Even international artists such as 50 Cent, Mobb Deep, The Black Eyed Peas, and Chamillionaire have performed in India in cities like Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi, Chennai, and Mumbai.

The cities of Baroda, Surat, and Ahmedabad ( Gujrat ), Belgaum ( Karnataka ), Indore, Gwalior ( Madhya Pradesh ), Hyderabad ( Andhra Pradesh ) and Tanjore ( Tamil Nadu ) each have sizable Marathi-speaking communities.

A considerable number of Nepali-speaking people are also present in many Indian cities such as Kolkata, Delhi, Bangalore, Visakhapatnam, Chennai, Mumbai and Hyderabad.

The cities of Rawalpindi, Sargodha, Multan, Hyderabad, Peshawar and Quetta were overwhelmingly seen as cities of burqa-clad women at the time of Independence in 1947.

They are particularly popular where traffic congestion is a problem in cities like Bangkok, Dhaka, Ahmedabad, Pune, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru,

In Delhi, a 1980 study found only one percent of drivers owned their vehicles, but ownership rates in several other Indian cities were much higher, including fifteen percent in Hyderabad and twenty-two percent in Faridabad.

Bhutto imposed martial law in major cities including Karachi, Lahore and Hyderabad.

They have also migrated to other cities in India like Ooty, Mangalore, Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Delhi, Mumbai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad and Kolkata.

At the time of Partition there were 1, 400, 000 Hindu Sindhis, though most were concentrated in cities such as Hyderabad, Karachi, Shikarpur, and Sukkur.

Later in 1950s the majority of Urdu speaking refugees who migrated after the independence were settled in the port city of Karachi in southern Sindh and in the cities of Hyderabad, Sukkur, Nawabshah and Mirpurkhas.

Bars in India are mainly clustered in metropolitan cities ( Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Goa, and Manipal ).

The major cities colonized during this period were Madras, Calcutta, Bombay, Delhi, Agra, Bankipore, Karachi, Nagpur, Bhopal and Hyderabad.

Also known as The City of Nizams and The City of Pearls, Hyderabad is today one of the most developed cities in the country and a modern hub of information technology, ITES, and biotechnology.

Nellore is well connected by rail on the major railway route its connected all over India with major cities such as Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, New Delhi, Kolkata and all other major cities in India. Gudur has selected for major junction which it link between chennai, tirupati, vijayawada.

The cinema halls are very impressive and competitive to metropolitan cities like Bengaluru, Hyderabad etc.

It is well connected with metro and major cities of India like Bilaspur, New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, Bhubaneswar, Bangalore, Vishakhapatnam, Vijaywada, Hyderabad, Guwahati, Patna, Amritsar, Nagpur, Gorakhpur, Pune, Raipur, Cuttack, Puri, Rourkela, Durg, Ajmer, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Jammu, etc.

Kolhapur railway station known as Chattrapati Shahu Maharaj Terminus is connected to major Indian cities like Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Solapur, Nagpur, Tirupati, Ahmedabad, Delhi, Dhanbad through express trains.

The Oriya-speaking people are also found in significant numbers in the cities of Vishakhapatnam, Hyderabad, Pondicherry, Bangalore, Chennai, Goa, Mumbai, Raipur, Jamshedpur, Baroda, Ahmedabad, New Delhi, Kolkata, Kharagpur, Guwahati, Shillong, Pune, & Silvassa in India.

Gurukul Hyderabad has now grown wide in South India in metros and other cities like Bangalore, Gulbarga, Raipur, Bidar, Vidyanagar, Jadcherla, Nagpur and Solapur.

This type of housing is very common in larger cities like Delhi, Mumbai ( Bombay ), Chennai ( Madras ), Kolkata ( Calcutta ), Bengaluru ( Bangalore ) and Hyderabad, but are not commonly found in rural areas.

SBI has 14 local head offices situated at Chandigarh ( Punjab & Haryana ), Delhi, Lucknow ( Uttar Pradesh ), Patna ( Bihar ), Kolkata ( West Bengal ), Guwahati ( North East Circle ), Bhubaneswar ( Orissa ), Hyderabad ( Andhra Pradesh ), Chennai ( Tamil Nadu ), Trivandrum ( Kerala ), Bengaluru ( Karnataka ), Mumbai ( Maharashtra ), Bhopal ( Madhya Pradesh ) & Ahmedabad ( Gujarat ) and 57 Zonal Offices that are located at important cities throughout the country.

The Punjab and Sindh provinces, where the majority of urban, western culture has been greatly advanced and has chains of many American, European and British chains in many metropolitan cities such as Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Hyderabad, Sialkot, Faisalabad, Multan, Rawalpindi, and many others.

Among the largest cities of the Indo-Gangetic plain are Karachi, Hyderabad, Multan, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Lahore, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Jaipur, Kanpur, Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi, Patna, Kolkata, Guwahati and Dhaka.

Ajmer is well connected to the major cities of India by land and rail.

At present the nearest airport is the Jaipur International Airport, about 132 km away, with daily flights to the major cities in India.

The population of Ajmer city according census 2011 is 5, 42, 580 positioning Ajmer in top 100 major cities of India and 5th in Rajasthan.

The Honourable East India Company presented Nelson with £ 10, 000 (£ as of ) in recognition of the benefit his action had on their holdings and similar awards were made by the cities of London, Liverpool and other municipal and corporate bodies.

The growth of the population of ancient civilizations, the formation of ancient empires concentrating political power, and the growth in commerce and manufacturing led to ever greater capital cities and centres of commerce and industry, with Alexandria, Antioch and Seleucia of the Hellenistic civilization, Pataliputra ( now Patna ) in India, Chang ' an ( now Xi ' an ) in China, Carthage, ancient Rome, its eastern successor Constantinople ( later Istanbul ).

In India, commuter rail systems are present in major cities.

After the fall of the Taliban in late 2001, India strengthened ties with the Islamic republic of Afghanistan by establishing consulates in most major Afghan cities.

Babur explored most cities of Afghanistan before his campaign into India.

From the 1950s onwards London became home to a large number of immigrants, largely from Commonwealth countries such as Jamaica, India, Bangladesh Pakistan, which dramatically changed the face of London, turning it into one of the most diverse cities in Europe.

From the Rajput Kingdom of Sarsatti, he visited Hansi in India, describing it as " among the most beautiful cities, the best constructed and the most populated ; it is surrounded with a strong wall, and its founder is said to be one of the great infidel kings, called Tara ".

There is a large following in Punjab, especially in Ludhiana and Patiala, and there used to be many Jains in Lahore ( Punjab's historic capital ) and other cities before the Partition of 1947, after which many fled to India.

Early labyrinths in India all follow the Classical pattern ; some have been described as plans of forts or cities.

They were approximately contemporary with the mastabas of the archaic period of Egypt ( first and second dynasties ), the brick temples of Sumeria, and the first cities of the Harappa culture in India, and a century or two earlier than the Golden Age of China.

With the arrival of branded pizza such as Domino's and Pizza Hut in early to mid-1990s, it has reached almost all major cities in India by 2010.

Many Patronages of Saint George exist around the world, including: Georgia, England, Egypt, Bulgaria, Aragon, Catalonia, Romania, Ethiopia, Greece, India, Iraq, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, Serbia, Ukraine and Russia, as well as the cities of Genoa, Amersfoort, Beirut, Botoşani, Drobeta Turnu-Severin, Timişoara, Fakiha, Bteghrine, Cáceres, Ferrara, Freiburg, Kragujevac, Kumanovo, Ljubljana, Pérouges, Pomorie, Preston, Qormi, Rio de Janeiro, Lod, Lviv, Barcelona, Moscow and Victoria, as well as of the Scout Movement and a wide range of professions, organizations and disease sufferers.

In India BSNL has started its 3G services since October 2009 beginning with the larger cities and then expanding over to smaller cities.

* In India a literary and cultural movement started in Calcutta, Patna, and other cities by a group of writers and painters who called themselves " Hungryalists ", or members of the Hungry generation.

The next year, twenty-fifth anniversary of Powell's " Rivers of Blood " speech, Powell wrote an article for The Times, in which he claimed the concentration of immigrant communities in inner cities would lead to " communalism ", which would have grave effects on the electoral system: " communalism and democracy, as the experience of India demonstrates, are incompatible ".

Skanda and some other Puranas mention Ayodhya as one of the seven most sacred cities of India.

Moreover, Ayodhya is one of seven most holy places for Hindus in India where Varanasi is considered as Holiest of holy cities.

Distinct characteristics of urban planning from remains of the cities of Harappa, Lothal, and Mohenjo-daro in the Indus Valley Civilization ( in modern-day northwestern India and Pakistan ) lead archeologists to conclude that they are the earliest examples of deliberately planned and managed cities.

The ancient Indus systems of sewerage and drainage that were developed and used in cities throughout the civilization were far more advanced than any found in contemporary urban sites in the Middle East and even more efficient than those in some areas of modern Pakistan and India today.