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Till a few weeks ago, hotels were booked up as were the famed houseboats and the stars were back being filmed against the mountains. But spiralling strife in Jammu and Kashmir has busted the boom, says a “hurt and disappointed” Tourism Minister Ambika...
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President Chávez came to power promising to harness Venezuela’s vast oil resources to create a 21st-century nation in which no one was deprived. Now, with water and...
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Having ancestral roots in Springfield, Vermont, I am partial to scenes of autumn in the Green Mountain State. In fact, it is hard to beat the New England countryside...
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Why the stance of the government is so rigid in not trying to re-open the old airport. They can make both the airports functional. Starting all domestic air flights...
made popular Nov 3 2009
Oasis in Osoyoos
By : Rajbir Deswal & Chander Koumdi
The Cascades, a mountain range east of the water body of Puget Sound was in sight with its lofty peaks. The...
made popular Nov 2 2009
Today is the last day of October 2009. As we welcome November, many Americans’ thoughts will turn to football, Thanksgiving, pumpkin pie, and even Christmas...
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James Christian remembers the night a few years ago when he and his wife took a Scottish travel agent camping on their land in Kenya’s Laikipia Plateau. As they...
made popular Oct 28 2009
If you get money, the world is a big place for you, and less demanding. This comes true for businessmen as Pakistan and Turkey signed an agreement on Monday, October...
made popular Oct 27 2009
After several months of rough travel from Hangu to Kohat/Peshawar and back, through the hilly and mostly unmetalled alternate road of Sumario, the passengers traveling...
made popular Oct 20 2009
Economic reform arrived at Mexico’s electrical utility on Saturday night wearing black body armor, crash helmets and ski masks. Flabbergasted workers arriving for...
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Al-Qaida is losing its influence because of a shortage of funds, while the Taliban is thriving on the proceeds of criminal activities, according to analysis by the US...
made popular Oct 13 2009
As he assesses a request from his top commander in Afghanistan to dispatch another 40,000 troops to fight the Taliban, he is also “inclined” to send only as...
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Six months after declaring the six-party talks on the future of its nuclear weapons programme “dead”, North Korea relented somewhat yesterday, suggesting...
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At London’s Tate Modern art gallery, a spotlight shines on a blank space where a photograph of a nude Brooke Shields, age 10, was supposed to hang. A sign warns,...
made popular Oct 6 2009
Geologists in southern India say they have found hundreds of dinosaur egg clusters which could be about 65 million years old.
It was a chance find discovered when a...
made popular Oct 2 2009
In the best traditions of “Wolf Creek”, a movie inspired with unsolved criminal mystery of the sixties, a Northern Territory tourist destination once again...
made popular Oct 1 2009
Sudanese women who escaped the Darfur conflict to eastern Chad are facing high levels of sexual violence, an Amnesty International report says.
Despite the presence of...
made popular Sep 30 2009
At least 58 people were killed when Guinean security forces fired into the crowd at an opposition rally at a football stadium yesterday, according to a human rights...
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New Orleans, Louisiana thrives on tourism related industries. Swamp and Plantation tours, night clubs, restaurants, coffee shops, trinket stores, Native American and...
made popular Sep 26 2009
A collision between two goods-carrying trains near the Kotri Railway Crossing (Sindh) resulted in a major railway traffic jam on Thursday, September 10, 2009. The...
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Muslim Khan, the spokesman for the Taliban Movement in Swat, has been arrested along with the local Taliban commander Mehmood Khan by the security forces. Three other...
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More than seven million Indians usually go abroad for vacations. Now, the Indian government is working to adopt a new mantra that is India for Indians. The government...
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