Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
Soon, the Nilgiris supermarket chain spread to Erode, Coimbatore and Chennai. In September–October 2008, Actis, a UK-based private equity investor, invested US$65 million in the Nilgiris Group in order to strengthen the group's manufacturing and franchising operations in South India. This investment has given Actis a controlling interest ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate
Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Nilgiris (supermarket)
The Nilgiri Mountains (IPA: [n̪iːlɐɡiɾi]) form a part of the Western Ghats in northwestern Tamil Nadu, southern Karnataka and eastern Kerala in South India. They are located at the trijunction of the three states and connect the Western Ghats to the Eastern Ghats .
The Nilgiri Mountain Railway (NMR), colloquially called the "Toy Train" by locals, is a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge railway in Nilgiris district, Tamil Nadu, India, built by the British in 1908. [1] The railway is operated by the Southern Railway [2] and is the only rack railway in India. The railway relies on its fleet of steam ...
Coonoor (pronunciation ⓘ), is a taluk and a municipal town of the Nilgiris district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. [1] [2] As of 2011, the town had a population of 45,494.. The town sits at the south-east corner of the Nilgiri plateau, and at the head of the Coonoor Ghat, the principal pass connecting the Nilgiris to the pla
These forests are home to the largest herd of Asian elephants in India, who range from the Nilgiris across towards the Eastern Ghats. The Nilgiris and the Southwestern Ghats are also one of the most important tiger habitats left in India. The South Western Ghats montane rain forests ecoregion covers the portion of the range above 1000 metres ...