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NDMC official said.            licence fee from this public  licence fees dues.

              The  licensing  rights  have  property  to  boost  revenue  In January  last year, NDMC
              been granted for a period  and financial potential of the  auctioned the Asian Hotel for
        t     of 33 years. The property  civic  body  corporation  that  a  monthly  licence  fee  of

              at  37,  Shaheed  Bhagat  will help in financing public  Rs45.5  lakh,  the  highest  at
        h     Singh Marg has about 85  projects.                             that  time.  However,  the

              rooms, 3 banquet halls and  The Connaught is one of the  bidder  later  refused  to  take
        g     one swimming pool and is  several  hotels  that  NDMC  the  property  necessitating  a

              situated  adjacent  to  proposed  to  re-auction,  re-auction.
        i     Connaught Place.               after they were sealed by in
        s     NMDC proposes to use the  2015 due to non-receipt of



        n     Orion's Hotel in orbit may


        I
        s     become operational in 4 years


              If  even  the  most  exclusive  hotels  on  polar  skies,  Aurora  Station  is  being
        s     earth are too mundane and humdrum  developed  by  Orion  Span  and  the
              for you, there's an option coming – in  company's team of space industry veterans,
        e     outer  space.  For  a  couple  million  who according to a company release have
              dollars, you might be able to check that  over 140 years of human space experience.
        n                                                   The price of a ticket for a 12-day stay will be

                                                            $9.5  million  per  person,  which  comes  to
        i                                                   $791,666 per night.

        s                                                   Orion Span has yet to contract with a launch
                                                            provider to put future visitors - and for that
        u                                                   matter the station itself - into orbit. In the

                                                            past, private citizens have been sent to the
        B     off your bucket list in the next four years.  International Space Station on $20 million to
                                                            $40 million round-trip tickets, but according
        a     Orion  Span,  a  Houston-based  space         to  Frank  Bunger,  the  company's  founder
                                                            and chief executive, Orion Span's trips are
              tech  startup,  has  announced  plans  to
              launch the first-ever luxury space hotel      less expensive because of declining launch
        i                                                   prices. Prospective clients can put down an
              into earth's orbit by 2021. The company       $80,000  refundable  deposit  right  now  for
        d     says the so-called Aurora Station will be     future stays.
              ready  to  accommodate  visitors  the
        n     following year.                               The exclusive hotel will host six people at a
                                                            time – including two crew members. Space
              The  first-ever  luxury  space  hotel  was
        I                                                   travellers will enjoy a completely authentic,
              introduced today during the Space 2.0
                                                            once-in-a-lifetime  astronaut  experience
              Summit  in  San  Jose,  California  last
                                                            with  extraordinary  adventure  during  their
              week.  Named  after  the  light
                                                            12-day journey, the company says.
              phenomenon that illuminates the earth's
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