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Passengers, please note, Indian Railways has cancelled 180 trains today (November 11), prior to leaving home, please see the complete list of cancelled trains. If you are commuting by train today, then prior to leaving home, ensure whether your train has ...

Internet Every year in the months of October and November, Jammu hosts the Jhiri Mela, a fair organised as a tribute to a great farmer. The festival honours a farmer's bravery and his sacrifice for the farming community's freedom. Baba Jit ...

From the age of five, wrote the french traveller Alexandria David-Neel, 'I craved to go beyond the garden gate, to follow the road that passed it by, and set out for the Unknown'. This deep desire to explore the unexplored filled ...

India is known for its vast and diverse landscape, which is home to numerous UNESCO World Heritage Sites. UNESCO World Heritage Sites are places that have been listed by UNESCO as being of outstanding cultural heritage value and importance for future ...

A 108-foot bronze statue of Kempegowda, the founder of Bangalore city, will be inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi on November 11 (Friday). Named the 'Statue of Prosperity', this giant statue will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. At the Bangalore ...

After Gir National Park in Gujarat, West Bengal is all set for its first lion safari project in Siliguri. The jungle area set up adjacent to Siliguri's North Bengal Wild Animals Park, where 11 majestic tigers were introduced in 2016, is ...

Most people are content to view Nature's more extreme spectacles, such as burning fields of lava or pinnacles of frozen rock, from a distance. Others feel compelled to savour them first-hand, to take up the challenges they present. What draws these ...

Since our earliest days on Earth, we have expressed our relationship with the landscape in art, music, literature - even dance. And in the 20th century, a new medium arose: the moving picture. Since the turn of the 20th century, filmmakers ...

On the riverside of the Ganges, the colourful sacred city of Varanasi (Banares), has been a significant historic, cultural, and spiritual epicentre for more than 6,000 years. Varanasi is one of the most significant Hindu holy sites in the world. Illustrated ...

'Jyotirlinga Tourist Train-Swadesh Darshan', (the pilgrimage special) will enable Hindu adherents to visit various Lord Shiva temples (Jyotirlinga). Swadesh Darshan's tourist circuit will include religious destinations like Ujjain, Mahakaleshwar, Omkareshwar, Dwarka, Shirdi, Nageshwar, the Statue of Unity, Somnath, Shani-Singapur and Trimbakeshwar. ...

The last total lunar eclipse of 2022 is on November 8, after which the next lunar eclipse will occur on March 14, 2025. It is also anointed as the blood Moon because the Moon (our natural satellite) slips into the Earth's ...

Indian Ministry Of Tourism will partake in the forthcoming three-day World Travel Market 2022 (WTM) hosted by London this year. 'Future of Travel Starts Now' is the theme for this year's World Travel Market This world event is believed to be ...