Lead Story News Travel & Tourism
A decision this week by India to grant visas free of charge to Burmese nationals, likely a boon to Burma’s outbound tour operators, has been met with some concern by an association of travel agencies that specialise in pilgrimages to the sacred Buddhist site Bodh Gaya.
Lead Story News Religion Travel & Tourism
A disaster was narrowly averted on Wednesday when a MAl airliner strayed onto a runway at Gaya airport in India just minutes before an Air India flight was due to land.
Hundreds of monks from all over Southeast Asia, Bangladesh and Nepal demonstrated in front of the United Nations building in Bangkok on Wednesday, against bomb blasts at the Mahabodhi Temple[…]
A series of explosions at one of India’s oldest and most prestigious Buddhist temples in eastern India has left two monks injured. Nine blasts went off within half an hour[…]
