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Halloween 2025: 10 Haunted Places In India You Can Visit (If You Dare)
A few sites are so steeped in legend that even the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has put up warning boards about venturing in after dark. Read on.
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Ghost Towns In Kerala After Landslides Crush Vehicles, Flatten Buildings
Flattened buildings, mud-filled potholes and cracked land dotted with huge boulders-- these were the scenes at Mundakkai junction and nearby Chooralmala Town in Kerala's Wayanad on Wednesday.
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From A Ghost Town To A Gravity-Defying Hill, These 5 Unusual Places In India Promise A Strange Sightseeing Experience
Add these unusual places from all over India to your bucket list
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Puri A Near Ghost Town As Cyclone Fani, Biggest In 20 Years, Hits Odisha
Cyclone Fani, one of the biggest storms to come off the Indian Ocean in recent years, slammed into India on Friday, tearing down trees, blowing away food stands and cutting off power and water.
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Foreign Media On Stree, New Hit Film, Where Men Are Afraid To Roam Streets
Stree comedy depicts a town in India haunted by a female ghost who abducts men and leaves only their clothes behind
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Lavasa, A Billionaire's Dream City Near Mumbai, Turns Into Ghost Town
The days of zero crime are over. Garbage collection is sporadic, so litter soils the man-made lake. Storefronts are vacant. Signs of neglect are everywhere: maintenance is late or nonexistent.
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A Week After Nepal Earthquake, a Tale of Two Villages
The Villages of Laprak and Barpak in Nepal resemble ghost towns from the air. A week after the killer quake struck, both villages located high up in the upper Himalayas that bore the brunt of nature's wrath are deserted.
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Ghost Towns in Srinagar Stand Testimony to Raging Jhelum
It is virtually a tale of two cities. A fortnight after raging floods, most parts of Srinagar are recovering with massive relief and rehabilitation efforts underway.
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'Empty cities' emerging in China, warns top official
In a grim warning against rapid urbanisation in China, a top development official has said that reckless expansion of cities has turned many of them into ghost towns with no occupants in sight.
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Uttarakhand: Govindghat, now a ghost town
Hundreds of flies buzzed busily around uncollected garbage strewn along the main road. Home and shop owners seemed to have had just enough time to lock their homes and leave their town in an eerie silence. The ground under the helipad - belonging to a company that ferried rich pilgrims to Hemkund Sahib and right near the banks of the Alaknanda - ha...
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Blog: Kedarnath slammed in 15 minutes by 15-feet wall of water
Kedarnath is a ghost town today. As we finally managed to touch down today, just behind the shrine, the sheer devastation of what happened hit us.
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Assam riots: Of ghost towns and relief camps, 4 lakh people displaced
45 people have been killed in ethnic clashes in Assam and nearly four lakh people are now housed in 200 relief camps, said Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today. He aggressively denied that his government had denied an alert from the Centre about the escalating tension that spiralled into a national crisis.
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Obulapuram turns into a ghost town
Obulapuram, once busy with hundreds of people working in iron ore mines, JCB India Ltd. (JCB)'s digging up earth and making artificial hillocks and trucks carrying loads, has become a quiet and gloomy place today.
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Halloween 2025: 10 Haunted Places In India You Can Visit (If You Dare)
A few sites are so steeped in legend that even the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has put up warning boards about venturing in after dark. Read on.
-
Ghost Towns In Kerala After Landslides Crush Vehicles, Flatten Buildings
Flattened buildings, mud-filled potholes and cracked land dotted with huge boulders-- these were the scenes at Mundakkai junction and nearby Chooralmala Town in Kerala's Wayanad on Wednesday.
-
From A Ghost Town To A Gravity-Defying Hill, These 5 Unusual Places In India Promise A Strange Sightseeing Experience
Add these unusual places from all over India to your bucket list
-
Puri A Near Ghost Town As Cyclone Fani, Biggest In 20 Years, Hits Odisha
Cyclone Fani, one of the biggest storms to come off the Indian Ocean in recent years, slammed into India on Friday, tearing down trees, blowing away food stands and cutting off power and water.
-
Foreign Media On Stree, New Hit Film, Where Men Are Afraid To Roam Streets
Stree comedy depicts a town in India haunted by a female ghost who abducts men and leaves only their clothes behind
-
Lavasa, A Billionaire's Dream City Near Mumbai, Turns Into Ghost Town
The days of zero crime are over. Garbage collection is sporadic, so litter soils the man-made lake. Storefronts are vacant. Signs of neglect are everywhere: maintenance is late or nonexistent.
-
A Week After Nepal Earthquake, a Tale of Two Villages
The Villages of Laprak and Barpak in Nepal resemble ghost towns from the air. A week after the killer quake struck, both villages located high up in the upper Himalayas that bore the brunt of nature's wrath are deserted.
-
Ghost Towns in Srinagar Stand Testimony to Raging Jhelum
It is virtually a tale of two cities. A fortnight after raging floods, most parts of Srinagar are recovering with massive relief and rehabilitation efforts underway.
-
'Empty cities' emerging in China, warns top official
In a grim warning against rapid urbanisation in China, a top development official has said that reckless expansion of cities has turned many of them into ghost towns with no occupants in sight.
-
Uttarakhand: Govindghat, now a ghost town
Hundreds of flies buzzed busily around uncollected garbage strewn along the main road. Home and shop owners seemed to have had just enough time to lock their homes and leave their town in an eerie silence. The ground under the helipad - belonging to a company that ferried rich pilgrims to Hemkund Sahib and right near the banks of the Alaknanda - ha...
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Blog: Kedarnath slammed in 15 minutes by 15-feet wall of water
Kedarnath is a ghost town today. As we finally managed to touch down today, just behind the shrine, the sheer devastation of what happened hit us.
-
Assam riots: Of ghost towns and relief camps, 4 lakh people displaced
45 people have been killed in ethnic clashes in Assam and nearly four lakh people are now housed in 200 relief camps, said Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today. He aggressively denied that his government had denied an alert from the Centre about the escalating tension that spiralled into a national crisis.
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Obulapuram turns into a ghost town
Obulapuram, once busy with hundreds of people working in iron ore mines, JCB India Ltd. (JCB)'s digging up earth and making artificial hillocks and trucks carrying loads, has become a quiet and gloomy place today.
