Delhi, India Travel News

At the Akshardham temple on the banks of the Yamuna River, a harvest festival is about to begin.

NEW DELHI: A day after India reiterated its concerns over recent attacks on students from here down under, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Thursday said they were welcome guests in his country.

On November 9 international travel firm Thomas Cook announced a long-term agreement to charter the new luxury Indian Maharaja-Deccan Odyssey, the nation's first privately operated luxury tourist train, which will commence its maiden voyage November 18.

William Dalrymple loves his food as much as he loves to talk about his new book "Nine Lives" Photo: V. Sudershan DELECTABLE MOMENTS William Dalrymple enjoys his Chinese meal at 19 Oriental Avenue in Shangri-La's Eros hotel in New Delhi On a pleasantly warm day William Dalrymple provides ideal company for a leisurely lunch at 19 Oriental Avenue, the ...

Almost 60,000 kilolitres of oil in 11 storage tanks went up in flames on the evening of Oct 29 and the blaze raged till Nov 6. A seven-member CPCB team that rushed to the spot found that on Oct 31, the level of suspended particulate matter at the Chokhi Dhani monitoring station on the outskirts of Jaipur was 376 microgrammes per cubic metre of air, ...

New Delhi/Mumbai: Hours after the BJP sought an apology from Home Minister P. Chidambaram over the Vande Mataram issue, the Congress on Wednesday said the matter was a sensitive one involving religious sentiments and no controversy should be raked up over it.

Hotel Le ROI is owned and managed by Roi Hotels India Pvt. Ltd. The company is a reputed name in hospitality industry and manages a group of boutique hotels and hostels in the capital of India.

DELHIa 'The Rajdhani Express pulls into Delhi's Hazrat Nizamuddin station just prior to her scheduled departure of 4 p.m. She's aged a ' quite decrepit, actually, which I like.

This could be the poor man's Jama Masjid. The Walled City's third largest mosque, circa 1650, has no big domes.

George W Bush, entourage to stay on 12th and 13th floor of Taj Mahal Hotel While the US consulate has issued an advisory, warning its citizens against visiting India in the wake of the first anniversary of 26/11 attacks, former US president George W Bush has made plans to be in Mumbai over the weekend.

India hosted a high-level technology summit in Delhi last week with the aim of supporting progress toward a global agreement on "climate-friendly" technologies.

View of Garet House from by James Baillie Fraser. NEW DELHI.- The National Gallery of Modern Art in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, presents Indian Life and Landscape by Western Artists, an exhibition of more than ninety paintings and drawings from the V&A 1790 - 1927, at National Gallery of Modern Art, Jaipur House, New ...

To mark International Day of Climate Actions, a large number of people took part in clean-up drives at Qutub Minar and Tughlakabad Fort and also participated in bicycle rallies and plantation drives in various parts of the Capital over the weekend.

Royal carriage: The "Royal Rajasthan on Wheels" luxury train was flagged off from Safdarjung railway station on Sunday for its first commercial trip of the year.

Patna, Oct 23 : After being neglected for decades, India's first president Rajendra Prasad's memorial in this Bihar capital is finally set for a makeover on the lines of Rajghat - the lush green, landscaped memorial dedicated to the father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi.

New Delhi, Oct 20 : It is a paradox of sorts that organisations catering to the financing of the poor, namely Microfinance Institutions , are doing brisk business having added a whopping about 128 billion dollars over a period of one year.

Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, 19 OCT: Places of religious importance form part of the itinerary of tourists visiting the Capital but barring a few, these are hardly ready to welcome visitors from across the world who will throng the city during the Commonwealth Games 2010.

Travelling to different tourist destination of India with rental car has its own unique charm and aura.

MAYBE it was the patterned bedspread and white applique pillows on the double bed that made the simple room so inviting.

Berlin, Oct. 14: Thulasi Warrier had just the right credentials to pursue research in America - a degree from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and research experience at an academic centre in Bangalore.