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		<title>Out of Reach: The Quiet Ways India’s Digital Push Leaves Rural Women Behind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 08:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Musheera Ashraf, Twocircles.net Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh: India’s digital story is often told through numbers. Millions of UPI transactions every minute. Seamless online services. Government schemes linked to apps. But far away from this vision, in villages where phones are shared and passwords are guessed, women continue to stand at the margins of a world that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bihar’s Long Voting Lines Shadowed by the Migration Express</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 12:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sami Ahmad, TwoCircles.net In Bihar the long queues seen outside polling booths on November 6 and 11 were matched only by the lines that soon formed at railway stations. As soon as voting ended thousands of people rushed to catch trains the cheapest and most familiar route out of the state. These were not regular [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Twelve Years On Pink Autos Still Run Without Support in Ranchi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2025 06:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Midhat Samra, TwoCircles Ranchi: Suman Devi watched me photograph the pink auto and said that people come here to click pictures because the bright colour fascinates them but few bother to understand the struggles of the women who drive them. The pink auto scheme was launched in Jharkhand in 2013 after the Nirbhaya case to address [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Behind Closed Doors: Kashmiri Women Battle the Silent Burden of PCOS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2025 10:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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, while living in a girls’ hostel in Srinagar, her periods suddenly stopped. One month passed, then another. The silence of her body frightened her. She whispered her worry to her [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Nitish Kumar Still Seeks Muslim Votes: Ploy or Passion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 04:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sami Ahmad, TwoCircles.net Patna: Nitish Kumar, despite being a partner and facilitator of the BJP, still seeks Muslim votes in the upcoming Bihar Assembly election. His supporters argue that Nitish Kumar has managed to contain the BJP’s divisive policies, but many Muslims ask a pertinent question “Why did Nitish Kumar ditch us on the Waqf law?” [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bihar Election 2025: For Muslims, the Question Is Representation or Survival?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2025 12:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Sami Ahmad, TwoCircles.net Patna: As Bihar heads toward the 2025 Assembly elections, the Muslim community, which makes up 17.7 percent of the state’s population, stands at a political crossroads. With 243 seats in the Assembly and two competing alliances, the opposition Grand Alliance (Mahagathbandhan) and the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Muslims face a familiar [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>From Mirza Ghalib to Meena Kumari, Traces of Time in Delhi’s Gali Qasim Jan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Adeeba Jamal, TwoCircles.net Old Delhi’s narrow lanes have a life all their own. Every twist and turn carries a piece of history, some shining and some fading like old ink. In Ballimaran, there is Gali Qasim Jan, a name remembered even when its history is almost forgotten. It does not announce its past with plaques [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>‘Do Gaz Zameen Na Mili Kuu-e-Yaar Mein’: Muslims in Delhi Struggle to Find a Place to Bury Their Dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 06:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Farheen Saifi, TwoCircles.net “Kitna hai bad-naseeb ‘Zafar’ dafn ke liye, Do gaz zameen bhi na mili kuu-e-yaar mein.” (How unfortunate is Zafar, even in death, he was denied a place to rest in his beloved land) New Delhi: The couplet written by last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar over 160 years ago, when he was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Scalpel Over Choice? How Hospitals in India Are Turning Childbirths Into Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 08:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Aditya Sharma, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: When 33-year-old Khushboo Jaiswal walked into a private hospital in Delhi, she was expecting a calm and natural childbirth filled with gentle pushes and the rhythm of labour. Within hours, she found herself on an operating table. “I was admitted to a hospital in Burari, Central Delhi, when my water [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Clean Streets With Closed Doors? Muslims in Indore ‘Face Boycotts and Targeted Exclusion’</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 06:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Adnan Ali, TwoCircles.net Indore: Madhya Pradesh&#8217;s Indore, which is often celebrated as the cleanest in India, is facing a growing unease that has nothing to do with sanitation. The city is witnessing rising social tension as reports of alleged discrimination and boycott calls against the Muslim community often come to light. After targeting comedian Munawar [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>They Stole 9 Years of My Life’: Framed in 2006 Mumbai Blasts, Wahid Shaikh Demands Rs 9 Crore for Wrongful Jail</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 06:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Price of Injustice? Innocent Muslim Man Spent 9 Years in Jail, Now Demands Rs 9 Crore Nikhat Fatima, TwoCircles.net Wahid Shaikh, one of the 13 men accused in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts that killed 188 people and injured hundreds, was arrested by Maharashtra’s Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) for allegedly plotting the conspiracy. After nine [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rs 5 That Cost a Life: Muslim Vendor Murdered in Broad Daylight in Bihar Over Tiny Market Fee</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shahzeen Khan, TwoCircles.net Patna: On a muggy September evening, Kako market in Bihar’s Jehanabad district came alive at dusk. The bargaining voices of women cut through the sputter of two-wheelers inching past, while hawkers arranged neat rows of brinjals, cucumbers and green chilies under the dim glow of hanging bulbs. For nearly four decades, one [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Once a Rival to Taj Mahal, Mughal Gem Bibi Ka Maqbara in Aurangabad Struggles to Survive, Loses Its Luster</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 09:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Aditya Porwal &#38; Sumit Singh, TwoCircles.net Aurangabad (Maharashtra): Bibi Ka Maqbara, the 17th-century Mughal monument in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, is slipping into ruin. Known as the &#8220;Taj of the Deccan&#8221;, its blackened marble, cracked walls and fading engravings reveal a neglect. Built in 1651 by Aurangzeb in memory of his wife Dilras Banu Begum (Rabia [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Born Poor, Mauled to Death: Tribal Infants Allegedly Killed by Rats in MP’s Largest Govt Hospital, Admin Attempted to Cremate as ‘Unclaimed’</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 04:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Adnan Ali, TwoCircles.net Bhopal: An appalling incident has come to light from Indore in Madhya Pradesh, exposing criminal negligence and the collapse of basic healthcare in the state. At Maharaja Yeshwantrao Government Hospital, the city’s largest state-run facility, two newborns died after being mauled by rats inside the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The horror surfaced [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bihar: Muslim Man Busy With Sons’ Wedding Preparations Taken by Police, Family Gets Body Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 15:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sami Ahmad, TwoCircles.net Patna (Bihar): Mohammad Naseer Shah was busy with the preparations for weddings of his two sons, Nasaruddin and Ehsan Shah, on the night of September 5. The house was alive with guests and sounds of their chatter, when everything suddenly turned upside down. Few police men from Raja Pakar police station in Vaishali [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>From Theft to Trend, The Untold Story of Kolhapuri Chappals and the Exploited Artisans Who Made Them</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sanjana Chawla, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: The global fashion industry has long been under scrutiny for its recurring pattern of cultural appropriation, particularly when it comes to India’s rich heritage. A recent controversy involving luxury brand Prada and its &#8220;leather flat sandals&#8221;, which are strikingly similar to India’s Kolhapuri chappals, has led to a debate, exposing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Where the Saree Was Born, the Thread Is Breaking: 50% US Tariff Pushes Banarasi Saree Industry to the Brink</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 07:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Aradhana Pandey, TwoCircles.net Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh): The city of Varanasi, once the shimmering epicentre of India’s silk legacy, now finds its Banarasi saree industry in deep distress. With the United States (its largest premium silk market) imposing a steep 50% tariff on Indian textile imports, the fate of nearly 8 lakh artisans, traders and workers hangs precariously [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>When the Waters Came: Inside the Flood Havoc Across Jammu and Kashmir</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Arsheed Ahmad, twoCircles.net Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir — The floodwaters crept in silently, under the cover of night. No sirens, no alerts — only the growing roar of rivers breaking their bounds, of bunds collapsing, and of memories from 2014 coming back with haunting clarity. As torrential rains lashed the region in early September, large [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>‘Revert to Be Buried’: In Chhattisgarh, Even Death Offers Tribal Christians No Escape From ‘Ghar Wapsi’</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Poonam Masih, TwoCircles.net Jagdalpur (Chhattisgarh): “What could I do? There was immense pressure on me to do ghar wapsi (homecoming or return to Hinduism). If I had not, they would not have let me contest the election, let alone win it,” says Kaner Kashyap, Congress candidate from Errakot Gram Panchayat (village council), who, after converting [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>First Bulldozers, Ballot Next: Delhi Slum Residents Say They Lost Homes And Now Are Being Denied Their Right to Vote</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Unzila Sheikh, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: Anil Singh, 30, was born in Bhoomiheen Camp, a settlement in southeast Delhi, now bulldozed, where his parents, migrants from Bihar, had lived since 1984. On June 11 this year, Singh, his wife and their two daughters stood by as JCB excavator flattened their jhuggi during a demolition drive. Days [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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