A 28-year-old software engineer, Baby, packed her bags, grabbed her 10-month-old daughter, and along with her husband, caught the first flight from Hyderabad to Mumbai on Thursday afternoon. Her purpose was to give her daughter a “darshan of Ratan Tata Sir,” the man she saw as a reflection of her own father, whom she lost…
MUMBAI: In one of the last cabinet meetings before the announcement of the assembly elections, deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, who holds the finance portfolio, was present for only around 10 minutes and left immediately after tribute was paid to Ratan Tata Thursday. Thirty-eight decisions – many of them having major financial implications – were…
NEW DELHI: The late Ratan Tata once took to art to raise funds for a good cause and the painting has a pride of place at the lobby of Mumbai’s iconic Taj Mahal Palace. The year was 2006 and paintings that were to be a collaborative effort between a famous Indian personality from the field…
Hubballi: Industrialist and philanthropist Ratan Tata, who died on Wednesday, had visited Hubballi in Jan 2013 to participate in the development dialogue of Deshpande Foundation and debut TiECON of The Indus Entrepreneurs, Hubballi chapter.Rajab Ali, director, Deshpande Skillings, Hubballi, recalled that following Tata’s visit, Tata Trust had supported the development of skills among 5,000 poor…
Air India paid tribute to Ratan Tata. The Tata group of Airlines, which includes Air India, Air India Express, and Vistara, made in-flight announcements on Thursday to pay tribute to Ratan Tata, the Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons, who passed away Wednesday night at a Mumbai hospital at the age of 86. The announcement was…
NEW DELHI: Ratan Tata shut down his 1,500-crore Nano project from West Bengal in 2008 and shifted it to Gujarat. But this move had more factors at its play: 400 acres of farm land, Mamata’s protests and Modi‘s SMS.The opposition Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, led by Mamata Banerjee, had led widespread protests after the…
Ratan Tata‘s decision to buy Jaguar and Land Rover can be summed up between two sentences: “You do not know anything” to “you are doing us a big favour.”The late industrialist bought Jaguar and Land Rover in 2008 nine years after the Ford officials insulted Tata’s Indica in 1998, who were there to sell off…
The digital world joined the nation in mourning the passing of Ratan Tata, the iconic industrialist and Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons. He was 86. In a touching tribute, various websites owned by the Tata Group, including those of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Croma, and Tata Steel, changed their homepages into solemn memorials.These websites, typically…
Tata Sons chairman emeritus Ratan Naval Tata died at a Mumbai hospital on Wednesday night, October 9, at the age of 86 years. As chairman for more than two decades, he took Tata Group global, clinching eye-catching deals, including iconic British assets like steelmaker Corus, luxury carmaker Jaguar Land Rover, the world’s second-largest tea company…
Mukesh Ambani described Tata as “one of India’s most illustrious and kind-hearted sons.” Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani and his wife Nita Ambani paid their last respects to Ratan Tata in Mumbai today. Ratan Tata, the Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons, passed away due to age-related ailments on Wednesday night.The corporate community was struck with…
