Agra has also been witnessing a sharp drop in the tourist footfall from 2017 due to the poor air quality index (AQI) levels. The consultant has been given 10 days to evaluate and finalise the bidders. This minor victory for the British was named the Battle of Agra. The Lieutenant-Governor, J.R. Colvin, died there, and was later buried in front of the Diwan-i-am. They include the Jama Masjid, Chini Ka Rauza, Aram Bagh, Mariam's Tomb, Mehtab Bagh among others. The most elegant and largest dome of the Taj Mahal has a diameter of 60 feet (18 m), and has a height of 80 feet (24 m); directly under this dome is the tomb of Mumtaz Mahal. It is part of the Expressway and we are in regular talks with the Indian Air Force," Awanish Kumar Awasthi, Additional Chief Secretary of the Uttar Pradesh government, told IANS. The history from the Afghan invasions to the Mughal times, though tolerably well documented, has been described as being uneventful. 113. [58], The Taj Mahal has faced significant damage due to air pollution and sewage discharge into the nearby Yamuna river. The cash toll payment facilities shall be provided at all these toll booths. [31], During the Indian rebellion of 1857, when East India Company rule across many parts of India was threatened, the news of the mutiny at Meerut reached Agra on 14 May. Designed by the Persian architect, Ustad Ahmad Lahori, the Taj Mahal is on the south bank of the Yamuna River. Agra is in the Braj cultural region. Restraint and moderation, rather than agitational language and partisanship, are the hallmarks of the paper. After 11pm only rest area dhabas are open but the food is decently available. Starting from Lucknow, along the Lucknow-Sultanpur road (NH-731), it will be routed through Barabanki, Amethi, Ayodhya, Sultanpur, Ambedkar Nagar, Azamgarh and Mau to terminate at Ghazipur. The city's groundwater is also unfit for drinking, and is saline and high in fluoride content. The car was from Delhi … Tajview hotel, the first five-star hotel in Agra, operated by the. The deserted city of Fatehpur Sikri is about 40 km southwest of Agra. Mahmud however proceeded to pillage the city. (it is not that scary though). [5], Broadly speaking, the climate of Agra is classified as BSh by the Köppen-Geiger climate classification system. Agra (/ˈɑːɡrə/, Hindustani: [ˈaːgraː] (listen)) is a city on the banks of the Yamuna river in the Agra district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The galaxy included the stalwarts, Muzaffar Ali, Shobha De, Prahlad Kakker and Raghu Rai. [52][53], The city features mild winters, hot and dry summers and a monsoon season. Other para-transit modes include rickshaws. ... goes for sleep. The English dailies published are The Times of India, Hindustan Times, Economic Times, and The Pioneer. The Indian military has for long flagged the threat of war fro two fronts. In the South, the majority of forts were built on the seabed like the one at Bekal in Kerala.[134]. [36] However, in the years between the mutiny and independence Agra was a major centre of Hindi and Urdu journalism. It is said to have originated from Shah Jahan's royal kitchen. He ruled his sultanate from Agra until he was defeated and killed by Mughal Emperor Babur in the First battle of Panipat, fought in 1526. Taj Mahal has also been visited by Russian President Vladimir Putin (1999), Chinese President Hu Jintao (2006), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2018) and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (2018).[44]. The Agra Municipal Corporation oversees the city's civic infrastructure. Rail India Technical and Economic Service (RITES) had proposed 30 stations, 11 underground and 19 elevated, for two corridors of the Metro Rail in the city. [117], Agra amassed a GDP of 40,210 crores as per the data released by UP Government for the year 2018–19, thus the 3rd rank in the state. Agra division which consists of four districts, and is headed by the divisional commissioner of Agra, who is an IAS officer, the commissioner is the head of local government institutions (including municipal corporations) in the division, is in charge of infrastructure development in his division, and is also responsible for maintaining law and order in the division. Light penetrates to the interior through delicate Jali screens of intricately carved white marble. [clarification needed], Sikandra, the last resting place of the Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great, is on the Delhi-Agra Highway, about 13 kilometres (8.1 miles) from the Agra Fort. [70] Literacy rate of males is considerably higher than that of women. [100] It includes a 130 km long pipeline laid to bring Ganga water from Bulandshahr's Upper Ganga canal to Agra. Agra district administration is headed by the district magistrate and collector (DM) of Agra, who is an IAS officer. Above 1.5 lakh pairs of shoes per day are manufactured in agra by the various footwear units. Lucknow, January 24 Combat aircraft, including the top-of-the-line Rafale or Sukhoi, will soon be able to land and take off from an airstrip being developed on the 340-km long Purvanchal Expressway i The control of power distribution in Agra was handed over to Torrent Power from the state-owned UP Power Corporation Ltd in 2010, in an effort to move towards power reforms and cutting the massive distribution losses in the state. On each corner are hexagonal towers, about thirteen metres (43 feet) tall. The sectors worst-hit are the iron foundries, tourism, leather shoe industry in Agra. [42][43] Post Independence, Taj Mahal has been visited by world leaders like US Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower (1959), Bill Clinton (2000), and Donald Trump (2020). Like the Agra-Lucknow Expressway, a 3.2-km airstrip is also being built at Sultanpur on the Purvanchal Expressway. Took us ages to get to the restaurant. 114. The Jama Masjid is a large mosque attributed to Shah Jahan's daughter Jahanara Begum, built in 1648, notable for its unusual dome and absence of minarets. The district police is headed by a senior superintendent of police (SSP), who is an IPS officer, and is assisted by six superintendents of police or additional superintendents of police for city, east, west, crime, traffic, and protocol, either from the IPS or the Provincial Police Service. Lucknow is the capital city of Uttar Pradesh. [32], However, when the Gwalior contingent mutinied on 15 June, all other native units followed. Agra has become of late years a large railway centre, and its commercial prosperity seems to be The accident took place on Thursday after a private bus overturned and caught fire. The city that nurtured the likes of Ghalib, Tansen, Surdas, Nazeer and many more. connect Agra with all major Indian cities like New Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Visakhapatnam, Bengaluru, Pune, Bhopal, Indore, Kanpur, Kochi, Gwalior, Meerut, Saharanpur, Dehradun, Jabalpur, Ujjain, Jaipur, Haridwar, Aligarh, Mathura, Alwar, Lucknow, Thiruvananthapuram etc. IANS, Opposition tears into govt’s handling of farmers’ protest, says monologue should stop. Combat aircraft, including the top-of-the-line Rafale or Sukhoi, will soon be able to land and take off from an airstrip being developed on the 340-km long Purvanchal Expressway in Uttar Pradesh. Millet, barley, wheat and cotton are among the crops grown. On 2 July the rebel force of the Nimach and Nasirabad contingents reached Fatehpur Sikri. Previously known as Akbarabad, Agra was the capital of the Mughal Empire under the Mughal Emperors Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan. Agra also has a nearby bird sanctuary, Keetham Lake. Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom had visited Taj Mahal in 1961 on her India visit. In the audience, he was deliberately placed behind men of lower rank. The most accepted one is that it had its origin from the Hindi word agar meaning salt-pan, a name which was given to it because the soil in the region is brackish and salt used to be made here once by evaporation. It is a major junction of highways with three national highways and two expressways (Yamuna Expressway & Agra Lucknow Expressway) originating from Agra. [10] Agra is included on the Golden Triangle tourist circuit, along with Delhi and Jaipur; and the Uttar Pradesh Heritage Arc, a tourist circuit of Uttar Pradesh, along with Lucknow and Varanasi. JollyGo: Tasty and Hygenic food on Yamuna Expressway on the way from Delhi to Agra - See 116 traveler reviews, 130 candid photos, and great deals for Jewar, India, at Tripadvisor. The Taj Mahal was built on a marble platform that stands above a sandstone one. A stone tablet at the gate of the Fort states that it had been built before 1000 but was later renovated by Akbar. Polluting vehicles are not allowed near the Taj Mahal. With the disputed border with China and Pakistan active at the same point of time, the armed forces are stretched to the maximum. The original name of the gardens was Aram Bagh, or 'Garden of Relaxation', and this was where Babur used to spend his leisure time. [70] Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. The area of the mausoleum itself is about 23 m2 (250 sq ft), and is built on a base that is about 50 m2 (540 sq ft) and about one metre (3.3 feet) high. According to SAD MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal who coordinated the... Iron nails fixed on roads at Ghazipur border being ‘repositioned’, say Delhi Police, Police have heavily barricaded the Ghazipur border, Decision on Ranji Trophy evokes mixed response from city players, RAAHI project: 15-year-old wins Smart City logo designing contest, Op beautification: A dump yard earlier, it’s a park now, 11 nominations filed for Ward No. [119][120] In the Smart city Rankings, which are pan-India rankings for 100 cities which is released by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs based on the progress/completion rate of Smart City projects, Agra ranked 1st, based on the rankings released based on work done by department concerned under the Smart City project from 1 October 2019, to 1 March 2020.[121][122]. [14][55] The region around Agra, the northwest Indo-Gangetic plain is prone to extreme fog in the winter months, which is caused due to natural factors like low winds, low temperatures, availability of moisture apart from air pollution. Agra district comes under the Agra Police Zone and Agra Police Range, Agra Zone is headed by an additional director general (ADG)-ranked Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, and the Agra Range is headed by a deputy inspector general (DIG)-ranked IPS officer. [142] The Mahotsav is hosted from 18 to 27 February every year. With the fear of the rebellion spreading to Agra as well, the rest of these native infantry battalions, which were part of the garrison at Agra, were successfully disarmed by the British on 31 May. The mausoleum of Shah Jahan's favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal, Taj Mahal is one of the New Seven Wonders of the world,[123] and one of the three World Heritage Sites in Agra. [54] The monsoon rains usually begin in the first week in July; and generally end in mid-September. A private double-decker bus collided with a divider and caught fire on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway today morning. Babur, the founder of the Mughal dynasty, laid out the first formal Persian garden, Aram Bagh (or Garden of Relaxation) on the banks of the river Yamuna. Small in comparison to many other Mughal-era tombs, it is sometimes described as a jewel box. Out of the many mounds all around, the steersman pointed to the one directly ahead, supposedly using the Sanskrit word agra (अग्र, 'front'), to express what he meant. The accident took place on Agra- Lucknow Expressway early Saturday morning. of patches No. Name of Division No. It also makes available works of art and craft at reasonable prices that are not inflated by high maintenance cost. Both sources breach CPCB standards. [46] The sand stone hills near Fatehpur Sikri and on the south-eastern borders of the district are offshoots from the Vindhya range of Central India. The new semi-high speed train Gatimaan Express that reduces travel time between Delhi and Agra began in April 2016. [64], Less than 7% of the Agra district is under forest cover. It is 206 kilometres (128 mi) south of the national capital New Delhi.Agra is the fourth-most populous city in Uttar Pradesh and 24th in India. But shortly after their arrival another force of mutineers attacked the brigade by surprise, but was defeated and routed. In the British era, Agra became a great centre of Hindi literature with people like Babu Gulab Rai at the helm. The Jats of Bharatpur, waged many wars against the Mughal Delhi and in the 17th and 18th century carried out numerous campaigns in Mughal territories including Agra. Awasthi, the 1987-batch officer, is looking after expressway projects in the state. Agra Municipal Corporation is divided into 100 wards[92] for the purpose of local administration. It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is run by a trust comprising five eminent persons as trustees. Agra is the fourth-most populous city in Uttar Pradesh and 24th in India.[11]. Railway Stations served by the Agra Division, North Central Railways network at Agra are: In July 2014, a trial run of a "semi-high speed train" with 10 coaches and 2 generators reached a speed of 160 km/h (99 mph) between New Delhi and Agra. This website uses cookie or similar technologies, to enhance your browsing experience and provide personalised recommendations. This festival, an attempt to rejuvenate that aesthetic spirit which is a soul of this historically rich city, Agra. Two migrant labourers were killed and 20 others injured when the vehicle carrying them from Delhi to Azamgarh overturned in Behda Mujawar area on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway … [61] The white-marble Taj Mahal is turning yellow and green because of filthy air in the world's eighth-most polluted city. 1 Agra 3 1 I 0.00 RF 6.8500 2 … Expressway stats We had planned on having lunch in Lucknow so entered the city and went in search of the famed biriyani. At least 13 people have sustained injuries after two vehicles collided with each other on Agra-Lucknow Expressway in the Tirwa police station area on late Sunday night, police said. [75] Hinduism, Islam and Jainism are the major religions in Agra city with 80.7%, 15.4% and 1.0% of the population adhering to them; others are 2.9%. The Divisional Commissioner of Agra acts as the ex-officio Chairman of ADA, whereas a vice-chairman, a government-appointed IAS officer, looks after the daily matters of the authority.[91]. Many of Nur Jahan's relatives are interred in the mausoleum. [140] The tomb is within the compound of the Christian Missionary Society. The region around Agra consists almost entirely of a level plain, with hills in the extreme southwest. Agra (/ ˈ ɑː ɡ r ə /, Hindustani: ()) is a city on the banks of the Yamuna river in the Agra district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The history of the city before the Afghan invasions in the 11th century is unclear. The Mughal Empire saw the building of many monuments, especially Taj Mahal. The city is now a popular tourist destination and hosts tourists from across the world. [23], In the years 1835–1836, Agra was the capital of the short-lived Presidency of Agra, administered by a Governor. This was the first time power distribution was privatised in Uttar Pradesh, except for Noida-Greater Noida falling under the NCR. Queen Victori's bronze statues are also displayed in this Museum. The Taj Mahal is distinguished as the finest example of Mughal architecture, a blend of Indian, Persian, and Islamic styles. The incident happened in the morning on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway under Behta Mujawar police station area, police said. Another dish that is endemic to Agra is Dalmoth, which is a dry snack made with spicy fried lentils (dal), nuts and raisins. The two routes are Sikandra to the Taj Mahal's east gate via Agra Fort and Agra Cantt to Kalindi Vihar. [20] Shah Jahan, known for his keen interest in architecture, gave Akbarabad (Agra) its most prized monument, the Taj Mahal. The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). The red sandstone fort was converted into a palace during Shah Jahan's reign, and reworked extensively with marble and pietra dura inlay. Kannauj (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 18 (ANI): At least 13 people have sustained injuries after two vehicles collided with each other on Agra-Lucknow Expressway in the Tirwa police station area on late Sunday night, police said. The year 2019 was the 28th year of this Mahotsav. [107], 40% of the population depends largely on agriculture, and others on the leather and footwear business and iron foundries. The DM is also responsible for maintaining law and order in the city. Agra University was established on 1 July 1927 and catered to colleges spread across the United Provinces, the Rajputana, the Central Provinces and almost to entire northern India. The Centre has taken an initiative to develop roads and highways in a manner that permits combat aircraft to land and take off in times of crisis. Agra district has two Lok Sabha constituencies, Agra and Fatehpur Sikri, and nine Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha (Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly) constituencies. Air India and its subsidiary, Alliance Air, fly to Agra airport. Much like the Yamuna Expressway, which connects Greater Noida to Agra and has witnessed 94 deaths this year alone, the Lucknow-Agra Expressway has emerged as a challenge when it comes to road safety. [83][87][88][89] The DM is assisted by a chief development officer; six additional district magistrates for finance/revenue, city, administration, land acquisition, civil supply, and protocol; one city magistrate; and three additional city magistrates.[90]. ", "Historical Notes: Shivaji's miraculous escape from Aurangzeb's court will leave you spellbound! [109] The city is home to Asia's largest spa called Kaya Kalp – The Royal Spa, at the ITC Hotel Mughal in Agra. The historic Agra University was later rechristened as Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar University by the then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati. But in the economy of the administration of British India Agra is nothing more than a district town; its size, proportions and manifold activities have come down to its present requirements, and continued life in this city does not come above the average of that monotonous muffasil life in India which has been so often and so vividly described by many gifted Anglo-Indian writers. The rivers in the region include Yamuna and Chambal. Akbar the Great made it the eponymous seat of one of his original twelve subahs (imperial top-level provinces), bordering (Old) Delhi, Awadh (Oudh), Allahabad, Malwa and Ajmer subahs. expressway comprises of 75km (the Project”) including spurs, will be awarded on BOT or EPC basis. Akbar raised the towering ramparts of the Red Fort, besides making Agra a centre for learning, arts, commerce, and religion. 05:05 PM (IST), Updated : The weather grows cold again by the middle of October. The Tribune, the largest selling English daily in North India, publishes news and views without any bias or prejudice of any kind. [110][111] Other hotels include Taj Hotel and Convention Centre. The golden age of the city began with the Mughals. Known for its surreal topography, stunning views, colorful culture, and cheerful people, Kashmir is definitely one of the most awe-inspiring tourist places in North India.The stunning Dal Lake in Srinagar, the gorgeous valleys of Sonmarg, the thrilling adventures of skiing at Gulmarg, and the perfect serenity of Pahalgam make a trip to Kashmir replete with happiness. The airfares for Hyderabad to Delhi flights range from Rs.2327 to Rs.14,497. [124] The Taj Mahal is the most visited tourist spot in the India, attracting nearly 6.9 million visitors in 2018–19.[125]. reviving. [94] The MP for Agra constituency is SP Singh Baghel,[95] from Bharatiya Janata Party. However, there is an improbability underlying this story, it being that common people, specially during the age of the Lodis did not speak in Sanskrit.[13][14]. [99] To provide the city with adequate water supply, the Gangajal pipeline project has been initiated. Around 11% of the population is under 6 years of age. [63], The Yamuna River is one of the most polluted rivers in the world. Designed and Developed by: Grazitti Interactive, Book The Chini Ka Rauza, notable for its Persian influenced dome of blue glazed tiles, is dedicated to the prime minister of Shah Jahan, Afzal Khan. Ram Barat literally means Baraat Marriage procession of Sri Ram. 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The government is pushing for development of infrastructure for armed forces. Ram Barat (Hindi: राम बारात) is a part of Ramlila celebration in Agra.
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