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Jaguar Land Rover secures �175 million funding

11.08.09

Jaguar Land Rover received a �175 million cash injection of private funding and the carmaker�s Indian owners Tata said it is no longer seeking state support ... more

Brothers who are kicking up a stink in row over gas

21.07.09

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

The sky-high terror of a flight without life jackets

14.07.09

The terror finally took hold of my companion when the air hostess started demonstrating how to wrap your hands around your seat cushion in the event of crashing into the sea... more

Mistry - the Phantom of the White Horse, Surrey

16.06.09

There is no Indian billionaire more elusive than Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry, known as the "Phantom of Bombay House" for his behind-the-scenes presence at the headquarters of Tata Group. ... more

The Jaguar boss shows touching faith in our leaders

12.05.09

So Ratan Tata has finally come out against the British Government�s reluctance to stump up funds to support Jaguar Land Rover ... more

Sell-offs, �sabotage� and snubs

28.04.09

The market is going down: it�s going to be a hung parliament,� said Russell Pinto, the garrulous Goan who owns the business centre where I work on Saturday. He had just sold off all his shares ... more

Nano buyers face long wait for new Tata car

23.03.09

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

Farewell to Tata's globaliser

17.02.09

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�1bn bailout on cards for Jaguar and Land Rover

18.12.08

Engineering: The Government has admitted it is seriously considering a �1 billion bailout of Jaguar-Land Rover as the global car industry teeters towards collapse... more

A tsunami that few expected

16.12.08

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

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08.10.08

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So just how hot is this great �33bn Indian takeaway?

29.08.08

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 ... more

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