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Topic: JRD Tata

How Ratan Tata put Indian industry on the global map with steel, cars & tea

Ratan Tata took over reins of Tata Sons in 1991 & transformed it, expanding global footprint & diversifying into various industries, with a string of high-profile acquisitions in 2000s.

Keep pace with science and technology in other countries or India won’t develop—JRD Tata

On 15 January 1962, JRD Tata delivered a speech at the inauguration of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Maharashtra, praising Dr Homi Bhabha for his role in the establishment and development of the institute.

Why did JRD Tata’s Air India have 8,000 artistic treasures? Raza, Husain, ashtrays by Dali

The publicity hoardings Tata mounted for Air India said: “We do business in 3 languages – English, English, English.”

Nationalisation did not kill Air India, politics did. Tata’s challenge lies beyond fixing it

A great airline cannot just be a bus service, it must stand for something. Tata might want to take clues from one of its hospitality brands: The Taj.

The spirit of my great-grandfather, a shareholder of Air India, is now resurrected

By resurrecting Air India, the present dispensation has finally undone the mistake that we can attribute to Nehru or his advisors.

JRD Tata, the business baron who championed the art of giving

On J.R.D. Tata's death anniversary, remembering the life and legacy of the man who was an industrialist by profession and philanthropist at heart.

On Camera

Vijay is winning nickname war in Tamil Nadu. He’s attacking Brand Stalin with ‘uncle’ taunt

If Stalin ignores the taunt, it spreads unchecked. If he responds, he legitimises Vijay. Either way, the Tamil Nadu politics binary bends.

GST 2.0: India streamlines indirect tax regime amid Trump tariffs & what it means for consumers

Goods and Services Tax Council paves way for a broad two-slab structure of 5% and 18% with a demerit rate of 40% for super luxury and 'sin' goods.

Trump to sign executive order to rebrand Pentagon, reviving historic ‘Department of War’ name

New Delhi: US President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order Friday renaming the Department of Defence the ‘Department of War’, in...

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.