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Travel misery for millions as Tube strike hits London	By: IANS
Date: 07/09/2010

A strike by workers on the London Underground (Tube) caused severe disruption and delays for millions of travellers Tuesday, early reports showed in London.

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Delhi to get its first heliport by mid-September	By: Rohit Vaid
Date: 06/09/2010

A mega heliport at Rohini in north Delhi and a helipad for the Commonwealth Games (CWG) being built by state-run Pawan Hans Helicopter Limited (PHHL) will be operational by mid-September. After the games, the heliport wi ...

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13 years on, Mother Teresa still draws foreign tourists to Kolkata	By: Aparajita Gupta
Date: 03/09/2010

Be it soccer legend Diego Maradona, tennis star Martina Hingis or football World Cup hero Diego Forlan - they have all visited the plain two-storey Missionaries of Charity headquarters here that houses Mother Teresa`s gr ...

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India reassures Sri Lankan Tamils of speedy resettlement	By: IANS
Date: 02/09/2010

India yesterday rejected reports that it was bringing Indian nationals to Sri Lanka for reconstruction work in the war-ravaged northern districts and underlined its determination to speed up the resettlement of the Tamil ...

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Tourism industry hopes for best as tar invades Goa beaches	By: IANS
Date: 01/09/2010

The tourism industry in Goa has its fingers crossed for the forthcoming season as wave after wave of messy tar balls have begun invading the state`s beaches, covering the coastline in semi-solid, smudgy layers of dark sl ...

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Britain plans event in India to woo tourists	By: IANS
Date: 29/07/2010

The British national tourism agency, VisitBritain, will host its main international travel trade event in Bangalore in 2011, it was announced during Prime Minister David Cameron`s visit yesterday.

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Hilly Sikkim, sandy Goa to sell tourism together	By: IANS
Date: 14/07/2010

The hills of Sikkim can now sunbathe in Goa! To tap tourism synergies and boost business, the Goa Tourism Development Corporation (GTDC) and its Sikkim counterpart have signed an agreement to promote each other`s diverse ...

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Tourism eating into Goa`s fish?	By: Mayabhushan Nagvenkar
Date: 12/07/2010

Goans and hundreds of thousands of tourists visiting the state of Goa annually may soon have to pay a premium to sink their teeth into a fried mackerel or slurp their way through thick prawn curry. Mackerels, sardin ...

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Pastoral holiday on agenda? Drop in at a Himachal village	By: Vishal Gulati
Date: 04/07/2010

Milking cows, plucking apples, digging up potatoes and pitting your wits against the elusive trout... That`s the idyllic holiday in a mountain village far from the madding crowd that Himachal Pradesh is offering tourists ...

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A discovery of India, with suggestions on Facebook	By: Gaurav Das
Date: 29/06/2010

They have taken a break from their routine lives and embarked on a journey to discover the `real` India with a budget of Rs.500 a day. And guess what is `guiding` this Delhi-based couple in their excursion - tips on soci ...