Page 13 - Masala Lite Issue 157 January 2024

OCTOBER UNDATED

• The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Bangkok, a brand • The Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant
synonymous with luxury around the world, is group is set to open its third property in
set to open its doors at One Bangkok in Q4 2024 the Kingdom this year, this time in Hua Hin
• The University of Oxford and the
• IHG is rebranding the Grand Sukhumvit Hotel
Serum Institute of India have developed
Bangkok to the Crowne Plaza Bangkok Grand
a game-changing antimalarial vaccine,
Sukhumvit, and the extensively refurbished hotel,
and this is expected to be distributed in
with plenty of additional rooms, will open in Q4
12 African nations this year
2024
• The Women’s T20 World Cup will be held in
Bangladesh, from September to October TRENDS TO LOOK FORWARD TO

NOVEMBER • ‘Digital twins’, a digital representation of a real-world product or system, which
will help address real-world problems. Digital twins of India’s top 100 cities are
• The US Presidential Elections will be held on 5 currently under construction
November, with incumbent President Joe Biden • Alongside Electronic Vehicles (EVs), bio-fuelled cars will reduce our dependence on
seeking re-election fossil fuels, and 2024 will see it as a growing industry worldwide and especially in India
• Unified Payments Interface (UPI), an Indian instant payment system, will be
DECEMBER
adopted by over a dozen nations, including France and Singapore
• India is set to become one of the world’s largest market for EVs, with Tata Motors
• India is set to launch the Indian expecting record sales in 2024
Space Research Organisation’s
(ISRO’s) Venus Orbiter Mission • Quantum computing and mechanics will be on the rise in 2024, and India is investing
this month to study the surface heavily in the industry, including the green lighting of the National Quantum
and atmosphere of Venus, which, Mission, the creation of an Indo-US quantum coordination mechanism, and the
if successful, will mark the second Quantum Technology Lab in the Indian Institute of Science building
such mission in history to study
Venus (after NASA and the ESA)
• History repeats itself -
Billy McFarland, who was
convicted of fraud for his
non-existent Fyre Festival in
2017, which was greeted with
outrage, documentaries and
schadenfreude worldwide; is once
again relaunching the infamous
festival this month. Whether or
not it will actually exist remains
to be seen

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