(1) Tata Motors, controlled by billionaire Ratan Tata, bought the company from Ford for £1.5bn in June 2008.
(2) Ratan Miah's farm has yielded 17 maunds (traditional baskets) of the vegetable since the beginning of May – and he says the crops sold well at market.
(3) Operated by the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ratan-600’s primary area of focus is monitoring the sun, though it has contributed to Seti’s work.
(4) In a rare interview, Ratan Kumar Sinha, the director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai, told the Guardian that his team is finalising the site for construction of the new large-scale experimental reactor, while at the same time conducting "confirmatory tests" on the design.
(5) Of course, but [Ratan-600] didn’t have a receiver that has any spectral resolution.” The receiver on the Russian radio telescope is very wide, which aids it in its primary mission of monitoring solar activity but also means that, like a terrestrial radio receiving a news station, rock’n’roll station and country station at the same time, it is difficult to discern which band is broadcasting at which frequency.
(6) Seth Shostak of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (Seti) in Mountain View, California, told the Guardian he was shocked to have learned of the discovery only now – the readings from Russian radio telescope Ratan-600, Shostak said, were taken a year ago.
(7) Ratan Tata is due to act as interim chairman for four months.
(8) However, one Tata source said this was positive news for the UK and that Ratan Tata would now commit to turning around its steel operations.
(9) They said Ratan Tata was analysing whether to go ahead with the ThyssenKrupp deal and proposals to sell Tata Steel’s speciality steel arm, which employs 2,000 people in north-east England, before announcing his plan for the business.
(10) Ratan Tata, the interim chairman who took over from Cyrus Mistry this month, is understood to be conducting a detailed review of Tata Steel UK before making a final decision.
(11) However, the permanent replacement for Mistry is almost certain to be supportive of Ratan Tata’s approach, given his influence.
(12) Last week, together with a group of CEOs from some of the world’s largest companies and civil society organisations – including Sir Richard Branson, Ratan Tata and Mary Robinson – we directly called on world leaders to show leadership and commit to reach a global goal of net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 and embed this goal in an agreement at a summit in Paris later this year.
(13) Tata's chairman, Ratan Tata , said: "We are very pleased at the prospect of Jaguar and Land Rover being a significant part of our automotive business.
(14) Ratan Tata will go through in detail and analyse.” Ratan Tata was chairman of the company for more than two decades before standing aside for Mistry in 2012.
(15) Think Michael Gove raiding Singapore's education system for ideas on toughening up exams; or even the Indian steel magnate Ratan Tata, complaining last year that his company's western workers were overfond of their leisure and blaming "a certain comfort level that comes from a country that has had good times" .
Rattan
Definition:
(n.) One of the long slender flexible stems of several species of palms of the genus Calamus, mostly East Indian, though some are African and Australian. They are exceedingly tough, and are used for walking sticks, wickerwork, chairs and seats of chairs, cords and cordage, and many other purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The punishment is carried out with thin rattan canes, with people still clothed while the strokes are delivered.
(2) Before the companies came we had a lot of natural resources, like honey, rattan, fish, shrimps and wood," he said.
(3) Associative intrusions in the thought of short-term and long-term schizophrenic, non-schizophrenic, and non-psychiatric in-patients were measured using Rattan and Chapman's multiple-choice vocabulary test.
(4) Pharmacological evidence for distinct M1 and M2 muscarinic receptors was presented in 1978 by Goyal and Rattan; in addition receptor binding studies of atropine and acetylcholine have demonstrated that muscarinic antagonists do not distinguish receptor subtypes while agonists do it (fig.