Berlin: Thousands of air travelers remained stranded and train services were severely disrupted as fresh snowfall and sub-zero temperatures worsened Europe's Christmas travel chaos. For the fifth consecutive night, several hundred stranded passengers slept on camping beds at Germany's largest airport in Frankfurt as the authorities struggled to cope with the tension building up among those still unable to catch a flight. The airport operator Fraport has been trying to...
02:05 PM, Dec 22, 2010
A blast of harsh winter weather socked Europe on Friday, causing travel chaos and sending temperatures into the deep-freeze. From Northern Ireland to Bulgaria, blizzard conditions left airports with heavy delays or shut them entirely. In Belgium, truck drivers were forced to spend a freezing night in their cabs when authorities banned trucks over seven tons from travelling on icy roads. At London's Heathrow Airport, snow caused the cancellation of...
01:09 PM, Dec 18, 2010
Lisbon: Full of elegantly decadent charm, the compact, cosy Portuguese capital is an ideal place to explore on a weekend getaway. Remember that Lisbon is known as the City of the Seven Hills, which are quite steep, and many streets are paved with cobblestones so choose your footwear wisely. In winter, prepare to endure gusty winds on hilltops, but the views are worth it. Local correspondents help you get the...
05:48 PM, Dec 10, 2010
New York: Sick of coming back from those short business trips exhausted and rundown? Men's website AskMen.com (www.askmen.com) offers 10 easy tips to help you get through those difficult one to three days away for work looking and feeling good. Reuters has not endorsed this list: 1. Never check luggage: Unless we're talking about a two-week gambling retreat in Monte Carlo, this rule is never to be broken. Travel is...
05:27 PM, Dec 10, 2010
New Delhi: More than half his lungs don't work. His fingers ache with arthritis. But Benny Prasad Kandukuri, a guitarist by profession has overcome those pains to make a new world record. ‘I was the most useless, uncreative, unwanted child of my family. At 16, I wanted to commit suicide,” said globe trotting guitarist Benny Prasad Kandukuri. “I have been to 245 countries in six years and six months and...
09:58 AM, Dec 03, 2010
Meet Robonaut 2, the first robot to go into space. A humanoid, the robot is designed to work like humans. ...
02:07 PM, Nov 02, 2010
The Masque of Africa is my first Naipaul, shockingly enough, after an aborted attempt about a decade ago to read A House for Mr Biswas. I couldn't understand the fuss about the man or his writing, and only really re-visited the subject a few years ago when I began Patrick French's biography (something I've resolved to complete at the earliest, despite the recent bitterness from the Naipauls on the subject)....
02:28 PM, Oct 05, 2010
New Delhi: With the Games preparations in shameful conditions, and world champions pulling out of the Commonwealth Games citing security reasons, will enough athletes turn up for the various sporting events in October? The latest to join the ‘pull out’ list are two Canadian archers Dietmar Trillus and Kevin Tataryn. They pulled out citing concerns over health and safety. And for those who haven’t pulled out of the Games, have...
08:12 PM, Sep 23, 2010
ATLANTA: Boeing Co plans to offer passengers the chance to fly into space on a craft it is developing for travel in low-Earth orbit, the aerospace company said on Wednesday. Boeing said it reached an agreement with Virginia-based Space Adventures to market passenger seats on commercial flights aboard Boeing's CST-100 space vehicle being developed for NASA. The spacecraft could carry seven people and fly in low-Earth orbit as soon as...
11:32 AM, Sep 16, 2010
New Delhi: Malaysia and Australia have issued advisory against travel to Delhi for the Commonwealth Games (CWG) due to the dengue scare. Indian embassies report that athletes' families are unwilling to travel to India for the CWG because of the outbreak. The National Capital has seen a major dengue outbreak and it is expected to rise in the month of October. The Government has been under-reporting the number of dengue...
03:09 PM, Aug 31, 2010
In this week's episode, Pallavi Paul takes you for a Venetian experience in Macau. ...
07:42 PM, Jul 31, 2010
Not just the anti-collision devices, there seems to be a problem with the complete safety system of the Railways. ...
07:19 PM, Jul 26, 2010
Team Vision Virtual launched 3DHawaii.com, promoting it as the "next generation travel-planning and booking tool." ...
05:34 PM, Jul 16, 2010
Indian American astronaut holds the record of the longest spaceflight (195 days) for female space travellers. ...
12:26 PM, Jul 10, 2010
Not only the travel cost will go up, one has to spend more for vegetables and cooking gas also, following the hike. ...
09:18 AM, Jun 26, 2010
Not only the travel cost will go up, one has to spend more for vegetables and cooking gas also, following the hike. ...
09:18 AM, Jun 26, 2010
In the second part of the three part mini series, we take you on a journey across the heart of Rajasthan. ...
06:56 PM, Jun 20, 2010
