SC has taken suo-motu cognisance of the incident and asked the state government to respond by Monday

Bihar Assembly adjourned over contractual teachers row

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The revenue is not likely to be in the same proportion despite there had been sharp increase in the price of petrol

Chhattisgarh missing out on its fuel earnings

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With Gujarat emerging as one of the preferred healthcare destinations in the county, the government is looking to promote the medical tourism concept in the state. 


Gujarat to push medical tourism

35 km apart on the unhyped Orissa coast, Konark and Puri offer two completely different temple experiences. 


Temple of the Sun

Land acquisition for the Posco steel project continued amid a tense atmosphere with the anti-project brigade led by Posco Pratirodha Sangram Samiti (PPSS) staging its protest rally at Patana village in the project site violating the prohibitory orders.The protest meet was supported by leaders of six political parties and anti-displacement leaders in the presence of the kin of three victims who were killed in a bomb blast on last Saturday.Anticipating trouble during the rally, the Jagatsinghpur district administration had clamped prohibitory orders under Section 144 of Crpc (Code of Criminal Procedure-1973) at Patana and deployed 12 platoons of police forces.District collector Satya Kumar Mallick said, "Our two teams conducted land acquisition process peacefully by dismantling 11 betel vines and paying compensation of Rs 16 lakh to betel vine losers".Satyabrat Bhoi, superintendent of police said, "No untoward incident has taken place. Police personnel were keeping a close vigil".Meanwhi

Anti-Posco brigade hold protest rally

TOURISM: The India Now festival, which recently ended in London, underscores the citys move to establish itself as the favoured destination of Indians.

London calling

THE FRENCH LUXURY goods company Louis Vuitton hosted a party last week to celebrate the coming festive season. So far, so good. In a discreet corner of the invitation, the dress code stopped me dead

It`s a party, not a wedding!

Tourism need no longer be about excessive consumption and retrospective guilt. Eco-tourism and volunteer-holidays are catching on everywhere and there are travel operators who specialise in designing

I`m dreaming of a benevolent Christmas

If you're okay with lugging your own suitcases up a liftless six-floor pensione in Barcelona, and not awkward about eating at a pizzeria in Bologna by yourself five nights in a row, maybe youre ready

Lonely planet lone rangers

Go Goa? Naah... We say no Goa, at least this year. Its that time of the year when people ask you, So where you going for New Years Eve? While people like me shrug their shoulders and say, No clue

Go Goa? Maybe, maybe not

The catch to all those readily-available luxury products that you may like to flaunt on your person or in your home is that some of these are now produced on an industrial scale and therefore everyone

Select the right luxury goods

As the demand for air travel picks up in the smaller towns across the country, travel portals are aggressively moving into these markets outside the six metros wooing aspirant air travellers with

Travel portals eye smaller towns

Natural beauty, stunning ruins, brutal history, a laid-back atmosphere and a twist of isolation: try this country while its still fresh.


Christmas in Cambodia

As migratory birds have started flocking the vast Chilika lake on Orissa coast, the wildlife division of the state forest department has imposed certain restrictions for the tourists visiting the

Restriction on visitors to Chilika

With prices in the Indian art market soaring, art collectors are being exposed to contemporary art from the rest of Asia. 


Asian connections

A taxi service for women, by women? Had to be worth a try, we thought.


Ladies coupe, just 'For She'

TOURISM WelcomHeritage president Rakesh Mathur is on a mission to buy old style properties in the North-east

A travel in time

Laptops have obvious advantages, but the market for new-age desktops has never looked better. 


That`s a desktop, silly!

The only time one can get a truly wild experience in India is on the streets of Delhi. Crazed motorists, animals and jaywalkers all combine to give one the feeling that its a jungle out there.


It's a jungle out there

Fortis HealthWorld: A spoonful of service sugar will help the medicine go down.

A bitter pill

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