The man brought in to turn around the Jaguar Land Rover unit of India's Tata Motors has resigned with immediate effect citing 'unavoidable personal circumstances'... more
Two years back you only had to hit Marine Drive, Mumbai’s seaside esplanade, to sense the stock market madness. Every hundred metres you’d whizz past a giant billboard advertising this or that company’s flotation ... more
Hillary Clinton descended on the city for the weekend and brought gridlock in her wake. For some reason, the authorities thought shutting down key traffic lights a vital anti-terrorist measure - perhaps to entrap Al Qaeda operatives in a honking morass of black and yellow cabs... more
It may be cutting costs to the bone back home in the Midlands but Jaguar Land Rover is not shy of extravagance when it needs to keep up appearances... more
The long, sweltering wait for this year's monsoon rains has brought a stream of anguished moans over email, Facebook and the like. It's more than two weeks late in the city, the latest it has been for about 20 years... more
For Marten Pieters, Vodafone's new India boss, the election battle that really mattered was still raging as the winning Congress Party and its coalition ally DMK squabbled over who would get the telecoms ministry ... more
Few places can have celebrated India's election result with the kind of frenzy I saw as I arrived in Kolkata on Sunday night. But then again, few other places have endured 32 long years of Communist Party rule. ... more
Hundreds of thousands of Indians will rush to book one of Tata Motors' £1400 Nano cars - but they must win a lottery to actually get their hands on one, the firm revealed... more
Engineering: A Chinese entrepreneur who used to be a farmer is in talks to buy the Volvo car company from Ford as the American giant battles to stem losses... more
Engineering: Tata Motors faces a debt crunch with a $3 billion loan due that will add new intensity to its bid for a UK taxpayer injection for its Jaguar-Land Rover division... more
India's Tata group may have to pump in at least $1 billion to revive the premium Jaguar and Land Rover brands it bought from Ford earlier this year... more
Engineering: Tata Motors, the owner of Jaguar and Land Rover, may be forced to sell its car loans at home in India to raise money for working capital, analysts say.... more
The news that India's industrial output fell in October for the first time in 15 years came as a nasty surprise: analysts were expecting growth in the low single digits... more
Forget the Bullingdon Club. Forget too, these troubled times. Eton College has started its own club for those keen to get on, credit crunch or not: The Stockbroking Society... more
Analysis: UK-based industrialists Lakshmi Mittal, Anil Agarwal and Lord Swraj Paul have huge projects at risk in India because of land acquisitions issues... more
When Ratan Tata's Indian steel behemoth won the £6 billion auction of Corus, it began what India's newspapers quickly began calling the Great Indian Takeaway
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Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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