Panna National Park is located in Chhatarpur, famous for diamond industry in the state of Madhya Pradesh in India. The national park is home to some of the best wildlife species in India and is also a well known Tiger Reserve. The park is also a stopover destination on way to Khajuraho, a top tourist spot in India. The national park is spread over an area of 1,406 square kilometres. In 2007, Panna was conferred with Award of Excellence by the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India. Panna National Park Tiger Reserve: Panna is a Tiger Reserve for it falls under the aegis of Project Tiger in India. However, two female tigers were relocated to Panna from Bandhavgarh National Park and Kanha National Park in 2009 to address the problem of reducing tigers. In June 2009, it was officially announced  [...]

Desert National Park is a national park located near Jaisalmer city in the state of Rajasthan in India. Desert is one of the largest national parks in the country spread over an area of 3,162 square kilometres. The uniqueness of Desert is the ecosystem of the Thar Desert. Sand dunes, compact salt lake bottoms and rocks. Desert National Park is notable for the fact that fossil remains of animals and plants and dinosaurs have been found here. The national park was set up in 1980. Rajasthan: Rajasthan is the largest state in India located in the far western part of the country. Rajasthan is bordered by Lucknow and Madhya Pradesh in the east, Gujarat in the south, Haryana and Punjab in the north and Pakistan in the west. State capital is Jaipur. Rajasthan is known for its historical sites  [...]

Welcome to this site of sacred deer park where Gautama Buddha taught Dharma for the first time following his enlightenment. Situated at 12 km from the Hindu pious city of Varanasi, Sarnath is considered among the four blessed Buddhist sites endorsed by Lord Buddha including Lumbini - his Birthplace, Bodh Gaya - his Enlightenment site, and Kushinagar - his death site. Legend Formerly known as Mrigadava meaning deer park and Isipatana meaning the site of falling of the holy men onto the planet (In Pali, ‘isi’ means holy men). A legend is associated with the second name according to which when Lord Buddha was born, heavenly gods (devas) appeared on Earth to inform about it to 500 holy men who disappeared leading to the fall of their remains on the ground. The modern name Sarnath (Saranganath)  [...]

Country: India State: Uttar Pradesh District: Lucknow Area: 2,528 square kilometres (metro) Elevation: 128 m Population: 3 million Pin code: 226--- Telephone Code: 0522 Time Zone: GMT plus 5:30 Lucknow (also known by the names of City of the Nawabs or the Golden City of the East, Shiraz-i-Hind, Constantinople of India), is the capital of Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state located in the northern heartland of India. One of the ninety Minority Concentrated Districts of India, Lucknow is famous for its architecture, gardens, music, poetry and cuisines. It is a popular subject of study for the keen students of history and culture. Lucknow is the second largest city of Uttar Pradesh after Kanpur and is a fast growing metro city in India. Lucknow historically has  [...]

Great Andamanese is a collective term used to describe a tribe or indigenous people settled in most part of the Great Andaman archipelago in the south-eastern Bay of Bengal. The Great Andamanese, along with the Jarawas, Onges and the Sentinelese form the Andamanses tribal people. The identity of the Great Andamanese is mainly made up by their cultural similarity and linguistic semblance. The Great Andamanese originally had ten distinct groups (on basis of distribution from north to south), namely, Aka-Cari, Aka-Kora, Aka-Bo, Aka-Jeru, Aka-Kol, Aka-Kede, Akar-Bale, Aka-Bea, Oko-Juwoi  and A-Pucikwar, who had survived on these islands for over thousands of years and undisturbed by external forces. But the effort of the British rulers to influence these tribes resulted in their sharp decimation  [...]

Mumbai (earlier called Bombay) is the capital of the state of Maharashtra in India. The bustling city located on the banks of the Arabian Sea is also referred to as the financial capital of India. With a population of nearly 14 million, Mumbai is clearly one of the most populous cities in the world. Mumbai has been named as ‘Alpha World City’ in 2009. Mumbai has been named after Koli goddess Mumbadevi. Mumbai’s total area is 604 square kilometres out of which 437 square kilometres fall under the jurisdiction of the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The city, which was once dominated by the Portuguese and the British, had seen huge expansion since the 1960s. Bombay Metropolitan Region Development Authority (BMRDA) was set up in 1979 for the urban planning in the city. Mumbai  [...]

Delhi (also known by the name of National Capital Territory of Delhi or NCT) is the largest metropolitan city in terms of area (1,484 square kilometres) and the second largest in terms of population, in India. Delhi is the eighth most populous metropolis in the world with nearly 16 million people living in the NCT and National Capital Region (NCR) that includes Noida (New Okhla Industrial Development Authority), Gurgaon, Greater Noida, Fardidabad and Ghaziabad. The name Delhi sometimes also refers to New Delhi, the national capital of India. Delhi served as the capital of several dynasties as well as the mighty Mughal Empire. Under the British, Calcutta (now Kolkata) became the capital but the British in 1911 decided to shift the capital back to Delhi. The city of New Delhi was built as a new  [...]

Eastern Ghats are discontinuous mountain ranges located along the eastern coastline of Indian Peninsular bordering Bay of Bengal. These mountain ranges extend from the deltaic parts of Mahanadi River in Orissa right down to Tamil Nadu in the south and also partially in Karnataka, running through a total distance is 1448 km. The average elevation of the Eastern Ghats is around 2,000 feet. Another steeper mountain system runs along the western coastline, which is known by the name of the Western Ghats. The Deccan Plateau lying at the centre of the peninsular separates the two ranges. The Eastern Ghats have their own local names, like the Vellikonda Range in Andhra Pradesh. Eastern Ghats cover a total area of 75,000 square kilometers. The Eastern Ghats have rich soil but the hydropower generation  [...]