Tourists From Chennai

The body of a former Chennai mayor's son, who went missing after the vehicle he was travelling in plunged 200 metres down into the Satluj in Himachal's Kinnaur district, was recovered on Monday after eight days, police said.

For the first time an international boutique cruise ship docked at the Visakhapatnam port in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday. The dawn to dusk visitor, Silver Discoverer, is a 1989 seven-star liner, built in Russia. The ship came from Trincomalee in Sri Lanka via Chennai.

Five tourists from Chennai were killed and two others injured after the SUV they were travelling in fell in agorge near Ooty, police said today.

Island nation Mauritius is expecting about 89,000 Indian tourists this year and several Indian movie makers to take advantage of its expense rebate scheme for shooting there, said a top official of Mauritius Tourism Promotion Authority or MTPA in Chennai on Monday.

A Russian woman was allegedly raped at a guest house in Tamil Nadu, police said. Four men at the guest house in the temple town of Tiruvannamalai, 194 km from Chennai, have been detained.

IRCTC Tourism IRCTC Indian Railway package name is Ooty-Madumalai package. The train will leave every Thursday from Chennai Central railway station at 9.05 pm.

On Monday, a family from Tamil Nadu was excited about visiting the resort town of Gulmarg in Jammu and Kashmir. A young man and his parents were on the car that had just begun its journey from Srinagar to Gulmarg when stone-throwing protesters struck, just outside the Jammu and Kashmir capital.

A woman tourist from Finland was found dead in a hotel in Triplicane, one of the oldest neighbourhoods of Chennai, this morning. Helea Nea-Emilia and her boyfriend Palomaki Alekesi Joel Santeri were in India on a tourist visa and had been travelling across the country since November. They arrived in Chennai from Kanyakumari last Tuesday.

Six men and two women including Indians were killed in a major accident when their mini bus got crushed between two trucks on a highway in southern England. The crash occurred on the southbound M1 highway at Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire yesterday.

National carrier Air India has brought back 165 stranded tourists from Andaman and Nicobar in one flight from Chennai last night while another flight from Kolkata was scheduled to take 85 passengers early today.

Fresh from her emphatic re-election, South Carolina's governor Nikki Haley is to visit India next week to bring investment and promote her state as a tourist destination in her parents' native country.

Kanchipuram, home to the world heritage site of Mamallapuram, is on the top position in Tamil Nadu in attracting foreign tourists and posted 12.03 per cent increase in vistors from abroad in 2013 when compared to the previous year.

A man from Bihar has been arrested in Chennai for allegedly raping an 18-year-old German tourist on a train last week.

Four tourists from Chennai drowned as a houseboat tilted and partly sank at Punnamada in the Vembanad lake in Alappuzha today, police said.

Multi-ethnic Malaysia, which has a sizeable ethnic Indian population, is set to have announcements in Tamil language at its international airports. Malaysian Transport Minister Kong Cho Ha has recommended that announcements in Tamil be made available at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport and the Low Cost Carrier Terminal starting next year. "T...

The body of a former Chennai mayor's son, who went missing after the vehicle he was travelling in plunged 200 metres down into the Satluj in Himachal's Kinnaur district, was recovered on Monday after eight days, police said.

For the first time an international boutique cruise ship docked at the Visakhapatnam port in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday. The dawn to dusk visitor, Silver Discoverer, is a 1989 seven-star liner, built in Russia. The ship came from Trincomalee in Sri Lanka via Chennai.

Five tourists from Chennai were killed and two others injured after the SUV they were travelling in fell in agorge near Ooty, police said today.

Island nation Mauritius is expecting about 89,000 Indian tourists this year and several Indian movie makers to take advantage of its expense rebate scheme for shooting there, said a top official of Mauritius Tourism Promotion Authority or MTPA in Chennai on Monday.

A Russian woman was allegedly raped at a guest house in Tamil Nadu, police said. Four men at the guest house in the temple town of Tiruvannamalai, 194 km from Chennai, have been detained.

IRCTC Tourism IRCTC Indian Railway package name is Ooty-Madumalai package. The train will leave every Thursday from Chennai Central railway station at 9.05 pm.

On Monday, a family from Tamil Nadu was excited about visiting the resort town of Gulmarg in Jammu and Kashmir. A young man and his parents were on the car that had just begun its journey from Srinagar to Gulmarg when stone-throwing protesters struck, just outside the Jammu and Kashmir capital.

A woman tourist from Finland was found dead in a hotel in Triplicane, one of the oldest neighbourhoods of Chennai, this morning. Helea Nea-Emilia and her boyfriend Palomaki Alekesi Joel Santeri were in India on a tourist visa and had been travelling across the country since November. They arrived in Chennai from Kanyakumari last Tuesday.

Six men and two women including Indians were killed in a major accident when their mini bus got crushed between two trucks on a highway in southern England. The crash occurred on the southbound M1 highway at Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire yesterday.

National carrier Air India has brought back 165 stranded tourists from Andaman and Nicobar in one flight from Chennai last night while another flight from Kolkata was scheduled to take 85 passengers early today.

Fresh from her emphatic re-election, South Carolina's governor Nikki Haley is to visit India next week to bring investment and promote her state as a tourist destination in her parents' native country.

Kanchipuram, home to the world heritage site of Mamallapuram, is on the top position in Tamil Nadu in attracting foreign tourists and posted 12.03 per cent increase in vistors from abroad in 2013 when compared to the previous year.

A man from Bihar has been arrested in Chennai for allegedly raping an 18-year-old German tourist on a train last week.

Four tourists from Chennai drowned as a houseboat tilted and partly sank at Punnamada in the Vembanad lake in Alappuzha today, police said.

Multi-ethnic Malaysia, which has a sizeable ethnic Indian population, is set to have announcements in Tamil language at its international airports. Malaysian Transport Minister Kong Cho Ha has recommended that announcements in Tamil be made available at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport and the Low Cost Carrier Terminal starting next year. "T...