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.
Cuba promises a high-profile boxing coach for India India's News.Net The Indian Amateur Boxing Federation is hoping to get a high-profile Cuban coach to train the Indian boxers for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Oil sector employees to go ahead with their strike India's News.Net Oil sector employees will go ahead with their strike as planned from Wednesday despite oil companies moving to initiate legal action against agitating officers, the Oil Sector Officers Association said here Tuesday.
10-mn job loss feared in export sector by March India's News.Net The Indian export sector will lose nearly 10 million jobs by March following cancelled orders and higher transaction costs, a top official of an Indian exporters' forum said here Tuesday.
Entertainment firm Imax plans 9 theatres by 2010 India's News.Net Entertainment technology firm Imax Corp will open five more theatres in India, in addition to the present four, by 2010, a top company official said here Tuesday.
Human rights body not satisfied with Delhi shoot-out report India's News.Net Unhappy with the Delhi Police's interim report, the National Human Rights Commission has asked them to come out with a full enquiry report on the Jamia Nagar shoot-out in the capital within six weeks' time.
Fan club lodges complaint India's News.Net Fans of Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni Tuesday formally lodged a police complaint against unidentified people after his family recieved an extortion letter.
Markets recover from mid-day slide, close higher India's News.Net Indian equities markets recovered Tuesday from a mid-afternoon fall to close marginally higher with a key index closing 0.59 percent higher than its close Monday.
Stop blame game post-Mumbai attacks, urges Kavita Karkare India's News.Net Kavita Karkare, the wife of the slain Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare, has called for halting the blame game in the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attacks. Blaming the police or politicians for the flaws in the system is not the solution, she said.
Aviation fuel supply will not be hit by oil staff strike India's News.Net Airline operators Tuesday said they have a contingency plan with oil companies for uninterrupted supply of aviation fuel to tide over any crisis if oil sector employees go on strike.
Infertility, weight gain, depression Get a thyroid test, say experts India's News.Net It's one of the most common disorders, yet thyroid problems - which lead to weight issues, depression and even infertility - are the least detected, simply because people are not aware of it.
CBI asked to continue probing Abhaya murder case India's News.Net The Kerala High Court Tuesday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation team investigating the 1992 murder of Sister Abhaya to continue with the probe.
ONGC launches Rs.44-bn project in Tripura India's News.Net India's premier hydrocarbons exploration company, Oil and Natural Gas Corp, has undertaken a Rs.43.76-billion project in Tripura to boost gas output, the company said here Tuesday.
Goa police asked to file charges against minister India's News.Net The Panaji bench of the Bombay High Court Tuesday asked the Goa police to file within seven days a charge sheet against Rohit, state Education Minister Atanasio Monserrate's son, for the rape of a 14-year-old German girl.
Punj Lloyd wins Rs.2.64-bn Sikkim airport contract India's News.Net Engineering and construction major Punj Lloyd has secured a Rs.2.64-billion contract from Airports Authority of India to construct a new airport in Sikkim, the company announced Tuesday.
Murder accused former BSP functionary surrenders in Uttar Pradesh India's News.Net Yogendra Dohre alias Bhatia, a former functionary of Uttar Pradesh's ruling Bahujan Samaj Party and prime accused in the murder of an engineer, Tuesday surrendered before a court after evading arrest for nearly two weeks.
Management student gangraped in Noida, five arrested India's News.Net A 21-year-old management student from south Delhi's Lajpat Nagar area was waylaid by around 10 youths when she was leaving a Noida shopping mall along with a friend Monday evening, taken to a desolate spot and raped by turns. Five of the men were arrested Tuesday, the police said.
At 43, Rahman is a name most singers swear by India's News.Net When he started his career in the early 1990s, music maestro Alla Rakha Rahman wouldn't have thought his popularity will skyrocket to such an extent that budding as well as established musicians alike would swear by his name nearly two decades on.
Man held for selling hooch dies in custody India's News.Net A man, who was arrested for selling illicit country-made liquor, died in police custody here Tuesday, officials said. He is suspected to have died due to excessive drinking.
India briefs envoys on Pakistan India's News.Net In an all-out diplomatic offensive, India Tuesday briefed envoys from across the world on the links between the Mumbai carnage and Pakistan in which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says Islamabad is complicit.
Punjab Police to charge PCA for cricket security India's News.Net The Punjab Police is planning to slap a bill of nearly Rs.14 million (Rs.1.38 crore) on the Punjab Cricket Association towards providing security at the Mohali stadium during the last two Test matches and one One-day International.
Sunshine gives Uttar Pradesh respite from biting chill India's News.Net A bright and sunny day Tuesday brought much needed respite from the acute cold wave that has been sweeping Uttar Pradesh over the past few days.
Kashmir pins its hopes on young, energetic Omar Abdullah India's News.Net For Hassan Parray, Omar Abdullah's ascendance to the chief ministership of Jammu and Kashmir has brought hope. A casual labourer in a semi-government body here, he has been waiting to be confirmed for the last nine years.
India to turn to UN pacts on maritime security, hostages India's News.Net With no bilateral pact on extradition with Pakistan, New Delhi has specifically gone on a strategy of stressing Islamabad's commitment to offences ranging from marine security to terrorist bombings to make the international community party to the pressure build-up against the Mumbai attack masterminds.
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