Tata Sons chairman Ratan Tata on Tuesday said that further investments in West Bengal would be made when there is a "feeling to satisfy that there is no hostility against us".
In October, the chairman of Tata Sons, Ratan Tata, gifted $50 million to his alma mater, the Harvard Business School, to give back to the school - in his words - a little bit of what it had given him.
United States President Barack Obama, who heads the world's richest economy, on Sunday checked out the world's cheapest car -- Nano. When the powerful US couple was introduced to Ratan Tata, who heads the $72 billion conglomerate, President Obama told First Lady Michelle that this is the person who created the $2,500 wonder car. Eyewitnesses said that Michelle immediately expressed the desire to see the car that revolutionised the auto industry.
Radia, chairperson of Vaishnavi Corporate Communications and Tata, chairman of Tata sons Limited, have been asked by the PAC to appear before it on April 5 at 11 AM and 3 PM respectively to give 'oral evidence' on the subject 'recent developments in the telecom sector including allocation of 2G and 3G spectrum'.
'Parsis are brought up with a great sense of the importance of truth and speaking your mind.'
With a focus on financial literacy for women, Millennium Mams is an 18-year-old initiative started by Kolkata-based industrialist B K Dhanuka.
Snapdeal has a number of shareholders including Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, PremjiInvest, Ratan Tata, Foxconn, Temasek and BlackRock, among others.
At the heart of the problem is Fiat's failure to bring in more models to India -- a fact the Tata Group chairman didn't forget to mention.
When the world's cheapest car was launched to global fanfare at the 2008 Delhi Auto Expo, a Singaporean journalist asked Ratan Tata whether he had considered the traffic implications once the Nano hit the roads.
Claiming that the northern state was a safer zone for industries, which did not discriminate in the name of caste or religion, and had, in fact, registered a growth rate of 9.9 per cent during 2009-10, the state chief minister called for greater participation of private players.
What strengthens this view further is that he is also the son-in-law of Pallonji Mistry, the largest single shareholder in Tata Sons, the controlling arm of the diversified Tata Group, with an 18 per cent stake.
Auto major Tata Motors on Monday said it appointed Carl-Peter Forster as the new group chief executive of the company.
In corporate or military warfare, the rules of the game are the same. An opponent could attack the General first in the hope that if he falls then the army gets demoralised.
After engaging in a war of words with industrialist Ratan Tata, Rajya Sabha member Rajeev Chandrasekhar has now given a 7-point agenda to Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal suggesting that the ministry be made "free of lobbyists and wheeler-dealers" to clean up the sector.
India's leading businessmen attended the grand banquet organised to honour US President Barack Obama at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Dubbing the debate triggered by Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar with Ratan Tata on 2G spectrum as 'futile', a Tata Group firm on Friday said his attack on a former telecom regulator was a 'cheap gimmick'.
Seeking to address the issue of challenges to inclusive growth in emerging economies, Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata on Wednesday said that at the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) people still do not have access to products and services, as they are still slightly beyond their reach.
Business Standard got in touch with CEOs and corporate promoters around the countr. Is India Inc shocked? Surprised at the tone and tenor of the letters? Most shied away from a comment, some were diplomatic and only a few were ready for plainspeak.
Shareholders feel Cyrus Mistry is slowly slipping into Ratan Tata's shoes
low-cost plans dovetail perfectly with the company's decision to make affordable new models.
The Indian information technology (IT) industry will need to move up the value chain to tackle competition from countries like China, Philippines and Vietnam, said Ratan Tata. The Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) chairman was addressing the 15th annual general meeting (AGM) of the company.
Claiming that the Central Bureau of Investigation had "overlooked" the role of Ratan Tata and corporate lobbyist Niira Radia in the 2G spectrum allocation scam, an application has been moved in a Delhi Court seeking further investigation into the matter.
In 2006-07, TCS had employed 7,000 people in the eastern states.
Hatoyama is the first Japanese PM to visit India in 25 years.
The state government has been lobbying the central government for continuation of these incentives.
Tata Sons cuts retirement age of non-executive directors from 75 years to 70.
A committee would consider candidates inside and outside the conglomerate to succeed Ratan Tata.
'In today's economically integrated world, economic relationships constitute the bedrock on which social, cultural and political relationships are built,' the minister tells the US-India Business Council in Washington, DC.
The Supreme Court on Friday said it will hold final hearing on a day-to-day basis from April 19 on Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata's plea to bar online portals and electronic media from airing his phone conversation with corporate lobbyist Niira Radia tapped by the Income Tax Department.
In the largest gift from an international donor in Harvard Business School's 102-year-old history, Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata Group, announced a $50 million gift to fund a new academic and residential building on the HBS campus in Boston.
Tata Tea, part of the Ratan Tata-led business conglomerate, announced a preliminary agreement with global beverage major PepsiCo for exploring a joint venture in the non-carbonated beverage business.
The award, announced by Canada India Foundation on Tuesday, carries $225,000 and citation.
Few angels have seen exits; till that happens, they won't be rushing to invest again.
India's two big car manufacturers, Maruti and Tata, hinted that they plan to manufacture hybrids in the coming future.
Indian Hotels hardly has any other option as even domestic competitors such as ITC, the Oberoi group, The Lalit Group etc are fast catching up.
Indian Premier League (IPL) has a rather surprising request for fans -- stay in hotels other than Taj Hotels run by top corporate house Tata, saying even the teams are not staying there. Arguably the most controversial cricket administrator IPL commissioner Lalit Modi, said in a post on micro-blogging social networking website Twitter that IPL is "not using Taj Hotels in any city."
Mody, 92, held important positions in Tata group and led Tata Steel till he retired in the early 1990s.
Second Tata firm to join hands with e-commerce portal.
Ratan Tata's Tata Steel has been ranked 90th, while mortgage lender HDFC cornered the 92nd position in the world's 100 most sustainable companies list, Forbes said attributing this to the Toronto-based Corporate Knights.
The Indian information technology industry will need to move up the value chain to tackle competition from countries like China, Philippines and Vietnam, said Ratan Tata.
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