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especially if trying to locate a but you will be doing so at DIRECTORY
house number. Often there your own risk, except for the
may not even be a road sign. If government emporia and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd
you are lost, a passer by should well-known establishments. Tel 1800 345 1500.
always help, but the best bet is Foreign Post Office
to get directions from a taxi or Newspapers and Kotla Marg, Near ITO, Delhi.
rickshaw driver or use Google Tel (011) 2323 3314. Ballard
Maps on your mobile phone. Magazines Estate, Mumbai.
India’s leading national English Tel (022) 2261 1791. 12, BBD
language newspapers include Bagh, Kolkata.
Courier Services The Times of India, Hindustan Tel (1800) 011 2011. Mooker
Courier services are available Times, The Indian Express, Nallamuthu St, Chennai.
across the country, even The Hindu and The Asian Age. Tel (044) 2524 0968.
In the east, The Statesman General Post Offices
and The Telegraph are widely Gol Dak Khana, Ashok Rd, Delhi.
read. There are other regional Tel (011) 2374 3602. Chhatrapati
newspapers as well that Shivaji Terminus Area, Fort,
provide local news. Many Mumbai. Tel (022) 2262 0693.
international newspapers, 68 Jessore Rd, Diamond City
such as the International North, 1st floor, Kolkata.
Herald Tribune and the Financial Tel (033) 2210 5150. Chennai
Times, are available alongside GPO, Chennai.
Indian weekly news magazines, Tel (1800) 112 011.
including India Today and UPS Courier Service
Outlook. Time and Newsweek Tel (011) 4612 6201, Delhi.
are available in large cities. Tel (022) 6520 2888, Mumbai.
For local news and cultural Tel (033) 4023 3800, Kolkata.
events, the city sections of Tel (044) 4502 7100, Chennai.
the newspapers give ∑ ups.com
reasonable coverage. Federal Express
Courier service outlet Tel 1800 419 4343.
∑ fedex.com
Television and Radio
in rural and remote areas. DHL Worldwide Express
While it is better to ship The introduction of Direct Tel (080) 0200 1345, Delhi.
larger items such as furniture to Home (DTH) in India has Tel (022) 2409 0924, Mumbai.
by regular land, sea or air made television watching a Tel (033) 4006 9666, Kolkata.
cargo, letters, documents or whole new experience, with Tel (044) 2822 2126, Chennai.
smaller parcels are best sent a plethora of Indian and ∑ dhl.co.in
through a courier agency, international channels. The DTDC
even though it may be more prime DTH operators are Tata Tel (330) 004 444.
expensive. United Parcel Sky and Dish TV. Cable TV ∑ dtdc.in
Service (UPS), Federal Express is also available everywhere,
TNT and DHL Worldwide for international channels,
Express are international such as the BBC World Service, the main music channels,
courier agencies, with a Discovery, CNN, National with VH1 being the leading
widespread network all over Geographic and the Hong international music channel.
India and the world. DTDC Kong-based Star network. The majority of Indian TV
is an established domestic Star Sports and TEN Sports channels show popular Hindi
courier service. Shops offer are exclusive sports channels, films or song-and-dance
to send purchases by courier, and Channel V and MTV are sequences; there are many
regional Indian-language
channels as well. General
Useful Dialling Codes and Numbers entertainment channels
• To make an inter-city call, • Country codes: UK 44; France (GEC) play serials, also
dial the STD code of that 33; USA & Canada 1; Australia known as daily soaps, and
city and the local number. 61; Ireland 353; New Zealand reality shows.
For Delhi, dial 011; Mumbai, 64; South Africa 27; Japan 81. India also has a wide radio
022; Kolkata, 033; and • Dial 197 to obtain a phone network, with programmes
Chennai, 044. number in Delhi, Mumbai, in English and local languages.
• To make an international Kolkata and Chennai. It is still the best form of
call (ISD), dial 00, the country communication, especially
code, area code and the in the rural areas. TV listings
local number. and reviews can be found in
all major daily newspapers.

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