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LONDON, Dec 24 (APP): Five British Sikhs have been jailed for a total of 66 years for murdering a Muslim tenant. A London court jury found landlord Balbir Singh Dhillon and his four accomplices Amarjit Dhillon, Mohan Singh, Charan Singh and Surinder Singh guilty of murdering 21-year-old Rizwan Yousaf in his rented one-room flat in East London in March this year.

By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Jammu: The Supreme Court order of holding National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET), a combined entrance test for admission to undergraduate...

By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Mumbai: In order to utilize deregistration of All India Majlees Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and woo Muslim voters in the upcoming Mumbai...

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By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net The worst thing for the victims is that their stories will be forgotten. Their suffering will not be recorded. May be more than justice, it is the fear that their stories will not be preserved. The newspaper accounts and future historian will just reduce them to numbers. Before we can begin to seek justice we need to listen to the stories of sorrow, pain, suffering, loss, anger and betrayal. Documentary ‘The Widow Colony’ attempts to document the loss of some of the widows of anti-Sikh violence of 1984.

By IANS, Jaipur : Indian public sector telecom major Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), in association with optical fibre cable maker Aksh Optifibre Ltd, launched the Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) in the state of Rajasthan here Monday. Aksh Optifibre, which posted total revenues of Rs.1.8 billion in the last fiscal ending September 2007, said in a statement that with the launch of its IPTV brand icontrol here the company has become the first to launch IPTV services in Rajasthan and in this city and will revolutionize TV viewing.

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Nagpur: In a distinguished event that brought cheer to the face of a Nagpur Court peon, his daughter cracked the competitive...

By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net, Hyderabad: India may have the third- largest concentration of Muslims around the world and 10% of total world’s Muslim population,...

By अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net देश के सबसे बड़े अल्पसंख्यक समुदाय यानी मुसलमानों के लिए ये बड़ा दिन था. जो बग़ैर किसी शोर-शराबे के चुपचाप...

By TCN News, New Delhi: The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) today held a protest demonstration at Jantar Mantar here and termed the incident...

By IANS, Gandhinagar : A lawyer in Gujarat has been suspended from practicing in any court for three years on chrages of harassing a client's daughter through vulgar text messages. The decision was taken by the Bar Council of Gujarat Monday evening. Its executive chairman, Anil Killa, confirmed the decision saying that a three-member panel had found the advocate guilty. According to the council, Rajesh Ruparel, an advocate of Amreli, sent objectionable messages to Gitaben Shah, whose mother was his client. When the harassment continued, she complained to the police.

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By IANS, Mumbai : Commander Dilip Donde of the Indian Navy Saturday became the first Indian to sail solo around the world. "This is a much-awaited first and I extend my heartfelt congratulations to Commander Donde for achieving this feat," Vice President Hamid Ansari said while welcoming him here at the conclusion of his over 21,000 nautical mile voyage. It had begun August 19, 2009, in the INSV Mhadei, the first fibreglass yacht constructed entirely in India. He sailed through the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Arabian Sea. He also sailed along the Equator.

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By TCN News Hyderabad: In a noble initiative, US-based charity organisation Indian Muslim Relief and Charities (IMRC) has started Challenger Civil Services Academy in...

By Afroz Alam Sahil, Twocircles.net New Delhi: A reply to a questioned asked in the Rajya Sabha has brought forth alarming statistics in...

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Migrant workforce, which has been dominating various skilled and unskilled labour sectors for past few years, has started to take over the leading role...

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Pune: An FIR has been registered against Sudarshan TV news channel by Pune police for its controversial post on its...

By IANS, Ghaziabad : Ghaziabad has become Uttar Pradesh's first electronically governed e-district, officials said Friday. The chairman of board of revenue of Uttar Pradesh, Vinod Kumar Malhotra, Friday inaugurated the e-governance centre (Jan Suvidha Kendra) on a public-private partnership basis. Malhotra said that logistic support is not a sufficient tool to provide the e-governance; the work culture should also change. He asked the government officials to change their mentality towards the public and be humble.

By Mohammed Siddique, TwoCircles.net, Hyderabad: It was a sad day for the lovers of Urdu language and culture in Hyderabad as two leading lights of the Urdu movement passed away with in a few hours of each other. Dr Syed Abul Mannan and Manohar Raj Saxena, close friends who were associated with several academic, linguistic and social organizations and strove for the promotion and advancement of the cause of Urdu language died last evening in two separate hospitals.

By IANS, Lucknow : A 40-year-old lieutenant colonel shot himself in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district, the police said Friday. The police said that Ramendra Bajpai shot himself with his father's licensed revolver. His father is retired brigadier. "Ramendra Bajpai, who was posted in Guwahati, was found dead this (Friday) morning in his parents' house in Defence Colony in Kanpur," Inspector Satish Chandra Gautam told IANS on phone. The police say that "strained relations" between Bajpai and his wife could have prompted the officer to take the extreme step.

In the second of the five personal stories of half widows, Raqib Hameed Naik narrates the story of Naseema Dar. Tengpora...

महेंद्र कुमार 'सानी' हालांकि किसी शायर को शहर का शायर, गांव का शायर या जनता का शायर जैसे खानों में विभाजित करना शायर के साथ...

By TCN News, Mumbai: In order to help financially weak students to continue higher education, Popular Front of India (PFI) distributed scholarships to 28 students...

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net बस्तर(छत्तीसगढ़): भारत के नक़्शे में गोमपाड़ कहां है, शायद किसी को भी नहीं मालूम. बेहद पिछड़ा, उपेक्षित और चकाचौंध...

By IANS, Agartala : Tripura Director General of Police K.T.D. Singh died here Friday following cardiac arrest. He was 59. Singh, an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the 1974 batch Tripura-Manipur cadre, is survived by his wife, a daughter and three sons. "Singh was in a critical condition and admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the government medical college here following a massive heart attack Wednesday while he was working in his office," said Pradip Bhowmik, senior cardiologist.

By IANS, Ranchi : With ground water levels sinking and many parts of the state having been declared drought affected, Jharkhand is seriously thinking of ways to save water, including making rain water harvesting mandatory for high-rise buildings. Taking the lead is state capital Ranchi. Deputy Mayor Ajaynath Sahdeo has launched a campaign in the city to spread awareness about the benefits of rain water harvesting.

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net पश्चिम चम्पारण का ज़िला मुख्यालय की बेतिया विधानसभा सीट पर इस बार कांटे की लड़ाई नज़र आ रही...

By TCN News, New Delhi: A delegation from Aligarh Muslim University met Smiriti Irani, the Union Minister for HRD, to hand over letters written by...

By IANS, Mumbai : Raksha Bandhan, marking the start of the festive season, was celebrated Tuesday with fervour in Maharashtra as sisters tied rakhis (decorative threads) on the wrists of their brothers and fishermen marked the beginning of the fishing season. Several sex workers at the red light area of Kamathipura in south Mumbai tied rakhis on the wrists of social workers and volunteers of various NGOs.

By IANS Jalandhar : The non-resident Indians (NRIs) from Punjab will now have an exclusive facility for filing their complaints with the Punjab police Sunday launching its specialised NRI police stations here and five other towns in the state. The NRIs can file their complaints with the state police and will also have the facility of monitoring the status of their complaints online with the launch of these NRI police stations. The first NRI police station was inaugurated by Akali Dal president and Faridkot Member of Parliament (MP) Sukhbir Badal here Sunday.

By TCN News, Doha (Qatar): Shakil Ahmed Kakvi, a non-resident Bihari, will be awarded by Bihar Foundation, government of Bihar with the first ever...

By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net Srinagar: A number of NGOs from Kashmir have kick started ‘Kashmir’s Chennai Flood Relief Initiative’ which is...

By TCN Staff Reporter Kozhikode: The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) has demanded the UP Government to file criminal cases against the BJP leaders,...

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By IANS, New Delhi: Late ayurvedic physician K. Raghavan Thirumulpad is among the Padma award winners from the field of medicine this year.

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a show cause notice to the Delhi Government on Friday asking...

By Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net Guwahati: The AIUDF chief and Dhubri MP Badruddin Ajmal raised the issue flood and erosion in Assam in the...

By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net New Delhi: The National Commission for Minorities Educational Institutions (NCMEI) has done away with the criterion of fixation of percentage of minority students in a Minority Educational Institution (MEI), as the determining factor of its minority status. The Commission said that fixing a percentage of student’s admission belonging to a notified community will negate the autonomy, which the Constitution provides to the minorities in running their educational institutions.

By IANS, Surat : Police arrested nearly 100 activists of the right wing Bajrang Dal as they went around this Gujarat city trying to enforce a day-long shutdown protesting the gang rape of a teenager by three men. All business establishments remained open despite the shutdown call, police said Monday.

By IANS, Mumbai : Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Prabhakar Sanzgiri, also a trade unionist, has died after ailing for two years, a party colleague said Tuesday. He was 88. Sanzgiri died late Monday at his Bhandup residence here after undergoing dialysis, Sugandhi Francis, a Mumbai district CPI-M committee member, told IANS. Sanzgiri is survived by his wife Suman, also a Maharashtra CPI-M leader, three sons and a daughter, Francis said. Sanzgiri entered student politics six decades ago and later worked among trade unions in the state.