Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport: Small wonder
| OK, 10 points to you if you can say it correctly the first time, but aside from being a major mouthful, Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport (thankfully shortened to “SSR” in the loca...
Harte trial puts media focus on Mauritius
12The Legends HotelMichaela Harte and John McAreavey after their wedding on December 30th, 2010. Michaela was murdered shortly afterwards at the Legends Hotel while on honeymoon in Mauritius. The susp...
Rupee fall, spurt in airfares make Indians opt for cheaper and closer travel destinations
Tweet NEW DELHI: Manish Chandra, a retail store designer based in Delhi, may cancel his ritual of a foreign trip every summer with his family this year because of a free fall in rupee in recent months...
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BCCI needs to be transparent and accountable, says Kirti Azad
| New Delhi, May 20, 2012 | | Former cricketer Kirti Azad on Sunday sat on a hunger strike, lambasting the "greed, lust for money and sleaze" in the Indian Premier League and demanded transpare...
Harte murder trial to commence
| Two hotel workers accused of murdering the daughter of Tyrone GAA football manager Mickey Harte while she honeymooned in Mauritius will go on trial this week. | Michaela Harte was found strangled in...
Mauritius pair face murder trial
Two hotel workers accused of murdering the daughter of Tyrone Gaelic football boss Mickey Harte while she honeymooned in Mauritius will go on trial this week. | Michaela McAreavey was found strangled ...
An unusual friendship:Botswana
| Egerton Chang, Contributor | She was from Botswana. I met her in 1984 at a housing symposium held at George Washington University in Washington, DC, administered and sponsored by USAID. I was then t...
Michaela suspect: I want my own trial... 'Murder in paradise' trial opens on Tuesday with ...
| A last-gasp legal twist could throw the Michaela Harte murder trial into disarray – just as the case is finally set to start. | One of the two men accused of murdering the young bride on her h...
Forgotten tour footage captures glamour of young Queen's reign
The Queen in Sierra Leone. | Forgotten footage of royal tours abroad in the 1950s and 60s reveals the sheer glamour of the Queen's travelling wardrobe, in an era when she rivalled film stars such as E...
India steps up defence of falling rupee as dollar demand surges
| Mumbai: A slide in the rupee to record lows against the dollar could not have come at a more inopportune time for investors in India. It has pumped up the bears to tighten their stranglehold on the ...
The wonder of feathers
| A soft flake of seeming sky falls, wafts and floats earthward catching the light. Lightly, and soft as gossamer, it lands to add a splash of color to the greenery of spring. It may be no more than a...
Forgotten tour footage captures glamour of young Queen's reign
| From Iran's atomic research facility to a whaler off the Falkland Islands, the state visits of the 50s and 60s took the Queen and her family to some of the world's most extraordinary places. And whe...
Mauritius, Somalia in deal to prosecute pirates
Port Louis - Mauritius said on Friday it has agreed to prosecute Somali pirates, helping overcome one of the hurdles to cracking down on the wave of piracy that has hit international shipping. | The i...
Mauritius, Somalia in deal to prosecute pirates
| PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - Mauritius said on Friday it has agreed to prosecute Somali pirates, helping overcome one of the hurdles to cracking down on the wave of piracy that has hit international shipp...
Michaela McAreavey widower returns to island for murder trial
| The widower of murdered honeymooner Michaela McAreavey has returned to the paradise island where his new bride was killed. | John McAreavey (27) last night returned to Mauritian soil for the first t...
Foreign travel expenses shoot up 20% on falling rupee
Tweet NEW DELHI: The depreciating value of the rupee has made outbound travel for Indians at least 15-20% more expensive. In India, domestic travel too is suffering because of an increase in airfares ...
The News Matrix: Saturday 19 May 2012
| Six people have been charged after an Indian woman, 37, from Hyderabad was allegedly trafficked to Britain and subjected to a series of sex attacks, Scotland Yard said yesterday. The six, who includ...
Tourist spends 3,000 to bring home stray dog she found on the beach in Mauritius
| Animal lover Karen Garner is spending nearly 3,000 to bring home a stray dog she found on holiday in Mauritius. | The 47-year-old, from the village of Hopeman in Moray, Scotland, spent most of her ...
Who Needs the Truth?
[L'Express Weekly] Brimming with satisfaction and spurred on by the cheers of her colleagues from the majority, MP Stéphanie Anquetil planted her question about the rosewood suspected shady deal. As ...
Drive to make it easier to do business sees progress
| Efforts to make Seychelles an easier place to do business in are slowly bearing fruit, the chairperson of the business environment forum Pierre Laporte said yesterday. | Mr Laporte who is also the...
Table Tennis
| Remie gets another two-year mandate | Francis Remie was recently re-elected chairman of the Seychelles Table Tennis Association (STTA) and has said he wants the sport to live more glorious moments i...
