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What is blackbuck poaching?
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Blackbucks are a beautiful and endangered species of antelope native to India, characterised by their gorgeous spiral horns. The creature was introduced to other continents but now there are hardly any left in India, where the killing of blackbuck in vicious hunts is a long-time, and outlawed, passtime. #Wildlife
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The Best River Cruise You Never Expected: An India Adventure
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I opened my eyes to the sunrise, as a tiny fishing boat glided by.
It was my first morning on the backwaters of #Kerala, the southern India state that is another great surprise to a tourist.
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The Beatles in India, 50 years on
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It’s not always this quiet at the Last Chance Café. Just up the road, after all, is the #Beatles Ashram where, 50 years ago this month, the group famously came to explore transcendental meditation with the Maharishi.
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Corporate Tours & Adventure Tours Operators
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Corporate Compass is leading Corporate Tours & Adventure Tours Operators in Mumbai,India.
Corporate Tours
Adventure Tours
Team Building Activities
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Offbeat Corporate & Incentive Tours
We organize flight and train bookings, hotel stay arrangements, airport and hotel transfers and overall logistical support
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Catherine Zeta-Jones Shares Sweet Family Photo While Visiting the Taj Mahal
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Catherine Zeta-Jones is enjoying some quality family time.
The 48-year-old actress shared a sweet and rare family photo of herself with husband Michael Douglas and their two kids -- 17-year-old son Dylan and 14-year-old daughter Carys -- at the #TajMahal in Agra, India.
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India: Travel & Tourism
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BookOtrip, a premier travel agency in the state of Texas, USA, BookOtrip serves millions of happy travellers each year all over the globe. With over one hundred years of combined experience, the Trip Experts at BookOtrip are passionate about travel and provide the highest quality travel solutions. With the latest state of the art travel technology, it creates the world’s highest-quality travel experience.
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India: Travel & Tourism
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BookOtrip is part of Trip Brands LLC, a global travel technology company focused on matching the latest travel technology with exceptional, one-on-one customer service and wholesale pricing to create the world’s highest-quality experience at the best value for the travelers.
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In Spice-Laden Kerala, a Break From Urban India
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Younger Indians, flush with disposable income and a newfound appreciation of the cultural riches within their own borders, have discovered #Kerala. And for good reason.
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Man-eating Indian tigress electrocuted
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A tigress that killed four people in the west Indian state of Maharashtra died on Saturday, days after a court upheld an order to kill it.
The animal was electrocuted by a fence erected by a farmer to keep out wild boar, wildlife officials said. #Wildlife
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Indian airport stops 29 passengers using ‘rectal concealment’ to smuggle gold
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Indian customs authorities have discovered 29 people hiding #gold in their rectums on two flights that landed at a southern airport on Sunday.
More than 10kg (22lb) of the precious metal were found on at least 37 passengers on the two flights from the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, that landed at Madurai international airport in Tamil Nadu.
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Illuminating India: 5000 Years of Science and Innovation
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5000 Years of Science and Innovation reveals how the Mughal emperors conserved nature in the 16th century, how 20th century mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan revolutionised mathematics, and how the Indian Space Research Organisation sent a camera to Mars for less than the cost of the film Gravity.
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Elephants and tigers kill one human a day in India, as growing population squeezes habitat
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Endangered #elephants and #tigers are killing one person a day in India as humans put a growing squeeze on their habitat, according to new government figures.
But man is in turn killing a leopard a day as the man-animal tussle for space reaches new heights.
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Air India: No chicken in cattle class
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Air India has stopped serving non-vegetarian meals to its economy class passengers on domestic flights.
The cost-cutting measure comes as the government considers ways to privatise the debt-laden national carrier.
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Eco Tourism Come and stay in our new eco-tourist cottages in the Sanctuary.
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SAI Sanctuary is located in the Western Ghats of southern India?the heart of the watershed area for the entire south Indian peninsula, and one of the hottest ?Hot Spots? of biodiversity in the world, as designated by the United Nations. #Wildlife Read more...
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India’s Lost Party Mansions
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The country’s #Chettinad region is full of architectural relics in
various states of decaying opulence. For some inhabitants, the
extravagance goes on; for others, it is a memory slipping away. Read more...
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Spring-cleaning India's most magnificent tent
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Rajasthan's Royal Red Tent is as tall as a double-decker bus, made from silk, velvet and #gold - and it's getting its first proper clean in more than three centuries, says Melissa Van Der Klugt.
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In pictures: India's sea turtles return home to breed
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On the eastern coast of India, in the state of Orissa, lie three big nesting sites for one of the world's smallest sea turtles - the Olive Ridley.
Every winter, thousands of females return to these shores to nest.
Journalists Supriya Vohra and Meesha Holley witnessed the synchronised move, which is known as "arribada"- the Spanish for arrival. #Wildlife
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IMMEDIATE REQUIREMENT! Career in Travel and Tourism - Mumbai, IN
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According to a report published by the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), India could possibly add another Rs. 8, 50,000 crores by the year 2020-just through tourism! WTTC calculated that tourism generated 8.31 lakh crore or 6.3 per cent of the nation's GDP in 2015 and supported 37.315 million jobs, which is about 8.7 per cent of its total employment.
Career options in travel and tourism:
"Students have endless career opportunities in the fastest growing industry of travel," says
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Tiny new frog species found in India
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Some of the smallest known frogs were recently discovered following a five-year survey in India. Seven new species of “night frogs,” in the Nyctibatrachus genus, include four species that are among the tiniest frogs ever found, capable of comfortably crouching on a thumbnail with room to spare. #Wildlife
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Women lead the way on a tour of northern India
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Being shown the beauty and history of Old Delhi and Agra by women pushing back against traditional gender roles makes a trip to India all the more uplifting – and a fitting salute to next week’s International Women’s Day #TajMahal Read more...
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Air India starts selling seats in female-only section
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The restriction will apply to the front row of six seats on economy flights and comes after reports some women were being groped by other passengers.
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Tiger attempts to attack elephant in northern India before retreating
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An amazing video of a #tiger attempting to attack an #elephant in northern India. The video, filmed at Jim Corbett National Park on November 17, shows the big cat resting in the long grass at the side of the road while an elephant and a jeep wait further up the track. Read more...
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Ladakh’s tourism boom is slowly changing the age-old way of life in a corner of the Indian Himalayas
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And while the tourism boom has improved the lifestyle of Ladakh’s 280,000 residents, it’s also threatening the local culture and traditions. “Now we can eat better vegetables and wear better clothes,” Tashi Phutit, an 81-year old wheat farmer and housewife, told Reuters. “The problem is people are becoming greedy.”
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15 of the Deadliest Roads in India for Drivers!
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We decided to pluck up 15 of the most dangerous and deadliest roads in all of India for your entertainment. Some people seek out these roads for thrills while others avoid them like the plague. Either way, enjoy.
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The Majesty and Mystery of India?s Sacred Banyan Trees
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Some 550 years ago, so a story goes, the poet-sage #Kabir was on a silt island in India?s Narmada River. He was brushing his teeth with a twig. When he flung his toothbrush to the ground, up sprang a gigantic tree whose crown spread so wide it cast shade over a whole hectare of land. Today, Kabir?s tree is one of the biggest plants on the planet. Its true story is no less extraordinary than the myth.
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