New Delhi: Taming the mighty Mount Everest by climbing the world’s highest mountain peak is no longer a feat. Apparently, hurtling down its icy, steep, rugged peaks is. A six member team of the rugged Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), a specialized para-military force which was created to guard the Indo-Tibet border, is all poised to [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Airlines announced it had put into effect its new baggage limit for passengers on all its flights on Wednesday. Economy Class passengers were entitled to one piece of hand baggage weighing a maximum 7kg, while those in First and Business Classes were allowed two pieces, a statement from the airline read. Each [...]
NEW DELHI: India’s struggling flagship airline Air India began its international operations Wednesday. Operations to Europe and the United States were started as a part of its contingency plan to reinstate normalcy. Hundreds of Air India pilots were staying away from work and had called in sick as an attempt to make the management accept [...]
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s Army Chief General CMS Gurung on Tuesday said he would assist all possible help to Indian Army’s women Everest summit expedition team. The team, which is currently in Nepal, is hoping to summit the world’s highest peak between Tuesday and Sunday, the team said in a statement. Gurung also said that he would [...]
SINGAPORE: Singapore women wanting to enter the flight attendant sector received positive news this week, allowing them to work longer, highlighting what women’s rights advocates say is a step in the right direction. “It makes women have more power in their professional careers and no longer is flying and working on a plane the right [...]
BANGKOK: Thailand remained the top travel spot for India tourists last year with some 900,000 Indians arriving in the Southeast Asian country, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) said in a statement. According to their figures, a record 917,832 Indians were received in 2011, a 16 percent jump over the 791,185 handled in 2010. In [...]
SANA’A: 2011 was a catastrophic year in terms of tourism in Yemen as the country was enthralled in a violent popular uprising. 2012 and the threat of terror attacks have turned out to be as lethal to the ailing industry sector. Despite a rich cultural heritage stretching millennia and breathtaking scenery, Yemen is its own [...]
New Delhi: A young Australian woman was date-raped by an Indian male, in what is being referred to as a ‘Facebook rape case’ in this part of the world. The Indian police are on the lookout for one Sammy Sidhana, who had established contact with the 22-year old Australian woman on Facebook months ago, before [...]
KATHMANDU: At least 15 people have been killed in a plane crash in the northwestern region of Nepal on Monday morning, government officials confirmed to Bikyamasr.com. The Nepal Army said the plane belonging to Agni Air crashed in the early morning after it slammed into the side of a mountain near Mount Annapurna close to [...]
Goa (INDIA): Goa’s beaches may have it all, the sun, the surf , booze, dope and the babes, but a government appointed women’s body has demanded that the state’s popular beaches should have changing rooms and bathrooms for women. In her communication to tourism minister Dilip Parulekar Goa State Commission for Women (GSCW) chairperson Ezilda [...]
POKHARA, Nepal: The employees at Seeing Hands Nepal can’t witness the towering snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas that mark the skyline in Pokhara, the city on the cusp of the Annapurna Himalaya range. Nor can they see the smaller mountains that encircle the country’s second largest lake, only a short walk from the stone pathway [...]
KATHMANDU: Two Singapore nationals reportedly died as a result of altitude sickness near Tibet’s holy Mt. Kailash, the country’s ministry of foreign affairs reported. The two, a 66-year-old man and a 61-year-old woman had been part of a 10-member Singapore tour group of Buddhist devotees. They were visiting Mount Kailash, a 6,638 meter-tall mountain considered [...]
Goa (INDIA): Fake policemen robbing tourists and women has emerged as a major challenge for the police in India’s most popular beach tourism destination, Goa. When Ravikumar Prajapati (48) from Karnataka, was suddenly accosted by three authoritative sounding ‘plain-clothed’ policemen in March this year and asked to accompany them to the nearest police station for [...]
NEW DELHI: The cold turf of the Indian conflict-ridden state of Kashmir finally appears to be thawing. The picturesque Nagin valley, a stone’s throw away from the Line of Control (LoC) between India and Pakistan in the conflict-ridden Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir has been thrown open to tourists, after more than two decades [...]
NAIROBI: The Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), Kenya’s telecommunications regulator had earlier announced the cut on termination rates (amount of money an operator pays rivals if its subscribers call another network) from Ksh2.21 to Ksh1.44 a minute. This has stirred up a lot of issues, one of them being telecom operators like Bharti Airtel stating [...]
New Delhi: The United States government has fined national carrier ‘Air India’ to the tune for $ 80,000 for violation of its new airline consumer rules related to operational transparency. The already beleaguered Air India, which has already suffered a loss of over $ 10 billion in the fiscal ending 2011, has been accused of [...]
New Delhi: In a shocking incident, which cynically mocks at the punch-line of India Tourism’s advertising campaign ‘Atithi Devo Bhava’ (Guest is equal to God), a French national, who was beaten up in a crowded train and thrown on a railway platform in the norther India some days back, succumbed to death at a hospital [...]
CAIRO: Egypt and Dubai seek joint marketing to promote two of the world’s popular Arab tourism destinations in various countries, including China and Australia. The developments were announced during a meeting of senior tourism officials on the sidelines of the Arabian Travel Market 2012 (ATM-2010). A Protocol of Cooperation between Egypt and Dubai for the [...]
Goa (INDIA): India’s most sought after beach tourist destination, Goa, could just be compelled to wage a war of sorts on its rogue cabbies. Concerned by decades of rogue taxi operations, who have been fleecing the millions of tourists, as well the indigenous population by functioning without meters and charging passengers by “will and instinct”, [...]
Goa (INDIA): The sunny tropical beaches in the Western Indian state of Goa, will be free of plastic and other garbage, before hundreds of thousands of European and Indian tourists flock to them again when the post monsoons season begins by October. Speaking to reporters at the State Secretariat chief minister Parrikar said that the [...]
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