India gets its 38th WORLD UNESCO World HERITAGE SITE as Pink City Jaipur
In yet another landmark achievement, India’s nomination of the Jaipur City, Rajasthan got inscribed today on the World Heritage List of UNESCO during the...
India gets its 38th WORLD UNESCO World HERITAGE SITE as Pink City Jaipur
In yet another landmark achievement, India’s nomination of the Jaipur City, Rajasthan got inscribed today on the World Heritage List of UNESCO during the...
The saga of Kalki Avtar and Kalapani
There is a place where you will find Lord Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra’s idols of full stature having full hands and legs. You can’t...
Ratha Jatra in Sri Purusottama Kshetra
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DEBRIGARH- A Poacher’s Paradise!
He started stories on how elephant tusks were being smuggled with help of forest department insiders and later the smuggler was caught and jailed....
A night at Kuladiha Reserve Forest
We were terrified to see him running towards us, he was sweating, breathless and visibly tensed; ‘elephant elephant’ he whispered before he finished his...
Nature Tourism In Focus
Besides Mangalajodi, the sites being developed by the Odisha government as part of Eco-tourism project include Barakhandia and Dhodrokusum under the Hirakud wildlife division,...
Mangalajodi – A Bird’s Paradise
Once Mangalajodi was famous as poachers’ village’, because of the involvement of villagers in water bird poaching on a large, commercial scale. Even the...
6.17% Increase in Tourists Footfalls from the United States (USA) to India in 2017...
The Ministry of Tourism clarifies that the Foreign Tourist Arrivals (FTAs) in India from the USA during the year 2017 have registered a positive growth...
Paintings on Chariots
The wooden chariots (mobile form of the temple) are the temporary abodes of the Jagannath Trinity. The deities are installed in these chariots (locally...
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