Archive for January, 2010

Cop 15 – Success or Failure ?

After the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference for the first time, the UN climate chief, Yvo de Boer, noted that the talks in the Danish capital achieved three key things on which the international community needed to build on at the next set of negotiations in Mexico. “It is fair to say that Copenhagen didn’t produce [...]

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Kumbh Mela – Haridwar is all set for the next round

Maha Kumbh Haridwar 2010 began, 14 Jan 2010 amid huge religious fanfare and tight security and over 25 lakh people took a ‘snan’ (bath) in the Ganga on the occasion of ‘Makar Sankranti’ — known as Uttarayan in other parts of the country the day when the sun starts to move northwards marking the decline [...]

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Konark – The Sun Temple

Konark is one of the well known tourist attractions of Orissa & is one of the important sight seeing from Puri – the sacred city. Konark or the Sun temple, also known as Sun temple is located amidst a small town named Konark of Puri district of Orissa, India. This masterpiece of Orissa’s medieval architecture [...]

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Bharmour

On 25th December we started at night for our holiday destination Bharmour at midnight in Maruti Ritz from Faridabad. We reached Chandigarh at a 2.30 hours journey from Faridabad from where one of our friend was also accompanying us in his Maruti Alto. We started from that friend’s house at 10.00 am after having breakfast [...]

Sunday, January 10th, 2010