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Four tourists die in Himachal accident

Shimla, May 9 (IANS) At least four tourists were killed and three others seriously injured Friday when a jeep in which they were travelling fell
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India showcases tourism products in Dubai travel mart

New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) Minister of State for Tourism and Culture Kanti Singh Wednesday led a delegation to the Arabian Travel Mart 2008 in ...
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India to deploy tourist police at major destinations

Dubai, May 7 (IANS) India is set to deploy tourist police at its important tourist destinations to ensure the security of foreign visitors and also ...
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Indian real estate firm plans new five-star chain

Dubai, May 7 (IANS) Leading Indian real estate firm Sobha group is planning a new chain of five star hotels across India, Middle East and ...
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Nearly 1 mn tourists visited Chandigarh in 2007

Chandigarh, May 5 (IANS) Chandigarh - the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana - had nearly one million tourists visiting in 2007. According to tourism officials ...
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Deccan teams up with Periyar Tiger Reserve

Thiruvananthapuram, May 5 (IANS) India's low cost airline Deccan has decided to promote eco-tourism in the Periyar Tiger Reserve in Thekkady, Kerala in an attempt ...
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Tourism projects a bane for local community: report

New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) Tourism development projects propagated as eco-friendly and employment generating adversely affect the local community's rights, livelihood and access to resources, ...
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Heat takes toll on tourism in Agra

Agra, May 2 (IANS) With the temperature here hovering around 45 degrees Celsius, the heat has been taking a toll on the tourists visiting the ...
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Goa choking on its tourist success, says trade

Panaji, May 2 (IANS) Goa's infrastructure is beginning to crumble under the load of visitors, says the tourism industry that has called for an immediate ...
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Baby born on Himachal's deadly Rohtang pass

Manali, May 1 (IANS) A Nepalese woman gave birth to a baby girl in a cave along the snow-covered and inhospitable Rohtang Pass in Himachal ...
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More Indians visit South Africa, many mean business

Johannesburg, May 1 (IANS) Indian tourism to South Africa continues to grow, with an unprecedented 32.6 percent increase in the third quarter of 2007, but ...
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Gorkha Janmukti Morcha activists to launch fast (Lead)

Kolkata, April 30 (IANS) Leaders and activists of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), which is demanding a separate statehood for Darjeeling Hills, decided to go ...
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India, Iran turn to cultural diplomacy

New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) A day after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ended his six-hour whistle-stop visit here, India and Iran Wednesday turned to cultural ...
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'Tourists should not visit Darjeeling this summer'

Kolkata, April 30 (IANS) Tourists should not visit Darjeeling - the popular hill station of West Bengal - this summer due to unrest, the state's ...
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Rajasthan court awards life sentence for British scribe's rapist

Udaipur, April 30 (IANS) A fast track court here Wednesday awarded life imprisonment to a guest house owner for raping a British freelance journalist last ...
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Japan begins fingerprinting, photographing visitors

Tokyo, Nov 20 (DPA) Japan Tuesday began taking fingerprints of foreign visitors and photographing them, becoming the second country in the world after the US ...
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