Shrimi Choudhury, Asit Ranjan Mishra And Ruchika Chitravanshi

Stories by Shrimi Choudhury, Asit Ranjan Mishra And Ruchika Chitravanshi

CBI caught in Loop-Essar tangle

CBI caught in Loop-Essar tangle

Rediff.com   30 Jun 2011

The third chargesheet was scheduled to come out by the first week of July.

Meet the man behind India's largest private sector

Meet the man behind India's largest private sector

Rediff.com   26 May 2011

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.

2G probe: CBI-ED team to visit Cyprus, Mauritius

2G probe: CBI-ED team to visit Cyprus, Mauritius

Rediff.com   27 Apr 2011

Central probe agency likely to file third chargesheet in some weeks, may name Datacom, Loop Telecom.

2G case: Firms go incommunicado

2G case: Firms go incommunicado

Rediff.com   21 Apr 2011

While DB Realty sent out an official statement early evening, Unitech did that much later.

Oberoi opens 5-star hotel in Gurgaon

Oberoi opens 5-star hotel in Gurgaon

Rediff.com   13 Apr 2011

Oberoi Hotels on Tuesday inaugurated its first luxury hotel there, right next to the Trident property, under a management contract with Orbit Resorts.

Govt mulls issue of tax-free bonds by ports

Govt mulls issue of tax-free bonds by ports

Rediff.com   8 Apr 2011

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.

Tour agencies offer uncharted destinations

Tour agencies offer uncharted destinations

Rediff.com   5 Apr 2011

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.

Disaster leaves tourism reeling in Japan

Disaster leaves tourism reeling in Japan

Rediff.com   14 Mar 2011

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.

Corporate residences give hotels competition

Corporate residences give hotels competition

Rediff.com   14 Mar 2011

Companies prefer to set up their own guest houses rather than paying huge tariffs at luxury hotels.

MGM Grand plans to open hotel in Delhi

MGM Grand plans to open hotel in Delhi

Rediff.com   8 Mar 2011

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.

Managing the news in scam season

Managing the news in scam season

Rediff.com   4 Mar 2011

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.

World Cup: Hotels to reap rich dividends

World Cup: Hotels to reap rich dividends

Rediff.com   18 Feb 2011

Travel agencies are blocking inventory with the hotels for the last minute travellers as supply is getting dried up.

'Exporters can save up to Rs 700 crore a year'

'Exporters can save up to Rs 700 crore a year'

Rediff.com   10 Feb 2011

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.

CWG hits Delhi hotels hard, room rates fall

CWG hits Delhi hotels hard, room rates fall

Rediff.com   6 Oct 2010

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.

Sponsors desert Delhi games

Sponsors desert Delhi games

Rediff.com   13 Sep 2010

The sponsorship money in the bag is a tad over a quarter of what the organisers of the games had projected.

Vishal plumps for TPG over Future

Vishal plumps for TPG over Future

Rediff.com   12 Aug 2010

R C Agarwal, promoter of beleaguered Vishal Retail, on Wednesday came out in support of the offer from Texas Pacific Group (TPG) in preference to that from Kishore Biyani's Future Group.

Collision off Mumbai not Khailijia's first blot

Collision off Mumbai not Khailijia's first blot

Rediff.com   11 Aug 2010

For the MV Khailijia 3, one of the two ships which collided last Saturday off the coast of Mumbai, the track record does not read very well. In July, it was found that the ship had developed some cracks and had to offload its cargo mid-sea.

Hospitality sector counts footfalls

Hospitality sector counts footfalls

Rediff.com   13 Jul 2010

For those who don't wish to watch their favourite game on a television in their living room, the perfect place was to head to a nearby hotel or a pub where the whole action was simulated to give a stadium-like feel with a giant screen and hordes of football fans cheering and jeering the teams.

Tourists yet to warm up to Commonwealth Games

Tourists yet to warm up to Commonwealth Games

Rediff.com   12 Jul 2010

About a month after it was thrown open for bookings, the Games Travel Office (GTO) of the Commonwealth Games does not seem to be generating much response from tourists.

Banks to tighten loan settlement norms

Banks to tighten loan settlement norms

Rediff.com   15 Jun 2010

Loan defaulters will now find it difficult to rid themselves of all their liabilities through the one-time settlement scheme.