A passenger travelling in a cycle rickshaw can now have the luxury of sipping a Coke or Pepsi apart from listening to music via a headphone while he travels.
Get ready for a different rail travel experience. A special rail coach with a living room, two bathrooms, two toilets and a private kitchen. The catch: You will be allowed to take your own chefs on the trip.
The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) is brimming with ideas and concrete plans for the new year and ahead
With the lateral placements (for students with at least a year's experience) underway and final placement (for freshers) season round the corner, institutes expect this year's placements to be one of the best ever.
With more than 60 per cent of the country's 109 crore population concentrated in rural areas, companies do not want to miss the growing business opportunity.
A day after the finance ministry cut import duties on a variety of product categories, top manufacturers of zinc -- Hindustan Zinc and Binani Zinc -- slashed prices.
The sugar industry is now awaiting a subsidy from the government to make exports viable, as prices have fallen in the international market.
The first stage of the 27 percent OBC quota is set to be implemented from academic year 2007-08.
The hospitality groups are also looking at a different and 'genuine category' of well-heeled religious tourists.
Tourism boards have turned innovative in radio advertising when it comes to promoting their destinations among Indian travellers.
The recent tie-up between ITC and Japanese trading company Marubeni would focus on China, Vietnam and the Philippines apart from Japanese and the domestic market.
Discounted schemes withdrawn on days when load is heavy; Trai not happy.
The university is expected to match the standards of institutions like Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford.
Deans from two international law schools -- Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago and Deakin School of Business and Law, Australia -- recently visited India.
Having dominated the summer placement scene at IIMs, companies like McKinsey, Boston Consultancy Group and UBS showed up for the first time for placements at IIT Bombay.
MoU for three-star hotels on the cards.
Analysts say hotel room rates in India are among the highest in the Asia Pacific, rising by 20 per cent annually.
India is set to add 10,000 budget hotel rooms in the next two years in response to the burgeoning demand for low-cost accommodation across the country.
Oil marketing companies together would have to make investments of a few hundred crores of rupees to create the facilities that would enable them to blend ethanol in petrol.
As many as 40 international universities have sought land from the Maharashtra government in the Mumbai-Pune-Nashik belt for the purpose.
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