China will now have an India Tourism Office which will be headed by an IAS or IFS officer. It will also have a strategy advisor besides a p...

The number of Chinese tourists visiting India reached 2,47,000 in 2017, a mere two per cent of the total 10.18 million foreign tourist arri...

As many as 10.04 million foreign tourists have visited the country in 2017 which was a growth of 14 per cent in comparison to the previous ...

Sangma called on Union Minister of State Tourism K. J. Alphons along with State Tourism Minister Metbah Lyngdoh and sought his intervention...

Banks and payment system operators have been advised to enhance the security and risk mitigation measures for card transactions.

Coverage was low in the two northeastern states of Assam and Meghalya, where enrolment has just begun. Overall, Aadhaars assigned for 1.17 ...

Pradhan's name was on the top of the list of ministers who were to lay the papers relating to their ministries in the Upper House today.

Alphons, who is Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Tourism, was elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan in a bypoll ear...

A video of an incident that happened yesterday shows a passenger, who had to attend a funeral in Patna, complaining to Alphons about the fl...

New Delhi, Oct 31 (IANS) Holistic learning is the need of the hour in our present education system, and young students should use digital t...

"We are 1.3 billion people. How many incidents take place in India? Very, very few. But of course these are unfortunate incidents and shoul...

Alphons, like several present Cabinet ministers, does not take protocol at airports while boarding flights and takes the bus used by other ...

Asked about measures taken by the ministry regarding safety of women tourists, Alphons insisted that India is one of the safest countries i...

Newly sworn-in Union tourism minister K J Alphons has an advice for foreigners visiting the country: Eat beef in your own countries and the...

The appointment of Alphons would have reversed the 32- year-old system of Punjab governor being the Chandigarh administrator.

Ittycheria, 31, co-founded 'Enstitute' that bypasses college by placing its students in paid tech apprenticeships.

Alphons said that he has not received any firm commitment from US lawmakers on the change in US policy but exuded confidence that this will...