The Taj Mahals home town, Agra, is to be given a facelift to attract tourists to its other two World Heritage sites.
Most visitors to the Taj Mahal leave the ancient city without seeing the 17th century Red Fort or Fatehpur Sikri, a ghost town that was the capital of the Mogul empire in the 1500s.
We are planning a sound and light show at Fatehpur Sikri, which will bring alive the sights and sounds of the city as it looked in the 16th century, said N C Joshi, a tourism ministry spokesman. The ministry plans to develop other monuments in Agra and add more attractions for tourists, Mr Joshi said.
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The president of the Agra Footwear Cottage Units Federation, Virendra Son, said both the central and the state governments were providing numerous economic and developmental packages for industries in the country, including the leather industry, but the
Food company Unilever-Leioas 2006 investment plan is designed to optimize its production resources. The company has assigned 3 million euros just to maintaining its current technological level. The money will be spent mostly on new machinery and all-round improvements on its production installations.
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Four persons, including the son and wife of a hotel owner, were arrested tonight in connection with the alleged rape of a Japanese tourist in Pushkar.
The arrested included Babloo, whose father owns Hotel Quiet Palace, Roshani, the wife of the owner, Raju and Sanjay, Ajmer superintendent of police Sriniwas Janga
A fast track court today recorded the statements of two persons, including a chief medical jurist P Saraswat, who had conducted the medical examination on a Japanese tourist allegedly raped at a hotel in Agra last month.
The statement of S Parimola, an IPS trainer, who is said to have brought
Allahabad High Court has refused to quash the FIR lodged against a lady doctor and stay her arrest after she was caught in-camera while agreeing to conduct abortion of a woman carrying a female foetus.
The FIR was lodged against Dr Varsha Gautam on April 11, by the Chief Medical Officer,
Airtel launched Airtel broadband and telephone services in Agra last week. The city will now form part of the Airtel network of fixed-line services present in Ghaziabad, Noida, Meerut and Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, besides 10 other states.
Announcing the launch of these services, in Agra, Rohtash Mal, CEO,
New Delhi : In a major drug haul, four-and-a-half kg of heroin worth Rs 4.5 crore in the international market was seized and two persons were arrested in this connection in a South Delhi area, Narcotics Control Bureau officials said today.
The duo, identified as Padamvir Singh and Sarfaroz Khan, were
With the rise in petroleum prices throwing household budgets out of gear, Agra industrialists, utilising CNG for operating their units, too have got worried at the imminent rise in gas prices.
According to local industrialists, CNG was being delivered to their units by Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL)
Large areas of Uttar Pradesh remained in darkness for hours altogether as a 500 Mw unit of the singarauli thermal power plant was shut down for maintenance work.
Although the demand for power was less yesterday in view of light rains and thunderstorms, it registered steady increase in the
Agra said this week that 7200 weaners were sold in the first week of its annual weaner auctions breaking a record ever set by a public livestock sale in the country. The auction, which reveals significant price increase over last years, obtained a total of N$21.3 million in one week,