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Bidar's Underground Water Channels and Medieval Sultanate Secrets That Most Travellers Miss

You arrive and there is no one to tell you where to goThe bus from Hyderabad drops you at the edge of Bidar before eight in the morning, and the first thing you notice is the quiet. Not the performed quiet of a hill station or a resort. The actual…

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Murud-Janjira, Sindhudurg and Vijaydurg: Three Maratha Sea Forts Where the Tides Set Your Itinerary

Why the Water Is the First Thing to Plan AroundAll three forts are island structures or tidal promontories. No road reaches any of them. Ferries and small wooden boats are the only access, and those boats run on tidal windows that shift daily. At Murud-Janjira, the ferry from Rajpuri jetty…

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US redirects 94 vessels as Iran warns of maritime exclusion zone in Gulf

US forces intensified a maritime blockade in the Arabian Sea, boarding and redirecting commercial vessels. Iran's top security official warned of a recalibrated military posture and a Persian Gulf exclusion zone. This action follows Iran's alleged missile tests and threats regarding the Strait of Hormuz. US CENTCOM previously struck Iranian…

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6 Vande Bharat Train Routes Worth Booking for Scenic Views and Not Just for the Speed

Howrah to New Jalpaiguri, Tea Gardens and the Teesta ValleyThe Vande Bharat on the Howrah-New Jalpaiguri corridor covers roughly 564 kilometres, and for most of the journey north of Malda, the train moves through a Bengal that most passengers never see from the road. Paddy fields give way to jute…

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Jaaved Jaaferi, known for 'Boogie Woogie', lives in a 7,000-sq-ft Bandra home with Arabian Sea view, Mediterranean interiors, onyx dining table and earthy-toned furniture

Actor Jaaved Jaaferi has returned to Bandra with his family, moving into a 7,000-sq-ft sea-facing apartment overlooking the Arabian Sea. Designed by Kush Bhayani, the home combines Mediterranean influences with earthy tones, textured walls, an onyx dining table, family keepsakes and a spacious terrace.

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Why Konkan Village Homestays Are the Slow Travel Experience the Mumbai-Goa Highway Never Gives You

The Highway Promises Arrival. The Village Delivers Something Else.You have driven it, or you know someone who has. The Mumbai-Goa highway, NH 66 threading through coastal Maharashtra, is a corridor of arrival anxiety. The clock runs. The kilometres count down. Somewhere past Chiplun you stop for chai and a vada…

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How Humpback Whale Song Dialects Shift Over Decades and What Cultural Transmission Tells Us

The Song That Crosses an OceanIn 1998, marine biologist Michael Noad and his colleagues at the University of Queensland documented something that had no clean explanation at the time. Two humpback whales off the east coast of Australia were singing a song-type that belonged to the west coast population, a…

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Five Uninhabited Islands Along India's Coastline Where the Absence of Resorts Is the Whole Point

The island that does not perform for youMost travel is a transaction. You pay; the place delivers atmosphere. Netrani Island, off the Karnataka coast near Murudeshwar, refuses that contract. There are no guesthouses on Netrani, no chai stalls, no laminated menus with a "local special." What there is: a limestone…

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USS Abraham Lincoln heads home as CENTCOM chief praises crew’s resilience

US Central Command chief Adm Brad Cooper lauded USS Abraham Lincoln sailors for their resilience. He highlighted the aircraft carrier's low mental health cases during its deployment. Cooper's visit occurred amid heightened regional tensions with Iran. The USS Abraham Lincoln is nearing the end of its Arabian Sea operations. This…

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St Mary Islands, Karnataka: The Hexagonal Basalt Rock Formation That Rewrites What a Beach Can Be

The Ground Beneath You Is WrongYou have been to beaches before. You know what they feel like underfoot, the give of wet sand, the gravel that shifts, the occasional flat stone. Nothing prepares you for St Mary Islands. The moment you step off the boat from Malpe and onto the…

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Bet Dwarka: What the Pilgrimage and the Underwater Archaeology Actually Tell You About Krishna's Submerged City

The boat ride that frames everythingThe ferry from Okha to Bet Dwarka takes about fifteen minutes. You sit on a wooden bench, salt air coming at you sideways, and the island resolves out of the haze as something smaller than you expected. Pilgrims around you are already holding marigold garlands.…

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Diu Is the Portuguese-Era Island Off Gujarat Where Colonial History Never Quite Left

The churches are still standingThe first thing that stops you in Diu is a church. Not a temple, not a mosque, a church built in 1601 by the Jesuits, its limestone facade holding the particular grey of old Portuguese stonework, its nave cool and echoey in a way that feels…

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US top Middle East commander visits deployed aircraft carrier, and other Mideast news

Adm. Brad Cooper, the top U.S. military commander in the Middle East, has visited the USS Lincoln in the Arabian Sea

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Lakshadweep Coral Reefs: India's Only Atoll System and Why Its Marine Species Are Disappearing Fast

What an Atoll Actually Is, and Why Lakshadweep Is the Only One India HasAn atoll is not a beach with coral nearby. It is a coral structure that built the land itself. The 36 islands of Lakshadweep sit on top of ancient reef platforms that grew upward from submerged volcanic…

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Kutch Is Where the Rann Ends and the Artisans Begin: Crafts That Belong to No Other Place

The Rann Is the Threshold, Not the DestinationYou arrive at the white desert and think you have arrived at Kutch. The Rann of Kutch is enormous and genuinely strange, a seasonal salt marsh that turns solid and blinding white in winter, stretching toward Pakistan in one direction and the Arabian…

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These Five Sacred Temples Prove That Shiva's Divine Presence Has Never Left India

Kedarnath: The Mountain Does Not Care If You BelieveYou arrive at Kedarnath after sixteen kilometres of altitude that strips everything from you, your comfort, your breath, your sense of what your body can do. The stone shrine sits at 3,583 metres, surrounded by peaks that have no interest in human…

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Five Jyotirlinga Temples Across India Where Shiva's Presence Still Stops You Cold

Kashi Vishwanath, VaranasiYou will smell the marigolds before you see the spire. Kashi Vishwanath sits inside the old city's warren of lanes so narrow that two people with bags cannot pass each other without turning sideways, and by the time you reach the sanctum you have already been jostled, blessed,…

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Champaner, Lothal, and Modhera: Gujarat's Three Sites That Rewrite Indian Civilisation's History

The city that was already ancient when history beganYou arrive at Lothal expecting ruins. What you find is a city. Not the idea of one, the actual grid of it, the drainage channels running parallel to streets, the raised citadel platform, the brick-lined dock that archaeologists date to around 2400…

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Sawan Pilgrimage: 6 Shiva Temples Every Devotee Must Seek Darshan At This Monsoon

Somnath, Gujarat, Where the Shore Holds the First LightYou arrive before dawn, because that is the only honest way to arrive at Somnath. The Arabian Sea is loud behind the temple walls, and the Jyotirlinga here, the first among the twelve, has been destroyed and rebuilt seventeen times. That number…

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How Nagaland's Pangti Village Stopped Hunting Amur Falcons and Became Their Protectors

A Million Birds, One ReservoirThe numbers are almost too large to picture. Each October and November, somewhere between one and two million Amur Falcons converge on the Doyang reservoir in Wokha district, Nagaland. They arrive from breeding grounds in Siberia and northern China, and they are heading to southern Africa,…

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Vikrant Massey's Mumbai home has a 180-degree Arabian Sea view; here's a look inside his boho-themed Madh Island house

Vikrant Massey's Mumbai home on Madh Island, which he shares with actor-wife Sheetal Thakur, features a glass-panelled balcony with a 180-degree view of the Arabian Sea, bohemian interiors with earthy tones, and handcrafted decor. The couple moved in in 2020 and offered fans a first look during their griha pravesh…

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US Military Redirects 35 Ships and Disables Tankers Attempting To Breach Resumed Iran Blockade

US naval forces have redirected 35 vessels and boarded others in the Arabian Sea, enforcing a resumed Iran blockade while diplomatic negotiations continue to prevent military escalation.

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Two reported attacks on tankers near Strait of Hormuz

The Strait of Hormuz, which connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea, is one of the world's most crucial oil and gas transit chokepoints, carrying roughly a quarter of the global seaborne oil trade.

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Olive Ridley Turtles Return to Odisha's Coast in Millions, and the Arribada Is Fragile

The Night the Beach Disappears Under TurtlesAt Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary on Odisha's northern coast, rangers have counted over 600,000 Olive Ridley turtles nesting in a single arribada, a Spanish word adopted by biologists for this mass synchronised nesting that has no equivalent in any other reptile species. The females arrive…

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Iran-linked tankers U-turn, zig-zag as US enforces blockade

US sanctions on Iranian shipping have been reimposed, impacting tanker movements. Several Iran-linked tankers changed course in the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea. Ship tracking data shows diversions and zig-zagging patterns by these vessels. The US military has also taken action against non-compliant ships. Observable shipping activity through the…

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