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Thursday, August 14, 2025
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Topic: Tourism

On business in Hyderabad? Where to eat, drink, and extend your stay

The tech capital has upped its game in terms of great hotels and restaurants.

Tripura CM’s claim that ducks increase oxygen in water passed our accuracy test by 100%

Paddling by ducks will lead to a water body becoming more oxygenated; research shows duck waste provides more nutrition to fish, thus boosting pisciculture.  

Kerala’s snake-boat rowers were set for IPL-style race. Now, they don’t know what to do

Tourism, an employer of lakhs and one of the state's biggest sources of income, will take time to recover from the recent floods.

The only hill station in Gujarat has a sleepy charm that tourists would love

Popularly known as ‘Gujarat ka taara’, Saputara is the state’s only hill station. 

Bangladeshis top the list of foreigners visiting India for medical tourism

More than 2 lakh Bangladeshi tourists came to India in 2017 followed by 55,681 from Afghanistan and 47,640 from Iraq, says tourism minister.

From Paris to Bali, unhappy locals begin battle against ‘overtourism’

While tourists want to 'live like a local', residents feel their home towns are vanishing beneath souvenir shops and rowdy bars. 

Indian tourists are discovering India like never before, but there is a problem

There are fears that weak infrastructure and stretched bureaucracy could allow Indian tourist magnets to lose what makes them special. The travel habits of Chinese...

India’s top 5 revenue generating monuments were all built by Muslim rulers

The Taj Mahal and 4 other monuments earned Rs 146.05 crore, more than half the total revenue generated by centrally-protected monuments, in 2017-18.

Parched Shimla asks tourists to stay away as water protests enter fifth day

Besides severe water rationing by the administration, high court bans special supply to VIP homes, tells state to tap Army for help.

Violence-hit Kashmir in need of tourism’s ‘healing touch’ for its own good

With the number of visitors to Jammu and Kashmir falling severely, the recent killing of tourist Thirumani may have derailed the state’s most crucial industry.

On Camera

Trump is swinging on Russia again. What this means for Europe’s security architecture

The dynamics between Europe and Russia have gone so south that mending fences looks like an uphill task—even as the US swings between sanctions and olive branches.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

2 Agniveers awarded Sena Medal for gallantry in Op Sindoor, a first since Agnipath launch

This marks the first time that Agniveers have received gallantry awards. They are the Army's short-term recruits under the Agnipath scheme.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.