Tourists In India

The West Bengal government on Saturday evacuated thousands of people in South 24 Parganas and Purba Medinipur districts and urged tourists in popular sea resorts to stay away from beaches.

The Nagaland Tourism Department, famous for hosting the annual Hornbill Festival which attracts a large number of domestic and international visitors, does not have full-fledged functional offices in any of the 12 districts except Kohima.

India boasts of the most spectacular mountain passes that are also the highest in the world. And the difficulty level they bring only make it more desirable. So, lets take a look at five of the most scenic motorable passes in India.

BJP MP Jamyang Tsering Namgyal on Tuesday urged those visiting Ladakh not to pollute "the clean environment by dumping garbage".

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday said the proposed viewing gallery on the upcoming bridge on Zuari river in Goa will be a better tourist attraction than the renowned Eiffel Tower in Paris in France.

A day after BJP MP Tejasvi Surya claimed Rahul Gandhi was visiting Goa as Thailand was not taking in tourists due to the COVID-19 pandemic, state Congress chief Girish Chodankar on Sunday called Mr Surya's thinking as "gutter level."

The opposition Congress-led UDF in Kerala today urged the Left government to hand over to a fast-track court a case of rape and murder of a Latvian woman tourist at Kovalam beach resort three years ago.

Two tourists from West Bengal, who were returning after a visit to the Taj Mahal in Agra, were killed when a car rammed into a stationary tempo traveller on the Yamuna Expressway in Greater Noida, officials said on Monday.

A 29-year-old California-based Indian-origin woman techie, who travelled to Mexico to celebrate her birthday, was one of the two foreign tourists killed in a shootout between two drug gangs in the Caribbean coast resort of Tulum, according to media

The Air Force has launched a massive rescue operation in Uttarakhand's Lamkhaga Pass at an altitude of 17,000 feet where 17 trekkers, tourists, porters, and guides lost their way on October 18 due to heavy snowfall and inclement weather.

As many as 80 people are stranded in Himachal Pradesh's Lahaul-Spiti district due to bad weather, a disaster management official said on Thursday.

Five tourists have died and one is missing at Sunderdhunga glacier of Bageshwar district in Kumaon region which has been the worst-hit by the recent spell of heavy rains in Uttarakhand, officials said on Thursday.

Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang on Thursday urged the people not to travel in view of the landslides as the state registered a record tourist footfall during the Durga puja vacation.

Several places in Darjeeling, Kalimpong, and Sikkim got over 200 mm of rainfall in the last 24 hours. Gajoledoba in Jalpaiguri which got nearly 350 mm of rainfall was the worst hit.

Goa wants "richest tourists" and not the ones who "consume drugs" and the ones who "cook food in the buses", said state Tourism Minister Manohar Ajgaonkar on Tuesday.

The West Bengal government on Saturday evacuated thousands of people in South 24 Parganas and Purba Medinipur districts and urged tourists in popular sea resorts to stay away from beaches.

The Nagaland Tourism Department, famous for hosting the annual Hornbill Festival which attracts a large number of domestic and international visitors, does not have full-fledged functional offices in any of the 12 districts except Kohima.

India boasts of the most spectacular mountain passes that are also the highest in the world. And the difficulty level they bring only make it more desirable. So, lets take a look at five of the most scenic motorable passes in India.

BJP MP Jamyang Tsering Namgyal on Tuesday urged those visiting Ladakh not to pollute "the clean environment by dumping garbage".

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday said the proposed viewing gallery on the upcoming bridge on Zuari river in Goa will be a better tourist attraction than the renowned Eiffel Tower in Paris in France.

A day after BJP MP Tejasvi Surya claimed Rahul Gandhi was visiting Goa as Thailand was not taking in tourists due to the COVID-19 pandemic, state Congress chief Girish Chodankar on Sunday called Mr Surya's thinking as "gutter level."

The opposition Congress-led UDF in Kerala today urged the Left government to hand over to a fast-track court a case of rape and murder of a Latvian woman tourist at Kovalam beach resort three years ago.

Two tourists from West Bengal, who were returning after a visit to the Taj Mahal in Agra, were killed when a car rammed into a stationary tempo traveller on the Yamuna Expressway in Greater Noida, officials said on Monday.

A 29-year-old California-based Indian-origin woman techie, who travelled to Mexico to celebrate her birthday, was one of the two foreign tourists killed in a shootout between two drug gangs in the Caribbean coast resort of Tulum, according to media

The Air Force has launched a massive rescue operation in Uttarakhand's Lamkhaga Pass at an altitude of 17,000 feet where 17 trekkers, tourists, porters, and guides lost their way on October 18 due to heavy snowfall and inclement weather.

As many as 80 people are stranded in Himachal Pradesh's Lahaul-Spiti district due to bad weather, a disaster management official said on Thursday.

Five tourists have died and one is missing at Sunderdhunga glacier of Bageshwar district in Kumaon region which has been the worst-hit by the recent spell of heavy rains in Uttarakhand, officials said on Thursday.

Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang on Thursday urged the people not to travel in view of the landslides as the state registered a record tourist footfall during the Durga puja vacation.

Several places in Darjeeling, Kalimpong, and Sikkim got over 200 mm of rainfall in the last 24 hours. Gajoledoba in Jalpaiguri which got nearly 350 mm of rainfall was the worst hit.

Goa wants "richest tourists" and not the ones who "consume drugs" and the ones who "cook food in the buses", said state Tourism Minister Manohar Ajgaonkar on Tuesday.