Chandigarh : Perhaps for the first time in the country, an all women housing society will start construction of its colony on International Women’s Day.

This will effectively add over 7,600 rooms. This growth momentum will be driven by IHG's three brands in India - InterContinental® Hotels & Resorts, Crowne Plaza® Hotels & Resorts, and Holiday Inn® Hotels and Resorts. IHG currently has 11 hotels in India.

In the wake of the November 26 terror strike at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST), Central Railway authorities are working towards providing adequate safety measures in and around the station premises. The authorities want to install fire extinguishers and make provisions to ensure that people can exit the newly inaugurated food plaza, Re-fresh, in case of another attack.

Car lovers, rejoice! A Sunday, on the contrary, it’s going to be a visual delight for those with a passion for sports cars and speed demons. Yes, feast your eyes on Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Rolls Royces, Porsches, Lotuses, Masserattis, Bentleys, and BMWs at India’s first-ever Super Car show which took place in Mumbai . These speedsters was on display at Kala Ghoda from 10 am, after which the owners paraded them around parts of the city – from Regal cinema to Marine Drive up Walkeshwar and down Napeansea Road through Haji Ali to Siddhivinayak temple and back to Kala Ghoda via Peddar Road.

When American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr visited Mani Bhawan half a century ago, he declined to go and stay in a hotel, opting to put in the building that housed the memories and artefacts of Mohandas Gandhi, a man King Jr greatly admired.

Awestruck by the towering Qutub Minar? Now get ready to crane your neck at a mammoth Tricolour nearly as high. The 22-metre-wide, 14.6-metre-high national flag, made of specially knitted polyester, will be hoisted 63 metres above the ground at a park in Haryana’s Kaithal town. That will place the flag at almost the same height as the Qutub Minar, which stands 72 metres tall.