Sunday, July 4, 1999
Recreating the old world charm
Moving away from the present trend of making hotel rooms smaller and smaller, Ambassador Pallava, a four-star hotel in Chennai, plans to retain the old-world charm of the huge rooms in its old wing and reposition them as `Heritage Rooms'.
Taj on $32 a day
The monument of love can be visited for a song. Well, almost. The Travel Corporation of India's all inclusive tour to the Taj Mahal and back has been pegged at Rs 1,500.
Rich growing richer, poor poorer
Outgoing US Agency for International Development administrator Brian Atwood has said the industrial countries are growing "shamelessly rich" while most of the world's people are losing economic ground.
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