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Louvre buys Sarovar, in first Chinese deal in Indian hotels' space | dnaindia.com

France-based Louvre Hotels Group (LHG) has acquired Indian hospitality chain Sarovar Hotels pipping NYSE- listed global hospitality major Wyndham Hotel Group (WHG) following a month-long battle. DNA Money had first reported about Louvre looking to acquire Sarovar Hotels on October 11, 2016, followed by another story about Wyndham getting back in the game for Sarovar on November 21, 2016. Sarovar has 73 hotels' portfolio, majority of which are management contracts. Louvre is owned by Jin Jiang International, one of China's leading travel and tourism conglomerates.

Mumbai's Taj hotel picks up pieces | AFP via YAHOO

The general manager of Mumbai's Taj Mahal Palace and Tower hotel, Karambir Singh Kang, still works at the place where his wife and two children were killed. Neeti Kang, 40, Uday, 12, and five-year-old Samar were among the 31 people who died at the luxury seafront hotel after Islamist militants stormed the building on November 26 last year and began shooting. Kang, 41, who has worked for the Indian Hotels Co. Ltd that owns the Taj for 19 years, confronts his past every day when he crosses the polished marble floor of the hotel lobby to his office, near the memorial to those who died.