Varsha Singh
Passionate about social issues, especially children and women’s rights, rising inequity and human rights, Varsha Singh, a Post-Graduate in English (Hons) from Calcutta University and Mass Communications from St Xavier’s Calcutta, gravitated naturally to journalism in 2013. Varsha has made her passions the subject matter of her work and she has been writing regularly about these issues, besides business, tourism, culture and politics. Of late, Varsha has been pursuing another passion, multimedia journalism making videos reports on social issues and current affairs, looking at them with a different lens. Outside of her work, Varsha is equally passionate about cinema, music, travel and tea. Indeed, she is the inhouse film and music encyclopedia and a full-time chai-o-holic.
Foreign buyers impressed by quality of meetings at KTM 2024
October 1, 2024
Amongst the many records set by the 12th edition of Kerala Travel Mart (KTM), that ended in Kochi recently, was the presence of a record number of foreign buyers as over 800 buyers from 75 nations in six continents turned up for what is positioned as Asia’s largest B2B travel t...
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Kerala Travel Mart concludes with record B2B meetings
September 30, 2024
With a record 75,000 B2B meetings, held in-person and in a matter of three days, Kerala Travel Mart 2024, positioned as the largest B2B travel trade fair in Asia, concluded with resounding success at Kochi on Sunday. The event, organised jointly by KTM Society and Kerala Tourism,...
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Experts at KTM call for developing tourism in Kerala plantations
September 28, 2024
Kerala’s famed plantations and beaches were the highlights of discussions on Day 2 of Kerala Travel Mart, that is currently ongoing in Kochi. Local experts at KTM, which is said to be the largest single-state tourism show in India and South East Asia, said that tourism to Keral...
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Kerala Travel Mart 2024 opens in Kochi with focus on MICE
September 27, 2024
Hectic activities, with thousands of B2B meetings involving over 3,000 participants marked the Day 1 of Kerala Travel Mart, KTM2024, in Kochi on Friday. From organisers and exhibitors to buyers and visitors, all the stakeholders in the show, that is the largest tourism show mount...
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Interview with Rajneesh Kumar, General Manager, Courtyard by Marriott Aravali Resort
July 23, 2022
Positioning itself as a unique leisure hotel, set in lush-green surroundings of the Aravalli hills, about 30 km from New Delhi, Courtyard by Marriott is the latest property of the global group in north India. General Manager Rajneesh Kumar tells MIG TV that he is counting on the ...
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Interview with K Mehboob Ali Khan, secretary, Ladakh Tourism
June 25, 2022
For over two years, since international travel was banned, the union territory of Ladakh had turned its focus on domestic tourists. Now, as foreign tourists begin to trickle back in, Ladakh is once again focusing on its key market — Europe. In an interview with Media India ...
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Interview with G N Itoo Director, Kashmir Tourism
April 1, 2022
With resumption of regular international flights to India, various states in India have begun targetting foreign tourists after a long break of two years. Along with the old favourites like Kerala, Rajasthan or Karnataka, Kashmir is also positioning itself as a prime destination ...
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India to face brunt of climate change, warns IPCC report
March 1, 2022
Yet another report on climate change and global warming has warned that world is firmly on its way to a catastrophic situation within the next three decades in absence of any serious action to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to mitigate the impact of climate crisis on the most v...
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Delhi’s wrestlers aspire for Paris Olympics
January 5, 2022
Wrestling or Kushti as it is known in India is one of the oldest traditional sports in the country. Medal-winning performances by some Indian wrestlers in World Championships and the Olympic Games have spurred many others to set their sights high and are working towards replicati...
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Farmers Protest: A year of struggles, losses and wins
December 25, 2021
On a wintry Saturday afternoon, as the Sun begins its descent on the horizon, the tension that had been ever-present at the Singhu Border, the site of farmers’ protest in New Delhi for over a year, seems to have disappeared. Instead, there is an air of relaxed humour and banter...
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Indian government turns blind eye to rising inequality
December 21, 2021
The World Inequality Report 2022 released last month by the World Inequality Lab portrays a dismal picture of the world as inequality has continued to rise stridently across most parts of the world, with an increasing share of global wealth being captured by fewer people every ye...
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Tears and cheers as farmers bid farewell
December 18, 2021
Mixed emotions dominate the mood at various sites on Delhi’s borders where thousands of farmers and their supporters have protested for almost 13 months. The happiness and cheer is clearly all around as farmers begin packing up to go back home at long last after their union...
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