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Chennai: Weekend getways and festival holidays are making boat houses popular with leisure travellers.In the past six months, around 27 lakh people have visited the nine boathouses run by the tourism deparment across the state including at Muttukadu and Mudaliarkuppam near Chennai. Weekend footfalls are high as people drive down to these boat houses. In the April-September period, Muttukadu received...

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KOLKATA: From hills to plains to beaches, demand has shot up for Bengal's favourite weekend holiday destinations during the long weekend between Eid-e-Milad on Thursday and Gandhi Jayanti on Monday. With a leave taken on Friday, it is possible to have a five-day break from September 28 to October 2."I had planned this long weekend trip some days in advance and had taken leave from office accordingly. My...

MUMBAI: The Mumbai airport recorded a passenger traffic growth of 32 % in August with over 4.3 million passengers handled as against 3.2 million passengers the previous August. During the Independence Day weekend, the airport witnessed an 8.4 % surge in passenger volumes. Over the years, Independence Day has turned into a popular short holiday with the only exception being the pandemic years. The trend...

NEW DELHI: Despite it being a weekend, the traffic from IIT-Delhi to Nehru Place via the Chirag Dilli flyover was very slow on Saturday. Vehicles going from Hauz Khas to Chirag Dilli too ran into jams in the afternoon. The carriageway on the flyover taking traffic from IIT towards Nehru Place was shut for repair work on Friday, though with one of the lanes left open for use by motorists. On the second...