The Oberoi Spa by Banyan Tree has been ranked 14th best in the world and 2nd best in Asia.
'there is absolutely no question that the Hinduism of the mob-lynchers, the people who have actually gone and killed others because of what they are eating or how they are worshipping or the faith they belong to or what they're doing professionally, those are, to my mind, not Hindus at all.' 'Hinduism needs to be reclaimed for the Hindus who are not bigots.'
Here's the second batch in our special five-part series on the most popular Rediff stories from last year.
'...and a bagful of ill-mannered, threatening, creditors.'
In an exclusive chat with the readers of Rediff.com, on Tuesday, March 11, Yashovardhan Birla, chairman of the Yash Birla Group discusses his deep belief in spirituality and his faith in true love.
The success of Gujarat has today put it in a place where it can negotiate and navigate international relations of direct economic consequence to it without being held back by the timidity in New Delhi, says Shashi Shekhar.
Your sibling will thank you for these, says Ashish Narsale.
The opinion of a Junior Associate Economist employed with Moody's Analytics has been splashed all across implying it as the opinion of Moody's Analytics.
The film's complete lack of individuality or snap makes it a boring, banal, blah and bleak experience.
Teenagers should be taught the importance of money.
A guide for freshers who will be taking the Union Public Service Commission exam in 2011.
Refrain from using colloquial terms.
1997 Booker winner Arundhati Roy's The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness didn't make it to the Booker short list. Perhaps if the Booker jury had sampled Re:Reader -- a powerful companion to Roy's second novel -- they would have discovered it full of surprises.
'It is not that he has not committed any mistakes; he has.' 'But people were willing to forgive you if you were honest.'
If you hoard a metal like copper, you will be taking it away from its genuine industrial users. So in the end people hoard gold, whenever there is crisis of confidence on the paper currency.
In her book, Make Love Not Scars, anti-acid attack champ Ria Sharma shares stories of the unbreakable spirit of acid attack survivors.
'I do not think that we are showing Hindu humanity and humaneness in the process of the National Register of Citizens.'
In a bizarre case, a foul-mouthed parrot may provide key evidence in the murder trial of a woman accused of killing her husband in the United States.
It is clear that the world desperately needs a globalisation model that will work for all and not just some, says Sunita Narain.
Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal, who won five major titles last year, has been voted as the third best Badminton Player of the Year 2010 by readers of an international magazine in a recent poll.
According to FN, Hong Kong's Severn Road stands out to be the most expensive street in the world.
P Rajendran looks back on the 11 plus years he worked with Arthur J Pais, the India Abroad and Rediff.com editor, who passed into the ages on January 8.
A brief rundown of the finest single-player gaming experiences created by man.
Mad Men star, Christina Hendricks has been named the sexiest woman alive by men's magazine Esquire.
'There is no audience anymore for my graphic novels. Few people seem interested in what I find interesting,' Sarnath Banerjee tells Uttaran Das Gupta.
We invited readers to share stories of how they met their spouses and interesting anecdotes about their wedding day. Here's Vidhyashankar B's account of how he courted Bhavani.
National air-carrier Air India has been ranked as the 'Most Trusted Brand' in the aviation sector in the country by the Economic Times Brand Equity Survey 2010.
Modi won the online readers' poll conducted by Time magazine for Person of the Year 2016, the second time he emerged winner of the reader's choice poll.
Thanks to the World Wide Web, it is easy to detect plagiarism, as a former editor of a leading Delhi newspaper learnt to his cost a few years ago.
As the country paid tributes to the 1965 war heroes on Friday, a special comic book chronicling the life, valour and sacrifice of 21 awardees of the Param Vir Chakra, the nation's highest military decoration, was released.
Angelina Jolie is giving the readers of Vanity Fair magazine a sexy treat by appearing in a raunchy photo spread in the upcoming issue of the magazine.
What investing can you do with just Rs 100? Well, you can become a crorepati, says Vatsal Ramaiya
Soha Ali Khan's look at her self in her debut book, The Perils Of Being Moderately Famous, may seem indulgent but is not, says Manavi Kapur.
Here are some of those lucky celebrities who were invited to watch the Ladies Singles Finals.
'1998-1999 was the only year in the last quarter century that India had net-negative foreign investment.' 'Foreign money ran away from India that year because capital is a coward and does not like uncertainty of the sort produced by such casual treatment of a destructive technology,' says Aakar Patel.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has won the online reader's poll for TIME magazine's Person of the Year 2016, beating out other world leaders like US President-elect Donald Trump, incumbent US leader Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Rajdeep Sardesai's 2014: The Election That Changed India, will make him a ton of money, says Shreekant Sambrani, but admits he is more interested in knowing whether the book lives up to its title.
Analysts see HCL's Rs 1,780 crore deal with Reader's Digest and another half-a-dozen big deals signed in the past three months by Indian IT firms, encompassing both global and domestic markets, as evidence that the outsourcing story continues to progress as the best option for companies to cut costs in the current difficult economic environment.
'Till today, we don't know what PM Modi discussed with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, but we have been told that the relations have been reset.' 'We have no evidence from China to show that anything has changed, even though India had made several gestures in preparation for Wuhan,' says Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
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