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"When I reached India, I was surprised at how friendly the people are; it's very much like Cambodia where the people are so warm," says the winner of the Miss Teen International 2024.
A multi-layer security arrangement involving five companies of paramilitary personnel, NSG commandoes and snipers have already been deployed around the Rashtrapati Bhawan. Drone cameras have also been put into service.
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'Although India has a lot more to offer in terms of tourism other than the Taj, yet there is nothing compared to the Taj Mahal.'
He was accorded a traditional welcome by Braj folk artists on his arrival at the airport.
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Titled Ul Jalool Ishq, the film has been produced by Manish Malhotra, and the designer promptly invited his cast members and friends over for the wrap-up party.
Fadnavis said the talks between Shah and Raj Thackeray were positive, and the picture would be clear in the next few days.
'Under this amendment, in any dispute over Waqf properties, the Waqf Board cannot approach the court.' 'This is very surprising because the government instead of protecting Waqf properties they are snatching it away and not allowing them to go to court.' 'The third biggest landowner in India is the Waqf Board after the Indian Army and Indian Railways.'
The marble railing of the main mausoleum and red sandstone railings suffered damage due to thunderstorm.
'What's sad today is that there are so many people who cannot find work, not because the country is devoid of that opportunity, but because we are not doing enough in the country.'
'India has established probable cause to prosecute him for his role in terrorist attacks that resulted in 166 deaths and 239 injuries'
Visitors to Taj Mahal will be able to access the Internet through Wi-Fi hotspots with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited launching the facility on Tuesday.
Ahead of US President Donald Trump's visit to India next week, preparations are underway in Agra where the administration is beautifying the entire route from Kheria Airport to Taj Mahal. "It has been decided that the US president will be visiting Agra on February 24. So, we are clearing and beautifying the entire route from Kheria Airport to Taj Mahal," said Arun Kumar, city magistrate.
The multi-brand strategy could drive profitability to a 25% profit margin in the next five years from 17% now.
Everyone wants a piece of the Taj Mahal, but do they care about the deteriorating condition of India's best-loved monument
'After it was finished, Shah Jahan visited the Taj only twice.' 'There is a letter from Aurangzeb to him after a visit, reporting that the dome was leaking and needed to be fixed.' 'Shah Jahan wasn't bothered: He had moved on to designing his next project, Shahjahanabad,' reveals Aakar Patel.
A day after taking the competitive medical exam, Meena on May 6 sent a text message to his parents saying that he did not want to study any further and was leaving home for five years, police had said.
Even though the NIA claims that more than 90 per cent of cases charge-sheeted have ended in conviction, the figure is likely misleading. To date, very few cases investigated by the NIA have resulted in a completed trial, points out former CBI joint director Navneet Rajan Wasan.
Aamir Khan's daughter Ira Khan got married to her beau on Wednesday, January 3, 2024, at Mumbai's Taj Lands End hotel, in a registered marriage.
Kajal Aggarwal was left spellbound when she visited the Taj Mahal for the first time in her life.
The papayas from Mumbai were too squishy, the chef raced through the streets of Goa in a police jeep to look for fruit ripened just right only to have security personnel puncture many a hole through them... a new book recalls in detail the struggle to procure and plate perfect papayas for Indira Gandhi during a Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in 1983.
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The British were in India for over 300 years but they never became Indians. The East India Company sent all its loot back to London and the British empire continued that tradition. On the contrary, the Mughals did not send a single rupee outside India. So by what right does one call them traitors, asks A Ganesh Nadar.
FSSAI is looking to tap the Airport Health Organisation to ensure that such incidents aren't reported in the future.
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The world famous monument has recently been in the crosshairs of controversy.
The list of guests included celebrities from across the globe, politicians, the who's who of Hindi and south Indian cinema world and almost all the top cricketers of the country.
Cleartrip acquired Saudi travel firm Flyin last July and it provides bilingual ground support service and itineraries for inbound tourists.
Tata Group chief Ratan Tata on Saturday visited the Taj Hotel, shortly after three terrorists were gunned down by the National Security Guards in the fresh gunbattle early this morning, to take stock of the land-mark building.
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Forty four years after Mohammed Rafi's untimely demise on July 31, 1980, at the young age of 55, the singer's work continues to enjoy a musical afterlife on radio, television and modern streaming channels.
The apex court pulled up the authorities for not taking appropriate steps to preserve and protect the Taj.
From the function at the Esplanade metro station, the PM also inaugurated the Kavi Subhash-Hemanta Mukhopadhyay section of the New Garia-Aiport line and the Taratala-Majerhat section of the Joka-Esplanade line of the Kolkata Metro, the country's oldest metro network.
After Azam Khan's demand of handing over the Taj Mahal to the Waqf Board, Uttar Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party chief Laxmi Kant Bajpai has sought to drag the famed mausoleum into another row by claiming that it was a part of an ancient temple.
The apex court also expressed anguish over the Uttar Pradesh government failure to come out with a vision document to preserve and protect the Taj Mahal.
As the spirit of summer holiday takes over , here's looking at 15 Hindi songs whose tourist-y picturisation transported us into a feast of sights and sceneries on silver screen.
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