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18 lakh taxpayers to get I-T notices to explain 'suspicious' deposits made after Nov 8
NEW DELHI: The Income Tax department+ has identified 18 lakh people who have made 'suspicious' cash deposits post demonetisation+ , including those having deposited over Rs 5 lakh. The department will send emails and SMSs seeking explanation about their source of funds. These people will have to
I have been totally misquoted: IPS officer Maria clarifies his comment on Sheena Bora murder case
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India]: Clarifying his statement on the Sheena Bora Murder Case that led to chaos a day before, Director-General of Home Guards and former Police Commissioner of Mumbai Rakesh Maria today said he was totally misquoted on his comment and it can be verified with the respective jo
Budget 2017: President Pranab Mukherjee addresses joint session of Parliament

Indian President Pranab Mukherjee started off budget 2017 by addressing both the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday. The Economic Survey will be tabled later in the day while the Rail and General Budget will be presented together on Wednesday, a departure from tradition. Some 34 bills will also be i
Ishrat Jahan encounter accused to continue as Gujarat top cop

Gandhinagar: Gujarat's Acting Director General of Police P.P. Pandey, who is an accused in the killing of Ishrat Jahan and associates in an alleged shootout, was given a three-month extension of service on Tuesday, the day he retired. The state government's recommendation to extend Pandey's servi
Jammu-Srinagar national highway open to one-way traffic

One-way traffic is allowed on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway, a traffic department official said on Tuesday. “Keeping in view the condition of the highway and the inclement weather, one-way traffic from Jammu to Srinagar will be allowed,” the official said. No vehicle would be allowed to move i
Polio vaccine drive to reach 5 lakh people
Kurnool, 31 January, 2016 - District Immunisation Officer (DIO) Dr R Venkata Ramana said that elaborative arrangements have been made to make the pulse polio drive, a grand success. Addressing a press conference here at District Medical and Health Office, the DIO said, as part of the national immuni
UP Election 2017: With Akhilesh-Rahul show, Congress has set 2019 game plan in motion

LUCKNOW, 29 Jan 2017:The takeaways from the joint appearance of Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav yesterday are significant, both in terms of optics and substance. Two dapper young leaders from different parties sharing an easy camaraderie was visually pleasing. They brought freshness and warmth
Shri Karimul Haque, man behind ‘bike ambulance’ in Jalpaiguri, to receive Padma Shri

The Ministry of Home Affairs announced the list of Padma Awards, and while the list contains several eminent personalities, we at Twocircles.net were particularly happy to see the name of one person: Karimul Haque, from West Bengal. Why? Read on. In November 2012, Twocircles.net correspondent Zaid
Prabhu seeks NIA probe into train derailments
New Delhi: Suspecting the possibility of sabotage in the recent spate of train derailments, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has written to Home Minister Rajnath Singh seeking a detailed probe by the National Investigating Agency into the incidents. In a letter dated January 23 to the Home Minister
UAE India’s most valued partner: Modi

New Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday described the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as one of India’s “most valued partners and a close friend in an important region of the world”. In his press statement after holding talks with Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme
Rahul attacks Modi in his Republic day message
New Delhi: In a veiled attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi today said India becoming a Republic on January 26, 1950 meant that it would not accept whims of any emperor nor a dictator. In his Republic Day message greeting countrymen, the Congress Vice President also made an obliqu
Terror threat sounded in Telangana and Andhra

A high alert has been sounded on the eve of Republic Day on Thursday in the two Telugu speaking States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The alert followed in the wake of warning by terrorist groups. The IB has warned that there was possibility of the SIMI and IM groups activate sleeper cells. Fol
Organ donations under scanner

The government has decided to bring the entire organ transplant scenario in the State — live and deceased donor organ transplants happening in both public and private sector hospitals — under the scanner, in an attempt to bring better accountability and transparency to the process of organ donation.
After ‘Beimaan’, BJP leader compared SRK to Dawood Ibrahim

New Delhi: BJP General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Tuesday slammed Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, even comparing him to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, after the death of a person at the Vadodara railway station during the promotional tour of the actor’s movie “Raees”. One man — social
ED questions Zakir Naik’s NGO officials in Mumbai
Mumbai: The ED on Tuesday questioned officials of IRF, an NGO headed by controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, as part of its money laundering probe against them. Agency officials said they had summoned representatives of Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) last week and following their depos
BJP evokes Ram Temple ahead of UP polls
New Delhi: Raising the Ram Temple issue ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, state BJP Chief Keshav Prasad Maurya on Tuesday said that a “grand” Ram Temple will be built in Ayodhya after the polls. “It’s not an election issue for us. It’s a matter of faith,” he told media. Commenting
Can’t promote ‘Make in India’ abroad & peddle ‘Hate in India’ at home: Shashi Tharoor
Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has infused a lot of “personal energy” into his diplomacy, but it’s difficult to push the Make in India initiative abroad while promoting “Hate in India” at home, says former central minister Shashi Tharoor. According to the seasoned diplomat, Modi’s foreign
Hindu Mahasabha to field Malegaon blast accused on two seats in UP elections

MUMBAI: A special NIA court on Thursday allowed an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case to file his nomination papers for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. “Accused Major (retd) Ramesh Upadhyay had last week moved the court seeking permission to fill his nomination form which the court h