India

Few birds wheel above the Atacama Desert, the driest place on earth, and you see no hint of green from the one paved road that crosses it, the Pan American Highway. An empty landscape of sunbaked rock, gravel and shifting dunes, ...

Amarnath Yatra is often in the headlines, always for lord Shiva himself with their devotees and occasionally for the security arrangements, but this time it is in the headlines for the tragic incident, which we never pray to happen. As such, ...

Niagara, meaning 'thunder water', was the name the native Americans gave to the mighty waterfall that today forms a spectacular boundary between the USA and Canada. From Lake Erie, the Niagara River flows placidity for almost 35 miles (56km), but near ...

Varanasi got its first-ever night market on July 7th, 2022. Varanasi is also known as Banaras and is one of the oldest cities in India. The city is located in Uttar Pradesh state and is considered sacred by Hindus. The city ...

At least 15 people have died due to flash floods triggered by a cloudburst on Friday evening near the holy Amarnath cave located in South Kashmir. While many have been injured, 50-60 people are feared missing. According to media reports, 60 ...

Mammoth Cave owes its name to its size, not to relics of long-gone mammoths. Carved from limestone hills in Kentucky by trickles of acidic water over millions of years, the cave has some 330 miles (530km) of passages, possibly more, on ...

A solitary monolith like a massive tree stump thrusts up from the rolling cattle-ranch country of northeast Wyoming. A legend of the Kiowa people who lived in the region says the Devil tower was created when seven little girls were chased ...

Just beyond the grey gravel plains of northern-western South Africa, the land tilts gently down to reveal one of Nature's timeless masterpieces: an ancient sea of apricot-coloured sand that rolls on apparently forever. This is the Kalahari, an enormous plain on ...

Many think twice to travel to the verdant places of Kerala during the monsoon, due to the weather and consequently worry about their safety. However, what most of them are not aware of is that Kerala is nestled in one of ...

Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has introduced a great tour package for Hindu adherents to travel to prominent religious places, including the Char Dham Yatra across central India, in its 11-day tour package. Covering Dwarikadhish Mandir and Nageshwar Jyotirlinga ...

 Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced that the biggest shopping festival in India is going to be held in Delhi in 2023. The event will be organized by the Delhi government under the name of ‘Delhi Shopping Festival'. Shopping Festival is ...

Considering that it is one of the planet's loveliest ornaments - a jewel of azure, indigo, sapphire and purest white whose glories are apparent even from the moon - it seems strange that the first Europeans to see the Great Barrier ...