Tourism in Uttar Pradesh

14 Sep 2011

New Delhi and its satellite city of Gurgaon is one of India's most important destinations for the meetings industry. One of four satellite cities, Gurgaon is 30 kilometres from the nation's...

Party that's only for the few

26 Feb 2011

Late last year, a super-billionaire moved into the world's first US billion-dollar residence, an oddly shaped 27-storey mix of brick, steel and glass - looking rather like a badly stacked pile of...

Voters urged to keep Taj on list of 7 wonders

21 Jun 2007

'If you have ever been in love, vote for the Taj,' is the message being beamed from TVs, radios and billboards across India.

The slow road to superpower status

4 Jun 2007

If you want to understand as much as possible about India in a single day, maybe the best thing to do is take the slow bus to Agra. Actually, there are no fast buses, because the road to Agra...

Delhi

5 Jul 2006

1 Dynastic legacies

Opinion

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

Alice Wu

John Tsang's confused middle-class claim

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Visit the Taj Mahal with Air India

To mark its golden jubilee this year, Air India is offering readers the chance to visit the Taj Mahal in a competition that will appear in the South China Morning Post tomorrow.

Taj Mahal mall plan a sellout, say critics

A symbol of eternal love, the Taj Mahal, could soon have a massive shopping complex looming up behind it, threatening to ruin the backdrop to one of India's most famed tourist attractions.

A diamond in a dirt heap

THE TOUR GUIDE HAS seen the Taj Mahal 150 times before, from every angle, in every season and every light.

But still, when the poem in white marble comes into sight through the arch...

Powerful elegy for a predator

What makes Of Tigers And Men different from other environmental books is that it is singularly lacking in hope. Here is an eco-book for realists, one which does not deal in political correctness...

India's monumental problems

THE Archeological Survey of India, responsible for preserving historical monuments, is fighting a losing battle against the Indian Government in an effort to conserve major Indian monuments.

Rough riders on budget trail

FROM here on,'' said our driver, Amar Singh, pointing to the road sign that announced the state of Rajasthan, ''the road . . . is . . . very . . .'' But just then we lurched violently to one side...