The manager of the Taj Mahal Palace hotel in Mumbai, Karambir Singh Kang, had no idea that a fraught conversation with his wife Niti in the early hours of November 27 last year would be the couple’s last.
Niti was barricaded with their sons Uday,...
San Diego’s unemployment rate rose to 10.5 percent in October, up from September’s revised rate of 10.4 percent, and the prior year’s October rate of 6.7 percent, according to a Nov. 20 report from the state Employment Development...
There's more to providing hotel services than sometimes meets the eye. Here are some of the more unusual behind-the-scenes hotel jobs.
Coin polishers
Rob Holsen is the official "coin washer" at San Francisco's Westin St. Francis Hotel. In 1935,...
Indiana's jobless rate inched up last month as the Indianapolis area's recovery paused amid layoffs among government and leisure industry workers, labor market reports show.October's state unemployment rate crept to 9.8 percent from September's 9.7...
Lured by government incentives worth as much as $89.5 million, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. will move its corporate headquarters to Stamford, Conn., from New York's Westchester County, Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell said Wednesday.
The...
