A day before Foreign Minister SM Krishna's trip, Beijing issued an advisory against travel to India citing protests over the fuel price hike, after New Delhi warned traders against business in Yiwu. ...
02:26 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Beijing: In what is being seen as a tit-for-tat move, China has cautioned its citizens against travelling to India following protests over the increase in petroleum prices, after New Delhi issued advisories warning its traders against doing business in the Chinese commodity hub of Yiwu. An advisory has been posted on the Chinese Foreign Ministry website as well as Chinese Embassy in New Delhi dated June 1 which warned about...
12:31 PM, Jun 04, 2012
New Delhi: Launching an austerity drive to contain expenditure, the government today banned creation of new posts in its departments and holding their meetings in five-star hotels besides imposing curbs on foreign travel. The Finance Ministry has also asked all ministries and departments to reduce non-Plan expenditure by 10 per cent in the current financial year. "There will be a total ban on holding of meetings and conferences in five-star...
06:21 PM, May 31, 2012
Nearly 10 years ago I travelled from India to the US for the very first time, to join an MFA program in creative writing. Like ...
12:22 PM, May 30, 2012
London: Former England defender Sol Campbell is warning fans against travelling to Poland and Ukraine to watch the European Championship, claiming authorities are failing to tackle entrenched racism and violence in the countries. "Stay at home, watch it on TV. Don't even risk it ... because you could end up coming back in a coffin," Campbell, who is black, told the BBC. The families of two of England's black players,...
02:54 PM, May 29, 2012
Politicians and bureaucrats are spending lakhs on their foreign travel. Are Indians ready for austerity? ...
11:40 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Lending credence to reports that Kamal Haasan's magnum opus 'Vishwaroopam' will hit the screens on June 29, Madhu Sudhanan, the VFX supervisor of the film, says the bilingual is nearly complete. "Post-production work is currently on in studios in the US and India. We are almost there," says Madhu, known for his work in Hollywood movies like 'Lord of the Rings', 'Spiderman 3' and 'Gulliver's Travels'. Madhu, who...
12:24 PM, May 23, 2012
CHENNAI: The Queen of the Hills in the west and the Princess of the Hills in the south of Tamil Nadu continue to be the most sought after summer destinations for Chennaiites trying to beat the heat this summer.According to industry sources, Udhagamandalam and Kodaikanal attract a good number of tourists from the city, closely followed by the poor mans Ooty " Yercaud in Salem district. About 20 per cent...
12:09 PM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: Air travel is all set to get costlier for those flying in and out of Delhi. The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) has decided to raise the User Development Fee by a whopping 346 per cent. This comes into effect from Tuesday. This means those taking domestic flights will have to shell out anything between Rs 195 to Rs 462 depending on the distance travelled. For international fliers,...
08:41 AM, May 15, 2012
London: Three Britons in their 20s have undertaken a record-breaking trip around the world in a cab, travelling over 43,000 miles (over 69,000 km) and putting 80,000 pounds (about $128,600) on the meter. The three friends - Paul Archer, 25, Leigh Purnell, 24, and Johno Ellison, 28 - drove across four continents and 50 different countries in their trusty diesel motor, affectionately called Hannah, the Daily Express reported. They had...
11:45 AM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: Air travel cost from Delhi would go up from May 15 when higher user development fee (UDF) becomes effective for all domestic and international passengers while departing or arriving at the IGI Airport. The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) had on April 25 decided to raise airport charges, including UDF, by a whopping 346 per cent for two years, with airlines protesting the move and saying they and...
04:53 PM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: Expenses on foreign and domestic tours of central ministers and VVIPs rose by more than ten times to Rs 678.52 crore in 2011-12, up from Rs 56.16 crore in the previous year. The tour expenses increased from Rs 46.95 crore in the budget estimates of 2011-12 to Rs 499.89 crore in the revised estimates, due to payment dues to Air India for VVIP travels and maintenance of aircraft,...
04:18 PM, May 08, 2012
CHENNAI: Though milling crowds and anxious passengers are not a rarity at the Chennai Central Railway station, Monday was a particularly bad day. Following the derailment of a three bogies of a goods train near Katpadi, around 12 trains along the arterial line, faced up to five hour delays. The fact that most of them were vacationers setting out to Bengaluru, Kerala and other places, added to their frustration. All...
08:36 AM, May 08, 2012
Mumbai: Disruption in train services is fast becoming a norm in the Mumbai suburban rail network. Of late, glitch after glitch has tossed the daily travel schedule of many of the nearly 70 lakh suburban commuters askew. Yesterday gave a double testimony to this growing disturbance. There were technical problems on both Central and Western Railways, especially during morning and evening peak hours. The first incident took place near Vashi...
01:06 PM, May 03, 2012
Mumbai: The cost of air travel from the city will go up by Rs 600 for those flying to overseas destinations and by Rs 100 for domestic travellers with the levy of development fee from Tuesday. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has directed all the air-carriers to collect development fee from passengers and subsequently deposit the same with Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL), which is managing the airport,...
10:26 PM, Apr 30, 2012
These days, our shores are awash with books on emerging economies. At least one new book hits the stands every month. These are mostly written by Americans. Of late, some Indians who have made it big in the United States have also jumped into the book-writing business. Morgan Stanley's top executive Ruchir Sharma's book 'Breakout Nations' stands out in this clutter of books. It is one of the most fascinating...
05:11 PM, Apr 25, 2012
CHENNAI: Boosting the bilateral trade relations between India and Indonesia, besides wooing the potential tourists from South India, State carrier Garuda Indonesian Airlines is launching direct services from Chennai. This is part of the countrywide operations, likely to be launched in June this year. Announcing this at a press conference here on Sunday, the visiting Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Lt General (R) Andi M Ghalib said, the airlines would kickstart...
08:22 AM, Apr 23, 2012
All Ajay Jain wanted was for people to buy his photographs. Though he was an engineer and an MBA and had worked in various industries ranging from IT to media, his passion lay in travel and photography. But he was not able to sell enough of his pictures through exhibitions. So he started a gallery and started marketing it online. Yet, nothing really worked. That's when the 41-year-old decided to...
10:48 AM, Apr 21, 2012
New Delhi: It is a double whammy for travel website MakeMyTrip.com. Indigo Airlines and Jet Airways, who together constitute over 50% market share in domestic flying, have pulled out content from the site. Both the airlines IndiGo and Jet Airways have decided to minimise their ticket sales from the portal as they feel that Make My Trip was showing favoritism to some of the participating airlines like GoAir, SpiceJet and...
01:12 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Indians are big losers because the Indian Railways lack drive, ambition and imagination. How? Delhi and Mumbai (1,380 km) are about as distant as Beijing ...
04:22 PM, Mar 29, 2012
