The popularity of our best loved attractions and the importance of tourism to the UK – it’s the 5th biggest industry and the 3rd largest employer, generating £127 billion per year.” The new visitor centre at Stonehenge helped the monument attract more than 1.34 million visits, an 8.4 per cent rise on the previous year.…
A 35 year old elephant, gave birth to a male calf in the wild under the cover of beautiful landscapes, green hills, steep gradients, white morning mists rising from river valleys, rocks and bush on the roadside as her ‘herd’ members stood guard to see the mother and calf are fine and not prey to…
Stories of buildings, their creators and their highs and lows interest most eager readers. Here’s one where we give you the facts on a hotel which set the standard for higher and higher edifices – and we claim that it is one of the first luxury hotels in the ‘modern’world, which gave rise to modern…
Hyderabad: A flying snake, has been sighted at Eastern Ghats mountains in Andhra Pradesh’s Seshachalam forests, biosphere reserve in Chittoor district forest officials and researchers said. According to researchers, this is the first time that Chrysopelea taprobanica which climbs using ridge scales along its belly, pushing against rough bark of surface of tree trunks, allowing…
Hyderabad in South Eastern India, is the second best place in the world that one should see in 2015, according to an international travel publication. The Presidio of San Francisco in the US ranked first on the ‘Best of the World – 20 Places You Should See in 2015’ list, published in the annual…
The first turbine Hydro electric plant 5km wide dam – world’s fourth biggest -will be commissioned in the next few months at the Xingu river in Brazil at one of the cutting edge of world’s bio diversity hotspots. The community have marched for three decades, lobbied, seized hostages, burned buses and taken to their canoes…
London’s King’s Cross and Paddington which had already been the source of chaos on 27th December 2014, when the track maintenance work overrun, as a result of deploying wrong equipment, and multiple failure of track laying equipment. It is disgraceful that the Operator East Coast was given only 12hours notice on boxing day that both…
In Indore a dynamic commercial largest city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh situated southern edge of Malwa Plateau, located 190 km west of the state capital of Bhopal, with 2.1m population, a white tiger died after being bitten by a cobra. According to Indore Zoo keeper Dr Uttam Yadav, Rajan – a two year old white…
Jumbo showers at Konni The Indian Elephants of Kerala, has been listed as endangered species by International Union for the Conservation of Nature (ICUN) as the world’s as the population has declined by at least 50% over the last three generations, estimated to be 33, 000 in the wild. The species is pre-eminently threatened…