Mumbai: In a shocking development, a Maharashtra government approved textbook for class 12 suggests that ugly or handicapped girls are the reason for the social evil of dowry in the country. The reasoning appears in the textbook of Sociology under the title, “Major Social Problems in India” presc

Indian Union Muslim League Member of Parliament E Ahamed has passed away. News of his death emerged early today from the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital, where Ahamed was admitted after suffering a heart attack on Tuesday. Ahamed collapsed in the Parliament's Central Hall while President Pranab Mukherjee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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