Month: January 2020

Ritz-Carlton, Bangalore is a 277-room, 5 star luxury hotel which will offer 7 food and beverage restaurant options, extensive meeting and flexible events space. Bangalore’s new hotel the Ritz-Carlton will also house the Ritz-Carlton Club, a private floor accessible only by elevator key. The opening is scheduled to open by this month end, October 31st.

Nitesh Estates Limited has built and will manage India’s first Ritz-Carlton on Bangalore’s, Residency Road – centrally located in the heart of the Central Business District. The 500,000 sq. ft. property stands on a 3-acre L-shaped plot.

Hugo Montanari, an experienced international hotelier, was appointed earlier on as Director of Operations of Ritz-Carlton, Bangalore.

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. LLC, of Chevy Chase, Md., currently operates 81 hotels in the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Carribean. The Ritz-Carlton is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the U.S. headquartered Mariott International Inc.

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Nisha Desai Biswal was unanimously confirmed by the U.S.Senate, as Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia.

This makes Nisha Biswal the first South Asian American to hold that diplomatic position. She is the first Indian-American to hold a top diplomatic position in the bureau, which overseas US foreign policy and relations with India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives and Bhutan.

She was earlier assistant administrator for Asia at the U.S.Agency for International Development (USAID).

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Archana Sardana, a home maker became India’s first civilan woman BASE jumper, officially one of the worlds riskiest extreme sports that involves jumping off Buildings, Antennae, Spans and Earth with a small parachute.

Born in Jammu the adventure seeking, 40 year, wife of a naval officer and mother of 2 school-going children has several firsts to her credit.

Archana Sardana has completed 290 jumps and has a ‘C’ licence from the ‘United States Parachute Association’. She is a ‘Demonstration Skydiver’ and is the first Indian woman to fly the Indian Tricolour in US skies.

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Spice Mobility launched the first 2 AndroidLand stores in India. The two exclusively branded AndroidLand retail experience stores are located in Koramangala, Bangalore and The Great India Place Mall in Noida.

These first-of-its kind multi-location stores will offer Android experiences created for its customers and will showcase a range of Android devices, services and accessories. A wide variety of interactive live demo units that customers can play with and experience the Android platforms are readily available in these dedicated AndroidLand stores.

Spice Mobility, a leading Mobile Technology Retailer in India has a chain of 650 plus stores across India. To these retail locations, two additional AndroidLand retail outlets have been added, the first of many more planned across India.

Tata Motors Limited launched its first factory fitted compressed natural gas (CNG) passenger car in Ahmedabad – the Nano ‘eMax’. Tuesday – October 08th, 2013.

The new bio-fuel product, can run on gasoline as well as CNG. It comes equipped with a 32-litre CNG tank and has a claim of 36km per Kg fuel efficiency.

This is the first of the 5 brands in the CNG eMax series to be rolled out by Tata Motors. Indigo and Indica are likely to be the subsequent ones in the plan.

The first International Men’s Right Conference was held on October 19th, 2013 at the University of Greenwich, London, U.K.

The Conference was organised by Martial Justice, an organisation seeking gender neutral laws from the Indian Government.

Nalini Ambady, the first Indian-American professor to teach in the Psychology Department at the prestigious Stanford University, California, USA.

Tarla Dalal – India’s first celebrated chef and cook book author. Her first publication ‘The Treasures of Vegetarian Cooking’ was published in 1974. This was the beginning of her enormous contribution to expanding the culinary horizons of her compatriots.

Milestones: (1) Tarla Dalal has a legacy of over 17,000 recipes created by her (2)Penned over 100 cookery books which have sold over 3 million copies (3) Popular television show ‘Cook it up with Tarla Dalal’. (4) Conferred Padma Shri in 2007.

Tarla Dalal passed away at the age 77 at her residence in south Mumbai on Wednesday, November 06th, 2013.

Democrats and Republicans in Congress joined to-gether for the first-ever celebration of Diwali on Capitol Hill, Washington D.C.  A historic Diwali moment – Festival of Lights. November 03rd, 2013.

Arjun Singh Atwal is the first Indian professional golfer, born in India, to become a member, and later win a tournament on the U.S.based PGA Tour.