The United Nations has dedicated a solidarity tree in remembrance of victims of terrorism with a solemn ceremony that also honoured victims of the 2008 Mumbai attack, on the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the world organisation.
Tata-promoted Taj Hotels may decide to add the Nano to their line of chauffeur-driven cars used for guest transfers.
Shreekant Sambrani remembers P R S 'Biki' Oberoi, personal friend and hospitality icon, who passed into the ages this week.
The decision to auction Taj Mansigh brings to an end a six-year-old tussle between the NDMC and Tata Group, which has operated the landmark property for nearly four decades.
Offer valued at $1.86 bn comes 5 years after Bermuda chain rebuffed Indian Hotels.
Indian Hotels Company Ltd has secured New York-based Pierre Hotel on lease.
The Indian Hotels Company Ltd on Wednesday said the group has adequate insurance cover to repair and restore the damage caused to its property, The Taj Mahal Palaces and Towers in Mumbai, during the last week's terrorist siege.
It is "ironic" that extra security measures, taken after being warned of a possible terror strike, were eased just before the terrorists assaulted the landmark Taj hotel, Tata group chief Ratan Tata said.
The construction of this hotel has been deferred by four years.
Indian Hotels hardly has any other option as even domestic competitors such as ITC, the Oberoi group, The Lalit Group etc are fast catching up.
Mistry's strategy appears to be the opposite of the group's stance in the heady days of 2007
For him going into the Taj was his duty just as it was controlling angry rioters at Azad Maidan in August 2012.
The 287-room flagship hotel has been undergoing extensive renovation post the terror attacks.
The court, however, asked the civic body to grant six months "breathing time" to the company in vacating the hotel in case they lose out in the e-auction.
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Firm's board expected to meet by Thursday to take a call on the offer.
When Indian Hotels Chairman Ratan Tata told shareholders at the annual general meeting earlier this week that the hotel chain, which operates the Taj group, continues to be impacted by the slowdown, he was merely echoing what P R S Oberoi, his counterpart at the East India Hotels (EIH), had said recently.
On Tuesday, the current lot of G20 visitors toured three colonial landmarks in south Mumbai -- the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation's heritage building headquarters, the magnificent Gateway of India and the Taj Palace hotel.
The UP government said Yogi returned with investment proposals worth over Rs 5 lakh crore from Mumbai.
Amid cheer and spirited applause from the hotel staff, Tata group chairman Ratan Tata on Thursday announced that the heritage wing of Taj Mahal Palace and Towers, which bore the brunt of 26/11 terror attack, would reopen on the Independence Day.
The hospitality groups are also looking at a different and 'genuine category' of well-heeled religious tourists.
Fighter's distressing lack of thrills and sizzle reduces the exercise to an excuse for tedious amounts of Pakistan bashing, observes Sukanya Verma.
'Crores are spent on Martyrs Day and on lighting candles, but people don't respect living soldiers who are heroes.'
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Sources in the Tata group said they could not attend as they were travelling.
This palace hotel is tipped to be the grandest of all palace hotels in India.
Though the two-day SCO Council of Foreign Ministers' meeting began at the Taj Exotica Resort in Benaulim on Thursday evening with a reception hosted by Jaishankar, the main deliberations took place on Friday.
Following the horrific terror attacks in Mumbai that have left more than 100 people dead and 300 injured, Ratan Tata, chairman Tata Sons and of Indian Hotels Co Ltd -- which owns the Taj group of hotels -- has condemned the killing of innocent people.
Flowers from Bangkok in Thailand, Indonesia and Bengaluru, a nizami feast and a rose petal shower await United States President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump as she heads to Hyderabad on November 28 for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit. The US First Daughter will be accorded the royal treatment at Taj Falaknuma where she will be joining Prime Minister Narendra Modi for dinner on November 28.
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