Industry Reporter

  Chandigarh :   Chandigarh is fast emerging as a new hub of hospitality sector in India after Goa, said Puneet Dhawan, Senior Vice President, Operations, Accor India and South Asia , on Thursday at Novotel Chandigarh Tribune Chowk. “ Chandigarh being the gateway to Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir, has good stopover stays, which is helping City Beautiful in becoming the next best hospitality hub after Goa ,” said Dhawan. Talking about Accor's expansion plans, he said, “We are increasing the footprint of Novotel hotels in India . We are coming up with Novotel New Delhi City Centre, Novotel Mumbai International Airport , Novotel Goa Panjim, Novotel Bhubaneswar and Novotel Bengaluru City Centre. These will be opened by 2023. We will also be unveiling  Novotel Amritsar which is under construction.” He said that occupancy in the hotel industry is improving across India . "While occupancy was 50 per cent in August, in September the same has gone u...

    Kolkata: In a recent funding round, Ms Rimjhim Ray, Co-founder of Spotle.ai has invested in Wise Owl Learning. Rimjhim has joined their board and will be advising Wise Owl Learning primarily on partnerships, market expansion and investor strategy. Wise Owl Learning is a social impact edtech startup building adaptive, digital learning solutions for schools. Aimed at the next half billion population the startup has inked agreements with governments including Sikkim and Meghalaya to digitise school learning, student performance tracking and assessments. Rimjhim Ray is the Co-Founder, Spotle.ai , India ’s largest career platform for students and recent graduates. Speaking on her joining the Wise Owl board, she said, “The pandemic has given a push to students and schools beyond the metro cities to go online. The team at Wise Owl has the right vision and capability to serve a wide market with their integrated learning solutions. They address the learning gaps of each chil...

    Chandigarh : Hotel Novotel Chandigarh Tribune Chowk has appointed Ashish Battoo as its General Manager. Ashish comes with over 19 years of experience in working with several international and Indian brands including The Hyatt and The Oberoi Group of hotels and resorts. In his most recent assignment, Ashish as General Manager was associated with The Golkonda Hotel, Hyderabad before deciding to pursue his own venture in 2019. He holds a Degree in Hotel Management from Garden City College, Bangalore. Novotel Chandigarh Tribune Chowk, scheduled to open on 1st October 2021, is strategically located in the heart of Chandigarh, offering  proximity to government offices, shopping areas and high-end residences.  The hotel will feature 120 rooms, two food and beverage outlets, banquet halls, event rooms, and recreational facilities including a swimming pool and a fitness centre. Novotel Hotels, Suites & Resorts offer destination hotels designed as comforting ...

Mumbai: Pune-based Togethring Media Labs Private Limited has announced the launch of Togethring, a revolutionary Super App, a social entertainment and social commerce platform, where you can do everything online together. It’s an instantaneous, synchronous, real-time and collaborative socio-business platform, which requires no screen/ device sharing. It’s the first ever launch of an Indian communication Super App, that is far and beyond the offerings by the existing world majors.   Right from watching media (video/ pictures), watching games, listening to music, shopping, socialising and ordering food to book tickets, study and read together – users can do all at the same time, while chatting or video chatting, but still maintaining privacy. The App is available for Android OS and web browsers. Togethring is the world's first and industry-first unique idea embedded into one application. It's a purely Indian platform, built by Indians for Indians and the world. The Togethr...

New Delhi : The Home Textile Exporters' Welfare Association (HEWA) whole heartily thanked the Modi Government for giving patient hearing to various woes of Indian Textile exporters that were brought to the cognizance of various ministries and govt departments by HEWA. The Union Minister for Textile & Commerce, Piyush Goel and Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting, Anurag Thakur declared during a press briefing recently that Government of India has approved disbursal of a hefty amount of Rs 56,000 crore arrear to the exporters under various schemes such as MEIS, RoSL, RoSCTL and RoDTEP. The declaration is a very big relief for the entire Export Industry, which includes MEIS worth Rs 33,000 crore, RoSCTL and RoSL worth Rs 5,500 crore and few other schemes aggregating Rs 5,000 crore. An amount of Rs 12,500 crore for RoDTEP and Rs 7,000 crore for RoSCTL has been sanctioned this year, which is over and above that of Rs 56,000 crore. Vardhman Jain, Vikas Singh Chauhan...

New Delhi : Corporate Monitor the event conceivers has teamed up with JNARDDC, AL Association of India and Material Recycling Association of India to organise the 25th International Conference on Non-ferrous Metals in New Delhi on September 3rd and 4th. Sanjay Lohia, IAS, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Mines, Govt of India, will be inaugurating   the conference   in the gracious presence   of the chief's of public and private sector organisation dealing with non-ferrous minerals and metals. The event will provide an excellent platform to bring together   the Indian non-ferrous industry with the international metal industry and also provide an opportunity to share the viewpoints and discussion on the best practices, benchmarks technological advancements, innovations and opportunities of collective empowerment working to promote the non-ferrous industry, all of which would ultimately promote the concept of Atma Nirbhar Bharat.