The festival of colours is just around the corner and quite frankly, which city is better than Pune for celebrating the colourful gala with your squad.

Euromonitor International has published a report with top 100 travel destinations across the world.

India has announced relaxation in e-Visa rules for Chinese nationals.

Chinese government has announced relaxation in visa norms for British citizens and for residents of 52 other countries.

Hit hard by the slowdown tour operators in the country are set to get a leg up from their subaltern brethren who are sprucing up their homes and skills of the English language to welcome vacationers to their unique pastoral ambience.

After testing out the concept with 13 villages across the country, the Ministry of Tourism has now decided to expand its rural tourism initiative to 130 other centres in the hinterland to develop them as tourism destinations. This is part of the Ministry’s Visit India 2009 campaign which comes in the wake of the successful of the ‘Incredible India’ campaign.

Gujarat's long-pending demand with the railways for shifting of the Western Railway headquarters from Mumbai to Ahmedabad on the ground of the state boasting the largest rail track network in the zone, backed by CM Narendra Modi, is not under consideration of either the rail ministry or the rail board.

This was stated by Mumbai-based additional general manager of the Western Railway, RS Chug, in reply to a question by this reporter during a media briefing after flagging off the Gandhidham-Kamakhya (in Assam) train from Gandhidham, about 60-km from here, on Saturday.

"Such a decision is taken by the rail ministry and the rail board as this is a policy matter. There is, at present, no such move under consideration in the railways," Chug said.