Tata officers safe in Cairo, returning today

Senior Tata Steel officials who had been to trouble-torn Cairo to participate in a company conference were all safe and expected to return today, a company official said here.

Over 150 company officials, including vice-presidents AM Mishra, Varun Jha, Partho Sengupta who were in Cairo to participate in a conference, were all safe and half of them would be returning late in the day today, Sanjib Paul, vice-president (corporate communication) of Tata Steel, said.

The Indian government, he said, had sent a plane to bring them back.

"We are expecting half of our officials to be back home today and the rest by tomorrow".

The company officials had left the country in two / three groups from Mumbai, Kolkata and Jamshedpur and had reached Cairo three days ago.

Paul, who himself was to join the officials for the purpose, had returned mid-way from Zurich after he was apprised of the trouble in Cairo.