Beirut: Syrian authorities pursuing a crackdown against President Bashar Assad's critics banned three prominent opposition figures from leaving the country on Sunday, and security forces killed two people and arrested several others in northern Syria, activists said. Michel Kilo, Loay Hussein and Fayez Sara were on their way to neighboring Lebanon to take part in a televised panel discussion when they were told by Syrian immigration authorities at the border...
09:45 PM, Aug 28, 2011
Washington: The US cautioned its citizens from travelling to Pakistan on Monday, noting that the presence of al Qaeda, Taliban elements, and indigenous militant sectarian groups poses a potential threat to Americans throughout the country. Terrorists and their sympathisers regularly attack civilian, government, and foreign targets, particularly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, the State Department said in a travel bulletin. Observing that the Pakistan government has heightened security measures, particularly...
08:17 PM, Aug 08, 2011
Bangalore: In two separate horrific incidents in Karnataka, nine travellers from India's tech capital of Bangalore were lynched to death by villagers who were suspicious of their movements. In the first case, eight people were thrashed by villagers on their visit to Errakote, which is 10 kms from Chintamani taluk in Chikaballapur. The villagers apparently grew suspicious of the visitors' movements and beat them up. Six of the eight travellers...
07:21 AM, Aug 03, 2011
Moscow: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday approved an Indo-Russian deal easing issuance of business and tourist visas to their nationals. The Russian Cabinet, chaired by Putin, at a meeting gave its nod to the agreement and forwarded it to the Lower House of Parliament the State Duma for ratification. The Inter-Governmental Agreement on simplification of requirements for mutual travels of certain categories of citizens was signed by India and...
10:27 PM, Aug 02, 2011
Thimphu: Home Minister P Chidambaram and his Pakistani counterpart Rehman Malik on Friday travelled on the same flight to attend a SAARC ministerial meeting in Bhutan, but it is not yet clear whether they had a chance encounter. Both ministers took the same Druk Air commercial flight from Delhi to Paro, 56 km from the capital of this Himalayan nation, to attend the 4th meeting of the SAARC Interior/Home Ministers...
04:29 PM, Jul 22, 2011
New Delhi: Indian Railways is all set to roll out its own e-ticketing service, which will have no room for travel agents and will be reserved for individual users. "Unlike the e-ticketing service of IRCTC, the new service by Indian Railway will have no role of travel agents and commercial organisations. Only individual users will be allowed to book on the portal," said a Railway official. Travel agents in the...
10:58 AM, Jul 05, 2011
On this episode of Overdrive, we bring to you, a race to decide the quickest mode of traveling between two states. ...
06:51 PM, Jul 03, 2011
Singapore: India was on Monday put on the 'Wall of Shame' by the IATA for imposing high service tax on air tickets when aviation sector was growing at a high pace, with the world airlines' body warning the country not to kill the "goose that lays golden eggs". The government was put on the Wall of Shame at the Annual General Meeting of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), along...
01:13 PM, Jun 06, 2011
On this special episode we take you to a journey of the bustling city of Australia, Sydney. ...
10:02 PM, May 22, 2011
Dubai: Airlines in the West Asia will require an estimated 2,340 airplanes worth USD 390 billion by 2029, with demand being driven by the rapid growth of air travel in the region, the Current Market Outlook from Boeing has said. The company also estimates that West Asian air travel will grow by an average of 7.1 per cent per year over the next 20 years, outpacing the region's projected economic...
11:12 AM, May 14, 2011
New Delhi: India's Generation Y has emerged as the fourth most vacation deprived lot in the world as they are able to take an average of only 22 leave days annually, a survey has found. However, 35 per cent of those surveyed were not able to take more than 15 days of annual leave in a year. Interestingly, over 22 per cent Indians said that their bosses were not supportive...
02:41 PM, Apr 06, 2011
Jat protests have led to over 70 trains being canceled and over 30 trains being re-scheduled and so, passengers are stranded at railway stations. ...
04:16 PM, Mar 25, 2011
New York: Travel today, from luggage to laptop, is increasingly high-tech. Yet every hotel room hosts a costly anachronism: a traditional telephone. In-room phones once produced profits for hoteliers. Today they eat into earnings as guests use cellphones instead. "Phones used to be a revenue center," said Best Western Chief Executive Officer David Kong. "Now they're a cost center." The dwindling utility of the hotel room phone is part of...
05:43 PM, Mar 17, 2011
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Notions and assumptions may not always prove right. That is what I thought when I got my first sight of Mumbai - the city of ...
07:44 PM, Mar 15, 2011
This week on Secret Kitchen, Bikramjit Ray takes you to the city of Dresden in Saxony in Germany. ...
11:32 AM, Mar 06, 2011
Gulmarg, India: Helicopters aren't just carrying troops to the snow-capped mountains of Indian Kashmir any more. They are also flying foreign skiers to ski slopes near a ceasefire line that divides the Himalayan region between India and Pakistan. Ski operator Gulmarg Heliski started the heli-skiing service in January hoping to attract adventure tourists to Kashmir with separatist violence down in the region once a top tourism destination popular with honeymooners,...
07:15 PM, Mar 01, 2011
New York: Relaxing holidays with a sprinkling of sightseeing thrown in are the most popular type of vacation for people around the globe and particularly for Germans, Brits and Swedes. Thirty-five percent of 18,778 consumers questioned in an Ipsos/Reuters survey in 24 countries opted for a low-key break, nearly twice the number who chose an outdoor trip involving hiking, fishing, boating, sailing or camping, a family vacation with children or...
11:48 AM, Mar 01, 2011
