Bye Buy
Property goes abegging in Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh belt
Ambika Sharma
FROM just another backward area of the country with hardly any industrial activity to perhaps the most significant pharmaceutical production centre in India, Baddi and its surrounding villages in Solan district transformed into the pride of Himachal in barely five years flat. With industry came shopping malls, swank apartments and all things modern and more recently, the global meltdown.

TREND MILL
With god’s grace
Bring in the gods, not just for sacred considerations but also for arty reasons, writes SAURABH MALIK
BY Jove, there cannot be a better way to liven up the blessed living space. Place a deity here and an idol there. And with god's grace, you add a touch of pious class to your pad.

GREEN HOUSE Theme for a dream Gardens with a theme are fun and unique. Discover how to design a garden that glows by moonlight & get your ideas flowing! Satish Narula IT is the era of specialisation. Everyone wants perfection. This, however, comes with hard work, knack for precision and experience. In gardening, too, there are innovative methods to create something different, which we shall deliberate upon.

eternal beauty: Bold white Plumeria blooms on a moonlit night. Photo by writer

TAX TIPS
Tax on agri lands
S.C. Vasudeva
Q. I sold my ancestral agricultural land on August 30, 2008 for Rs 60 lakh. The land is situated in a village six kilometres from Municipal Committee limits. However, its population is about 1,000 only. Out of the above-said amount, I purchased a house in November 2008 for Rs 20 lakh.

• Contact a civil lawyer
• Make a will