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Ghaziabad is a city in Uttar Pradesh in India. It is an industrial town. It is situated at about 1.5 km east of the Hindon River. It is 19 km from Delhi and 46 km south west from Meerut. The city houses the headquarters of the Ghaziabad district. (more…)

“Garhwal” this word consists of word “garh” which means forts. Garhwal was made of many small forts which were ruled by chieftains. So the history of garwhal before the dynastic rule of the “Panwar” rulers was not known. (more…)

Built by Maharana Jagat Singh in 1743 it was meant as a royal summer palace and now converted in to a five star palace hotel. (more…)

The district of Daman of the erstwhile Union Territory of Goa, Daman & Diu is situated in the Surat District of Gujarat. It is about 160 km from Mumbai. (more…)

A leading seismologist has said that Kashmir could face more deadly earthquakes of far greater magnitude in the next 50 years, compared to the recent quake that killed more than 73000 people in PoK and around 1500 in Jammu and Kashmir. (more…)

Giant footprints found at Karalmanna, a hilly village in Kerala’s Palakkad District, are now being projected by anthropologists as belonging to homo sapiens that lived in the area about 30, 000 years ago. (more…)

Goa celebrated it’s 44th Liberation Day on Monday by organising various cultural programmes. Students, colourfully dressed and representing the diverse sections of the state’s society took part in the programmes. (more…)

Chandigarh (India)is Beautiful city of the World.
The name Chandigarh was derived from the famous temple called ‘Chandi Mandir’. ‘Chandi’ is the Goddess of Power and ‘Mandir’ means temple. ‘Garh’ or fort beyond the temple, the beautiful city ‘Chandigarh’ name was derived.

Chandigarh is the capital of two states i.e Punjab and Haryana. After independence, India had invited the great architect, Le Corbusier to design the new capital of Punjab, as the earlier capital Lahore had gone to the Pakistan after partition. But, the city doesnot belong to any of the two states. Now, it is a UT(Union Territory) which means city is administered by the Government of India. (more…)

Imphal is the capital of Manipur. It is one of the oldest state capitals of India. Imphal is also important from the religious point of view as it houses quite a few well known temples. (more…)

Andaman and Nicobar Island is located on the Bay of Bengal, between mainland India and the long Burma coast lies a group of coral islands. (more…)