Teej is Celebrated usually during the first week of August. To celebrate the advent of the monsoon, girls and young women dressed in colourful leharia sarees or costumes, sing songs and offer puja to goddess parvati, and pray for conjugal bliss and happiness. It is considered a day for lovers and would-be life partners and young boys and girls come to the city from nearby villages, singing and dancing on bullock and camel carts and open tractor-trailers.
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India Travel Mart (ITM), a prominent international travel & tourism exhibition, will start tomorrow in Jaipur and continue till August 13.
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Elephant Safari Is a brilliant way to see the countryside around Jaipur and beyond. You can choose from 1 hour jaunts to week-long treks. No matter what you decide to do, you can’t go wrong on the back of one of these majestic beasts. Some tour operators organize elephant safaris
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Uncut hair covered by a turban is an article of faith of the Sikh religion, founded more than 500 years ago in the
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UTI Mutual Fund has launched the first micro-pension initiative in the country for unorganised sector workers under
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