The facility will be available at four of Future Group's Big Bazaar outlets in Mumbai. Cleartrip will soon extend this tie-up to other Big Bazaar outlets in the city as well as other metros.
There's plenty of room for everybody. With the demand for low-cost accommodation on the rise, a whole host of hospitality firms, both foreign and local, is planning to set up budgets hotels.
ITC Hotels- The Grand Central, The Luxury Collection, in Mumbai, has recorded a 15 per cent rise in bookings for September month as compared with last year's booking of 60 per cent for the same month.
As Indians take to the roads like never before, restaurants are fanning out to the highways.
AICTE to induct 75 professors from across the country to implement programme.
Industry analysts suggest that the revision in Mumbai and Delhi could be up to 25 per cent. At destinations such as Goa and Kerala it could be as much as 30 per cent.
With the global weakening of dollar against the rupee making a dent in revenues, hotels across the country have decided to charge their domestic and international customers in rupee.
There are approximately 300 million domestic travellers each year and this number is expected to grow by 10-15 per cent every year.
Increased allocation to the higher and technical education sector would mean more funds to revamp the university education system and lay a thrust on technical education.
The Domina Hotel Group, Italy's largest hotel and resort operator, will start operations in India in the next two years.
Education institutes are using a new technique - search engine marketing - to spread awareness about their programmes and to create a niche for themselves in the students' minds.
AICTE to seek states' help to close institutes.
India has a shortage of 150,000 rooms and the government hopes this will create additional 7,000 hotel rooms for events like the Commonwealth Games, scheduled in New Delhi in 2010.
Harvard will now study the civic ills of Mumbai and Delhi. But will any good come of it?
Monsoon tourism, as it is known, has performed beyond the expectations of tour operators, garnering a 50 per cent increase in both in-bound and out-bound traffic.
The National Knowledge Commission is setting up an online network that will enable college students to access study material and connect with institutions and faculty members from around the world by the year 2008.
After Reliance Industries and the Aditya Birla Group, the Tata Group is poised to become the next big name to feast on the burgeoning food retail sector.
The room rate for the presidential suite, spread over 12,000 sq ft and with an exclusive entrance and a private elevator, is exactly double that of most other expensive suites in India.
Sahara India Pariwar, a major player in the infrastructure and housing sector, is planning to build a five-star hotel in Lucknow. The company has plans to build a hotel in each of its 217 Sahara City homes.
The Chartered Financial Analyst Institute's level I exams scheduled for December 2007, registrations for which began this September, might not be held in India.