Another star for City Beautiful. Now, it's City Best. In what is claimed to be the first ever survey on 'Best cities to live in', magazine Outlook Money has put Chandigarh on the top. The city has

Himachal Pradesh Forest Minister Chander Kumar said that the Pong Dam wetland, known as Maharana Pratap Sagar in Kangra district, would be developed as a tourist destination for which several plans

Northeast India, often described as the country's Wild West ravaged by separatist armed movements and ethnic strife, is in search of a new USP to promote its landscape, rich bio-diversity, wildlife

Fifty years after the first ever conquest of Mount Everest by Tenzing and Hillary, the world's highest peak has gone online. Earlier this week, Tsering Gyaltsen, the grandson of a sherpa who helped

While water is one of the most scarce and precious resources in the parched city, just 44 per cent subscribers of the 1.4 million water connections pay on the basis of actual consumption. This is

With the Housing Census 2001, the country at last has some data on ownership of houses and consumer durables. Carried out between April and June 2000, the census was released on April 17 by Deputy

Chandigarh is the best city and Delhi consistently the worst on several counts in India. Six of the top 10 cities in the country are from South India, according to a survey. Only the metros are in

As per the draft report while percentage of residential land use has just doubled between 1987 and 2002, a negative growth has been registered in area of open land and parks in Lucknow. Not only

Mumbai is the best city in the country in terms of private finance and tourism, Kolkata has the most impressive relative growth and Bangalore tops in terms of professional education. But it is Delhi,

Indira Awas Yojana has become the focus of a bitter political war between the ruling Biju Janata Dal - BJP combine and the opposition Congress in Orissa following the recent furore over the death of