Bloomberg Business travellers and tourists are avoiding New Delhi, as air pollution in India’s capital reached record levels, travel agents said. Booking inquiries for hotels and flights to New Delhi have slumped since the Hindu festival of Diwali on October 27, said Sharat Dhall, chief operating officer of the business-to-consumer segment at Yatra Online Inc. Bursting of firecrackers as part ...

Bloomberg Tata Power Co. Ltd., in collaboration with the Rockefeller Foundation, plans to develop 10,000 microgrids in India to boost access to affordable and reliable electricity to homes and enterprises across the nation’s vast rural areas. Tata Power will set up a new unit, TP Renewable Microgrid Ltd., to build the microgrids through 2026 that will serve nearly 5 million ...

Bloomberg Brexit may have sown chaos in UK politics, but at least one private equity firm is enthusiastic about the potential it creates for deals. “We see Brexit as a huge opportunity for deals and are getting very excited about investments in the UK,” said Dan Zilberman, head of Europe at Warburg Pincus. “However, a deal bonanza is contingent on ...