Today is the 282th Birhday of Jaipur. Forts, palaces, architectural marvels and tales of valour, all in their own way, bear testimony to the glory that Jaipur is and was just after it was conceived by Sawai Jai Singh in 1727. Located…
One need not look to the farthest reaches of outer space for inspiration. As these photographs from National Geographic’s Best Pictures of the Year reveal, Mother Nature continues to dazzle us right here on Earth.
This is an occasion where the…
Last year, I along with a friend went to Mathura and Vrindavan. This was sort of my mother’s plan. Since I was in Delhi, my mother asked me to go to Mathura and Vrindavan, the birth place of Lord Krishna. Actually, a lot of her friends had made a…
One of the heart-winning photos, by Ijaz Muhammad for the Associated Press, shows a pet dog snuggled amidst luggage and accompanying his owner family, sitting next to a little girl with a cherubic face as the family moves out of South Waziristan on…
After several months of rough travel from Hangu to Kohat/Peshawar and back, through the hilly and mostly unmetalled alternate road of Sumario, the passengers traveling to and from Hangu-Kohat-Peshawar have finally found relief as travel along the regular.
A collision between two goods-carrying trains near the Kotri Railway Crossing (Sindh) resulted in a major railway traffic jam on Thursday, September 10, 2009. The accident took place at around 1:30 pm when a goods train coming from Karachi ran into…
A group of twenty executives of City Bank from Delhi office stayed in Himgiri Nature Resort near Rajgarh in Sirmaur – the southern most district of Himachal Pradesh in Northern India. Mr. Maninder Kohli, their Vice President an enthusiastic team leader…
High in the lap of the Himalayas about 3,200 m to 6,675 m in altitude in the Chamoli district of Uttrakhand lies an enchanting valley bejeweled with flowers of such beauty and variety that perhaps few have seen in their lives. Here fairies are…
Who says miracles don’t happen? It happened in the afternoon of January 16 in New York during a plane crash!
Displaying remarkable alacrity, the 57-year old pilot Captain Chesley B Sullenberger, who flew US Airways flight 1549 out of New…
Bharat Ram Devasi set off from his village Kanuja with 30 camels on October 29 for Pushkar Camel Fair in Ajmer District of Rajasthan. He reached Pushkar on November 3 traveling 120 km in six days. He had to make five night halts at Atpada, Patwa,…