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By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net On Tuesday, June 6, Gulzar Ahmed Wani, a PhD scholar arrested in July 2001 was finally set free, his shackles...

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad as Educationist

By Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam, 1857 is a watershed in Indian history when with the fall of Delhi, British sway was fully established all over India. Men of substance and vision like Sir Syed were quick to realise that the rout had come because the Indian side had fallen behind the British in the realm of knowledge of all kinds, especially that of science and technology.

The untold story behind the Sabarmati riverfront

By Vanya Mehta, TwoCircles.net, The Sabarmati riverfront, for Ahmedabad residents, is a welcomed respite of clean walkways and greenery. Young middle class teenagers safely venture out with their friends in the evening to enjoy the pleasant views of the river, watching the riverfront light up. The elderly take their morning walks nearby adolescent trees, before the heat settles in for the day. Gujarati tourism, boasted by Chief Minister and BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, is given a further facelift by the presence of this cultural landmark that stretches 11 kilometers across the length of the Sabarmati River.

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Resistance from within: When Muslim women spoke to each other, for each other

By Afreen Firdaus Idrees for Twocircles.net The All India Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has monopolized the ideological debate on the issue of the rights of...

10 years of Jharkhand: Whither Muslims?

Special series on Jharkhand’s Muslims- Part- 1 By Mahtab Alam and Mary Abraham for TwoCircles.net,

Marginalised students of JNU can now speak for themselves: Bhupali Magare, President, BAPSA

By Atul Anand and Dhrubo Jyoti for Twocircles.net Bhupali Magare, one of the students suspended from JNU for speaking out against the authoritarian decisions...

Did Ishrat Jahan, one of the petitioners in Triple Talaq, lie about her divorce?

By Mirza Mosaraf Hossain, TwoCircles.net Over the past few years, the issue of instant Triple Talaq has been discussed, criticised, debated and analysed a lot....

Saudi-based NRI joins hands with Super 30 to help talented minority students

Patna, (IANS): A Saudi Arabia-based NRI has joined hands with Super 30, a free coaching centre which helps children from poor families reach the prestigious...

Municipal election 2015: Kolkata returns 22 Muslim councilors, two of them independent

Muslim-led parties such as the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) and Kerala based Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) as well as Welfare Party of India (WPI) could not win a single seat. Three candidates of SDPI, one candidate of WPI and two candidates of IUML jointly got only 590 votes. By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net, Kolkata: Ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) again retained absolute majority in the civic body elections with the Mamata Banerjee-led party winning 114 of the 144 seats. Rivals Left Front alliance won 15, BJP seven, Congress five and independent candidates won in three seats. The election was held in 144 wards on Saturday, April 25 and the result was declared on Tuesday, April 28.

26 Fellows of Zakat India Foundation clear UPSC exams

By Twocircles.net Staff Reporter New Delhi: When the results for the UPSC exams came out on Friday, it was a proud moment for Zafar Mahmood, President of...

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Muslim organizations of Kerala

By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net TCN Malabar series: Part 10 There are about 8 million Muslims in Kerala and the experts will tell you that it will be difficult to find anyone who is not already attached to a Muslim organization. Kerala is full of competing Muslim religious, social, and political organizations that are very active in the state.

#HajFacts : हज पर जाने के लिए कितना खर्च करते हैं भारतीय मुसलमान?

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net नई दिल्ली : देश में एक आम ग़लतफ़हमी है कि सरकार हज पर जाने वाले भारतीय मुसलमानों पर खर्च करती है,...

I am not a boot-licker: Dr. Ejaz Ali

By Manzar Bilal, TwoCircles.net, Dr Ejaz Ali who was elected to Rajay Sabha in March 2008 by Janata Dal (United) from Bihar has been dismissed from the party. Dr. Ejaz Ali who is also the president of All India United Muslim Morcha is going to hold a program on 1st November in Patna where expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh is invited. In an interview with Manzar Bilal of TwoCircles.net, he talked on the reasons of differences with the party and purpose behind holding the program.

89 years since the Pookkottur Battle of the 1921 Malabar Revolt

By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent, Kochi: It has been 89 years since 300 brave sons of Malabar sacrificed their lives for the freedom of their motherland in one of the rare armed rebellions in the history of the freedom struggle. August 26 of 1921 was a Friday and the brave Mappilas (Muslims of Malabar) fought against the imperialist British fiercely in the Pookkottur Battle.

Lucknow Zardozi Artisans Are Hanging By A Thread

Hasan Zia Rizvi | Twocircles.net Lucknow has carved out a niche for the world-famous art form of Zardozi. In recent years, the art form has...

UPSC 2014 result declared: 38 Muslims among 1236 successful candidates; 4 toppers are women

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, New Delhi: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) declared the final result of the 2014 civil services examinations on Saturday afternoon....

The Tablighi Jamaat in Mewat — Part 2

By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net, The Tablighi Jamaat in Mewat series Maulana Ismail and the Meos

Role of Media in pushing negative stereotypes of Muslims

By Salma Shah, TwoCircles.net The rise of anti-Muslim hatred across the globe is the ramification of the negative stereotypical depiction of the religion of Islam...

Mr PM, listen to Muslim women who faced sexual harassment in Delhi violence before...

Very shameful acts have happened to Muslim women during Delhi violence There are allegations ranging from tearing clothes to rape, many girls...

Pulwama attack: Curfew imposed in Jammu after rightwingers attack Muslim colonies, properties

TCN News Following the dastardly attack in which 49 CRPF Jawans were killed in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir, communal tensions ran high in Jammu following...

Khushboo Mirza, member of Chandrayaan-1 team, talks to TCN

By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net, Patna: When the whole India was basking in the glory of launching of Chandrayaan-1 it was also the turn of Chaugori Mohalla, a tiny, traditional Muslim neighborhood in UP's Amroha district to take pride in the successful launching of the satellite. A daughter of the village was part of the mission Chandrayaan. The villagers are very proud of her so much so that they have started calling it Khushboo Mirza’s village.

Is Javed Ahmad Ghamidi phenomena a New Fitna?

By Mushtaq Ul Haq Ahmad Sikander Recently a book release function was held in Kashmir Valley in which a book Fikr e Ghamidi: Ek Tajziyati...

Manipur’s first Chief Minister Md Alimuddin remembered

By Dr Syed Ahmed for TwoCircles.net, Imphal: Md Alimuddin, the first Chief Minister of Manipur after it attained statehood, was remembered on the 42nd foundation day of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Centre, which later developed into Manipur University (MU).

Kerala Minister was right: Moahmmed Ali did belong to Kerala

By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net Kozhikode: The death of Mohammed Ali was one of those moments when the popularity of a person went much beyond the...

Justice V. Khalid: An immaculate judicial career

MUHAMMED NOUSHAD profiles Justice V Khalid, renowned Supreme Court judge and veteran jurist, a man of integrity and knowledge.

How jailed politician Atiq Ahmed’s candidacy can help the BJP in Phulpur by-elections

By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net The roads leading to the city of Allahabad from all the surrounding major districts are a major mess, thanks to the...

Maha Kumbh: A Muslim Man’s Unlikely Hospitality to Hindu Pilgrims in Varanasi

Pavan Kumar Maurya, TwoCircles.net Varanasi: Hindu devotees from various states are flocking to the ancient city, also known as Kashi, for holy dips in the...

Remembering the Nellie Massacre of 18 February 1983

By Nilim Dutta, Even after three decades of the Nellie Massacre, Muslims in Assam continue to face violence and displacement. Muslim villagers in the Amguri Relief Camp in Chirang District of Assam in September 2012.

Women’s College of Aligarh Muslim University

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West Bengal Higher Secondary results declared; five Muslim students feature in Top 20 ranks

By Mirza Mosaraf Hossain, TwoCircles.net Five Muslim students secured ranks in the Top 20 in the recent West Bengal Higher Secondary results for 2017 published...

From cooking tips to charity: Meet the ‘vlogger family’ from Malappuram

By Najiya O, TwoCircles.Net Vlogging or video-blogging is nothing new in this modern age of technology. But there is an interesting vlogger family worth knowing...

मुस्लिम परिवार से रसूख की जंग में हुकुम सिंह ने उठाया था कैराना से...

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Father of lynched Pune techie Mohsin Shaikh passes away without getting justice

By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Sadiq Shaikh, father of Mohsin Shaikh, the Pune-based techie who was lynched by a Hindutva mob in 2014 passed away on...

Arshi Hasmat tops WB Judicial Service Exams; 19 Muslims among 117 selected in...

By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net, Kolkata: Arshi Hasmat, from Kolkata, has topped the 2014 Judicial Service Examinations of West Bengal, making her only the second Muslim to top the coveted test in recent years. In 2008, Bushra Adil had topped the same examination. Incidentally, on both occasions laurels to the community were brought by women.

राजस्थान का नागौर जिला दलितों की कब्रगाह बनता जा रहा है

By भंवर मेघवंशी, राजस्थान के नागौर में हुए दलितों के जनसंहार पर भंवर मेघवंशी की यह रिपोर्ट इस मुल्क का चेहरा है, जो रोज ब रोज दलित-मुस्लिम-आदिवासी बस्तियों में देखने को मिलता है. भंवर राजस्थान में दलित, आदिवासी और घुमन्तु समुदाय के लिए संघर्षरत है. प्रतिरोध से साभार.

Irfan Habib, son of a madrasa teacher, bags double gold medal at Jadavpur University

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter Irfan Habib, a student of Mathematics at Jadavpur University, made his family and community proud by winning two gold medals during...

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Banking on quality education: Mission of Mansoor Durrani

Passionate banker who spends all his off-work time and 90 % of earning for spreading quality education in his community By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Bhopal: He could have been just another banker, earning a fat salary, laughing his way to the bank and generally spending a life of luxury. But it is not his wont to earn and spend for himself. Troubled by the pathetic situation of the Muslim community members, most lacking even basic education for various reasons, the banker decided to pitch in his share for the community’s welfare. With one student and one teacher, he started a school in city’s Abbas Nagar area in 2003. After a lot of research, he chose the International Baccalaureate (IB) course and clubbed it with Islamic values.

Umaiyah Khan not permitted to write NTA NET exam because of her Hijab

By S.N. Ansari “It clearly says in Constitution that we are free to follow any religion yet this chauvinistic government servants didn't let me appear in...

Madrasa education myth and reality

By Asghar Ali Engineer, Madrasas have been at the centre of controversy since 9/11 attack on New York towers. It was thought that attacks were planned by Taliban who were students of madrasas run by Muslims of Wahabi ideology. Though as far as 9/11 attack was concerned, the madrasas in focus were from North West Frontier Province but in India too madrasas came under fire especially from those who were politically motivated and also from a section of media which took a biased view.

हाथरस : 9 महीने से जेल में बंद मसूद अहमद के बिखरते ख्वाब, परिवार...

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2005 Hyderabad suicide blasts: Ten Muslims declared innocent after 12 years in jail, but...

By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Every once in awhile, you will see small news items appearing in your feed. They are mostly filed by news agencies...

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TCN Impact: Maharashtra govt re-schedules Talathi exam date, Muslim youth relieved

By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: Muslim youths aspiring for a government job in Maharashtra are now relieved after the government rescheduled the date...

Dr Mumtaz Naiyer from Bihar part of a team that makes breakthrough discovery for...

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter In a development that will bring a smile to Indians and especially people from Bihar, Dr Mumtaz Naiyer, who belongs to...

World’s 500 Most Influential Muslims: Mufti Akhtar Raza Khan, Mahmood Madani, Badruddin Ajmal included

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: Among 500 Most Influential Muslims of the world, there are more than a dozen personalities from India. The top 50, however, include three known figures from the country of second largest Muslim population: Barelwi leader Mufti Akhtar Raza Khan, Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind leader Maulana Mahmood Madani and Dawoodi Bohra leader Dr Syedna Mohammad Burhannuddin.

Lakhs bid tearful adieu to MIM chief Salahuddin Owaisi

By Mohammed Siddique, TwoCircles.net Hyderabad: Senior Muslim leader, veteran Parliamentarian and Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen President Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi was bid a tearful adieu by lakhs of his supporters on Tuesday when he was laid to rest at the Dargah Agha Dawood in Hyderabad.

Islamic law of divorce

By A. Faizur Rahman for TwoCircles.net,

Meet Ariba Khan: A Young Municipal Councillor from Shaheen Bagh

Aatika S. | TwoCircles.net Ariba Khan from the Indian National Congress, and Municipal Councillor from Abul Fazal Enclave in Jamia Nagar, New Delhi, speaks to...

Meet Sadaf Chaudhary, who wants to serve country by becoming an ambassador

UPSC topper among Muslim aspirants, Sadaf Chaudhary of Roorkee uttarakhand, who secured the overall 23rd rank, is of firm opinion that improvement in the...

Muslims of Azamgarh: who are they, what are they?

By Razi Raziuddin The district of Azamgarh has been much in the news at present, mostly with terror and violence-related events and episodes. Earlier, Azamgarh had been in the news for its scholars, its poets, its freedom fighters, and its institutions and religious seminaries. These days it has become fashionable, especially with the media, to relate Muslim fundamentalism related pro-activism (in the North and Western India) with Azamgarh. It seems that all roads of illegalities, be it a hawala/money scam or a bombing episode elsewhere, are connected with the district of Azamgarh.

For Kerala politicians, Abdul Nasar Madani is now a victim who has been denied...

By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net In the last 17 years, Abdul Nasar Madani, the founder-leader of People’s Democratic Party, has spent less than three years outside...

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The Karchobi embroiderers of Marehra

By Meher Ali, TwoCircles.net  Rifat Bano (30) sits on the brick floor of her home in Marehra, Etah, chatting with her sister Sabina and their...

KCR keeps his promise; Mehmood Ali becomes first Deputy CM of Telangana

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Hyderabad: Taking oath on the name of Allah in chaste Urdu Mohammed Mehmood Ali, a dairy farm baron from old Hyderabad became the first Deputy Chief Minister of Telangana.

शैख़ुल हदीस मौलाना मोहम्मद यूनुस जौनपुरी नहीं रहे

आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर : आज सहारनपुर के विश्वप्रसिद्ध इस्लामिक गुरू शैख़ुल हदीस मौलाना मुहम्मद यूनुस जौनपुरी का लम्बी बीमारी के बाद निधन हो...

Hyderabad based NGO to pay tuition fees of 150 minority students who wish to...

TCN News Barabanki (UP): Hyderabad based Non Government Organization, Sahayata Trust in association with Jahangirabad Institute of Technology (JIT), Barabanki (Uttar Pradesh) has announced to...

These Muslim students from West Bengal fought poverty, hardship to qualify NEET

By Mirza Mosaraf Hossain, TwoCircles.net  The son of a weaver, Jisan Hossain from West Bengal’s Barasat subdivision, has ranked 916 in the recently published results...

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The Telegraph redefine newspaper front pages

By IndScribe Telegraph, the Calcutta-based English newspaper, has redefined the front pages of newspapers. Creative, catchy and often shocking headlines, apart from unique presentation has...

Rajsamand murder: Deceased had been working in the region for more than a decade,...

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter The gruesome murder of Mohammed Afrajul Khan, alias Mohammed Bhatta Shaikh in Rajasthan’s Rajsamand district has shaken the entire country. In...

Meet Rehana Khan, a daredevil biker who rides in the ‘Maut Ka Kuan’

By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Rehana Khan, the daredevil stuntwoman, from Chhattisgarh was in Hyderabad last month February 2019, and we met up with her to...

The plight of Meitei Pangals or Manipur Muslims remains unheard

Syed Ali Mujtaba Manipuri Muslims or Meitei Pangals are not jumping into the current tribal war between Meitei and the Kuki. They are not ready...

The Muslim Kannadiga

By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net 'Fascist forces have carefully targeted the media. They recognise that infiltrating the media is crucial for their political project. In contrast, the media is not even on the agenda of secular forces', muses 44 year-old Abdussalam Puthige, editor of Vartha Bharathi, Karnataka's only Muslim-run Kannada language daily newspaper.

मुसलमानों को ‘दीन बचाओ, देश बचाओ’ कांफ्रेंस से क्या मिला?

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net पटना के ऐतिहासिक गांधी मैदान में इमारत-ए-शरिया के बैनर तले ‘दीन बचाओ, देश बचाओ’ कांफ्रेंस में लाखों मुसलमान शरीक हुए. ...

He’s an RTI activist, not a terrorist: Why Bhatkalis believe Afaq Lanka’s arrest is...

While Shabbir Gangauli’s acquittal is a case of justice delivered albeit after nine years of torture, there are many Bhatkal residents who continue to...

BJP MLA grabs masjid land illegally in Varanasi, ten injured in ensuing clash

Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net   On Sunday night, communal tension erupted in Sigra area of Narendra Modi's constituency Varanasi on a case of land grabbing.    Newly elected BJP...

Abdul Hakeem Faizy Adrisseri: The first Indian to join the governing body of League...

By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net Malappuram might be thousands of miles away from Cairo, but that has never deterred the exchange of ideas and scholars. And...

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12 AMU students selected for SSESA scholarship

TCN News Aligarh: 12 students from Aligarh Muslim University have been selected for prestigious Sir Syed Excellence in Science Award (SSESA) scholarship. The result came after...

From studying in a madrasa to clearing the UPSC exams: The inspiring story of...

By Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Shahid Raza Khan may not have made it to the Top 10 in the UPSC results declared on April 5, which...

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Haryana police looking for Delhi bookie in betting racket

By IANS, Chandigarh : Haryana police have issued a search notice for a Delhi resident after they busted an inter-state cricket betting racket operating in Gurgaon and Delhi. The main accused Bobby Gujral of Delhi's upscale Malcha Marg area is absconding and the state police have alerted immigration check posts countrywide to prevent him from fleeing abroad. A police spokesman said here Tuesday that 139 mobile numbers have been identified that were being used in the betting racket.

Death of Fathima Latheef a blatant case of discrimination and Islamophobia, say students

By Daisy K, TwoCircles.net Just five months after Dr. Payal Tadvi, a medical student at Nair Hospital in Mumbai was driven to suicide due to...

Entrepreneur Habib Chowdhury spreading aroma in Laos to strengthen India’s ‘look east’ policy

Chowdhury is the founding chairman of HSMM Group that has become the largest Agarwood and Agar based Product’s Company in South East Asia from a humble background in Assam. By Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net, Guwahati: Lao People’s Democratic Republic (LPDR) is a small yet beautiful country in Southeast Asia, bordered by Burma and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south, and Thailand to the west.

RSS featured as ‘threat group’ on US-based Terrorism Watch list

By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: A US-based risk management and consulting company has put the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in its category of ‘Threat Group’ and called it “a shadowy, discriminatory group that seeks to establish a Hindu Rashtra, a Hindu Nation.”

Daily life of Darul Uloom students

By Manzar Bilal, TwoCircles.net, Part 4 of the seven part TwoCircles.net series on Darul Uloom Deoband

Muslim-hater politician to visit Dubai

By TwoCircles.net staff reporter Dubai: Seems odd but openly in a Muslim nation, a Muslim-hater politician is expected to be the keynote speaker at an...

Manipur: Meitei Armed Group Allegedly Assaults Muslim Boy, Forces Him to Eat Pork Over...

Mariyam Usmani, TwoCircles.net Tampakmayum Akhtar, who belonged to the Kwatka area of Imphal, the capital of ethnic conflict-torn Manipur, found his life turned upside down...

Recently declared West Bengal Civil Services Exam results reveal negligible Muslim participation

By Mirza Mosaraf Hossain, TwoCircles.net  West Bengal: The son of a day labourer, Dilbar Hossain, is among the 19 Muslim candidates out of the total...

Shah Faaiz Alam, an AMU Mechanical Engineering Postgraduate to join Indian Air Force

TCN News Aligarh : Bringing string of accolades to the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), one after the other; Shah Faaiz Alam, a Mechanical Engineering Postgraduate...

How Rahmani 30 has made a difference in these Muslim students career

At least 65 students, including one girl, of Rahmani 30 – an educational movement for underprivileged students started in Patna, Bihar by late Wali...

Man-made Drought in Maharashtra

By Dr. Parvez Mandviwala for TwoCircles.net, Drought is an extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply-...

Only 4 Muslims among 104 Padma awardees

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, New Delhi: Only four Muslim names feature in the list of 104 Padma awards, country’s highest civilian awards, announced each year on the occasion of the Republic Day.

“Chup Tazia” procession in Lucknow: A religious and cultural tradition

By Faisal Fareed,TwoCircles.net, Lucknow: Thousands of Shia muslims took out the traditional 'chup tazia' procession in old parts of Lucknow on Tuesday. The procession originated at 5 am from Imambara Nazim saheb and culminated at Roza-e-Kazmain at around 8 am as per the prescribed schedule. The procession is the sevent permitted procession as per the tripartite agreement between shia-sunni and district administration sealed in 1999.

Feroz Khan is a brand, who loves Modi, claims Sangh Parivar support to defeat...

By Mohd Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net, Hyderabad: Majlis-e-Itehadul Muslimeen is fighting tooth and nail to retain Nampally the only assembly seat they held in New City. Local powerful leader Feroz Khan a last election runner up is fighting election on TDP ticket in alliance with BJP and in spite of this unholy alliance he is bombastic on defeating Majlis from this Muslim dominated seat pedestal on some bizarre political calculations.

Bihar: Imarat-e-Shariah’s new chief is a man of technology, who believes ‘massive action’ can...

The new Amir (Chief) Ahmad Wali Faisal Rahmani of Imarat-e-Shariah has the challenging task of carrying forward and better the legacy of Imarat-e-Shariah which...

Bakht Khan: Winner of a lost battle

On India's independence day we remember a forgotten hero from our history By Asma Khan for TwoCircles.net Bakht Khan: Winner of a lost battle

Secularism and its problems in India

By Asghar Ali Engineer It will be no exaggeration if I say secularism is the very life breath of Indian politics. One can hardly conceive of Indian polity sans secularism. However, it also faces several problems in Indian context. We will throw light and discuss the problematic of secularism in India. Before we do so we must explain meaning and context of Indian secularism.

India Islamic Cultural Centre – 1981-2018 Genesis, Aims, Obligations

By Dr Syed Zafar Mahmood At Aligarh’s Marris Road the sprawling Government of India Complex spanning eleven thousand square yards used to be my office-cum-residence...

Ramabai Nagar: 17 Years, 11 deaths, 26 injured and Justice is still awaiting

By Yogesh Maitreya, Daisy Katta, “That firing was something as if it was firing of India and Pakistan war” said Bhante Kashyap, reminiscently, one of the eye witnesses of Ramabai Nagar homicide of 1997, in the heartland locality of Mumbai, Ghatkopar East. Another narrator and also an eye witness of this arrogantly brutal massacre of Dalits in Ramabai Nagar, has depicted how thirteen years old boy had been shot dead by police’s bullet hitting his skull and splintered it in two pieces. Few more eye witnesses as well as victims, after seventeen years of the incidence have gathered courage to come up on the stage, provided by ‘Ramabai Nagar Hatyakand Sangharsh Samitee’ at their arranged conference at Ramabai Nagar, on the seventeenth anniversary of this incidence.

Social activist Najmal Babu denied Islamic burial by family, writer Kamal C Chavara adopts...

By Najiya O, TwoCircles.net Kozhikode: Former Naxal leader and social activist TN Joy aka Najmal Babu passed away on Tuesday, October 2 at Kodungallur, Thrissur...

Muslim candidate tops WB civil service examination for 2013

14 Muslims among total 113 qualified By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net, Kolkata: Muhammad Nazir Hossain has topped the West Bengal Civil Services (Executive) Examination 2013 Group ‘A’ and possibly become the first Muslim to achieve this distinction. The result of the examination was declared on May 11 but put up on the website with details only on May 15.

मौलाना अरशद मदनी का बयान और बिगड़ गयी दारुल उलूम और तबलीग़ जमात में...

आस मोहम्मद कैफ, TwoCircles.net देवबंद/कांधला : पश्चिमी उत्तर प्रदेश के सबसे इज़्ज़तदार मज़हबी घरानों में से एक कांधला वाले 'हजरत जी' का खानदान है. मुज़फ्फरनगर...

Dalit graduate tops UPSC exam; 30 Muslim candidates also make it

TCN News The UPSC results have been declared yesterday 5th April. And 759 candidates have passed the exams qualifying for appointments in Indian Administrative Service...

Unable to appoint teachers despite extreme shortage, madrasas in West Bengal face tough times

By Mirza Mosaraf Hossain, TwoCircles.net In India, madrasas have played an important role in the education system for the past many centuries and even though...

मेरठ: दिल्ली दंगा पीड़ितों के लिए राशन इकट्ठा कर रहे लोगों पर, पुलिस ने...

स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर, Twocircles.net मेरठ। भले ही यूपी पुलिस के कुछ अफ़सर लोगोंं का भरोसा जीतने के अथक प्रयत्न कर रहे हो मगर फिर भी अल्पसंख्यक...

“भले ही सरकार हमारे बच्चों को उपद्रवी कहे और अखबार दंगाई! मगर वो देश...

<strong आसमोहम्मद कैफ । TwoCircles.net मेरठ- नागरिकता संशोधन कानून के विरुद्ध उत्तर प्रदेश में बड़े पैमाने पर हुई हिंसा के बाद अब तक कुल 21 लोगों...

AMU ranked second in US News Education, Best Global Universities Rankings

TCN News Aligarh: The US News Education, Best Global Universities Rankings that has ranked AMU the second best among Indian universities and its Department of...

‘My aim is to serve the underprivileged,’ says Muslim surgeon from Hyderabad after cracking...

Dr Mustafa Hashmi is the only Muslim candidate from the south Indian state of Telangana making the UPSC list. He is one among the...

Thousands of Muslims celebrate Shivaji’s birth anniversary across Maharashtra

By Imran Inamdar, TwoCircles.net One of the biggest successes of the Hindu right-wing has been to portray the great Maratha leader Shivaji as an anti-Muslim...

Controversial Facebook post on Islam leads to communal violence in North Parganas, Bengal

By Mirza Mosaraf Hossain, TwoCircles.net Over the past six months, communal tensions have been simmering across the state of West Bengal, with various incidents reported...

Interview with Adv M S Khan who secured acquittals in terror cases in India

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, Advocate Muhammad Shahwar Khan, known as M S Khan, practices in the Patiala House court in New Delhi. He has taken up several terror cases and secured acquittals. In an interview with Mumtaz Alam Falahi of TwoCircles.net, Khan rips through some terror cases wherein innocent Muslim youths were implicated and then evidence were created. Presently Khan is defending Ziaur Rahman, a Jamia Millia Islamia student picked up after the Batla House encounter and implicated in the Delhi blasts of September 2008.

IUML gifts 61 houses to families affected by Muzaffarnagar riots

By Shafeeq Hudawi, TwoCircles.net Kozhikode: The Arabic phrase Baithu Rahma simply means house of mercy. But residents of Manthwara in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh will...

Holding onto Ambedkar: The emergence of BAPSA and the challenge to Left and Right

By Abhay Kumar for TwoCircles.net Hundreds of students cheered and clapped when a senior activist of the Ambedkarite students’ organisation BAPSA (Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students’...

Uttar Pradesh: 16-century historic mosque demolished in Prayagraj under ‘road widening’ project

In August last year, the Allahabad high court had dismissed a writ petition moved against the proposed removal of Shahi Masjid.  Sana Ejaz |...

16 from Zakat Foundation, 27 from Jamia Millia Islamia clear UPSC exams

By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: For the very first time, more than 50 Muslims have made it to the final list of the...

Known for his honesty and simple life, Alam Badi becomes MLA for the fifth...

Between the politics of muscle power and money power in Purvanchal, Alam Badi has made a mark for himself due to his simplicity and...

Ahmedabad turns 600: Day to recall Vasant-Rajab sacrifice

By Nikhat for TwoCircles.net, Vasant and Rajab lived together, breathed together and died together for a noble cause but death separated them. They will never be separated. The spirit of both Vasant -Rajab will remain with us --- Hemalata Hegishte, Vasant’s sister on their martyrdom. 26 February 2010

Bihar’s NEET topper Zeya Bilal credits success to Rahmani 30

Mohammad Zeya Belal from a remote village in Bihar has topped the list of successful candidates from Bihar in this year’s NEET. A Rahmani...

जमीयत के रामदेव की पतञ्जलि को जारी किए गए ‘हलाल सर्टिफिकेट’ पर बवाल

आसमोहम्मद कैफ़।Twocircles.net बाबा रामदेव की कंपनी पतंजलि को जमीयत उलेमा ए हिन्द हलाल ट्रस्ट की तरफ़ से जारी किए गए हलाल सर्टिफिकेट पर बवाल मच...

Tamil Nadu Towheed Jamath demand apology from Times of India for associating them with...

TCN News After the bombings in Sri Lanka on Easter, 21st April that killed 320 people, there have been speculations about the individuals/ group behind...

The law says India can’t export beef. Yet, India is one of the leading...

Afroz Alam Sahil, TwoCircles.net New Delhi : The recent debates over the consumption of beef in India seems to have everyone confused. India continues to...

Muslims in Shillong struggling to make their presence felt

By Mudassir Rizwan, TwoCircles.net,

Muslims settled down in Shillong in 17th century though, they are at best still struggling to make their presence felt. With migration of Muslims from Hindi heartland including Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, the position of local Muslims have got strengthened a little in Shillong that is dominated by Christians.

‘Muslims have become demolition targets:’ Jamia Nagar residents on DDA demolitions

On February 15, Delhi Development Authority (DDA) demolished 50 structures in Jamia Nagar, a predominately Muslim majority neighbourhood in New Delhi. The area...

Obituary: Maulana Muhammad Salim Qasmi, an ocean of knowledge

By Manzar Imam for TwoCircles.net With scarcity of good ulama, the passing away of Maulana Muhammad Salim Qasmi, rector of Al-Jamia Al-Islamia Darul Uloom Waqf,...

AMU: Public Relations Officer Omar Peerzada’s degree and experience under scanner, reveals RTI

By Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net After a series of suspicious appointments in Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), the appointment of Public Relation Officer Omar Saleem Peerzada has...

Zakat Foundation 29 Aspirants cracked UPSC Main Exam

TCN News: Zakat foundation of India is providing a excellence in civil services since three decades. Every year UPSC aspirants are qualifying IAS, IPS, IFS,...

Maulana Azad Minorities Finance & Development Corporation comes up with loan schemes

By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,

Mumbai: Now the lower income groups among the minorities need not worry about getting a loan for education or business as the Maulana Azad Minorities Financial Development Corporation (MAMFDC) has got huge funds for the purpose.

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan on Muslim leadership in contemporary India

By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is one of India’s leading Islamic scholars. Based in New Delhi, he has authored over 100 books, and edits the monthly journal Al-Risala. He also heads the Centre for Peace and Spirituality. In this interview with Yoginder Sikand, he talks about the Muslim leadership in contemporary India. What do you have to say about the Muslim leadership in present-day India? How has it been able to address the many issues and challenges that Muslims are today confronted with?

Meet Dr. Mubeena Ramzan, the first Kashmiri woman to feature among world’s 500 most...

By Auqib Javeed, TwoCircles.net Dr Mubeena Ramzan of Kashmir created history earlier this month when she became the first Kashmiri woman to be enlisted among...

ICP wrote to Home Minister, Urges to rollback CAA, sought an appointment

TCN News Interfaith Coalition for Peace wrote a letter to the home minister Amit Shah demanding complete rollback of CAA. ICP also sought an appointment...
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