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...So is the mosaic-like inlay technique called pietra dura: seen on the walls of the Taj Mahal, it is practised by local jewellers such as Hanut Singh and Vishal Kothari, founder of VAK Jewels....
...The chance for wealth managers to score new clients in India’s further-flung cities is also because multigenerational family-business owners are shifting from physical to financial assets, said Atul Singh...
...Schools, colleges, malls, cinemas, restaurants and tourist sites across India — including the Taj Mahal — have been shut down. Hospitals have been asked to defer elective surgery....
...The challenge is finding a new audience for pieces such as a 17th-century dagger made during the Mughal empire under the rule of Shah Jahan (the man behind the Taj Mahal)....
...We've also seen a huge row over the Taj Mahal, which obviously any foreign reader or listener will know. It is India's most famous monument, India's most popular tourist attraction....
...Meanwhile a war of words has also broken out over the Taj Mahal, the country’s most famous monument, after Sangeet Som, a local lawmaker, said it had been built by “traitors" who wanted to eliminate all...
...Jyotsna Singh discusses Hindu nationalism's growing sway over the country's culture and politics with the FT's Kiran Stacey....
...“This year is a turning point,” says Jaskarn Singh Mahal of Punjab Agriculture University. “We will see a quantum jump in the area that will not be burnt. There is a lot of awareness....
...I wander off to find the Cloud Room, or Badal Mahal, somewhere I’ve wanted to see for a while after hearing it described as one of the world’s most beautiful rooms. I have it all to myself....
...The Taj Mahal hotel stands grandly above the boulevards of New Delhi. In the lobby, suited businessmen greet each other....
...This is all 50 yards away from our room; it is hard to believe we are only a few hours from the crowds posing on the “Lady Diana” bench at the Taj Mahal....
...Scientists Anand Singh and Jitendra Pandey at the city’s Banaras Hindu University (BHU) last year published one of the first detailed studies of heavy metals in the Ganges....
...“There was an explosion and then five minutes later another explosion and it looked like fireworks,” said Vandana Kripalani, who was on the rooftop of her seafront apartment near the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel...
...The British premier will make a last pitch for the contract on Tuesday when he meets his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh in New Delhi. He will insist the Typhoon is “a superior aircraft”....
...At a private meeting in Mumbai’s seafront Taj Mahal hotel last month, finance minister Palaniappan Chidambaram made corporate India an unusual offer....
...Mr Bahadur Singh says the most disadvantaged parts of north-Indian society are in no hurry for a return of past failures, like the Congress party....
...Built perhaps as early as 1734 by the city’s founder, Jai Singh II, the Jal Mahal – “lake palace” – had lain derelict for the best part of a century....
...Manmohan Singh – although he did so in his own diplomatic, elliptical way....
...However, Mr Singh said formal peace talks could not resume “unless and until [the] terrorist heads who shook Mumbai are properly accounted for, [and the] perpetrators of these heinous crimes are brought...
...Indian commandos fought room-to-room battles with terrorists in two Mumbai luxury hotels early Friday morning as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in effect blamed Pakistan for the attacks, reports the FT....
...Indian commandos freed some hostages from the Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels but battled on with Islamist militants to take control of the buildings, where other guests were thought to remain, hiding in rooms...
...Mr Singh’s office said Palaniappan Chidambaram, finance minister, would replace Shivraj Patil as home minister....
...Bush seem strangely insignificant as gunmen rampage through the Taj Mahal hotel....
...Prime Minister Singh this week warned of consequences if neighbouring countries were found to be harbouring elements responsible for the attacks on their soil....
...Ratan Tata, the chairman of the Tata Group that owns the Taj Mahal hotel, has been one of the most vociferous in trying to explain what went wrong....
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