India needs 1.4 million hotel beds a night but has only 2.4 lakh, points out Rahul Pandit, MD and CEO of Ginger Hotels.
Shekhar Chakravarty has developed and patented Curvo -- world's first non-linear ropeway system.
Realtors, consultants and foreign universities vie for big share.
Many others are feared to have been trapped under the debris. Rescue work is on, as per last reports.
Chaos prevailed at Nepal's only international airport with hundreds waiting to be evacuated from the earthquake-ravaged country.
'Today, 75 per cent of sales come from residences.'
On a visit to India in 2013, writer Ved Mehta -- who passed into the ages on Sunday January 10, 2021 - gave Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel a rare glimpse into his state of mind and what he thinks of the changes he encounters in his motherland.
India should not miss the opportunity to develop high-speed railway.
The meeting was focussed on air pollution and stubble burning.
At Rs 52,610 (on-road, Mumbai), the attractive pricing, refined engine and good manoeuvrability makes the Platina 100 ES emerge as a value for money package and a worthy competitor to the offerings from Hero MotoCorp and Honda.
The sector requires proper implementation of policies, coupled with reasonable taxes and improved basic infrastructure.
The company took five years to sell the 250,000 units of the Nano.
The conversion from ownership to taxi hiring services is gaining ground.
'There is no difference morally between politicians scoring points amid the rubble and non-politicians who assume that politics and corruption necessarily had something to do with it,' says Mihir S Sharma. 'Both are twisting a tragedy to their own ends.'
India's involvement in the port development was not strictly under the international sanctions that had been imposed on Iran.
Measures that will make Indian cities more organised and liveable need to be implemented to tackle the menace of pollution.
The minister tells Subhomoy Bhattacharjee that he wants to set up a financing corporation for the road and shipping sectors, which will throw up a business opportunity of Rs 25 lakh crore!
The long-term plans for Varanasi will take time to materialise but what has changed is the mood, says Aditi Phadnis
At present, there are many vehicles that weigh close to the proposed increased weight of 600 kg.
Arvind Kejriwal's strategy to take the pollution bull by the horns needs to be applauded. And I am sure that all the imaginary problems and grievances will be addressed before the restrictions are actually implemented, says Sudhir Bisht.
If carmakers don't explore innovations to improve safety, they could be relegated to the garbage heap by new players, says Indrajit Gupta
Karan Narsu rides the quirky new Honda Cliq to find out if it's got the goods to go all the way in rural India, while also making it a viable option for the city-sleeker
'Competition makes us better. I lose a little bit of sleep because I have competition.'
This is the safest Nano Tata has ever put into production.
India is set for decent growth in 2015.
If Pasbola seemed like he was testing Rai on his high school physics, Rai on the other hand, had relocated himself to a classroom of philosophy, offering beautifully inexact answers, arrived at after deep thinking.
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The war of words that has broken out between Vikram Bakshi and McDonald's Corporation is the latest in the long list of ugly spats between Indian businessmen and their overseas collaborators.
Shifting to a PPP model could repeat the errors of the past
Drones are being sold by e-retailers like Flipkart and Snapdeal for less than Rs 40,000 apiece.
With China and Bangladesh losing their edge, textile exports from Tirupur are rising once again, turning the city into a job magnet.
In an interview to HarmonyIndia.org, the artist, who had famously said that he lived to paint and painted to live, spoke of what the 'bindu' meant to him, about his friend M F Husain and the legacy that he will leave behind.
'I've seen the craze for English education even among the poorest. But that is only for their sons. Parents feel thrilled when they see their sons going to school wearing a tie. They don't mind paying for their sons' private tuitions too.' 'But daughters are sent to municipal schools, madarsas, small schools where teachers with no teaching skills are paid Rs 2,000 or Rs 4,000. That's why more girls come to my class.' Syed Feroze Ashraf, who has sent 500-odd girls (and a few boys) -- all first generation learners, children of grave-diggers, hawkers, rickshaw-drivers, tailors and watchmen -- to college, speaks to Jyoti Punwani. A Rediff.com Special.
