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Udaipur India Voted No 1 In Worlds Best Cities Contest
2009-07-15 23:40:00 Udaipur India Voted No 1 In Worlds Best Cities Contest Posted using ShareThis
After Jodhpur, Madonna enjoys Udaipur
2008-01-06 17:19:00 After spending seven days in and around historic city of Jodhpur, Madonna Sunday landed in Udaipur, a city of majestic palaces and beautiful lakes in Rajasthan.
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Udaipur to host international rubber conference
2007-10-31 09:08:00 UDAIPUR: The India International Rubber Conference and Expo (IIRC) 2007 will be held here November 1-3. Almost 600 delegates, including 150 from abroad, are expected to participate in the event. The conference would focus on recent advances in rubber science and allied material technology. The event is being organised by Hari Shankar Singhania Elastomer and Tyre ...
Bus To Udaipur
2007-10-13 02:26:00 We take this deluxe sleeper for our ten-hour journey to Udaipur. The bus is very dirty but it's comfortable up in our top bunk once we put down our own sheet. There just doesn't seem to be anywhere in the schedule for cleaning. This looks to be a pretty comfortable journey for us but not everyone gets it so easy. As we settle in, we hear and young American student trying to get the bus driver's attention. He brings the driver over to his bunk and explains that someone has thrown up in his bunk and the mess is still all over the window. He shows the driver the mess on the outside of bus. He asks to be moved to another berth but the driver mumbles something as he waves his hand in dismissal, sits down and starts up the bus. My heart goes out to this guy. I have to admit though that my first thought is: 'thank God it was him and not us'. And so it goes in the dog-eat-dog (no beef or pork) world of Rajasthan India. No matter how well you try to prepare, you never know what curv...
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The Bohra divide in Udaipur & the recent clash
2007-09-16 11:10:00 The clash between two groups of the minuscule Bohra community in Udaipur made headlines in national media on Saturday but it's an age-old schism (nearly a century old) and the dispute over claim on mosques also dates back to several decades.It was in the 70s in this Rajasthan city when a section of local Bohras had revolted against the religious establishent and formed the Progressive Bohra community. The Dawoodi Bohras are a sub-sect of the Ismaili Shia community (there are some Sunni Bohras as well) and have the reputation of a hardwork businessmen.number around a million (10 lakh) in India and have main concentration in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Malwa (Western MP). Udaipur has a population of 15,000 Bohras. The Bohras here got divided first in the early 20th century over alleged misappropriation of Jamaat funds.The rebel 'aamil' could be buried on his death only after the intervention of the ruling family of the princely state. In the 70s, the local religious leaders...
The Udaipur Octopussy Connection - Udaipur, India
2007-04-30 03:04:00 My 40 or so fellow borders consisted of a large Israeli contingent (I’d assume just out of the army), five or six Dutch (two who have great travel blogs, which I can pass along), a large number of young British couples, two Irish (in a … Source
UDAIPUR CITY GUIDE
2007-04-10 21:52:00 UDAIPUR CITY GUIDEUdaipur is the most romantic of all the Rajasthan cities and one of the most exotic places in Asia. The city's palaces, havelis, temples sets it apart from the rest of the cities. It is also popular for its crafts, paintings and performing arts. The lake palace is the best example of the unique cultural explosion. Udaipur has rightly been called Venice of the east. You can see the city from a boat or from the rooftop of palaces, the view is marvelous, it makes you forget the world. The smooth rolling hills that surround Udaipur are as overpowering as the city itself.Udaipur was the capital of the state of Mewar, one of the states to uphold its Hindu allegiance against Muslim invasion. The city was founded by Maharana Udai Singh II in 1568. After Chittor fell to Mughals, Udai Singh went to his new city Udaipur. After his death his son Pratap succeeded the throne and he restored peace in Udaipur after defeating the Mughal forces. It was during this period that...
LIZ MAY HEAT UP UDAIPUR
2007-01-02 09:14:01 Likely to model for a swim-wear firmspeculation is rife that Hollywood actor-cum model Elizabeth Hurley is likely to visit Udaipur to model bikinis for a well-known swim wear manufacturing firm. sources say that Hurley may land in Udaipur in the next couple of days to shoot for a bikini advertisement.The shoots would be done at Oberoi's Udaivilas and Trident hotel and Devigarh Fort palace where Hurley would endorse the swimming suits and bikinis. She is expected to be accompanied by a group of Hollywood photographers.The crew would make a three day stay in Udaipur.The source said Hurley selected Udaipur as the location for the shoot during her earlier visit to the city. She plans to marry her fiancee, Business man Arun nayar, in hotel devigarh Fort place hotel near Udaipur in march 2007. Nayar was in Udaipur recently to celebrate the birthday of his mother Guna. He along with his quests had stayed in the Devigrah hotel. Meanwhile, The OC star Samaire Armstrong says hurley is no lad...
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