The decks are set to be cleared for electronic hardware majors like Intel to set up units in India, after Ratan Tata led Investment Commission took up the matter with Finance Minister P Chidambaram
British Petroleum chairman Sir John Browne is likely to visit India next month to explore oil and gas opportunities in Asia's third largest economy.
Though Ratan Tata claimed to be 'happy with the progress of work at the proposed car unit in Singur', things were far from peaceful in and around Singur.
After a marathon meet (lasting over two and half hours) with Bhattacharya and state Commerce and Industry Minister Nirupam Sen, Tata and the chief minister fielded questions from the media.
What's common between Vijay Mallya, Ratan Tata and L N Mittal besides the fact that they are all India-born entrepreneurs looking to dominate global business? All three are victims of economic patriotism in foreign soil.
This was how a despondent Ratan Tata, who once said he will not pull out of Singur even at gun-point, on Friday summed up his group's "painful" decision to exit the Rs 1-lakh Nano car project from West Bengal.
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.
The Tata group's investments in setting up a global institute like the cancer hospital and the Tata Motors project would be the forums for other investments in the state, said Tata.
Tata group chief Ratan Tata has questioned allocation of spectrum based on subscriber and technology without having a defined policy.
a scarce resource. By some estimates, spectrum worth Rs 7,690 crore (Rs 76.90 billion) has been given away for ''free'' for mobile licences.
Economic reforms in India are being hampered by interventions from business pressure groups and politicians, including Left parties who support the ruling United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre, Tata group chairman Ratan Tata said.
Hero Honda is being egged on by the government's "unannounced concessions" in its 10-year vision statement, the Automotive Mission Plan, which envisages the development of low-cost vehicles.
Amar Ghosh, a real estate broker, is negotiating a deal with a Mumbai-based company for 65 acres around Singur, 40 km from Kolkata, at Rs 22.5 lakh (Rs 2.25 million) per acre.
Agencies had earlier prepared a list of about 37 industrialists, whom they considered vulnerable, but later pruned it to 25 and submitted it to the home ministry last week.
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Describing Murthy as a business icon, T V Mohandas Pai, former CFO of Infosys, said he is more than eminently suited to hold the position of Chairman Emeritus.
In CDMA, we did not have legacy carriers, a second hand market of handsets, or even people understanding the technology
Ratan Tata, chief of Tata Group, on Friday said the ambitious Rs 100,000 car will be manufactured from three-four places, including West Bengal and Uttaranchal.
A stake level of 26 per cent in a company is crucial as with this strength, a stakeholder can block any special resolution at board meetings.
Tata Motors on Thursday clarified that it has no intention to back out of the Singur deal where it plans to set up a plant to manufacture the Rs100,000 car.
Meet Arunkumar Ramanlal Gandhi. The head of the M&A activities in the Tata Group, who called up Tata to convey Tata Steel's victory.
Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata has said the company could not give any guarantee over safety of jobs as it plans will be to make the UK operations more profitable.
The board of Tata Steel, which will enter an open bidding war with Brazil's CSN for Corus on Tuesday, met in Mumbai presumably to discuss the strategy for the auction and also consider the quarterly results.
Tata group chairman Ratan Tata on Tuesday came out in support of the West Bengal government for offering shares of Haldia Petrochemicals Limited to state-owned Indian Oil Corporation -- a decision contested by HPL's principal promoter, the Chatterjee
Delhi-based tractor maker Sonalika Group and Kolkata-based Global Automobiles have already announced their decision to take on the Tatas
Even as the Tatas face problems in acquisition of land for a car manufacturing plant at Singur in West Bengal, the Orissa government has asked the group to consider setting up an automobile plant in the state.
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