Indian appetite for adventure tourism is increasing consistently, with the segment seeing an over 10 per cent year on year increase in travellers.
The pension reforms Bill is likely be passed with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) deciding to support it in the parliamentary standing committee. The Bill has been pending since 2005. Its revised version was tabled in the Budget session of Parliament this year.
A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) official said the agency would soon call Malaysian businessman T Ananda Krishnan for questioning. Maxis is part of the business empire of Krishnan, who is expected to soon fly to New Delhi.
The third chargesheet was scheduled to come out by the first week of July.
Gautam Adani, the 48-year-old chairman of the Ahmedabad-based company was declared the seventh-richest Indian by Forbes in September 2010 and the second-richest by Business Standard in December 2010.
Central probe agency likely to file third chargesheet in some weeks, may name Datacom, Loop Telecom.
While DB Realty sent out an official statement early evening, Unitech did that much later.
Oberoi Hotels on Tuesday inaugurated its first luxury hotel there, right next to the Trident property, under a management contract with Orbit Resorts.
Two districts where most of the cash and jewellery has been recovered are Madurai and Tiruchirapalli, both bastions of the rulng DMK.
Among the various ways being considered by the central government to raise Rs 5,000 crore (Rs 50 billion) from tax-free bonds for shipping ports, one is to allow major ports to themselves issue these.
With Indian travellers getting more eager to venture out in the uncharted territory, travel agencies are offering attractive discounts on several such unheard-of destinations.
Indians have been travelling to the "land of the rising sun" in large numbers, especially for business, thanks to the close ties with automobile and engineering companies.
Companies prefer to set up their own guest houses rather than paying huge tariffs at luxury hotels.
This will be MGM's first destination in India, and it expects to be ready by early 2014. There won't be any casino here, though.
Creating a new image for the client concerned, while making him disappear from the public domain for some time, are among the strategies that often work.
Travel agencies are blocking inventory with the hotels for the last minute travellers as supply is getting dried up.
Today, 45 per cent of India's trade is trans-shipped over other regional ports such as Colombo, even as India's container cargo is growing by 15 per cent every year. The development of a trans-shipment hub within the country would definitely help India's trade and accelerate its growth.
Even as hackers attacked more than 5,500 websites in the first six months this year, security agencies are groping in the dark to find a way to tackle the problem.
Hotels in the Capital are in for some tough times, with the Commonwealth Games not fetching many customers and the government releasing a large part of the inventory that it had earlier reserved for the event.
The sponsorship money in the bag is a tad over a quarter of what the organisers of the games had projected.
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