Taj Hotels

It's the Taj.

It's the Taj Hotel.

Oh, all right, the Taj Hotel.

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Yeah, I've used it many times.

I've stayed at Taj Hotels many times.

I don't know who hasn't, but I have.

Yeah.

Boiche Hospitality.

And then back to where it all started from.

Initially declined the offer to become CEO, CEO of Taj Hotels in 2013.

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And, um, you know, did the whole work in a couple of different restaurants, couple of different hotels.

Worked for the Taj group, which is a very big group in India.

Yeah, yeah.

Worked for the Four Seasons for a bit.

Yeah.

Right.

So she was able to bring some pieces together, and now it doesn't feel like, you know, an Indian restaurant with, like, a Taj Mahal.

It's just done very elegantly.

The findings indicate moderate price and rental growth in the segment during H1-2026.

Taj expands Lucknow presence with opening of 181-key Taj Palace Indian Hotels Company, IHCL, the Tata Group-owned hospitality company, has opened the 51-key Taj Palace in Lucknow, marking the launch of its second Taj Hotel in the Uttar Pradesh capital.

The hotel was inaugurated by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday.

IHCL said the opening reflects Lucknow's growing importance as an economic and tourism centre, supported by infrastructure development, investment and rising visitor activity.

This would ensure that Muslim-dominated parts of the Raj in the northwest and northeast would have significant independence from a Hindu majority legislature in New Delhi.

After returning to Bombay in mid-January, Jinnah learned that Rati was seriously ill and visited her daily at the Taj Hotel, where she had moved to live on her own.

She died there on the 20th of February, 1929, her 29th birthday.

At her funeral two days later, Jinnah broke down in tears as her body was lowered into her grave.

What does hospitality mean to you, and is there anyone, it could be a person in your life, it could be a brand, that you think has truly mastered it?

I think that someone who really, really has mastered it is Taj Hotels.

Um, they just have a really great way of making you feel important.

And I was gonna say them when you asked me that question, but I was like, "I should probably focus on boutique." Taj, from the second you get there, you know, they make you feel really important, and I believe that that's what ho- again, hospitality is meant to do.

NABFID Managing Director Rajkiran Rai G. also said India needs to nearly double its annual infrastructure investment to around INR forty lakh crore to support its long-term growth ambitions and move towards a USD thirty trillion economy.

Taj Lands End faces additional INR five point five one crore property tax penalty claim from BMC Indian Hotels Company Limited, IHCL, which owns the Taj brand, has received an additional penalty claim of INR five point five one crore from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, BMC, over outstanding property taxes for Taj Lands End in Mumbai.

The latest claim has taken the total penalty demanded by the civic body to more than INR one hundred three point zero eight crore.

IHCL has disputed the penalty, stating that there have been no violations and that its property tax payments were made in accordance with court orders.

The drive that Haksar brought in during the '70s is starting to dissipate, and the problem in the hotels division, the clash of cultures continues.

He hires a senior executive from the Taj Group.

He brings in a bunch of his own people from there, and that doesn't go down well with the existing employees at ITC Hotels.

And that executive has a showdown with the general manager of the Maurya in the lobby, right?