BP selects Tata as technology vendor

Tata Consultancy Services, a unit of India's Tata Group conglomerate, said Thursday it was selected as a strategic information technology vendor for BP PLC, one of the world's biggest oil and gas companies.

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A towering icon of India stumbles, raising alarms

When Tata, India's oldest and largest conglomerate, bought the fabled Jaguar auto brand last year, the country celebrated the gleaming trophy as affirmation of its new role as a global superpower.

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Dutch arm of Tata steel to furlough 4,600 workers

The Netherlands arm of India's Tata Steel said Tuesday it has requested government support to furlough 4,600 people, around half of its Dutch workforce.

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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.

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Kolkata: There were no victors in the Singur land acquisition stand-off, Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen has said, urging political parties to sit together and find a way out for the benefit of West Bengal.

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Chairman Ratan Tata hinted as much in March as the car, dubbed the word's cheapest, launched domestically to wide acclaim and 200,000 orders.

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The situation was not that bad until the BJP was at the helm of affairs.The state got so much investment proposal that if half of those were implemented then Jharkhand too would have been counted among the developed state of India. After helping Lalu Yadav in their combined purs …

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MUMBAI, India (AP) — More than 203,000 people have bought the ultra-cheap Nano car in India yielding sales of 25 billion rupees ($512.6 million), Tata Motors said.

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MUMBAI, India – Tata Motors said it will launch its ultra-cheap Nano car in Mumbai on Monday — a vehicle meant to herald a revolution by making it possible for the world's poor to purchase their first car.

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Tata is clearly demonstrating there is a demand for a super low cost car if they must force their Indian potential customer to participate in a lottery to get the first 100, 000.

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Ratan Tata, Chairman of Tata Motors, announced the commercial launch of the eagerly awaited Tata Nano, a remarkably inexpensive car that has caught the attention of the world since its unveiling on January 10, 2008 with a price starting at $2231.

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India's tiny Tata Nano, priced at 100,000 rupees, or about $2,000 at current exchange rates, will not be sold in the United States. Cars will reach dealerships across India in April, and production for the first year is expected to reach 250,000 vehicles.

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Famous Indian painter M.F. Husain, 92, has said proceeds from his 'Rape of India' pinting exhibition will be given to billionaire Ratan Tata. Tata will then decide how to best use the donation for charitable causes.

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Indian firm Tata Motors is to build the world's cheapest car in the western state of Gujarat. Tata group chairman Ratan Tata said the Gujarat deal offered the best chance of making the car, the Nano, as quickly and cheaply as possible.

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Ratan Tata's dream of producing a small and cheap car from West Bengal took a beating thanks to the mindless politics of Mamata Banerjee. Thousands of job opportunities were lost and Bengal's industrial revival has been badly hurt.

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The Indian firm Tata Motors says it has abandoned plans to build the world's cheapest car in the eastern state of West Bengal. Company boss Ratan Tata said: "We cannot run a factory with police protection all the time."

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Indian firms control the livelihood of many Americans, as around five million of them are employed in the Indian companies in America e.g. Essar, HCL, Tata, Mahindra and Wipro have hugely generated US jobs

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Talks are due to begin shortly in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta to try to end a dispute over the building of the world's smallest car, Nano. The governor of the state is to hold negotiations with representatives of the government and the opposition.

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On Tuesday, the automaker Tata Motors said that political protests over land had compelled it to stop building the plant in eastern India for its much-awaited Nano model.

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THE peasantry were a source of disappointment to Karl Marx. Smallholders had about as much collective spirit as "a sack of potatoes", he once complained.

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Critics worry the new, super-low-cost car from India's Tata Motors—costing about $2,500—will cause more traffic and pollution by making car ownership affordable to millions more. (VIDEO)

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The French company MDI, air car creator that made the deal with Tata to sell its model in India, now plans to crack the American market. The funds from the India deal are being channeled into finishing manufacturing plans and inspiring hopes to open a New York plant.

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The majority of growth in the global automobile industry in the coming decade will come from emerging economies such as India, China and Eastern Europe. And the largest contribution to growth of auto market in these countries will be the fast-growing small car segment.

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Ford Motor Company announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its luxury brands, Jaguar and Land Rover to Tata Motors of India.

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Ford Motor Co. is selling its Jaguar and Land Rover brands to India's Tata Motors Ltd. in a deal that will net the U.S. automaker $1.7 billion — roughly a third of the price it paid for the two luxury brands.

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It is understood that a deal between Tata and Ford over the sale of two of the best known names in British car making was concluded last night after months of painstaking negotiations.

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