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By Rameeza A. Rasheed, First read the following news report of The Times of India (27/12/2010).

By Pervez bari, TwoCircles.net, Bhopal: The Bharatiya Janata Party ruled Madhya Pradesh Government has announced to bestow its prestigious national Mahatma Gandhi award to New Delhi-based RSS affiliate Seva Bharti for working in accordance with Gandhian philosophy. The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 10 lakh and a citation.

By IANS,

By Abdul Ghani, Twocircles.net Guwahati: Sarfaraz Hussain of Guwahati topped Assam’s High School Leaving School Certificate (HSCL) examination with 590 marks (98.3%) in...

By V.N. Balakrishna, IANS Vadiya (Gujarat) : A silent revolution is sweeping through the dusty terrain of this village, barely 70 km from the India-Pakistan border in Banaskantha district. More than 80 percent of the women here are saying no to their age-old family tradition - flesh trade. The village with a population of 400 has 180 women and most of them are involved in the flesh trade. The people are nomadic and the desert climate makes agriculture difficult. Consequently, the men while away their time and allow the women to take up sex work to sustain their families.

By Anjuman Ara Begum, TwoCircles.net,

On April 7 2015, five people accused in the murder of two policemen were killed in an encounter in Aler, Nalgonda after the...

Dr. Shah Alam Khan Mayawati, the chief minister of the most populous state of India is in news yet again. Her fondness to Greek Parthenon-style memorials has landed her in trouble with the highest court in the country. I wonder what the Supreme Court of India would have done to the likes of Shahjahan, Akbar, Cholas of Southern India and Rajputs of Rajasthan if it existed in their times.

By Madhusree Chatterjee, IANS New Delhi : Based in Oxford, he has been churning out "what if..." stories that have set the literary fraternity abuzz. Kunal Basu, author of "The Japanese Wife" , who insists he does not write about the diaspora, likes to work with the element of the unknown. Clad in a black Nehru-style jacket, Basu looks every inch the Oxford don - he teaches marketing at Templeton College after all - but his dreamy eyes and mop of unruly salt-and-pepper curls give the writer away.

By Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net What is the Sitapur Endowment?

By IANS, Chandigarh: Haryana has decided to provide one percent rebate in stamp duty to serving armed forces personnel and ex-servicemen from the state who purchase houses, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda announced here Tuesday. Around 4.37 lakh serving and ex-servicemen would benefit from the decision. Currently the stamp duty is seven percent in urban areas and five percent in rural areas.

By Mirza Mosaraf Hossain, TwoCircles.net In a shocking case of mob trial, an 11-year-old Muslim boy was stripped naked and four of his fingers chopped...

By Shafeeq Hudawi Kozhikode: Four Muslim students feature in the top 10 list of Kerala Medical Entrance Examinations results jointly announced by the Minister for...

By IANS, New Delhi : The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) Friday opened it's first intelligence school to enhance the efficiency of its personnel.

By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net Patna: A controversy is in offing on the issue of inclusion of Shaikh into OBC category in Bihar. Many backward caste groups, including those among Muslims in the state, have registered their protest with the State Commission for Backward Castes (SCBC) against attempts by Shaikh, an upper caste Muslim group, to get OBC status.

By IANS, Sabarimala (Kerala) : As many as 1.2 lakh cans of the special 'aravana prasadam' made out of rice, jaggery and coconut are being sold on an average every day at Kerala's famed Sabrimala temple during the annual two-month pilgrimage season. Sold in containers weighing 250 ml, this prasadam is available only at the temple counters that are open on all days the temple is open to its devotees. Each can costs Rs.50.

By IANS

Lucknow : With a view to increasing the forest cover in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Mayawati proposes to launch a major tree plantation drive in the state.