Solan in Himachal Pradesh is known for two things: mushroom cultivation and as the home to Asia’s first distillery. Ushering in a new era for the hill town’s whisky legacy is the 24-year-old Alcobrew Distilleries, with its Gamber Valley Indian single malt. Currently, there are two limited-edition...
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In Nagpur, the safari season announces itself with scramble every year. What's easy to miss however is how much of what tourists come to see depends on the animals alone; while the effort local stakeholders have put into the ecotourism development around Maharashtra's tiger reser...
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Indore (Madhya Pradesh): MGM College and MY Hospital housekeeping and security workers engaged through BVG India Limited have gone two months without pay. The workers submitted a memorandum seeking administrative intervention and immediate release of their pending wages. Worker A...
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At first glance in the bookshop, I wondered if I should pick up the book. After all, the story had been told in quite detail earlier. The most important of those books was “The Integration of Indian States,” by V P Menon. He was Vallabhbhai Patel’s factotum and Secretary of the S...
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A three-vehicle accident took place on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway at Borghat on Saturday afternoon after an Eicher tempo rammed into another Eicher tempo travelling ahead, which then hit a container parked on the side of the road. Two people died on the spot and another was serio...
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MUMBAI: The Mumbai police crime branch has arrested two candidates and two middlemen in connection with the paper leak of the competitive examination held by the Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) for recruitment of drug inspectors in the Food and Drugs Administration (...
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The 17-year-old, a Class 12 student, was not wearing a seatbelt and did not possess a driving licence when he allegedly lost control of the car, said officers. He suffered minor head injuries in the accident and was discharged from MGM Hospital in CBD Belapur on Friday...
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Justice Shyam C Chandak, in a common judgment granting bail to four foreign nationals held for more than four years, found that only two of the six notices served on the accused under Section 50 of the NDPS Act were properly framed...
parks
The Labrador is one of five siblings trained by the customs department as detector dogs, and employed across the country in customs formations
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The seizure has exposed an unusual method of smuggling, in which the gold was reduced to powder and mixed with commonly available food products such as milk powder, oats, rice flour, cake mix, and Nutella...
