A social check-in facility on South African Airways lets you select the person you want to sit next to based on their Facebook details

As north India gasps in the grip of blazing heat, rain-rich Kerala lays out the ‘green’ carpet for upcountry travellers, enticing them with flexi-plans and big discounts

The emirate is celebrating summer with Russian ballet, World Cup screenings and a spectacular shadow theatre production

Attention, travellers! The Royal Thai Army has imposed military rule on all of Thailand, effective from 3am on May 20. But you can still go there

Bhutan hosts the fifth Mountain Echoes Literary Festival, a major cultural event on its calendar

Flying from Kolkata to Bangkok in Air Asia’s CCU-BKK FD2672 is cheaper than Kolkata to Mumbai

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Poseidon comes to Dubai’s Aquaventure; Van Gogh was hiding out in a Scandinavian attic

From the world’s deepest railway tunnel to what’s new at the Kolkata Zoo

The ‘positive boarding’ technology reads bar codes on boarding passes to prevent flight delays

The new Baron Eagle pre-paid global jet cards help business houses charter a private flight at by-the-hour rates

An exhibition of Basu Chatterjee films and memorabilia in Kolkata takes you back to the gentle era of cinema

Head to Nagaland for the Moatsu festival, which marks the end of the planting season

The divine wedding ritual at the famed Meenakshi temple, Madurai, is a two-week festival

White-sailed traditional dhows race in the waters off Dubai in a thrilling spectacle