Tata Nano has been constantly losing its ground. In April 2013 Tata Motors managed to sell only 948 units of the Nano as compared to the 8028 units of the Nano sold in the corresponding month, last year.
The Morgan Motors, famous for its classic, vintage style cars, is expected to come to India in 2015. Tata Motors will be distributing the Morgan cars in India.
According to a survey conducted by information and insights provider Nielsen, Aditya Birla Group, Tata Motors and LIC have emerged as the top three leading companies out of 40 India firms which Nielsen's agency chose for the year 2012 and 2013. ITC ranked four...
The Finance Ministry has cleared the investment proposal of Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia which seeks to enter India through a joint venture with Tata Group. Rs 80 crore is initial investment. The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), headed by DEA Sec...
Tata Motors has slashed the prices of its hatchbacks and sedans by up to Rs 50,000, to stimulate sagging sales. The car maker has cut prices by 29,000-50,000 rupees and raised the prices of its sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) by up to Rs 11,000. The net increase...
A Female Security Index (FSI) study by the Tata Strategic Management Group reveals that Chennai is the safest place for women followed by Bengaluru, Kolkata, Pune and Hyderabad. Capital city Delhi and the most happening metro Mumbai ranked very low. The FSI wa...
Kuala Lumpur-headquartered airline AirAsia, which is awaiting the Foreign Investment Proposal Board (FIPB) clearance, is expected to start its domestic operations in India by June 2013. The FIPB is slated to take up Air Asia’s JV proposal with the Tatas and ...
Asin, whose movies rake in box office collections that cross the Rs 100 crore mark, is all set to marry, and possibly quit movies. So who is this mystery man in Asin's life?
Lavasa Women’s Drive (LWD) is back again; this time with the intention of preventing cancer by creating awareness among women. Organized in collaboration with the Times of India in aid of the woman’s cancer initiative of Tata Memorial Hospital, LWD is supp...
Artist and biennale co-curator Bose Krishnamachari hand-painted a white Tata Nano car, transforming it into a colourful work of art, which will now be exhibited at the heritage building before it is sold off at an open auction early next month. The day-long pa...
Dividend payments of at least Rs 530 crore are lying unclaimed by with the country's top-35 blue-chip companies, including the likes of Reliance Industries, ITC and HUL and Tata Steel. The remaining 15 companies did not specifically mention the exact quantum o...
Students of Shri Ram College of Commerce have picked Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi over Rahul Gandhi and Ratan Tata to deliver a lecture on emerging business models in a global scenario. Modi, they feel, have been the man behind the success story of Guj...
Anti corruption crusader and Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal alleged that the power tariffs in Delhi were falsely inflated by the Delhi government and the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission. Kejriwal also claimed that power companies owned by Tata ...
From salt to steel, from hotels to automobiles, from clothing to jewellery and beverages; Tata Group has made huge business in and around the country. Chairman of the Group, Ratan Tata, retires today on his birthday and Cyrus Mistry gets ready to lead the Indi...
Ratan Naval Tata, chairman of the Tata group, steps down finally at the age of 75, and hands over the reigns to his successor Cyrus Mistry. Ratan Tata's retirement was a quiet affair and he thanked all his employees for their continued support. The Tata group ...
Kamal Haasan's move to release his film on DTH platform a day before its release in theatres has been strongly opposed by theatre owners in Tamil Nadu who fear viewers will stay away from movie halls. The theatre owners have warned that if Kamal's movie 'Visaw...
Kamal Haasan's move to release 'Visawaroopam' on a DTH television platform ahead of the release of the film in theatres has been opposed by the Tamil Nadu theater owners association. They say the telecast on tv would keep viewers off theaters causing them huge...
Will Laksmi Mittal's loss be Ratan Tata's gain? Considering the steel tycoon is looking at selling the non-profitable units of his ArcelorMittal steel plant in France and Tatas are looking for strategic investments in Europe, this could be Tatas' gain. However...
Four years after Tata pulled the plug on its Nano project in Singur, private cargo handler ABG Haldia Bulk Terminals too has pulled out of Haldia, West Bengal, owing to security concerns. Gurpreet Mahli, CEO of ABG, said three of its senior officials were abdu...
Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries has refuted the allegations made by Arvind Kejriwal in his press conference which he had called his third expose after Robert Vadra and Nitin Gadkari. It issues a statement. After this Kejriwal speaks specifically on Relianc...
'Congress to apni hi dukaan hai'. This is Ranjan Bhattacharya speaking to Nira Radia, the lobbyist for top Industrialists. The amazing thing, as Prashant Bhushan points out, is that Ranjan is the adopted son-in-law of BJP's former prime minister Atal Bihari Va...
Earnings Call Preview looks at what lies ahead in the coming quarter. Saurabh Mukherjea talks about Ambit Capital's market outlook. According to him, the spate of reforms will mean earnings will pick up in Q3 but Q2 will suffer. He speaks about the key sectors...
AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi is holding an interactive session with nearly 2000 students at the Kashmir University. Also joining him are corporate honchos like Ratan Tata, Kumaramangalam Birla, Deepak Parekh, Rajiv Bajaj and Ashok Reddy. A few student u...
Rahul Gandhi's 'healing touch' for the Kashmir valley has appealed to a lot of people. The who's who of the Indian industry are set to attend the event at the Kashmir University on the request of the Congress General Secretary. The University will host Ratan T...
Market Hour brings reactions from the insurance sector after the Cabinet clears bills and raises FDI in the insurance sector to 49 percent. The FDI in pension fund is also on par with insurance now. Finance Minister P Chidambaram says these reforms will influe...
In this edition of Market Hour: CCEA clears bailout for ailing State Electricity Board and a look at what other measures will help the power sector in the long term; the United Spirits and Diageo deal might be sealed soon; Onmobile's HH Haight in an exclusive ...
The Supreme Court has stayed the Calcutta High Court verdict on the Singur land allocation. The apex court has sent notices to Tata Motors seeking their response. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Bannerjee has challenged the Calcutta High Court verdict. While...
Benchmarking indices and moving averages, Nifty are going good at 14 points and 54.27, while Sensex is up 48, showing signs staying positive through the day. Tata Motors is taking it easy but there's a lot of action in pharma and select FMCG stocks
Radhika Gupta, Director, Forefront Capital and Ambareesh Baliga, Market Analyst respond to the question on investors' minds: is there a growth story in India? Baliga says reforms for economic growth, a decision on GAAR and a hike in diesel prices may improve t...
The CAG report tabled in the Parliament today threw light on three major scams. First is the ultra power project scam. Next the scam in Delhi airport expansion project. And last but not the least, is the coal block allotment scam involving an loss to the exche...
Coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal clarifies on the CAG report alleging that 175 coal blocks had been allotted to private and state-run firms without transparency and objectivity between 2005 and 2009. He finds fault with the CAG report, and said coal blocks wer...
The CAG report on coal block allocation is likely to be tabled in Parliament. Top companies like Tata Power, GSPL, Bhushan Steel and Essar are likely to be named in the report for allegedly making a windful gain of 1.86 lakh crore rupees due to no bidding of m...
Ashwani Gujral gives you his top picks in stocks. On his buying list are Maruti Suzuki, Financial Tech, M&M and on the selling list are Tata Steel and Bombay Dyeing.
Anish Damania, Hd-Isntl Eq, Emkay Global Financial Services, speaks to First Trades about the Tata Motors' domestic passenger car business, SBI's fall in stock prices and stocks to watch.
Hiren Ved, Director & CIO, Alchemy Capital, gives his views on what helped India survive the economic slowdown, if Sensex at 17000 is justified, on RIL and Wockhardt, whether the forecast is bleak for earnings in Q2, companies that have made a turnaround, top ...
Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata has said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should work toward restoring the credibility of the government and make sure that the country is on the path of growth. He has further asked the Prime Minister to break conventions and ...
Centrestage | Renault launches its strategically priced SUV Duster today. Will Duster leave the current market leaders in the SUV segment, Tata Safari and Mahindra Scorpio behind? Will this be the SUV game changer?
News Night | Big guns in both the political and corporate sectors feature in JPC's list of witnesses in the 2G scam. The question remains, will the Ministers be left out and the bureaucrats prosecuted in place of the lawmakers?
The West Bengal Government headed by Mamata Banerjee is exploring 'other' ways to end the Singur land impasse. The Government might even hold talks with the Tatas to ask them to return 400 acres of land to the farmers. Following the Calcutta High Court's act o...
A day after the Calcutta High Court declared the Singur Land Act unconstitutional and gave a verdict in favour of the Tatas, Mamata has called a meeting with her ministers to discuss Singur. The channel's sources say that she may consider going to the Supreme ...
After the Calcutta High Court passes a verdict in favour of the Tatas in the Singur land case, Mamata responds saying her committment to the farmers remains and it will be the people's choice that will prevail in a democracy.
Mamata Banerjee faces a setback with the High Court declaring as invalid an Act that she brought to acquire the land taken away from the Tatas at Singur. Listen into a lawyer describe what the HC said. The lands were acquired by Mamata Banerjee's government b...
In a major blow to the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the Calcutta High Court strikes down a state government legislation providing for return of 400 acres of land to farmers who had given their holding for Tata Motors' Nano car project at Singur ...
Mamta Banerjee gets a shock from the Kolkata High Court. The court declared the Singur land acquisition act, that was pushed through by her government, as illegal. The decision is a victory for the Tatas who had originally been given the land for the Nano fact...
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Do not expect the government to cut expenditure significantly, says Bimal Jain. To know what the other experts have to say about the Budget, watch this segment.