Conde Nast Traveler US declared Vivanta by Taj as 3rd best hotel in the world in its 16th Annual Business Travel Awards 2013. Equation Research asked Conde´ Nast Traveller readers identified as business travellers to rate hotels, hotel brands, and airlines as excellent, very good, good, fair, or poor on a variety of criteria. Final [...]

ZAP an automotive company incorporated in California and headquartered in Santa Rosa, California announced that Jonway Auto, its subsidiary in Zhejiang, China is launching a small EV sedan, Sparkee for city commuters in China. Focusing on the growing demands for electric vehicles (EVs) in China driven by Chinese government policies, ZAP and Jonway Auto developed [...]

Procter & Gamble (P&G) and US Agency for International Development (USAID) have kicked off a Global Development Alliance (GDA) to improve health in Myanmar. The first liter, which marks the launch of the partnership, was delivered at a community in North Okkalapa Township, Yangon. Over the next two years, USAID and P&G intend to make [...]

The Seoul Metropolitan Government takes on an ambitious global project, asking global citizens to submit 5-minutes-or-less video clips about Seoul. This creative city branding project resulted in a movie featuring people’s diverse, honest, and truthful perceptions of Seoul. The producer of Old Boy, Director Park Chan-wook is back with a new project titled, “Bitter, Sweet, [...]

Kerala Tourism in India has introduced a new scheme – Online Video Quiz on Ayurveda. This 30 days web based campaign intends to share the knowledge of ayurveda with travellers and the general public. The questions are designed to impart a basic knowledge of Ayurveda. One question will be uploaded every day and the participants [...]

The Delhi Government under a new political party – Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) – today directed the Anti-Corruption Branch of the state government to register a report against the chairperson of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), Mukesh Ambani, along with others. Ambani – who is the elder son of businessman Dhirubhai Ambani – is said to [...]

Lagori Maitri Returns is starting Feb. 3, Monday to Saturday at 9pm. Produced by Endemol India, Lagori is the journey of Dhanashree and her four friends who are an integral part of her life all through school and college. But life takes its course and the four friends are separated due to circumstances and lose [...]

The crash tests of some of India’s popular and important small cars have shown a high-risk of life threatening injuries in road crashes. All the cars selected by the non-profit organisation Global NCAP for testing in a frontal impact at 64km/h received zero-star adult protection ratings. The models tested included India’s best-selling car, the Suzuki-Maruti [...]

By Rakesh Raman Meet Rahul Gandhi – the son of Sonia Gandhi, the son of Rajiv Gandhi, the grandson of Indira Gandhi, and the great grandson of Jawahar Lal Nehru. This is the only identity that Rahul Gandhi carries. And now with this identity, he is willy-nilly trying to become the Prime Minister of India [...]

India’s performance continues to be poor in all the aspects that determine quality of democracy. And there is no attempt to make fundamental changes that are required for democratic reforms. By Rakesh Raman To discuss the defects in the Indian democracy, RMN News Service of RMN Company started a three-part Defective Democracy editorial series. This [...]

The Ford Focus continues to be the best-selling vehicle nameplate in the world, based on Ford’s analysis of the just-released and latest Polk global vehicle registration data through the third quarter of 2013, reveals Ford Motor Company. Led by strong growth in China, Focus global registrations from January through September 2013 grew to 856,587, a [...]

Spirituality is nothing but knowing the meaning of your own existence in this world. You can practice spirituality only by talking to yourself – by repeatedly querying yourself till your own self gets satisfied. By Rakesh Raman Spirituality has different meanings for different people. If you want to practice spirituality, don’t get confused by the [...]