From the category archives:
Tweet Not me. Quoting from the Telegraph- More than 2.5 million tourists visited the Taj Mahal last year, but officials hope to increase the figure, and the amount of tourist income, by linking the Taj to neighbouring historic buildings and adding the Agra Eye – a sophisticated Ferris wheel modelled on the London Eye. For [...]
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Tweet Gunmen attacked the Sri Lanka Cricket Team bus in Pakistan says BBC. At least five members of the Sri Lankan cricket team have been injured in a shooting incident in the Pakistani city of Lahore, a Sri Lankan minister says.The incident happened when unidentified gunmen fired on a convoy carrying Sri Lankan and Pakistani [...]
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Tweet I was reading Mint online and clicked on ‘travel.’ Under it was something called style. Now I wonder if travel and style really mix apart from at some obscenely priced places that you will find regularly mentioned in such publications. I think many of us consider travel a time to live in jeans and [...]
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Tweet Where is the rule of law? I mean 7 blasts in Bangalore and 12 in Ahmadabad! Words fail me.
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Tweet 7 bombs are said to have gone off in Jaipur. So many dead, the Indian news channels going their usual way, all cacophony, here is the discussion on Indiamike. I have spent quite some time near Jaipur and Jauhari Bazar (Jeweler’s Market) is quite a familiar place for me where I used to shop. [...]
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Tweet Saw this both at Daily India and CNN-IBN. The tourism ministry has launched some of its videos on Youtube. I wish the papers had given the URL of the page or a video too. Here is what the Daily India story says- The Ministry, known worldwide for its “Incredible India” campaign, have made promotional [...]
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