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. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

Bangalore is the capital of Karnataka. Bangalore, the ‘Garden of City of India’, is a good place to purchases silk, sandalwood and rosewood items. It is also famous for Lambani tribal jewellery. This jewellery is very much appreciated by tourists. Read the rest of this entry »

Bhagvan Mahavir Sanctuary is the biggest of the three sanctuaries of Goa. It has a total area of 240 sq. km of tropical forestland dotted with occasional grassy Savannah’s and tribal villages. Read the rest of this entry »

India has lately been known less for its poverty than for its clever software engineers, growing manufacturing processes and in various other fields. At least 55 per cent of the population in Bihar falls in the Below Poverty Line (BPL) category. Bihar is caught in a trap, i.e poverty trap and it is not going to be an easy job to break out from that. Read the rest of this entry »

Kasauliwas established in 1840 when the British bought land in order to establish a small cantonment in the hills to fight the Sikhs. Read the rest of this entry »