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Destiny spares none. Not even the great monarchs of unparalleled grandeur . The rise and fall of the Sumerian, Greek, Roman and Indus Valley civilizations bear testimony to this fact. Only a few empires have left their imprint on time. The Vijayanagar empire with its capital at Hampi in Karnataka is one such example. It flourished between the 14th to [...]
Ministry of Tourism (MOT) has now prepared the provisional Country-wise distribution of Foreign Tourist Arrivals (FTAs) for 2009. A statement giving the details of FTAs for Top 15 countries is attached. The following are the important highlights of the country-wise FTAs for 2009: Ø Though the overall FTAs declined by 3.3% in 2009 over 2008, FTAs from some regions of world observed positive growth; Africa (17%), Central and South America (9.6%) and South East Asia (4.7%).
The government has increased the price of petrol by Rs 3.50 a litre,diesel by Rs 2, kerosene by Rs 3 and a cylinder of cooking gas by Rs 35. Worse, the government has announced that it shall proceed to fully deregulate the prices of all petroleum products indicating that future hikes are imminent. This cruel attack comes on top of [...]
Golden Jubilee celebrations of the front line Sea Harrier squadron of the Indian Navy, Indian Naval Air Squadron (INAS) 300, is ‘launched’ on 05thJuly 2010 at Goa with over a hundred White Tigers in attendance. The White Tigers have an illustrious history with many significant contributions over the past fifty years. On 18 May 1961 Lt Cdr RH Tahilhiani (later Admiral and Chief of Naval [...]
“A perfect king…a great ruler and a man of much justice,” recorded Domingos Paes, a Portuguese traveller of the 16th century. The king was Krishnadeva Raya, who ascended the Vijayanagara throne in 1509 and died, of unknown natural causes, in his forties. But it is for very good reason that these encomiums were showered on him, and his coronation is [...]
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