The revised policy also extends 30-day visa-free entry to Croatia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Malta and the Maldives, taking the total eligible countries and territories to 60.
Indians are arrogant, but far from rich. That’s why we have become the world’s least welcome visitors. People may tolerate a rich fool. But nobody likes a fool who doesn’t have much money.
People on X said that the incident has brought highest level of embarrassment for Indians across the globe. The tobacco chewers have been dubbed the ‘Ajay Devgn squad’ on social media.
As the US-Israeli war on Iran escalates, Indian families are rerouting travel plans away from the cobbled streets of Europe and the sun lounges of the Middle East.
In the viral video, two men say that they were turned away from restaurants in Vietnam due to their nationality, and allege encountering signs stating, ‘Indians not allowed.’
Maybe the only way to truly police Indian men’s behaviour is to have their mothers accompany them on every trip. Should they want to approach a stranger, they must ask mummy first.
RBI data shows 26 states and Union Territories couldn’t regain pre-pandemic foreign tourist footfalls in 2024, but domestic tourism surged 27 percent compared to 2019.
Why should local communities suffer in order to facilitate someone else’s adventures? The trickle-down effects of over-tourism reach the economy, society, and industry.
India’s pilgrimage business is booming, with choppers for the rich and dorm beds for the poor. But the days of wooing foreigners to the Taj, Jaisalmer, and Palace on Wheels are over.
The trailer of Nitesh Tiwari's Ramayana feels less like a story adapted from a centuries-old epic written by sages and more like an adaptation by a modern-day novelist.
Combined sales of urea, DAP, MOP and complex fertilisers rose 25 percent in April even as Modi asked farmers to cut chemical fertiliser use by up to half to save soil and foreign exchange
The young people broke the self-imposed silence among the elite not to speak a word critical of the Modi government, except to whisper on the sidelines, looking left, right and behind.
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