Samar Srivastava

As chairman of the Tata Trusts, he now finds himself at the centre of the group's biggest leadership change since Cyrus Mistry's ouster

For four decades Ikea's model was in offering its customers not just a shop, but almost a day out. People set aside a Saturday, drove to a vast blue-and-yellow shed on the edge of the city, wandered through a maze of mocked-up living rooms and tidy kitchens, ate a plate of meatballs, and left with a trolley of flat-packed furniture. That formula travelled seamlessly from Sweden to North America and on to China, and it arrived in India intact in 2018, when Ikea's first store opened in Hyderabad across more than 400,000 square feet, built for families to spend an entire day in.

Central Bank rejects Tata Group's holding company's application to surrender its certificate of registration; keeps it in upper-layer NBFC

By turning large upfront payments into manageable monthly installments, zero-percent EMIs have reshaped how consumers think about affordability

Board backs N Chandrasekaran despite Noel Tata's opposition, and moves the holding company towards a public listing

The fight over Chandrasekaran's reappointment is only one part of a wider struggle over ownership, governance and future structure

They have unveiled an alternative vision for the future—one that seeks to preserve the group's century-old ownership structure and avoid a stock market listing that the board has set in motion

The RBI is expected to raise the repo rate for the first time since February 2023, with markets watching its outlook on inflation, growth and further rate increases

Micro-lenders in India are emerging from one of their toughest downturns in years. But the recovery reveals that the relentless growth is being forced to rethink its borrowers and its economics

Mallika Srinivasan and Lakshmi Venu, who are at the centre of TVS family dispute, are challenging the claim that the division of family assets has been settled