Category: India

Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has flagged off the Bandra- Jamnagar Humsafar Express, at Jamnagar in Gujarat. The tri-weekly special Humsafar Express train service between the cities of Jamnagar and Bandra, is mainly helpful for pilgrims and tourists visiting the holy temple town of Dwaraka as well as the other places of interest in Saurashtra. The inaugural special train will reach the Bandra Terminus Railway station tomorrow, i.e., March 5 at 4:10 AM. The regular train operations of train number 22923/22924 Humsafar Express will begin on March 6 from Bandra Terminus Railway station and on March 7 from Jamnagar. Train number 22923 Bandra Terminus-Jamnagar ... Read more

Sanjay Kaushik, who has won many won many national and international awards and accolades for his outstanding contribution to the hospitality industry, has joined Radisson Hotel Group based Gurgaon, Haryana as Regional Director – Operations, South Asia. Prior to this Sanjay was with the Raviz Hotels & Resorts in Kerala as the Chief Operating Officer. Sanjay Kaushik brings in 23 years of experience in hotel industry and holds a proven track record in business turn around plans, operations efficiency and marketing strategies. Sanjay, started out as a professional Judo Player (Black Belt) with Central Industrial Security Forces (CISF) during 1990-95 ... Read more

The three-day Rachakonda Tourism Festival kick started on Sunday, 2nd March 2019 at the historic Rachakonda Fort. The event is organized by Telangana State Tourism in association with Language Cultural Department and Rachakonda Historical Environmental Tourism Conservation Committee (Rachappa Samiti) to bring the rich heritage of Rachakonda Fort into the limelight and to attract tourists. Rachappa Committee President Bidula Krishna Kumar Jyoti Prasad inaugurated the festival. Ministers Jagadish Reddy, Srinivas Gowda, MP Bhoora Narsaiyagoud, MLC Kurnool Prabhakar, DGP Mahender Reddy, State Tourism Cultural, Youth Sports, BC Welfare Chief Secretary Burra Venkatesam and Rachakonda Police Commissioner Mahesh Bhagwat have attend the inaugural ... Read more

Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC) plans to build a Monorail corridor inside General Jagannathrao Bhosale (JB) Park at Sawantwadi in Sindhudurg district to lure tourists over a distance of around 400 metre. The park, named after Jagannathrao Bhosale, a veteran freedom fighter, has a playing area for children, a cultural gathering area, an amusement park, a restaurant, and a pool. The state tourism corporation has initiated invitation of bid from private companies to construct the proposed 400 meter-long Monorail corridor in a period of six months. It was confirmed by Abhimanyu Kale, Managing Director of MTDC to the media. According ... Read more

Prayagraj Kumbh Mela 2019 has been placed in the Guinness World Records in three sectors. It includes largest traffic and crowd management plan, the biggest painting exercise of public sites under paint my city scheme and biggest sanitation and waste disposal mechanism. It was announced by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, in a press release. A three member team from Guinness World Records visited the Prayagraj for this purpose. Exercise at large scale was done before the team members for three days from 28th February 3rd March 2019. Around 503 shuttle buses were pressed into service in one ... Read more

Bamboo Chicken Andhra Pradesh Tourism Department has organized a food festival at AS Raja Grounds MVP Colony in Visakhapatnam on Friday, 1st March 2019. The event was inaugurated by HRD Minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao in the presence of AP Protocol additional secretary M Ashok Babu. The festival showcased different types of indigenous food tastes of Andhra Pradesh, from Araku bamboo chicken and Bhimavaram pickles and Atreyapuram Pootharekulu. The venue saw a steady stream of food connoisseurs making a beeline to the counters to relish a range of items at the three-day festival. Bamboo Biriyani The event was organized in association ... Read more

The expo is organized by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India with a concept – Global Housing Technology Challenge – India (GHTC- India), which aims to identify and mainstream a basket of innovative technologies from across the globe that are sustainable and disaster-resilient. PM Modi inaugurated the event in New Delhi today. While addressing the gathering, Modi  reiterated the need of focusing on disaster-resilience, energy efficiency, and local innovative construction systems in the country. Modi said that the need for the Global Housing Technology Challenge was felt in the light of rapid urbanization in India. “Elements from ... Read more

IIM Kozhikode is hosting an International Conference on Global Health and Medical Tourism (GIoHMT) on March 7-10, 2019. The event will be organized in association with the tourism department of government of Kerala and MVR Cancer Centre & Research Institute. Renowned Ayurveda Medical center, Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala will also take part in the event, which is being co-hosted by Indian Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR) University in Jaipur MVR Cancer Centre & Research Institute is one of the leading facilities in Kerala that provides advanced cancer treatment facility at affordable costs. MVR Cancer Centre and Research Institute has ... Read more

Dhaula Kuan interchange Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways, will inaugurate a four-lane flyover at Dhaula Kuan junction near Dhaula Kuan Metro Station on NH 8 today. The flyover is expected to reduce waiting time at the traffic light by 30 minutes at peak hours. This is the first step towards development of an eight-lane, signal free Dhaula Kuan – Airport corridor, as stated in a press release by Ministry or Road Transport and Highways. National Highway No.8 (New NH-48) is the prime link providing connectivity to Indira Gandhi International Airport from Delhi and NCR. The frequent ... Read more

Assam is having the first train of Indian Railways to be fully branded with a state government publicity campaign. The 12552/12251 Kamakhya-Yesvantpur- Kamakhya AC Express became the first Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) train to be used for promoting the brand ‘Awesome Assam’ of the Assam Tourism Department. The train was flagged off by tourism minister Chandan Brahm and chairperson of the Assam Tourism Development Corporation (ATDC) Jayanta Malla Baruah in presence NFR officials at Kamakhya Railway Station on 27th February 2019. The train will travel for Bangalore covering a distance of 3025 km and is a good platform for advertising ... Read more

Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, have visit Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu today and inaugurated a series of development projects for Kanyakumari and Tamil Nadu, which will play a vital role in enhancing rail and road connectivity throughout the state. Prime Minister will launch various railways projects at Kanyakumari Modi flagge off Tejas Express between Madurai and Chennai, which will provide direct and faster connectivity between the two destinations. Equipped with modern amenities, the Tejas Express will benefit number of day time passengers in the section. This will be the second Tejas Express service, first being the one introduced between between Mumbai to Karmali. The prime ... Read more

Shripad Yesso Naik, Union Minister of State for AYUSH, laid foundation stone for National Institute of Unani Medicine (NIUM) today at Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. Union Minister of State for External Affairs General V K Singh was present on the occasion. Addressing the foundation stone laying ceremony, Shripad Yesso Naik informed that the Ministry of AYUSH is establishing the NIUM, Ghaziabad as a part of its commitment towards provision and promotion of quality education, research and healthcare services through Unani Medicine and other AYUSH systems. “This institute will be developed with an approximate cost of Rs 300 crore on 10 acres ... Read more

Radhanagar Beach, Andaman Radhanagar Beach at Havelock Island, Andaman and Nicobar Islands become one among the 25 best beaches in the world as per TripAdvisor’s annual Travelers’ Choice 2019. Radha Nagar came 16th in the list of 25 best beaches in the world and first in the best beaches in Asia. Popular for its breath taking beauty, Radhanagar Beach or Beach No. 7 is located on the gorgeous Andaman Island. Blue sea and white sand make this beach a perfect spot to relax in the midst of nature’s bounty. The beach is located 7 kilometres away from Vijaynagar Beach and ... Read more

OYO, the budget hotel chain, is seeking the possibility of having the loss making properties of Uttar Pradesh Tourism Department to be added to its chain of hotels. OYO today said to have preliminary discussions with the UP Tourism Department and UP State Tourism Development Corporation (UPSTDC) officials in Lucknow. “We are keen to partner with the state tourism department for operating their existing assets and turning them around. State government officials have seen our system and how we operate,” Ankit TandonOYO Hotels and Homes (operated business) COO told the media. If succeeded, it would be OYO’s first such arrangement ... Read more

Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal launches the new feature As part of enhancing travel experience of the passengers and to bring greater transparency, a new facility for ‘Public Viewing of Train Charts and Vacant Berths’ is launched by Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways & Coal. Railway Board Chairman, V K Yadav, Member Traffic, Railway Board, Girish Pillai, other Railway Board Members and senior officials from Railways were also present on the occasion. The information about occupancy in trains as per Passenger Reservation Charts will now be available for public view on the internet through IRCTC website (www.irctc.co.in). This will facilitate ... Read more