British MP demands to meet Ratan Tata over ‘bad judgement’

September 1st, 2009 KOLKATA - Tata Tea is scouting for an alternate name - and a new brand identity. Tata Group chairman Ratan N.

September 1st, 2009 KOLKATA - TATA Group chairman Ratan Tata on Tuesday told a press conference here that the failed NANO plant at Singur had cost him about 500 crore rupees, and he was willing to return the land if the State Government compensated Tata Motors. "We do not want to sit on the land.

July 17th, 2009 MUMBAI - Tata Motors Chairman Ratan Tata presented the first Tata Nanos, the world's cheapest car, to three customers at a dealership in the Prabhadevi area in central Mumbai on Friday. The keys of the three cars were delivered to Ashok Vichare, Ashish Balakrishnan and A.

July 17th, 2009 MUMBAI - A gleaming lunar silver-coloured Nano was handed over to a proud owner here Friday to mark the commercial rollout of the jellybean-shaped small car, which has been drawing global attention since the prototype was unveiled last year. Ratan Naval Tata, the chairman of the $62.5-billion Tata group who had promised to deliver what he has been calling the people's car at just Rs.100,000 ($2,500) at factory gates, himself handed over the car keys to Ashok Vichare.

June 28th, 2009 MUMBAI - Nearly 16 months after acquiring the iconic Jaguar and Land Rover brands, Tata Motors formally launched the luxury cars in India here Sunday. Tata Motors chairman Ratan Tata said initially, three Jaguar and two Land Rover models would be available in the country.

June 28th, 2009 MUMBAI - Tata Motors, one of India's top automobile manufacturers, launched its Jaguar, Land Rover brands in India on Sunday. Addressing a press conference here on the occasion, Ratan Tata, the chairman of the Tata Group, said: "It's quite a memorable day in the history and heritage of Tata Motors...JLR has been well received and well established in India (in the past), but over the years this brand has been disconnected from India." "I think, the cars will exhibit the levels of technology and levels of performance here.

June 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Tata DoCoMo, the joint venture between telecom majors Tata Teleservices and NTT DoCoMo of Japan, commercially launched GSM telephony operations in Chennai and Tamil Nadu circles Wednesday. Tata DoCoMo's pan-India service rollout will be completed this year, with entire south Indian circles going "live" in a fortnight, it said in a statement.

May 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Passenger and heavy vehicle manufacturer Tata Motors has extended the maturity deadline on a bridge finance of $1 billion raised for financing the Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) deal struck in March last year by 18 months till Dec 31 2010, the company said in a statement Thursday. This transaction was concluded amidst challenging market conditions in the global credit market and in the automotive sector.

May 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Tata group veteran Syamal Gupta has retired as chairman of Tata BP Solar after 53 years with India's largest industrial house. He will be succeeded by BP Solar's chief executive Reyad Fezzani.

May 10th, 2009 LONDON - Tata Sons Chairman Ratan Tata says he may have overstretched himself in paying 1.15 billion pounds for Jaguar Land Rover just as a recession loomed. 'If one had known there was going to be a meltdown, then yes [Tata went too far] but nobody knew,' he told the Sunday Times newspaper in an interview.

March 24th, 2009 MUMBAI - Already making waves worldwide even before its low-priced car Nano hits the Indian roads, Tata Motors is contemplating a launch of the family car for the European and US markets, according to company chairman Ratan Tata. However, Tata categorically said, there were no plans currently for entering the vast Chinese market.

March 24th, 2009 MUMBAI - Tata Motor's much awaited people's car, 'Nano' was commercially launched here on Moday with a promise to stick to the 1,00,000 rupee price tag for the base model. "We made a promise and we've kept the promise," Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata said.

March 24th, 2009 PATNA - A lawyer in Bihar has gone to court against Tata group chairman Ratan Tata for launching the Nano car ahead of the elections, alleging that the launch would 'help' Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi who provided land to the Tatas after the car project was shifted out of West Bengal. Shruti Singh, a lawyer of the Patna High Court, filed a case against Tata in the Chief Judicial Magistrate's court here Monday as, according to her, the launch could influence poll results and therefore was tantamount to violating the model code of conduct during elections.

March 23rd, 2009 MUMBAI - Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata is all set to launch the Nano, the 4-seater, 100,000-rupee price tag super-cheap car for the masses, today. Described as 'people's car' by Ratan Tata, customers can expect to own a car at a price between Rs.

February 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Tata Motors chairman Ratan Tata was named Saturday 'The Automotive Man of the Year 2009', an award sponsored by news channel NDTV Profit to honour industrialists in the auto sector. Speaking of his selection for the honour, Tata said: 'This is a tremendous boost to my morale.' 'I hope we can sustain ourselves through this difficult period and thereafter, looking back, people could say an Indian group nurtured the British brand,' he said with reference to Tata Motors' acquisition of British luxury car brands Jaguar and Land Rover.