It’s a massive source of revenue for Agra, but the Taj has spawned a creed of greed that is eating away the city’s foundations.
From the top of Agra’s Buddha Park the Taj Mahal is a changeable feast; its colours like the colours of the day. Sunrise, sunset, moonlight, all are mirrored by the white marble. From here it looks much like the little glass-housed replicas that sell by the lakh across the country. But to enjoy the view, you must leave your sense of smell at home.
The knee jerk reaction on the part of authorities to ban all app based cab and taxi aggregation services, is liable to hit the very person it is supposed to protect - the customer.
The Delhi government's knee jerk reaction to the rape of a woman passenger by a Uber cab may have temporarily solved the problem of unregulated cabs picking up passengers, but it will only worsen the shortage of cabs across urban centres in India.
An unassuming town firmly snuggled between 3 mountains, whose peaks are considered sacred; Devprayag is one of the 5 prayags. As you make your way up the narrow, winding roads from Rishikesh, you get to see the beautiful Ganga flowing below; it’s bejeweled, and emerald tinged waters sparkle in the early morning sun.
Having spent the past few days in Rishikesh at a camp, I always wondered how Mother Ganga’s waters were such a brilliant shade of emerald. The answer was lying in wait for me in Devprayag.
The internet is an opportunity for journalists to prove the media’s marketing gurus wrong.
Some years ago, I was a reporter in the founding team of a new news magazine. When the magazine launched, the marketing team sent journalists an email saying that we could gift four free subscriptions to anyone we liked, but could we please make sure the four recipients fell within the magazine’s TG?
I wondered what TG meant. The only TG I knew was transgendered. The marketing team explained that the TG they were referring to was Target Group.
A bumper sale bonanza for Maruti Cars owners - Maruti has announced cash benefits of up to INR 55,000 on its small car Alto 800 and the blue eyed boy Wagon R cars.
With the year 2014 coming to an end and Christmas round the corner, every big auto company is offering a whole lot of offers on their best selling models to clear off the stock. Joining the bandwagon of this trend is India’s largest auto maker, Maruti Suzuki, with irresistible offers on three of its popular cars. The company is offering amazing cash benefits on Wagon R, Alto 800 and Alto K10.
All 14 of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troops killed in the Maoist ambush on December 1 died on the scrubby, hill-ringed battleground, deep in the forests of Sukma district, at the southern tip of Chhattisgarh. The last to die was constable Deepak Kumar. The Maoists had struck between 10 and 11 am. It was 9:30 pm when Deepak died. For more than 10 hours, the 22-year-old lay there, helplessly wounded and heavily bleeding.
“Had a chopper arrived on time, he could have been saved,” says a CRPF commandant. An IAF chopper requisitioned by the CRPF did arrive for evacuation of the wounded—but only the next afternoon and at the Chintagufa camp, some 10 km from the ambush spot.
Image is everything when to comes to filmstars. By the time the world saw Rajesh Khanna in the Havells television commercial it had almost forgotten what he looked like in real life. For the legions of his die-hard fans he was still Anand or Bawarchi’s Raghu or Amar Prem’s Anand babu and had ceased to exist beyond his celebrated roles.
Off screen he was the superstar who illuminated the brightest and then fell into unimaginable darkness. The moment the world saw him as the feeble, faded star left with electrical appliances for fans in a advertisement, the enduring image of the iconic star changed forever. This is an excerpt from the book Dark Star: The Loneliness of Being Rajesh Khanna by Gautam Chintamani published by Harper Collins India.
After the sexual assault on a young woman in Delhi, police say they will hold Uber liable for gross negligence.
On Friday night, a 27-year old woman in Delhi was allegedly raped inside a cab she had booked using the popular taxi app Uber. The finance professional had hired the cab from Gurgaon to go home. She fell asleep in the back and woke up to find the cab in a secluded area.
