Ever since the abrupt removal of Cyrus Mistry as the Chairman of Tata Sons group, there has been a battle brewing between Tata Group and Cyrus Mistry. On July 9, a special bench of the NCLT, Mumbai, dismissed all the petitions filed by Mistry and his family-run firms alleging oppression of minority shareholders and mismanagement by the board. Watch this video on the boardroom battle between Rata Tata and  Cyrus Mistry.

On July 9, the NCLT had dismissed all petitions filed by Mistry and his family-run firms after a four-month long hearing. The 368-page court order, interestingly, included an instance where Tata Motors missed out on a major order nearly three years back.

An executive chairman does not enjoy a free hand and cannot assume that majority shareholders and the board would be at his beck and call, the NCLT order said.

With the NCLT on Monday rejecting Cyrus Mistry's allegations of lapses in governance on part of the Tata Group in dealings with Aircel, Sivasankaran has reportedly bucked up and is planning a counter-attack.

NCLT bench members B S V Prakash Kumar and V Nallasenapathy said that Mistry was ousted as chairman because the Tata Sons' Board and its majority shareholders had lost confidence in him.

In a major setback to Cyrus Mistry, the Mumbai bench of National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) dismissed his petition against Tata Group with respect to his removal as Tata Sons chairman and observed that Mistry's conduct does not augur well for smooth functioning of Tata Sons. Watch BusinessToday.In Editor Rajeev Dubey discuss the nitty-gritty surrounding the allegations levelled by Cyrus Mistry against the Tata Group.

It seems like it might be the end of the road for Tata Motors' small car Nano. The car was a brainchild of former group chairman Ratan Tata. Tata Motors produced only one unit of its Nano car model in June. The entry-level car sold only three units last month domestically and exported none. Watch BusinessToday.In video to know more about the 'world's cheapest car'.

NCLT on Monday said Cyrus Mistry's petition against his removal as Tata Sons' chairman two years ago has no merit.

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The NCLT's judgement was based on a petition filed by Cyrus Mistry challenging his dismissal as chairman of the Tata Sons. The Board of Tata Sons had abruptly removed Mistry as its chairman on October 24, 2016.

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The Mumbai bench of NCLT on Wednesday deferred its judgement on ousted Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry's petitions against the Tata Group.

Business Today is in possession of an audio conversation where former CEO of AirAsia India Mittu Chandliya is giving a presentation to his boss Tony Fernandes in the presence of lobbyist Rajender Dubey. In the conversation, Fernandes says that he is ready to get the international routes for AirAsia India through \"dirty ways\".

One of India's oldest philanthropic organisations was raided by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for the first time in a century. It's a big deal because the organisation in question is Tata Trusts, which owns two-third of the stock holding of Tata Sons, the apex company of the Tata group of companies.

The low-cost carrier is majority-owned by Tatas and Venkataramanan has around 1.5 per cent shareholding in the joint venture with AirAsia Berhad.

AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes seems to have landed himself in a soup. The Malaysia-born aviation tycoon, who wanted his Indian airline venture to fly internationally, was on Tuesday named in an FIR filed by the CBI.

At its peak in 2011-12, its sales touched 74,527 units. It has been a downward slide ever since despite repeated attempts at propping it up including giving it a full facelift with the GenX Nano replete with an automatic transmission in 2015.

Sinha replaces Anil Sardana who put in his papers as CEO in end-January citing personal reasons.