Himalayan View from Chopta
Travelguru to acquire Desiya for US$25m
After consolidation in the Indian aviation industry, it is the turn of online travel intermediaries to get on with the same.
20 Dec 2007
According to leading financial daily The Economic Times, Travelguru is acquiring Delhi-based B2B hotel portal Desiya for $25 million (around Rs 100 crore). Travelguru is also scouting for an offline travel player, it [...]
Google chooses HolidayIQ for hotel reviews
Bangalore | 18 Dec 2007
HolidayIQ, India’s popular holiday planning website, has been selected by Google, the global leader in the internet search business, to provide user generated content, specifically hotel reviews and hotel photographs to Google’s India local search.
HolidayIQ and Google have entered into an agreement in which content from Holiday-IQ’s hotel, resorts, home-stays & [...]
When the going gets Tough
17 Dec 2007
When the going gets Tough,
The tough gets going
Nainital Re-Visited
Where: Nainital
When: 23 Nov 2007
I was in Haldwani to attend the reception party of one of my friend. I took this opportunity to revisit Nainital and re-live the past memories and captures the beauty of Nainital in my camera.
The Taxi from Haldwani took me to Nainital in less than an hour. Walking through the chilling [...]
YouTube visits larger than rivals combined: survey
Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:54PM BST
By Eric Auchard
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – YouTube, which has had to pull copyrighted videos off its site after legal attacks by some big media franchises, has enjoyed a surge in U.S. audience share that leaves it far larger than the next 64 video-sharing sites combined, a survey found.
The U.S. market [...]
Hello Web!
Welcome to BhupendraKunwar.com – a meeting place for web freaks.
The objective of this website would be to encourage the web users- novice web users, web developers, web researchers , web traffickers, web promoters and web masters to contribute some meaningful substance to the web.
htaccess cheat sheet
1. Rewrite All URLs on one domain to new domain
Put the following code in the .htaccess file of your old domain
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
2. Rewrite non-www urls with www
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Joomla : Non-www URLs
1. SEO friendly URLs and non-www URLs
While using SEF Plugins with Joomla, one of the common issue encountered is that the default urls are without www i.e. http://example.com (assuming that Joomla is installed in the root domain)
This might irritate webmasters causing duplicate url indexing
Solution:
a. Change your Live Site URL to http://www.example.com
Download the config file “configuration.php†[...]
First Trip to Nainital
Where: Nainital
When: Oct 2004
It was in Oct 2004 when I had my first date with Nainital. Hearing about Nainital had always fascinating to me and I was always excited with just a single thought of visiting this lake city.
We took up the bus to Nainital from ISBT Anand Vihar, New Delhi and arrived Haldwani early [...]


