Nehru Boat Race

Here is happy news for festival buffs in Kerala. The state-run public transport corporation is getting ready to charter special buses to have a glimpse of the annual Nehru Trophy boat race, which will be held on September 4.

An invitation extended to Union Home Minister Amit Shah by Kerala's Left government to attend a most colourful water sport race in the southern state named after India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was criticised by the Congress.

When spirited rowers dipped their oars in unison cutting the placid water surface at a tremendous pace, hundreds of onlookers here burst into joy forgetting the wounds inflicted by the flood of the century.

The Nehru Trophy Boat Race named after Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is conducted on the Punnamda Lake, near Alappuzha, on the second Saturday of August every year. This year, the event got postponed and is taking place today. The delay was due to the devastating floods that hit Kerala a few months ago. Today is the 66th year of the boat race. As many as...

There was not an inch of space on either bank of the Punnamada lake as thousands watched the 60th edition of the Nehru Boat Race on Saturday.

Here is happy news for festival buffs in Kerala. The state-run public transport corporation is getting ready to charter special buses to have a glimpse of the annual Nehru Trophy boat race, which will be held on September 4.

An invitation extended to Union Home Minister Amit Shah by Kerala's Left government to attend a most colourful water sport race in the southern state named after India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was criticised by the Congress.

When spirited rowers dipped their oars in unison cutting the placid water surface at a tremendous pace, hundreds of onlookers here burst into joy forgetting the wounds inflicted by the flood of the century.

The Nehru Trophy Boat Race named after Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is conducted on the Punnamda Lake, near Alappuzha, on the second Saturday of August every year. This year, the event got postponed and is taking place today. The delay was due to the devastating floods that hit Kerala a few months ago. Today is the 66th year of the boat race. As many as...

There was not an inch of space on either bank of the Punnamada lake as thousands watched the 60th edition of the Nehru Boat Race on Saturday.