India, with all its variety, feels more like a series of countries strung together than a cohesive whole. As you move from region to region, you'll be exposed to dramatic changes in cuisine, dress, language, religion, custom and tradition.
A trip to India is an all-out assault on the senses. You'll be traveling through dusty heat or snowy cold, sharing roads with a parade of bicycles, auto-rickshaws, sputtering motorcycles, tinsel-draped trucks, camel carts and the occasional cow.
Market ends last trading day of the week in green India's News.Net The Indian equities market ended the day in green on the back of heavy buying in realty, capital goods, power and banking stocks.
Third Tibetan Film Festival begins in Delhi Saturday India's News.Net The vast desolate landscape of Tibet with its rugged snow-lined peaks, majestic valleys, howling winds, Buddhist monasteries and a colourful indigenous culture woven around the gospel of Siddhartha will reveal itself at a festival of Tibetan movies in the capital's India International Centre.
Assam petrochemical plant to be completed by 2012 India's News.Net The Rs.54.6-billion petrochemical plant of the Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Ltd at Dibrugarh in Assam will be completed by it was announced at the company's first annual general meeting here Friday.
Government exploring third-party solution to Blackberry issue India's News.Net The government is looking at third-party solution to sort out security concerns over Blackberry mobile services operations in India, Telecom Minister A. Raja said here Friday.
Village council not to teach controversial textbook in Kerala India's News.Net Giving a new dimension to the row over a class VII textbook in Kerala, an opposition controlled village panchayat (council) decided not to teach from the book in a school under its jurisdiction.
Scientists a step closer to male contraceptive vaccine India's News.Net A team of scientists here, which is conducting research to develop a male contraceptive, has identified and tested on animals a protein that can temporarily suppress male fertility.
National rally championship runs into trouble India's News.Net The Indian National Rally Championship, that is already running on a near-empty tank, received a further blow with the postponement, a euphemism for cancellation, of the second round of the 2008 series scheduled for at Nashik.
Village health workers to get rapid HIV test kits in India India's News.Net Thousands of village health workers across India will soon be equipped to conduct AIDS tests through rapid HIV test kits, which need just a prick on a person's fingertip and the results are known in 20 minutes.
India to launch professional basketball league India's News.Net After football, now the professional basketball league in the country. The Basketball Federation is ready with the blueprint for a pro league and is in the process of tying up sponsorship deal.
Panacea to enter healthcare sector India's News.Net Vaccine and drug maker Panacea Biotec Ltd has forayed into healthcare by setting up a 220-bed multi-specialty hospital in Gurgaon near Delhi.
Power, gymnastic displays during Ahmedabad rathyatra India's News.Net The 131st annual rathyatra began here Friday with over 1,000 devotees pulling the beautifully decorated chariots of Hindu god Jagannath, his brother Balaram and their sister Subhadra, and musclemen from local `akhadas' (gyms) giving displays of their power and skills on the sidelines.
India in touch with Iran for release of 17 sailors India's News.Net The government Friday said it was in touch with Iran for the release of 17 Indians who were captured aboard four fishing boats from Saudi Arabia Thursday.
Karat snaps at media as government totters India's News.Net Journalists filled every inch of space that was available in the auditorium on the first floor of the CPI-M headquarters Friday to hear from Prakash Karat his final verdict on the United Progressive Alliance government.
Six Hindu worshippers killed in stampede in eastern India Earth Times New Delhi - At least six worshippers were killed and 20 injured in a stampede during a popular Hindu festival in India's eastern state of Orissa on Friday, news reports said. The devotees, most of...
Left to write to PM Times of India Times Now , the Left is issuing a letter to the PM seeking clarification on the nuclear deal. Left Sources say the party is seeking a clarification on the government approaching the IAEA ...
ICICI Bank revises NRI deposit rates India's News.Net The country's largest private sector lender ICICI Bank has revised its interest rates on various non-resident deposit schemes.
Aamir Khan, Vikram Bhatt take friendship to next level India's News.Net New Delhi, Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan and director Vikram Bhatt's comradeship goes back a long way and that is why the former agreed to play the trailers of his friend's next film '1920' with his home production 'Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na' that released Friday.
One liners from Venkaiah India's News.Net Bharatiya Janata Party leader M. Venkaiah Naidu has been sharpening his sense of humour, at the expense of his political adversaries of course, in these times of crisis.
Earth farthest from Sun July 4 India's News.Net We may not have realised that we are farthest from the sun in July and received the least sunlight Friday than any other time of the year.
Akshay, Sajid USP of new Hindi entertainment channel Colors India's News.Net A couple cycled into the hall, a young girl dressed as a bride came in a 'palki' and a group of people shouted 'Vande Mataram' in unison - this is not the description of a theatre performance but the launch event of the new entertainment channel Colors.
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