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Ei-ul-Fitr to be celebrated Thursday September 30th, 2008 - 11:01 pm ICT by IANS - New Delhi, Sep 30 (IANS) Muslims in India will celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr Thursday, the festival marking the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting.The announcement was made here Tuesday evening after the new moon could not be sighted in India.

Just south of Jama Masjid, this is old Delhi: auto rickshaws and bicycle rickshaws and cars and scooters and people and lights and ads and noise. And above it all, a chaos of wires and pipes and dead kites dangling. Looks best if you see the bigger image.

photo credit: Saad.Akhtar by Jane One of the biggest metropolis in India, Delhi is home to whopping population of millions of people. The historical, cultural and the political center of the country, Delhi has gradually emerged as the industrial hub of the Northern India.

The surge in technology has paved its way through the barriers of the functioning of age-old government bodies, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi in particular. With repeated PILs to the Archaeological Survey of India about the sordid state of the Jama Masjid, the master plan for the redevelopment of the largest mosque in the country has been uploaded on a newly launched website.

Date of journey: 14/06/2008 Starting from: Bangalore Destination: Mysore Crew: Maneesh and Varun. It was a nice weekend and Varun and I decided to go to Mysore on a bike. I made myself ready for a two-day drive as Varun doesn’t know how to drive a bike. It was Saturday and we started early at 5 am.

Lesser-known Agra monuments cry for attention April 18th, 2008 - 10:19 am ICT by admin - Email This Post By Brij Khandelwal Agra, April 18 (IANS) Heritage protection in Agra is "Taj centric", ignoring in the process dozens of lesser-known protected monuments that are in a shambles, say conservationists as World Heritage Day is observed Friday.