Hundreds gather on beach promenade in Puducherry to ring in New Year
The Hindu
Celebrate New Year with enthusiasm in Puducherry: locals & tourists gather on beach promenade, PTDC organises events, hospitality industry sees good season.
Hundreds of people gathered on the beach promenade in Puducherry on Sunday night, December 31, 2023, to celebrate the dawn of 2024.
Local residents and tourists thronged the beach to welcome New Year with enthusiasm. People started gathering at the beach promenade late on Sunday evening, and the celebrations went on till around 1 a.m on Monday.
As the crowd started to become restive with the dawn of the New Year, police dispersed the visitors to avoid any law and order issues.
A large number of people also participated in the celebrations organised by the Pondicherry Tourism Development Corporation at Chunnambar and Seagulls restaurant near the New Port. The Chunnambar Boat House received around 4,000 tourists on Sunday alone, said a PTDC official.
Parties held in resorts and hotels too, attracted large number of tourists. “Several resorts and hotels have booking for the next few days with guests staying back. Overall, the season has remained good but overpricing of rooms by some hotels created issues. Some hotels hiked the tariff by even 100%,” said a person involved in the hospitality industry.
A tussle between a group over a personal affair led to the murder of a youg man in the wee hours of Monday, January 1, 2024. According to the police, A. Vigneshwaran, 24, a resident of Kakiyamthoppu near Ariyankuppam was fatally attacked by a group near Providence Mall. A case has been registered, police said
The body of one of four teenagers, who went missing while swimming in the beach behind Seagulls on New Year’s eve, was found at Veerampattinam on Monday (January 1) morning. Police identified the deceased as S. Lekha, a class 10 student of Subramaniya Bharathiyar School. A search is ongoing to locate the deceased’s elder sister S. Mohana and her two other friends Naveen and Kishore who were also swept away while bathing in the sea, police said. All four were swimming when a huge tide swept them away on Sunday around noon, police said.
The Hindu Future India Club (FIC), in association with VIT-AP, Amaravati, will organise a seminar on ‘Career Opportunities in Law, Management and Sciences’ on July 31. The event is being organised in collaboration with GEMS Public School on the campus of the institution near Acharya Nagarjuna University in Guntur district.
The Central Bureau of Communication (CBC) of the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting organised a photo exhibition at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Bhawan in Guntur on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Kargil Vijay Diwas on July 26 (Friday), commemorating the valour, supreme sacrifice and victory of the soldiers in the Kargil War in 1999. The exhibition is being organised for three days.