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If not for him, Sikkim wouldn't be a part of India

I landed in Kalimpong to take charge as the sub-divisional police officer. The frontier hill station had not yet lost its charm and ambience of international intrigue. The Chinese trade mission was......

Ooty: Poor man's Madame Tussads faces closure

It has been the poor man's Madame Tussads for years but the private wax museum, a star tourist puller in the hill resort town of Udhagamandalam (Ooty), is on the verge of 'melting down' following......

PM promises development, peace in north-east

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday reiterated Congress' commitment to facilitate 'all round development that leads to peace, prosperity and security to all' while calling upon the people of......

What Sikhs went through after 9/11

At a post-screening discussion on the documentary Divided We Fall that looks into the violence the Sikh community faced after 9/11, an African-American man stood up. He pointed to his braids and......

Maharashtra: Dalit anger leaves 4 dead, 60 injured

Angered by the desecration ofB R Ambedkar's statue in Kanpur, Dalits in several parts of Maharashtra went on a rampage on Thursday, setting three trains on fire, damaging over 100 buses and......

Identity crisis for Darjeeling Tea

Real glory of Darjeeling, queen of hill stations, stems from its 87-odd tea gardens producing the exotic stuff for connoisseurs of the brew across the world. Those who have once relished it would......

Flights lag trains on cost for short-haul travel

Amit Khanna, a sales executive, is planning a trip to Amritsar this summer. Not for him, however, the lure of budget airlines. Instead, he's booked himself on the Amritsar Shatabdi, paying Rs 1,200......

The Taj: 100 years of hospitality!

Exactly a century ago, Jamshetji Nusserwanji Tata's dream was concretised when the Taj Group's first hotel, The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower, Mumbai, was opened on December 16, 1903. It is said to have......

Read this before you watch Elizabeth

Before the British Raj, before hill-stations and the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, before Gandhi and an empire on which 'the sun never set' -- there was Queen Elizabeth I of England. She ruled for......

Johnny Depp to play Freddie Mercury?

Fans are not getting enough of Freddie Mercury it seems. Just the other day in a poll organised by BBC, Queen -- the band Mercury fronted --upstaged the Beatles to win the title of the greatest......

Nirvana is the most overrated

Nirvana's 1991 record, Nevermind,has been votedthe most overrated album of all time byBBC6Music listeners.Coldplay'sX&Y came in second, followedbyThe Libertines' self-titled second album.6Music's......

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Q. Which city is known as Queen of Hill Stations?
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Q. which is best hill station in south india?
Karthik: A. Ooty more

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Q. Which place is known as, `Queen of Satpura'?
Dimple: A. OotyQueen of nilgiris more

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Royal retreat

When Maharaja Hari Singh chose to move from Srinagar to Mumbai in 1948, his wife did not approve of his decision. Maharani Tara Devi instead... ...

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To The Mana Borne

We are at Kollengode, a small hamlet in central Kerala, far from the beaches, wildlife sanctuaries and hill stations thronged by international... ...

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Modified Continental Plan

Lalitha Sridhar works hard to holiday in Italy and comes back ecstatically refreshed. Lalitha Sridhar Photo by Shobhana and R.Sridhar The... ...

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Britain takes security gamble with Northern Ireland G8

Prime Minister David Cameron is gambling that the remnants of the Irish Republican Army are too weak to trouble the world's most powerful leaders... ...

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Of Nur and Kohinoor

The sale of the Nizam diamond for $4.5 million at an auction house abroad recently set tongues wagging in Dariba Kalan, the historic gem and... ...

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Queen Of Hill Stations

News for Queen Of Hill Stations

If not for him, Sikkim wouldn't be a part of India

Ooty: Poor man's Madame Tussads faces closure

PM promises development, peace in north-east

What Sikhs went through after 9/11

Maharashtra: Dalit anger leaves 4 dead, 60 injured

Identity crisis for Darjeeling Tea

Flights lag trains on cost for short-haul travel

The Taj: 100 years of hospitality!

Read this before you watch Elizabeth

Johnny Depp to play Freddie Mercury?

Nirvana is the most overrated

People speak for queen of hill stations

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