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Friday, November 14, 2025
TopicVacation

Topic: vacation

More road trips, local cruises & no flights — Holidays being reinvented for coronavirus era

All-you-can eat buffets and international travel will now give way to lesser flights, driving your own car and going to locales within one’s country.

Short trip, virus screening hotel, social distance on beach – this is the future of holidays

It’s becoming painfully clear that our next vacations will be close to home and overshadowed by concerns about health precautions.

Celebrity endorsements aren’t enough to make vacationing eco-friendly

All in, tourism’s contribution to man-made emissions could be as much as 8 per cent of the total, and is giving the hotel industry a bad name.

Quit your job, enjoy a break. Don’t wait to retire because it might be too late

There’s logic behind a mid-career break. With longer lives come longer careers & longer retirements—the first so you can afford the second.

On Camera

Virat, Anushka, Bumrah selling sarias & cement, dentists, vets, Bihar walls painted in ‘rurbanisation’

Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

Much of this wealth is tied to founder-led businesses that employ millions and help anchor regional economies.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.