The union ministry of tourism has recognised Taj Residency, a Taj business hotel, as the 'best 5-star hotel in India' for the year 2003-04 for highest forex earnings.
Taj will manage the hotel for 10 years after its commissioning in 2009.\n
Dalbir Kaur, the sister of Sarabjit Singh who is on death row in a Pakistan prison, made a vain bid to meet Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday during his stay at a hotel in Mohali
In this interesting case filed by the petitioner against the Taj Hotels, the National Commission gave an equally interesting judgment.
The price is expected to remain around Rs 700,000 to Rs 900,000.
The sudden resignation and almost-immediate announcement of a successor came as a surprise to many.
The Indian Hotels Company has got four brands to cater to different markets.
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday morning met the staff of Taj Hotel and Hotel Trident, which had been held under siege by terrorists, during the terror attack on Mumbai in November last year."I am pleased and touched to meet you," Hillary told them.She also signed a remembrance book for 26/11 victims at Hotel Taj.
From free salons to discounted room rates, hotels are offering it all.
Security forces recovered 40 bodies in the first four floors of the six-storeyed Taj Hotel. National Security Guard sources add that four fidayeen (suicide bombers) have been killed in the assault. National Security Guard commandos and personnel of the Mumbai Police are carrying out systematical floor-to-floor cleaning up operations. Most of the hotel has been sanitised by now.
DDA exploring options, including auction and renewal of lease.
Indian Hotels buys 85% in Claridges subsidiary for Rs 680 crore.
Sea Rock Hotel, one of Mumbai's best-known landmarks since 1978, is changing hands for the second time in four years. Indian Hotels Company Ltd, owners of the Taj properties, on Friday said the company would buy the 400-room hotel located in Bandra from the Delhi-based Claridges, which had acquired the property in 2005.
"The flushing-out operations at these hotels, being undertaken jointly with National Security Guards, may be over sooner than expected were it not for our endeavour to ensure that there is no collateral damage," the sources said
The iconic Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai will be off limits not only for outsiders, but also for most of the hotel's employees during US President Barack Obama's visit.
Only 10,059 tourists have visited the state this month compared to around 90,000 in July
As Mumbai gears up to welcome its beloved Lord Ganesha once again, the Balgopal Sarvajanik Sevamandal at Sewree has decided to adopt an unusual theme for this year's Ganeshotsav. The Sarvajanik Sevamandal has used the theme of the terror attacks, which rocked Mumbai in November last year, to decorate its pandal. Replicas of Hotel Taj, Hotel Trident, photographs of the slain top cops of Mumbai and the slain personnel of the National Security Guard can be seen inside the pandal
Aamir Khan's daughter Ira Khan got married to her beau on Wednesday, January 3, 2024, at Mumbai's Taj Lands End hotel, in a registered marriage.
'Demand in India has been outstripping supply.'
'When the bombing happened in the Taj Mahal hotel in 2008, that was a very sad moment, but he really took care of the people, took care of everybody and that was when you saw some of his best moments.' 'There are some things which we will never forget. That is when the best of a person comes out.'
Mumbai's Taj Mahal hotel and Jaipur's Oberoi Raj Vilas have made it to the world's best hotels' list compiled by Conde Naste Traveller.
Indian Hotels Company reported a 29 per cent increase in net loss in the first half of this year.
Hotels are not typically equipped to handle terrorist attacks and present ideal soft targets around the world, according to experts. Even the private security guards that the hotels hire do not always have the expertise to use weapons. This is set to change now, hotel officials say.
The film's lead actors Prateik and Amy Jackson accompanied the legend.
The convicted man is called Mohammed Mushtaq Musa Tarani.
The staccato burst of gunfire at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai at 9.21 pm on Wednesday night hardly gave an inkling of the shape of things to come up in the next two to three hours.
The apex court also directed the state government to explain why there was a sudden flurry of activities in and around the Taj Mahal and the Taj Trapezium Zone and why leather industries and hotels were coming up there.
The replica is close to the one at Agra in grandeur and almost three-fourths the size of the original.
'The critical event signalling a new era for India was Dr Singh's 1991 Budget in which he quoted Victor Hugo to say that no power on earth could stop an idea whose time has come,' recalls T N Ninan.
The National Security Guard chief denied that the terrorists made any move to enter into negotiations by sending demands to the raiding commando units. "We did not received any demand from any of the terrorists," NSG Director General Jyoti Kishan Dutt said.
As reservations plunge, hotels are boosting their banqueting and restaurant business to make up for losses.
Dutt, along with about 200 'black cats' commandos, had boarded an IL-76 aircraft of the Aviation Research Centre (ARC) to fly the first batch of the counter-terrorist strike force to Mumbai soon after the western metropolis reported multiple shootouts and public killings in the night of November 26, 2008.
Star Chef Hemant Oberoi looks back on the Taj's night of terror.
The uniqueness will come from the extra comfort we will provide in our rooms, or free internet services in the hotels. Our two hotels in Goa and Srinagar have golf courses.
A multi-layer security arrangement involving five companies of paramilitary personnel, NSG commandoes and snipers have already been deployed around the Rashtrapati Bhawan. Drone cameras have also been put into service.
