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Ratan Tata’s sisters speak up: “Future of the Tata Trusts troubled him the most”
Sisters of the late industrialist Ratan Tata have voiced distress over the turmoil at Tata Trusts, describing last...
Yazdy Palia: Farming the Parsi Way
Farming the Parsi way CHETHALAYAM: In the wilderness, the lone Parsi farmer of the district (may be of the entire state) lives a lonely life. Enjoying the comfort of wilderness that creeps into his...
Lord Karan Bilimoria on the Sale of Cobra Beer
The following interview appeared on Livemint The UK-based wholly owned subsidiary of New York-listed Molson Coors Brewing Co., Coors Brewers Ltd, has acquired majority stake in Karan Bilimoria-owned...
Ratan Tata, India’s humble business king
From the Times Online Ratan Tata has a taste for buying British. But he has a battle on his hands to steer his latest purchase, Jaguar Land Rover, through the crisis Ratan Tata is tired but has a...
Tata introduces ‘Nano’ housing for Rs 3.9 lakh-Rs 6.7 lakh
After its revolution on wheels, the Tatas are aiming at a Nano house, which will cost anywhere between Rs 3.9 lakh and Rs 6.7 lakh. Tata Housing, a subsidiary of Tata Sons, has launched its low-cost...
Understanding Tata in the UK Business Scenario
IT is six months since we revealed that Tata, the owners of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), had asked the government to help the struggling British carmaker. Since then things have moved slowly – so slowly...
Green Rich List: Anu Aga of Thermax
Anu Aga (India) Anu Aga was born into an upper middle-class Parsi family in Mumbai. She graduated in economics and later did postgraduate studies in medical and psychiatric social work at the...
A towering icon of India stumbles, raising alarms
In this Nov. 29, 2008 file photo, people sit next to the waterfront in the backdrop of the Taj Mahal hotel, owned by the Tata group, after the completion of an operation against terrorists in...
Steel amid adversity: Tata after Mumbai
Ratan Tata was at home in south Mumbai late on November 26 when the call came. On the line was a frantic R K Krishna Kumar, head of the Tata group unit that owns the city's luxury Taj Mahal Palace...
Did Ratan Tata Pay Back a Parsi Debt to Gujarat ?
In a sort of coup d'etat Narendra Modi got the Nano Car manufacturing plant to Sanand, Gujarat. I despise Narendra Modi's politics of hate and his questionable human rights record. However I have...
Ratan Tata’s words of inspiration
Ratan Naval Tata has been called many things. Quiet. Reticent. Humble. A businessman par excellence. Tenacious. And a tiger, when pushed to the wall. As we all witnessed when it looked like the...
Freed Giant Emerges from Chaos
In an article about India's 61st Independance Day, there is mention of Ratan Tata. This has been bolstered by “reverse colonisation” as Indian entrepreneurs and businessmen began...
Tata, the headiest brew in the world
An Indian Giant Tea, cars, steel, IT... Tata, the headiest brew in the world India's extraordinary conglomerate has found unique solutions to many of its problems. But it's still unclear what will...
Ratan Tata: The 2008 TIME 100
By Simon Robinson Since Ratan Tata first suggested building a car that could sell for 100,000 Indian rupees ($2,500) four years ago, rival automakers have sniggered. "If you think about the...
An Accidental Millionaire: Tata
The words used most often to describe Ratan Tata are shy and loner. The 71-year-old chairperson of the Tata Group shuns the media spotlight. Quiet and unassuming, the Indian business baron drives...
Ratan Tata rode the tiger economy and now he drives Jaguar
"Chairman of Corporate India" By William Langley It is tempting to look at Ratan Tata, the Indian tycoon whose company last week took over Land Rover and Jaguar, as a symbol of a nation's headlong...
Indian Business Empire Eyes Global Role
A dozen years ago, many believed that India's Tata Group - the country's oldest and largest conglomerate - was a bloated behemoth that would eventually go under. Instead, it has become a powerhouse...
Boeing partners with Tata for plane parts
Airplane maker creates partnership with India's Tata to make more than $500 million in aerospace components. Boeing and Tata have formed a joint venture for $500 million in aerospace components....
Why Blame Ratan Tata for the Nano?
That is the title of a wonderful article by Govindraj Ethiraj. It is the only sensible arguement I have read amongst all the people who are gunning for Ratan Tata for creating more traffic and chaos...
Ratam Tata Awarded the Padma Vibhushan
Ratan Tata was one of the 13 people who have been conferred with the nation's second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan. It is a testament to the Tata House of Industry that successive...
How to turn a Nani into a Nano
By Bachi Karkaria Apro Ratan has allowed the masses to have an 'apri gaadi'. So we don't need Meddling Mamata's permission to continue the rah-rah, and explain why it caught everyone's imagination...
Godrej hosts Salman Rushdie, angers Muslims
An Islamic group in India is asking Muslims to boycott products of a top Indian business group if its owner does not apologise for hosting author Salman Rushdie on a brief holiday this week. Rushdie...
Tata Pulls Ford Units Into Its Orbit
LONDON — When Ratan Tata visited the home of the designer Ralph Lauren last autumn, the two auto enthusiasts spent much of the time in the garage, admiring Mr. Lauren’s car collection, including the...
Zoroastrians to convene AGM with a difference
Pune’s Zoroastrian entrepreneurs will have a reason to celebrate this weekend as the city gears up to play host to over 200 Zoroastrian businesspersons and professionals across the country and the...
Tata Pulls Ford Units Into Its Orbit
LONDON — When Ratan Tata visited the home of the designer Ralph Lauren last autumn, the two auto enthusiasts spent much of their time in the garage, admiring Mr. Lauren’s extensive car collection,...
Faces of enterprise: Ratan Tata
After celebrating his 70th birthday on Friday, Ratan Tata would in the normal course of affairs be facing mandatory retirement from the Tata Group. Two years ago, however, India's most respected and...
Ratan Tata turns 70 today
Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata turns 70 today (December 28, 2007). Among Asia's business titans, Ratan N. Tata stands out for his modesty. The chairman of the Tata Group - India's biggest...
Ratan Tata: Top 25 Powerful People of 2007
In Fortune Magazine?. and on BusinessWeek?.as one of the Top 25 most important people and the Tata Car as one of the Top 25 Trends of 2007 This is Ratan Tata's year truly Technorati tags: Tata,...
Lunch with Karan Bilimoria
Cobras eventually get their prey and that's what's keeping this successful UK brewer going despite limited luck in India and none in the US or China. "Kingfisher." Karan Bilimoria's ears perk up in...
100 years since Jamshedji Tata met Charles Perin
Chronicling the journey of Tata Steel KOLKATA: The door to a small, crowded office in New York opened. At a table covered with books sat Charles Page Perin, a geologist and metallurgist, renowned...
Distilling the Muslim World’s First 20-Year-Old Whisky
An almost 150-year-old brewery in Pakistan is preparing to bring the Muslim world's first 20-year-old single malt whisky to the market. Murree Brewery, however, can only sell to non-Muslims, who...
Denying industry speculation that Gharda Chemicals and Godrej…
Denying industry speculation that Gharda Chemicals and Godrej Industries may go for an out-of-court settlement brokered by leaders in the Parsi community, sources close to the agrochemicals major...
Youth, entrepreneurship are focus of ancient faith
The world's oldest monotheistic religion has taken steps to empower its youth and preserve the faith for the future. Zoroastrians, as they wound up their 14th North American Congress in Toronto this...
Conversation From Karachi
Talking to 80-year-old Dhanjishae H. Munderji, an occupant of the he Parsi general hospital, over a cup of tea, turned out to be quite an elucidating experience. Speaking on a host of issues, we...
Bottle your own great idea
Image copyrights DNA IndiaEven before he became the first Parsi in history to enter the British House of Lords, 45-year-old India-born Lord Karan Bilimoria was nobility of a different kind, widely...
Bottled For Business
Karan Bilimoria's story is a classic case of how to chase a dream successfully. He had only his dream and passion as his assets when he set out against all odds to turn his vision for a less gassy...
Parsis Are Australia’s most diligent workers
AT last the question on everybody's lips has been answered: The hardest working believers in Australia are are Zoroastrians. With just two religious holidays a year, the followers of the prophet...
K B Grant: Pune’s ‘Young’ Medical Architect
Pune's 'Young' Medical Architect Despite braving many odds, Dr KB Grant, Founder and Managing Trustee of Pune's Ruby Hall Clinic never dithered from his purpose of providing the latest medical...
Avesthagen initiates Parsi genome project
Avestha Gengraine Technologies (Avesthagen), a Bangalore-based integrated biotech company, has launched 'Avestagenome', a project to build a complete genetic, genealogical and medical database of...
JRD Tata: Man of steely values
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata is an easy man to write about. With his iconic status and corporate accolades, JRD the businessman could have overshadowed JRD the man and yet the book 'Forever Jeh'...
Rusi Lala writing book on 100 yrs of Tata Steel
It is a history of the makers of steel. Make that Tata Steel. RM Lala, the official biographer of JRD Tata, Beyond the Last Blue Mountain, may be pushing 80 but he is busy with his latest work, The...
The TATA Group
The Tata family has a tiny stake in Tata Sons, the holding company which owns the controlling stake in all the companies under the banner. Ratan Tata himself is said to own about one per cent stake...
Sustainable solutions for plastic problems
Karan Billimoria and Earthsoul’s replacement products for plastics claim to consume less fossil fuels and emit low greenhouse gases. At a time when the issue of global warming is attracting the...
Steeled to succeed: Ratan Tata
Steeled to succeed With his aggressive bidding for Corus, the low-profile Ratan Tata has catapulted Tata steel to the fifth-largest steel manufacturing unit in the world. It seems for this trained...
Tata – integral part of Indian life
We also make steel. This was the triumphant punch line of a happy Tata Steel television commercial not very long ago. The commercial wasn't wide of the mark. If you wake up in India, you are likely...
From Parsi Priests to Profits: The TATA Story
Like his devout Zoroastrian ancestors, Ratan Tata avoids conspicuous consumption. Yet he has guided his company through India's economic boom to revenues of more than £10bn a year and his takeover...
Corus deal: Lord Bilimoria chips in for Tatas
In a boost to Tatas' bid for Corus, UK lawmaker of Indian origin, Lord Karan Bilimoria asked shareholders of the Anglo-Dutch steel maker Corus to keep in mind the reputation of Tatas before voting...
The shy architect: Ratan Tata
Ratan Tata has transformed India's biggest company, and done it alone CASTING about for someone to run a big family firm when a successful tyrant is due to retire is usually a troublesome business....
Investing in Gujarat: Parsi Connection
It is stupid if you are not in Gujarat: Ratan Tata “It is stupid if you are not in Gujaratâ€, this is how the Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata described the advantage of investment in Gujarat. He...
India’s Tiger : Ratan Tata
Ratan Tata turned a sleepy firm into a global power by targeting the low end of the market It's not that Ratan Tata finds the rich uninteresting--after all he's one of them. No, it's more the case...
NRI Karan Billimoria felicitated
Describing him as a "role model" for the Indian community, London-based India International Foundation has felicitated Karan Billimoria, founder of Cobra Beer, for becoming the first Parsi and...