With the winter chill settling in, it’s natural for the body to crave delicacies that keep one warm, provide comfort and are nosh up. A winter meal at The Leela Palace New Delhi’s ongoing ‘Kashmiri Food Festival’ which we experienced is one we highly recommend. The meal started before a Kashmiri tablescape — a massive thali where quintessential Wazwan dishes …
A team of experts from the Delhi forest and wildlife department on Monday visited the National Zoological Park, informally known as the Delhi zoo, to assess the health of the lone African elephant there. On Monday, zoo director Sanjeet Kumar said they sought the assistance of the forest department so that the animal does not hurt itself, zoo staff, or …
The lone African elephant at the Delhi Zoo has come into ‘musth’ — a state of aggression where increased reproductive hormones are released by the animal — prompting the zoo administration to reach out to the forest and wildlife department of the Delhi government, seeking assistance to tranquilize it. The zoo administration said that it was also strengthening the boundary …
Just half-a-kilometre away from the 14th century shrine of Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani — a Muslim saint from Central Asia who preached Islam in Kashmir — Khan Rafiq Waza, 57, is milling about at his residence in a narrow bylane of Fateh Kadal in the old city of Srinagar. Khan is busy gauging the flight of flames emerging from the …
