Fun and fiestas in España

In an exclusive interview with India Outbound magazine, Miguel Nieto-Sandoval San Segundo, Tourism counsellor and director of Tourism Office of Spain for India talks about the latest trends among Indian travellers to Spain.

Bollywood’s tryst with misogyny

While socially empowering and women-centric movies are growing in numbers, it is a long way for us to move away from misogyny and sexism in Bollywood movies.

World Population Day: Is India ready to be the most populous country by 2027?

World Population Day is observed annually on July 11 every year with the objective to spread awareness about population related issues across the world. When the day was first observed 30 years ago, the population was 5.25 billion but today it has nearly crossed the mark of 7.7 b...

Hariyali Teej – the tree plantation drive with a difference

India observes the celebration of many festivals dedicated to plants, agriculture and environment; Hariyali Teej being one of them. A region in Delhi adopted a unique way of celebrating it by planting saplings, thereby, infusing culture with environment preservation.

Nepal looking forward to 25 pc growth in Indian tourists by 2020

Nepal is a beautiful nation which has preserved its rich culture and heritage to date. Mount Everest, Pashupatinath Temple and Lumbini Temples being the major attractants, are visited by several tourists every year. However, Nepal is also home to many unexplored destinations and ...

Interview with Vipula Gunatilleka, CEO of SriLankan Airlines

The French Revolution and its effect on the French colonies in India

The Alliance Française du Bengale in association with the Consulate General of France in Kolkata, the Institut Française en Inde and Setu Prakashani hosted the book launch for a translated edition of The Revolution and the French Establishments in India (1790-1793), on July 4 t...

French EPR audit raises questions on Jaitapur

Repeated incidents related to French nuclear technology put a question mark on the fate of Jaitapur nuclear power project. On July 5, French finance and economy minister Bruno Le Maire said that he had ordered an independent audit to go through the entire EPR project, under imple...

Budget 2019 highlights

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her first Union budget in the Parliament on July 5 lays out the roadmap for growth to a USD 5 trillion economy. Nirmala Sitharaman who became the first full time woman finance minister of India presented her maiden annual budget on July 5. A...

Thailand captures big segment of MICE from India

An established Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, Exhibitions (MICE) destination, Thailand is reinventing itself by adding new cities on its map of MICE travel and creatively reinventing its products and services.

Climate change and biodiversity

Human greed threatens over a million species of life with extinction as rush for profits trumps preservation.

International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

At the national level, about 14.6 pc of Indian people (among 10-75 year old) are current users of alcohol,which is about 0.16 billion people. Prevalence is 17 times higher among men than women.