The Singur controversy in West Bengal led to further questions over Tata ’ s social record, with protests by locals and political parties ( though the involvement of Mamata Banerjee's party is widely criticized as an act for political gains ) over the forced acquisition, eviction and inadequate compensation to those farmers displaced for the Tata Nano plant.

Ratan Tata subsequently embraced Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of Gujarat, who quickly made land available for the Nano project.

Current production cars that use a straight-two engine include the Tata Nano,

In March 2009, Tata Motors launched the Nano, the cheapest road hatchback ( and car ) in the world.

During the first episode of the eleventh series of Top Gear, presenter Richard Hammond compared an image of the Tata Nano to one of Pikachu stating " they've saved money on the styling ' cause they've just based it on this.

* Tata Nano

Tata Motors from India, recently announced that it too would use a Variomatic transmission in its $ 2500 Nano.

Tata Nano, the world's cheapest car.

Examples are the Smart Fortwo, Tata Nano and Toyota iQ.

The Tata Nano, the cheapest ($ 2500 ) production car in the world introduced in 2008 and built in India, also featured this layout.

Tata Motors from India, recently announced that it too would use a variomatic transmission in its Nano.

Tata Nano

* Tata Nano

Honeywell manufactures a turbocharger for the world's smallest turbocharged engine in the Tata Nano, as well as industrial equipment, 18-wheelers, pumping stations, and aircraft.

Honeywell has developed the world ’ s smallest turbo for the Tata Nano as well as for the 100-liter engine of the Caterpillar mining truck.

Tata Nano, the world's most inexpensive car

For example: smaller cars have three ( Citroën 2CV, Renault 4, some Peugeot 106s and Citroën Saxos, and the Tata Nano ).

The no-frills Tata Nano

* Tata Nano

Shown here is the Tata Nano, the world's cheapest car.

* Tata Nano EV

The Tata DOCOMO service was commercially launched in India in June 2009.

Tata continued her success by singing a duet with Mos in the album MOS & TATA, that was launched on January 23.

Tata launched the Indica in 1998, the first fully indigenous Indian passenger car.

Under Tata ownership, Jaguar Land Rover has launched new vehicles including the Range Rover Evoque.

Tata and Marcopolo have launched a low-floor city bus which is widely used by Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Lucknow, Pune, Kochin, Trivandrum and Bengaluru transport corporations.

Tata Ace, India's first indigenously developed sub-one ton mini-truck, was launched in May 2005.

In 2011, Tata Motors invensted Rs. 1000 Crore in Dharwad Plant, Karnataka with the capacity of 90, 000 units annually and launched 2 models of 0. 5T capacity as Tata Ace Zip, Magic Iris.

In response to the customer complaints, Tata Motors re-engineered the internals of the car and launched it as Indica V2 ( version 2 ), which solved most of the complaints and emerged as one of the most sought after cars in the Indian automobile industry.

Tata launched the Tata Indigo CS at the 2008 Auto Expo in New Delhi.

Tata Motors launched the Indigo Manza on 14 October 2009.

A Facelifted version of the Manza, known as The Tata Manza Elan was launched in February 7, 2011.

Tata recently launched a new variant of safari called Safari GX.

Tata Teleservices launched the Virgin Mobile Brand to target the youth segment.

Tata Teleservices, in October 2007 launched Tata Zone, an infotainment portal on Tata Docomo BREW-enabled mobile phones, in Hindi.

On 16 September 2011, S. Ramadorai launched a book written by him, titled The TCS Story ... and Beyond. The book covers the 43 years journey of Tata Consultancy Services.

Another version, called Tata Spacio was launched in 2005.

In early 2007 Tata Motors launched Spacio Gold Plus.

In January 2011 McShane came joint first with David Navara in the ' B group ' of the Tata Steel tournament, winning on tie break and qualifying, with Navara, for the 2012 ' A group ', but did not play due to work commitments.

The Tata Steel Chess Tournament, formerly called the Corus chess tournament, takes place every year, usually in January, in a small town called Wijk aan Zee, part of the larger Beverwijk in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands.

In January Radjabov competed in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee ; the field included among others world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen and world No. 2 Levon Aronian.

From January 14 through January 30, Nakamura competed in the Tata Steel Grandmaster A tournament in Wijk aan Zee among a field of world No. 1 and defending champion Magnus Carlsen, world champion and world No. 2 Viswanathan Anand, world No. 3 and reigning World Blitz champion Levon Aronian, world No. 4 and former world champion Vladimir Kramnik, world No. 7 Alexander Grischuk, former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov, reigning Russian champion Ian Nepomniachtchi, reigning Chinese champion Wang Hao, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Alexei Shirov, Anish Giri, Jan Smeets, and Erwin L ' Ami.

* On 31 January 2007 Tata Steel won their bid for Corus after offering 608 pence per share, valuing Corus at £ 6. 7 billion.

The Long Wheel Base Version called the Tata Indigo XL went on sale in January 2007.

Homi Jehangir Bhabha, FRS ( Hindi: ह ो म ी भ ा भ ा; 30 October 1909 – 24 January 1966 ) was an Indian nuclear physicist, founding director, and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.

In January 2012 he won group B of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament.

* Harikrishna wins Tata Steel Chess Tournament, The Times of India, 30 January 2012.

In January 2008 Tata Motors introduced new Indica Vista model, which features new QuadraJet branded version of this engine.

In January 2011, he tied for 3rd – 4th with Magnus Carlsen in the 73rd Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee.

In January 2012, Aronian competed in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee ; the field included world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen, defending champion Hikaru Nakamura, and former world champion Veselin Topalov, among others.

* Operation Konrad I-1 January 1945-Led by IV SS Panzer Corps from Tata.

On 30 January 2007, Tata Steel, part of India's Tata Group, purchased a 100 % stake in the Corus Group at 608 pence per share in an all cash deal, cumulatively valued at US $ 12. 04 billion.

Also on 19 December 2006, UK Watchdog the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers announced that the last date for each of Tata and CSN to announce revised offers for the Company, should they wish to do so, is 30 January 2007.