The US is currently Earth's most powerful country and a certain latitude of understanding -- a world view -- is popularly expected from its leadership. From a country identified with freedom, constitution, debate, democracy and the likes of Abraham Lincoln even as it had the most powerful military around, the US, following Trump's actions, seemed repositioned as militarily powerful with other qualities secondary, observes Shyam G Menon.
The British government has been under pressure to help a sale process go through after Tata said it would sell its British business.
Ratan was extremely ethical in his dealings, which he brought to bear on the business house which he helmed, remembers Sailesh Kottary.
'What's sad today is that there are so many people who cannot find work, not because the country is devoid of that opportunity, but because we are not doing enough in the country.'
'When the bombing happened in the Taj Mahal hotel in 2008, that was a very sad moment, but he really took care of the people, took care of everybody and that was when you saw some of his best moments.' 'There are some things which we will never forget. That is when the best of a person comes out.'
The Anglo-Dutch merger was meant to revive the ailing British Steel which had incurred a net loss of 81 million in the year ended March 31, 1999
Some feel that Tata Steel has put these assets on the block only after exhausting all the options.
Indian family-run business houses have in recent years seen ugly public spats between owners over control. But metals-to-ports conglomerate Essar's Ruia family seems to be an exception. Three generations of the Ruia family - founder brother Shashi and Ravi Ruia, their children and grandchildren - continue to live under one roof and jointly run the business empire.
'It was a war-like situation, but instead of enemy fire, we fought against the vagaries of nature,' says Major Seeta Shelke.
'I'm 79 + now, and I've been doing all this since my late 20s.' 'Sometimes the ideological war extends to the home as well.' 'Many nights I couldn't sleep when someone close to me uttered the smallest insult.' 'It would cause me a lot of pain. But one has to be honest to oneself.'
Management buyout vehicle Excalibur Steel, Sanjeev Gupta's Liberty House metals group, India's JSW Steel Ltd and Greybull Capital have submitted separate bids
President Xi Jinping on Monday vowed to build China's military into a "Great Wall of steel" to protect its sovereignty and developmental interests as he sought a bigger role for Beijing in global affairs, days after brokering a Saudi Arabia-Iran detente, regarded as a diplomatic coup.
Images from the athletics action at Stade de France, Saint-Denis, Paris, on Friday.
But the Tata Group is an established and growing brand in Australia, affirm top local managers.
UK's largest union Unite warned Tata against ducking its promises and conducting a 'fire sale' of its specialty steel business
As Ae Watan Mere Watan and Swatantra Veer Savarkar release this week, Utkarsh Mishra takes us down history and reminds us about India's freedom struggle.
Banksy fans are flocking to the Welsh town of Port Talbot to see a new mural by the elusive British street artist depicting a child covered in snow that is in fact ash from a burning bin. Now metal barriers and traffic wardens have been brought in to manage crowds around the new Bansky artwork that was painted on a Welsh garage.
A consortium of Indian and Abu Dhabi investors, which is believed to include steel czar Lakshmi Mittal, is planning to bid for UK property company British Land, says a media report.
It is not clear at this stage whether Tata will take up the government's offer of taking a 25 per cent stake in the business.
Heeramandi, a passion project that took off after years in development and planning, mirrors Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film-making's finest and frustrating features, observes Sukanya Verma.
A rare 18th century decorated gun made in India for Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan, and valued at around GBP 2 million, has been barred from export to allow time for a UK-based institution to acquire it for the public study of a "fraught period" in India-UK history.
Tata group company Tata Steel will issue equity shares on a rights and preferential basis to raise about Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion) to repay 'bridge loans' raised for funding acquisition of British steel behemoth Corus. The issue will close on December 21, a spokesperson said, adding that the record date for the issue was November 7.
Like corporations all round the world and of all nationalities, Indian businesses understand the urgent need to acquire global scale and efficiencies to succeed.
Players were in tears after Rodri's emphatic second-half goal against Inter Milan in the final secured a 1-0 victory
Tata Steel's $12-billion takeover of Britain's largest steel maker Corus Group Plc in early 2007 not only catapulted the Indian conglomerate to the global corporate centre-stage, but also gave other domestic companies the self-belief of taking on multinationals much bigger in size.
Ruias to sell Essar Steel stake to strategic partners.
Deal makes company world's second largest producer of soda ash.
'We need to find out whether any structural element has got fatigue.' 'We want to increase the lifespan of the bridge.'
Tata Steel would make a bid for buying the Indian iron ore assets of one of Britain's largest independent steel trading companies Stemcor.
A British merchant ship, which set sail from Calcutta (Kolkata) in December 1940 but was sunk by a German U-boat before she could reach home with her cargo of 70 lakh ounces of silver (1 ounce = 28.3495231 gm) among other things, has been discovered.
Clark's predecessor Sajid Javid had pledged to help Tata Steel UK with a proposed package of measures and new British PM Theresa May is reportedly supportive of the plan
Several Hollywood films had their premieres in the past few days. Here's a look at some of th emost stylish arrivals.
In its first foray into the US West Coast, NRI industrialist Swraj Paul's Caparo Group on Friday opened a $40 million steel plant.
The company said it had extended financial support to the UK business.
Arguably the 'most talked about' rescue mission in recent years, the story of a Thai youth soccer team and their coach trapped in the Tham Luang Cave, prompting a global rescue effort, gripped the world.
'There are a number of unique challenges elite tennis players have to face. The game is gladiatorial in nature with nowhere for players to hide and no team mate or manager to help deflect the pressure.'
Reliance Industries, the Tata group, Bharti Airtel and Aditya Birla are among Indian conglomerates that have hedged their revenue and costs linked to the US dollar, giving them financial cover as the rupee fell past 80 against the greenback on Tuesday.
Tata Steel Vice-Chairman B Muthuraman has asked a member of British Parliament not to be "over-critical" about the company's strategy in dealing with problems in Corus.
In 2007, Essar had said it would set up a $1.8-bn unit in Minnesota, but scaled down from a full-scale taconite steel mill project to pellet plant after the 2008 financial crisis
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