New Delhi: India has emerged as a popular destination for high-spending foreign tourists as the industry experienced a strong period of growth over the past four years, according to government data. Tamil Nadu has attracted the largest number of overseas visitors with 1753103 foreigners having visited the southern state in 2007, 2029410 in 2008 and 2369050 in 2009, according to official Ministry of Tourism data. The arrival of foreign tourists...
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This decline is the worst drop in the last one decade. ...
04:04 PM, Dec 26, 2009
Ministry of Culture at the Centre has ordered enquiry into fort wall collapse. ...
04:13 AM, Feb 20, 2009
Centurion: His rapid rise to Australia's Test squad was "a bit of a blur," teenage fast bowler Pat Cummins said on Monday, but now he's set on winning a place in the team and playing alongside some of his childhood heroes. The 18-year-old Cummins was picked in Australia's 15-man squad for two Tests in South Africa next month, having only made his international debut in the drawn Twenty20 series between...
09:27 PM, Mar 10, 2008
Mumbai: Indian opener Virender Sehwag has conceded that his axing from the Indian team four years ago forced him to look inwards and make changes in his game which eventually paid him rich dividends. When I got dropped from the team in 2007, nobody expected the selectors to drop me but they did because of poor form. That's when I changed my game both in terms of thinking and playing ...
08:44 PM, Dec 17, 2007
Dhaka: Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan brushed aside fears about taking on power-packed India in Saturday's World Cup opener, saying his side was confident of doing well. "Our bowlers are in good form, the batsmen have been doing their job and our fielding has improved a lot," Shakib told a crowded media conference at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium on Friday. "This tournament is not only about playing India. We have six...
06:03 PM, Dec 17, 2007
New Delhi: Teams at the World Cup appear to have reached a broad consensus that the best way to dismantle a rival batting order is to tie them in tangles, rather than subjecting them to a battery of bouncers. Martin Crowe, captaining New Zealand in the 1992 World Cup, pulled off a masterstroke when he opened the bowling with off-spinner Dipak Patel for what turned out to be a potent...
04:44 PM, Dec 17, 2007
Ministry of Tourism launches promotional initiative on YouTube. ...
08:46 PM, Aug 13, 2007
The route undertaken by Mahatma Gandhi and his followers during the Dandi March will be made into a heritage path. ...
04:16 PM, Mar 20, 2007
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