President’s Nature Trail to have different summer timings for visitors

September 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Memories of the sweeping wilderness of Africa seep through the works of urban designer-cum-artist Antonio E'Costa, who spent a better part of his life in Kenya. His recent solo exhibition in the capital, "Vistas", at the Gallery Art Motif in Ladosarai, was inspired by nature.

August 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Metro will run curtailed services on the Independence Day Saturday and no parking facility will be available at stations for commuters till afternoon, a Delhi Metro Road Corporation (DMRC) official said Friday. "The Metro trains will run as per normal timings starting 6.00 a.m.

July 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Tuesday said the nature trail at her official residence here would be developed as a biodiversity park. Dikshit said this after launching the Delhi plantation drive from her official 3, Motilal Nehru Place residence where a number of school children planted different species of saplings.

May 2nd, 2009 Jazz cancel summer leagueSALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz have canceled this year's Rocky Mountain Revue summer league. The Jazz say fewer teams have been signing on for the Revue since the NBA started a summer league in Las Vegas.

May 1st, 2009 Correction: Carter on South AmericaBOGOTA — In an April 28 story, The Associated Press reported that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said he was exploring bringing together the presidents of five South American with U.S.

May 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Searing heat continued to scorch the plains of north India as temperatures remained above 40 degrees Celsius with no relief offered by the met office from the heat wave conditions. In Delhi, the maximum temperature Friday was 44 degrees Celsius, a good five degrees above normal.

March 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Many candidates of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress in Chhattisgarh have ignored the advice of their parties about the dates of filing nomination papers. They'd rather settle for 'auspicious' timings! In Chhattisgarh, filing of nominations began March 23 and the last date is March 30.

March 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Although they were opened for fewer number of days than last year, the sprawling Mughal Gardens and other gardens of Rashtrapati Bhavan received a greater number of visitors this year. Last year when these gardens were open for public viewing for 32 days, 537,200 visitors sauntered through them, according to an official statement.

February 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Eyeing the increasing number of Indian tourists to Britain, the British tourism authority Wednesday launched a new initiative to facilitate their travel to the country. The authority, VisitBritain, launched a range of popular travel products that travellers can buy in India before flying to Britain.

February 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress party president Sonia Gandhi will address a convention of the party's district and block presidents here Sunday, a general secretary of the party said Friday. 'Party president Soniaji will speak first at the convention of district and block presidents of the Congress and then the delegates will speak,' Congress general secretary Janardan Dwivedi told reporters here.

January 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush and his wife Laura will leave Washington, D.C.

January 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The quality of visitors to the Broadcast Asia 2008 digital media trade show held in Singapore last June was 'good to excellent', according to a survey conducted by an industry forum. 'Exhibitors agreed that they had met quality groups of industry players, which led to a large number of relevant enquiries for their products,' a survey by International Association of Broadcast Manufacturers (IABM) said.

January 13th, 2009 MOSCOW - The number of registered users to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's personal video blog passed 3,500 Tuesday afternoon, a spokesman said here. The Russian president has had a video blog on the Kremlin site since the autumn of 2008, but visitors who register may now leave their own comments.

January 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - If the universe seems mysterious to you, try becoming a 'cosmic detective'! For, nature has left behind many clues to unravel its mystery, says US-based award-winning scientist Mani Bhaumik who has just penned a children's novel on the subject. 'The study of the universe is a mystery - fortunately nature has left behind some telltale clues around us and like a detective we can pick up the clues and follow the trail to solve the mystery,' Bhaumik told IANS in an informal chat in the capital.

January 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - President Pratibha Devisingh Patil has given her assent to the law enabling a three-fold hike in her salary from Rs.50,000 to Rs.150,000 per month. While signing her own salary hike bill on Dec 30, Patil also assented to another law providing for Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari's pay to be raised from Rs.40,000 to Rs.125,000 per month.