People living in the water-bound villages of Alappuzha district in Kerala have seen more lucrative livelihood options due to the influx of tourists visiting the now famous backwaters throughout the ...

Sunday’s tourist boat tragedy at Tanur has given rise to renewed calls on the need for reining in houseboats and other tourist vessels flouting norms in Alappuzha, a major backwater destination.

One of the images that comes to mind when you think of Kerala, widely called as the “God's Own Country” is its beautiful backwaters and a nice houseboat trip around it in the evening sun. However, ...

ALAPPUZHA: Alappuzha district administration and health department are all set to arrange 2000 isolation beds in houses boats in backwaters of Alappuzha as precautionary steps to meet any emergency ...

Alappuzha District Collector M Anjana said that houseboats in the districts may be turned into COVID-19 isolation wards if the need arises. It was a miraculous escape for 16 people, including a ...

Alappuzha is still referred to as the Venice of the East, more than a century after the former viceroy of British India, George Nathaniel Curzon, famously remarked — “Here nature has spent up on the ...

Alappuzha (Kerala) [India], May 30 (ANI): Three tourists had a narrow escape after a houseboat they were cruising sank in a lake at Kerala's Alappusha district on Monday, the police said. According to ...