In an open letter to the people of West Bengal, Ratan Tata said the citizens should decide whether they wanted education and jobs in the industrial and hi-tech sectors or 'want to stay as they are.' The letter said, 'The people of West Bengal, particularly the younger citizens, will need to express their views and aspirations as to what they would like to see West Bengal become in the years ahead.'
Tata has 6.13 million followers on Twitter and has tweeted only 119 times since he joined the microblogging platform in April 2011
Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines (SIA), which recently received a no-objection certificate from the ministry of civil aviation to start a full-service airline (Tata-SIA Airlines), are in the process of securing an import licence for 20 Airbus A320 aircraft.
The parent firm and promoter firm Panatone Finvest have pledged its 10.53 per cent stake, or 30 million shares, of Tata Communications. On Tuesday's closing price of Rs 442.30, the value of the stake would be Rs 1,326.90 crore (Rs 13.26 billion). The promoters hold 76.24 per cent stake in the company.
Tata Sons Chairman Ratan Tata will inaugurate a two-day national summit on Corporate Social Responsibility in Chennai beginning from June 14.
In the broader market, the BSE Smallcap and BSE Midcap index gained 0.1% and 0.4%, respectively
Regulator wants price to be in line with Tata Tele valuation.
Demand for steel and its prices have declined of late due to the global economic downturn. Globally, steel prices have almost halved from the peak of $1,200 per tonne earlier this year.
Ratan Tata has invested an undisclosed amount in startup research platform Tracxn.
A committee suggested that CSR expenditure be made tax deductible, in order to incentivise spending by companies. It also said that CSR should not be used as a means of resource-gap funding for government schemes.
Tata Sons chairman Ratan Tata has been given honorary fellowship of the London School of Economics and Political Science for his contribution to the global industry.
Vistara CEO Phee Teik Yeoh discusses the airline's expansion plans and challenges with Alnoor Peermohamed.
Alan Rosling, executive director, Tata Sons Limited, said on Monday in New York that it will be a sad day for the Tatas if the project to manufacture Nano, the company's Rs 1-lakh small car that has generated worldwide interest, cannot succeed in Singur, West Bengal.
The Tata group on Wednesday said it is not holding any talks for a joint venture with Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer.
The Tatas will continue its association with Advinus Therapeutics, the drug discovery start-up company based in Bangalore, and is committed to further invest in the company, said R Gopalakrishnan, chairman of Advinus and executive director, Tata Sons
Tata Housing to take up around 13 projects for constructing homes for the old.
A high-level three-member committee is formed to grow awareness about fraudulent job offers.
Making a strong case for approval of their proposed airline JV, Tatas and Singapore Airlines have said that the venture would create significant job opportunities in India and would boost the country's image as an international investment destination.
This is the largest single dose of equity infusion into the joint venture since its launch in January 2015.
In spite of the Orient snub, Tatas are still negotiating with them for the hotel takeover as well as scouting other US cities for luxury hotels.
As many as 237 formally-approved zones are pending final notification, while another 81 fresh proposals are waiting to be approved.
He underlined the need for industrial parks and white-collared environment
An important political milestone during the year was the return of the Left Front to power with an over two-thirds majority.
Indian airlines currently are required to have a minimum fleet of five aircraft and five years of operational experience for starting international services.
The credit goes to a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Sons - the Computational Research Laboratories (CRL). The main people behind the super achievement are N Seetha Rama Krishna (Project Manager), Sunil Sherlekar (Head, Embedded Innovation) and Ashwin Nanda (who heads CRL) besides, of course, Ratan Tata himself and CRL Chairman S Ramadorai, who is also the CEO & MD of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).
R Gopalakrishnan says his book is not a 30-day guide to solve management problems. He says, after the analysis is done, gut instinct should take over as intuition will be a key differentiator for excellence in the future.
Tatas have joined hands with state refiner Indian Oil and exploration firm Oil India Ltd to consider bidding for acquiring Caspian Energy Group LLP's (CEG) interest in an Azerbaijan oil field.Tata Petrodyne Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Sons, has joined the IOC-OIL combine to make a bid to buy CEG's 51 per cent stake in the Shivran Oil Operating Company that runs the Kyurovdag oil field in Azerbaijan, industry sources said.
'Younger people have a very strong sense of what is wrong, and what is right, along with the opportunity to call out this kind of behaviour through mechanisms like social media.'
The award will be presented in Mumbai on September 23 during Frost & Sullivan's annual Growth, Innovation and Leadership Executive Congress, the global consulting firm said in a statement.
As many as 52 Indian companies raised money from external sources in October, of which $719.52 million was raised through automatic route for which no approval is required from the Reserve Bank of India or the government.
While the Investor of the Year award went to Tata Sons, the Business Partnership of the Year went to DLF Laing O Rourke, the Innovation of the year was HRS Process Systems and Benoy was the New Market Entrant of the Year.
Tata Sons chairman Ratan N Tata has expressed the fear that the current political uncertainty will make India stumble
Business tycoon Ratan Tata feels that it is better to give 'equal opportunities' to all and create a level playing field instead of extending reservation benefits in the private sector.
The company, which is a leading player in the Indian wearables market, is backed by angel investors like Shriram Nene and his wife and Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit Nene and WhatApp's Neeraj Arora
Plans over $1 bn equity sale to fund group buyouts.
These start-ups include high-growth companies such as Ola, Paytm, Lenskart, UrbanClap and Urban Ladder. Nearly half of these have gone on to raise follow-on funding, a key measure of success for start-ups. A few have become unicorns, the term for start-ups valued at $1 billion or more.
Tata Motors, however, will not be able to meet this small demand and keep the Nano alive from October next year, when safety regulations for existing car models kick in.
Ford Motor Co on Wednesday said it expects the sale of its two European marques Jaguar and Land Rover, in which India's Tata Motors has evinced interest, to be through either by this year-end or early next year.
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