How life changing is the Himalayan range? Dr Periyathiruvadi, a Chennai-based medical practitioner and founder of Lister Metropolis, has curated a coffee table book of photos from the mountains to answer this question

Ricky Kej’s BLR Airport Anthem, featuring fellow Grammy-winner Lonnie Park, tells stories of travel and connection

Indian sports tourism is surging, with many heading to the Paris Olympics for a blend of athletic thrills and cultural experiences

Once the domain of politicians and Bollywood celebrities, private flights are catching the fancy of India’s ultra rich who prize their exclusivity and speed. How much will it cost you to hop aboard?

The romance of the mountain rains, fragrance of the forest and petrichor, a symphony by sung by the birds and a taste of Kumaoni cuisine and cocktail, that’s how India’s first Voco Hotel in Jim Corbett invites you to live in the moment

The national park is home to 80-odd Royal Bengal tigers. Our quest to see the big cat includes sighting baby langurs, chitals and a retreating leopard

The bus terminus is being reconstructed at a cost of ₹15.75 crore under the Smart Cities Mission. Though the foundation stone was laid in June 2023, the work could not be taken up due to opposition from autorickshaw drivers and traders against the demolition of shops at the bus stand 

According to sources, a report prepared by the Puducherry government in 2017 had revealed that around 200 acres of temple land were under encroachment in the UT

Three senior officials belonging to Puducherry Civil Services cadre have been arrested in temple land scams in the recent months

The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued certain directions to the territorial administration, such as to ensure bio-metric authentication of beneficiaries, transparency in selection of agency involved in supply of essentials, quality of items supplied, and proper mechanism to avoid pilferage during distribution of food grains

AIADMK secretary A. Anbalagan and former MLA A. Baskar led the demonstration against the govt.’s ‘failure’ to supply free rice and sugar as promised; the former alleged that only beneficiaries in constituencies of those in power received the gift

Around 28 motorists were killed in accidents on the 9-km-stretch from Thavalakuppam to Mullodai on Puducherry-Cuddalore Road last year

Chief Secretary Sharat Chauhan received the accolade from Annie Greenberg, Executive Creative Director, Lonely Planet at a recent ceremony at the World Travel Mart, London.

Following public complaints and newspaper reports highlighting illegal encroachments causing hindrance to free movement of vehicles and pedestrians on thoroughfares and arterial roads, the District Administration launched a month-long drive a few days ago

The district comprises 25 of the 30 Assembly constituencies in the Union Territory, which includes the exclaves of Mahe and Yanam.

The Consul General designate at the Consulate General of France in Pondicherry and Chennai, Etienne Rolland-Piegue led the Armistice Day memorial service that began with the gathering observing a moment’s silence at the Monument aux Morts on Goubert Avenue

In a future where humanity has been driven underground by an apocalyptic event, a prisoner is haunted by the childhood memory of seeing a man gunned down at an airport. A group of scientists make him their time-traveling guinea pig, hoping that he’ll be able to find a way to restore the society they once knew. […]

Creative Commons image by Rob Bogaerts, via the National Archives in Holland One of the key questions facing both journalists and loyal oppositions these days is how do we stay honest as euphemisms and trivializations take over the discourse? Can we use words like “fascism,” for example, with fidelity to the meaning of that word in world history? The […]

Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, meaning they can be downloaded directly from the museum’s website for non-commercial use. When you browse the Met collection and find an image that […]

Last Friday, The Cure celebrated the release of their new album, Songs of a Lost World, with a three-hour set at the Troxy in London. The band kicked off the show by performing all eight tracks from the album, before then playing another 23 songs, mostly hits from their large catalog of music. Originally live […]

Many of us in these past few generations first heard of the Metropolitan Museum of Art while reading E. L. Konigsburg’s novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. More than a few of us also fantasized about running away to live in that vast cultural institution like the book’s young protagonists Claudia and […]