There was virtually no incremental equity investment by Tata Sons during Mistry's first two years
Tata Sons has moved the Supreme Court against an estimated Rs 300-crore (Rs 3-billion) sales tax demand from the Maharashtra state government.
'The Tata group will need for its new leader to show the same foresight and willingness to go against conventional wisdom at times to keep the group's aspirations high and uphold the values of innovation, ethics, corporate responsibility, trust and leadership that are frequently associated with the Tata name.'
"After sinking in Rs 6,000-7,000 crore in the Nano till date, what is the result?"
Ratan Tata has invested an undisclosed amount in an entity catering to pet care.
There are seven potential buyers, ranging from the Port Talbot steelworks' management to the UK steel industry investors Liberty House
The ceremony to inaugurate the new Parliament building will begin with an early morning havan and a multi-religion prayer on Sunday followed by a formal opening in the Lok Sabha chamber by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The service will initially offer digital content from, Hotstar, Sun NXT, Eros NOW, Hungama Play via a single subscription fee of Rs 249 a month
The Budget Session of Parliament commences on January 31 and the first leg will go on till February 13.
In a historic transition, the Parliament moved into a swanky new complex on Tuesday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging MPs to forget all past bitterness and start a new chapter and the introduction of the women's reservation bill taking centre stage.
It is believed that Tata Sons was unhappy with Mistry's approach of shedding non-profit businesses, including the conglomerate's steel business in Europe, and concentrating only on cash cows
Few people know Ratan Tata as well as R K Krishna Kumar does. Widely perceived to be among the managers closest to Tata, Krishna Kumar assesses Ratan Tata, the man and business leader, in this exclusive interview to Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
Continuing his investment spree in India's hot start-ups, Ratan Tata on Friday invested in Kyazoonga.
Second Tata firm to join hands with e-commerce portal.
The idea is to create a start-up-like activity with a small business unit.
People are not just splurging on clothes, mobiles and household goods through the online route, they are also looking at cars and even houses.
Once Bhushan Steel is into its fold, Tata Steel will increase its capacity from 12.7 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) to 18.3 mtpa
The Tata Group chairman may have gone overboard in his criticism of a profession called journalism.
Sources familiar with the developments say the growing consensus in the committee set up to find a successor to chairman Ratan Tata is that an internal candidate should be the preferred option.
Highly-rated finance firms and housing finance companies are expected to benefit from the absence of Housing Development Finance Corp (HDFC) from the bond market once it merges with the HDFC Bank in early FY24. Post merger, the bond market is expected to become less crowded, which will ease fund raising conditions for other players in the field. It may perhaps also compress the spread for debt instruments floated by housing finance companies (HFCs) over 10-year government bonds, subject to demand and supply conditions.
Management buyout vehicle Excalibur Steel, Sanjeev Gupta's Liberty House metals group, India's JSW Steel Ltd and Greybull Capital have submitted separate bids
The much-awaited foray of IDBI in housing finance is to fructify shortly with Tata Finance Ltd deciding to sell its entire stake in Tata Homefinance Ltd to the financial institution for an undisclosed amount.\n\n\n\n
Tata Motors, Titan Company & Tata Steel come in at second, third & fourth slots.
Snapdeal, which has raised about $400 million since its inception, has invested about $100 million in logistics and operations to expand its presence in the $3 billion Indian eCommerce market.
Other losers included Vedanta, Tata Steel, NTPC, ONGC, L&T, M&M, Coal India, Maruti, PowerGrid, Axis Bank, ITC and HDFC, dropping up to 5.75 per cent. On the other hand, Kotak Bank, Bharti Airtel, HCL Tech, Bajaj Finance and Hero MotoCorp rose up to 0.95 per cent.
Union Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Kaushal Kishore on Tuesday said finishing touches are being given to the new Parliament building and the Lok Sabha Speaker will decide whether the forthcoming Winter Session will be held there or the existing building.
The Tata Group has close to 110 companies and Chandrasekaran plans to bring this number down to around five or six.
About time the Tata companies that are owned by the public are freed from the clutches of Tata Sons, says Sudhir Bisht.
Ahead of the board meeting that afternoon, in fact only minutes before that, then chairman Cyrus Mistry was given an opportunity to step down, it is learnt. But, Mistry declined
The Central Public Works Department, a prime construction agency of the central government, said the bullet-proof window system of the selected bidder will be sent for testing at the forensic science lab in Gujarat's Gandhinagar.
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Since the early 1970s, the Tatas have presence in the city-state.
Consumer businesses come to the rescue of large conglomerates in the midst of a meltdown in commodities.
The Tata empire turns 150 this year. R Gopalakrishnan, former director, Tata Sons Ltd, imagines a conversation among the group's founder Jamsetji, his son Dorabji, his successor, Nowroji Saklatwala, and his successor, J R D Tata.
Refusing to be drawn into a point by point clarification of Mistry's letter, the company said: "It will be beneath the dignity of Tata Sons to engage in a public spat with regard to the several unfounded allegations appearing in his leaked confidential statement."
Stating that his role is for the short term so as to ensure stability and continuity at the group, Tata asked top executives of the USD 100 billion conglomerate to act as leaders in respective markets and focus on enhancing returns to shareholders.
One thing has remained constant through the Indian economy in the last seven decades: the dominance of family-owned businesses. Krishna Kant reports.
Indian business titan Ratan Tata, already named among the world's most influential business people from India, has now made to a list of 30 most powerful in the British construction space with a ranking higher than even the UK's Minister for Housing.
The Tata Group on Tuesday released a book, titled 'To Strive and To Soar', which chronicles the company's contribution to sports excellence in India.
On Wednesday, chairman emeritus of Tata Sons Ratan said that while driving from the airport through Rajarhat, he came across beautiful buildings but it looked like a countryside under development with no signs of industrialisation.
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