Tata Sons chairman Ratan Tata on Tuesday said the group was ready to return the land at Singur in West Bengal if the state government compensated it for investments made there.

Five years after his promise to build a people's car, Ratan Tata will hand over the key of his dream project - the Nano - to its first customer on Friday.

The country's top automaker, Tata Motors, on Sunday launched in India its marquee car brands Jaguar and Land Rover, which it had acquired from the US car maker Ford.

The British government has said that it is ready to guarantee loans to Indian conglomerate Tata group-owned Jaguar Land Rover, for which it is talking with European banks on the behalf of the cash-strapped carmaker.

They may not be as big as their global peers in terms of revenue and profits, but Indian companies are top of the lot in terms of their reputation, as per a study that has ranked Tatas as more reputed than the likes of Google, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, GE and Walt Disney.