामले पर सुप्रीम कोर्ट के आए अहम टिप्पणी के बाद एक बार...
Communal clash in MP’s Sehore, administration takes control
TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
Sehore district of Madhya Pradesh was gripped with communal tension on Tuesday, but the administration soon stepped in and took control.
According to...
Low funds, bad management, unhappy students and faculty: Why problems of AMU Kishanganj have...
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
In December 2017, Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi wrote a letter to the Ministry of Human Resources, asking the Ministry to release...
All 5 accused in Makkah Masjid blast case acquitted
Hyderabad, (IANS): A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court here on Monday acquitted all five accused in the 2007 Makkah Masjid bomb blast case.
Eleven years...
BJP link of Udaipur killer emerges
Several pictures shared on social media by two BJP members show the Udaipur killer Riyaz Attari posing with BJP leaders.
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NEW DELHI...
वजूद की लड़ाई लड़ते किशनगंज के चाय-किसान
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net
किशनगंज (बिहार) : असम व दार्जिलिंग की चाय का नाम तो आपने ख़ूब सुना होगा. मगर इस बार यहां बिहार...
Protest held in Latur against mob lynching and inaction of government bodies
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
Narendra Modi’s government faced the first stain of lynching when Mohsin Sadiq Shaikh, a Pune-based techie was killed in May 2014...
BHU: Ten days after protests and violence, a few hopes and a lot of...
By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net
Over the past few weeks, the Banaras Hindu University has been at the centre of student protests and has attracted attention...
Islamic social organisations provide releif to Gaja Cyclone victims
TCN News
Gaja cyclone that hit coastal and delta districts in Tamil Nadu created a heavy loss uprooting thousands of acres of coconut grooves, several...
Vejalpur constituency: an assessment of secularism in Gujarat
By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net,
EFLU students organized 24 hours protest in support of Mudassir Kamran
By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,
Kala Sinchana: A cultural event brings together Kannada speakers in Saudi Arabia
By TCN News,
Jubail: Prasthutha Readers Forum (PRF) recently organized a family cultural event ‘Kala Sinchana’ at Hadeed Beach Camp Jubail. About 500 expats with their families participated in the event consisting of large number of Prasthutha Readers, students from International School Jubail, Businessmen & others.
AMU, Jamia ranked ‘A’ by NAAC
By TCN News,
Aligarh/New Delhi: The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and the Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), both have secured Grade A by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), which recently conducted an assessment exercise at the respective University campuses.
Both the Universities had invited the NAAC for the first time.
Maharashtra Assembly Election: Results of Muslim candidates
Book Review: Reading with Allah—Madrasas in West Bengal
By Yoginder Sikand,TwoCircles.net,
Name of the Book: Reading with Allah—Madrasas in West Bengal
Author: Nilanjana Gupta
Publisher: Routledge, New Delhi
Year: 2010
Pages: 192
ISBN: 978-0-415-54459-7
Price: R. 595
Rural Muslims in Bihar more inclined to civil services
By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: Most of 37 Muslim candidates who qualified this year for top government jobs in Bihar by clearing Bihar Public Service Commission exam are from rural areas in the state. A heavy majority of aspiring as well as working civil servants are also from rural areas or small towns/qasbas. Urban Muslims, however, are more interested in easy and early earning – so prefer private jobs or business.
Phase 3: 48 seats, 13 Muslim candidates of major parties
By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
Assam Phase 1: 62 seats, 116 Muslim candidates but only 26 can win
By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
ये मेवात को जलाने की तीसरी कोशिश थी
अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net,
मैं तीसरी बार फिर से मेवात के तावड़ू क़स्बे में हूं. समाज को जला देने वाली दो घटनाओं की रिपोर्टिंग के...
One Hummer, 250 luxury cars and Rs 20,000 in toll fees: How an SP...
By Faisal Fareed, TwoCircles.net
Hummer is a car that dwarfs every other automobile bar the trucks, and is priced at over Rs 1 crore....
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