Two Indian steel tycoons - Ratan Tata of Tata Steel and NRI Lakshmi Mittal of global powerhouse Mittal Steel - have made it to the world's best CEOs list compiled by US stock market weekly Barron's.
Since Ratan Tata , the patriarch of India's Tata Group, decided to splash out $13.1bn early in 2007 on Anglo-Dutch Corus, he has spent a lot of time with smooth-talking Frenchman Philippe Varin , who has run Corus for five and a half years.
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.
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.
Tata group chief Ratan Tata has questioned allocation of spectrum based on subscriber and technology without having a defined policy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
