Rajpura Town, Rajpura: Location, Connectivity and Nearby Areas
Rajpura Town, Rajpura, was never meant to be a permanent town. In 1947, when refugees from the princely state of Bahawalpur arrived, the site was a thinly populated railway stop…
Khurda Town: Location, Connectivity and Nearby Areas
Khurda Town, Khurda, is one of those places where the railway station named after it isn’t actually in the town. Khurda Road Junction, the headquarters of an entire East Coast…
White Town, Puducherry: Location, Connectivity and Nearby Areas
White Town, Puducherry, got its name from segregation, not from the colour of its buildings. The French built the city on either side of a canal: Europeans lived on the…
Lake Town, Kolkata: Location, Connectivity and Nearby Areas
Lake Town, Kolkata, has a scaled-down Big Ben on its main road. The Kolkata Time Zone Tower on VIP Road is a one-third-size replica of the famous London clock tower,…
Yelahanka New Town, Bengaluru: Location, Connectivity and Nearby Areas
Yelahanka New Town, Bengaluru, began as a government housing project. The Karnataka Housing Board laid it out as a planned township in the early 1980s, north of the city. Four…