They all want to spend time with farm labourers in dwellings

CHANDIGARH: Congress scion Rahul Gandhi’s forays into the huts of the poor and downtrodden may not have had the desired effect in the country, but super-rich Punjabi NRIs have taken a fancy to this experiment. A few,were found to be following the young politician’s footsteps nights in improved dwellings of their farm labourers.

Rambagh Palace, Jaipur has been voted the Best Hotel in the World by Conde Nast Traveller in the Readers Travel Awards for 2009 across travel and industry categories, in the World Top 100.

This former residence of the Maharaja of Jaipur also tops the list of 'Overseas Leisure Hotels for Asia and the Indian sub-continent'. Scoring an overall 95.62, Rambagh Palace has the 'best ambience/decor' (98.12) and 'location' (96.5) of all hotels in the category.

SYDNEY - The Indian city of Udaipur, known as the “Venice of the East,” was voted the world’s best city for travellers in 2009 in an online poll by Travel + Leisure magazine, trumping last year’s winner Bangkok.

Thiruvananthapuram: A little-known temple in Kerala’s Alappuzha district has suddenly more visitors than ever before. And not all of them are interested in offering prayers to the deity of Karthikeya: some are even offering crores of rupees to buy its dome.

Kochi : Kerala backwaters, famous for their scenic beauty, snake boat races and huge houseboats, offer you something more these days – a leisure ride on yachts.

New Delhi: Samrupa, the world’s first cloned buffalo calf, was to be India’s answer to Dolly the sheep. But unlike Dolly, the first mammal cloned 13 years ago, who lived for seven years, Samrupa succumbed to a lung infection on Wednesday, five days after it was born.

Mumbai: It won’t be too long before we see Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt in a Bollywood film.