Topic: India
India and Pakistan could be in for monkey diplomacy after an unsuspecting primate strayed across the border into Pakistan to be snapped up by soldiers and packed off to a British-era zoo.The monkey, who has not been given a name by his ...
The famed French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson loved travels and paradoxes, two themes brought together in a new exhibit at the Kunsthaus gallery of Vienna.Spanning half a century from the 1930s to the late 1970s, some 200 pictures on display retrace Cartier-Bresson's many ...
A 15-year-old female giraffe has died of severe diarrhoea caused by a viral infection at New Delhi's zoo, an official said Thursday."She wouldn't eat and began showing symptoms of diarrhoea around early evening on the 24th of May," the curator of India's ...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy took his glamorous wife Carla Bruni to the ancient Indian city of Fatehpur Sikri on Sunday, a day after a romantic sunset visit to the Taj Mahal.The couple had altered their schedule to sneak in an evening tour ...
Framed by the Western and Southern Ghats, bordering Kerala to the south, Karnataka is a colourful state with fabulous temples and palaces, white sandy beaches and lush forests teeming with wildlife.. Formerly a royal hunting ground in the foothills of the Western ...
There are new additions to the Smithsonian Collections Search Center. The National Museum of Natural History has added 928,252 records (!! A secret chamber (seriously) was recently found in India's National Library during restoration work. In honor of American Indian Heritage Day ...
The state of Uttar Pradesh, located in northern India, is the world's most populated sub-national entity. The 42-acre property consists of the 115-foot main mausoleum (constructed of white marble and containing the tombs of Mumtaz Mahal and Shah Jahan), a four-sided base ...
It is on the west bank of the Yamuna River in the union territory of Delhi in northern India. Government is the primary activity in New Delhi, which is a planned city built as India's capital in the early 20th century. New ...
For example, institutions funded by the national government-national museums-may hold outstanding international collections, as do the British Museum, the Hermitage, and the Louvre; may hold specialized collections, as do a number of the national museums of antiquities on the European continent; or ...
The Taj Mahal is the best known mausoleum in the world. What most people see when they visit the Taj Mahal is the back. The Taj Mahal is similar to the Parthenon in Greece in the attention to exquisite detail and perfection ...
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New Amphibian Discovered in India
Dig, baby, dig, and you just might find yourself a ...2012-02-22
