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Roseate Hotels & Resorts, owned by Bird Group, plans to add two hotels annually through management agreements while pursuing the development of luxury boutique properties in India and abroad, Kush Kapoor, CEO of the company, told ET. The company intends to include coworking centers at hotels in metro cities, while its properties in holiday destinations will be developed as resorts. «We are receiving organic queries from owners willing to offer their properties, and simultaneously, some owners with beautiful locations are interested in entrusting their properties to us. We are now exploring management options alongside our existing hotels,» Kapoor said. The company has recently acquired 2.6 acres of land near the upcoming Noida airport for the development of a 250-room project that will include a spacious convention center. «If everything goes well, and we get all our approvals in time, we should be able to start construction soon on the Noida hotel. We are also looking at expanding the Rishikesh resort as well,» Kapoor said.

ROME (Reuters) -An American publishing executive died after being knocked overboard in a boating accident off the Amalfi Coast in southern Italy, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) said.

BEIJING (Reuters) — China's direct economic losses from natural disasters surged to 41.18 billion yuan ($5.74 billion) in July, more than in January to June combined, driven by severe weather as two powerful typhoons hit the country in one month.

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nd edition of Durand Cup kicked off in Kokrajhar, Assam on Saturday.Union Defence minister Rajnath Singh attended the opening ceremony, which marked the grand beginning of the annual football competition for the first time in the area. The tournament was organised by the Armed Forces and supported by the Government of Assam.

Beijing, officials said Saturday, bringing the death toll from recent torrential rains in northern China to at least 30. Officials reported the deaths in Baoding, about 150 kilometres (90 miles) from Beijing, adding that 18 people were missing. Storm Doksuri, a former super typhoon that hit mainland China last Friday, has brought the most severe rains to the region since records began 140 years ago. By noon Saturday (0400 GMT), more than 600,000 of Baoding's 11.5 million residents had been evacuated from areas deemed to be at risk, officials said. The torrential rain that hit northeast China on Saturday battered the provinces bordering Russia and North Korea.

₹10 to Re 1 on August 11, 2023. Here we list out details in regard to the some of the dividend stocks: RITES Ltd: The company has declared an interim dividend of ₹3.7500. It will trade ex-dividend on August 7, 2023.

Chandak Group has entered into an agreement to redevelop a housing society spread over 3.6 acre in Mumbai’s Andheri suburb with the project envisaging a total development potential of over 460,000 sq ft. Of the total development potential, the project will provide a saleable area of over 281,000 sq ft that is estimated to have revenue potential of Rs 956 crore.

abrogation of Article 370 is that the common people of Jammu and Kashmir are living life according to their own wishes, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said on Saturday, the fourth anniversary of the scrapping of the article. The Centre on this day in 2019 had revoked Article 370, which gave special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, and bifurcated it into union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. «Pakistan-sponsored shutdowns by terrorists and separatists, due to which schools, colleges and business establishments used to remain closed for about 150 days a year, have ended,» Sinha told reporters after an event here.

Gujarat High Court has granted regular bail to ex-DGP RB Sreekumar in a case of fabricating evidence to frame people in connection with the 2002 riots, nearly two weeks after the Supreme Court allowed the bail plea of social activist Teesta Setalvad in the same case. The court of Justice Ilesh Vora on Friday gave relief to former director-general of police (DGP) Sreekumar, who is already out on interim bail, on a personal bond of Rs 25,000 and directed him to surrender his passport.

IndiGo has commenced new daily direct flights between Mumbai and Nairobi, starting August 5, 2023. Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, and largest city is 27th international and 105th overall destination in the 6E network.

BEST — Mumbai's civic transport utility — over salary hike and other demands entered the fourth day on Saturday with more than 1,000 buses staying off roads, leaving commuters hassled. Of the total 1,671 private buses of the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST), 1,077 buses remained stationed at 18 depots, its spokesperson Sunil Vaidya said. The BEST operates buses from 27 depots across the city.

Missouri plans to spend $50 million on railroad crossing improvements in response to a 2022 fatal Amtrak derailment

Pakistan, pushed its weekly inflation up by 1.30 per cent and annualised inflation up to 29.83 per cent, Geo News reported on Saturday citing The News. According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), the increase in the sensitive price indicator (SPI) was attributed to an increase in the prices of tomatoes (16.85 per cent), LPG (9.82 per cent), petrol (7.86 per cent) and diesel (7.82 per cent), chilli powder (7.58 per cent), garlic (5.71 per cent), onion (5.50 per cent), powdered milk (5.17 per cent), eggs (3.86 per cent) and broken basmati rice (2.06 per cent).

₹4.23 lakh, a report by Navbharat Times has stated. The total number of flats being offered are only 462. The 2 BHK Prime BHS flats is situated in Sector 22D along the renowned Yamuna Expressway.

Americans are worried there will be another electoral crisis in 2024 because the aftermath of 2020 continues to reverberate through the nation’s politics. Many Republicans refuse to acknowledge Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, saying they have lost faith in the electoral system. They also have doubts that 2024 will deliver a legitimate winner, while Democrats worry that Republicans will contest an outcome that doesn’t go their way.

Hair processing is a Rs 3,000-crore business in India which is not surprising at all. It’s not surprising then that hair processing is a Rs 3,000-crore business in India. Cities like New Delhi, Chennai, Elur in Andhra Pradesh, Bhagabanpur and Murshidabad in West Bengal, and Dig in Rajasthan are its major centres.Hair hub in Karnataka Apart from these cities, Bhagyanagar in Karnataka’s Koppal district is another place with a 70-year history of hair processing.

Floodwaters from Typhoon Doksuri continued to deluge farms and cities in northeast China into the weekend, with the country's disaster relief systems struggling to contain the aftermath of one of the strongest storms in years. Almost 15,000 residents were moved out of the city of Shulan in corn-growing Jilin province, where one person was dead and four others missing, according to state media. Rain has fallen continuously in Shulan since Aug.

Mrunal Thakur is set to receive the Diversity in Cinema Award at the upcoming Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM), the organisers announced Friday. The «Sita Ramam» star will be honoured with the award in recognition of «her outstanding performances across diverse roles and languages in the world of Indian cinema», according to a press release.

Union Square Park where he planned to give away video game consoles descended into mayhem, drawing a crowd estimated at several thousand young people. In addition to the riot count, the livestreamer, Kai Carlo Cenat III, was expected to be charged with unlawful assembly and, potentially, other crimes, Jeffrey Maddrey, the New York Police Department's chief of department, said at a news conference late Friday. The episode, which began shortly after 3 p.m.

communal clashes in the state's Nuh district. Vij told the media, "People climbed hills next to the temples, had lathis in their hands, and gathered at entry points, all this is not possible without a proper plan. Bullets were fire, Someone must have arranged these.