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Ratan Tata death LIVE updates: Ratan Tata became chairman of Tata Industries a decade later and in 1991 took over as the chairman of the Tata Group from his uncle, JRD, who had been in charge for more than half a century.

Ratan Tata death LIVE updates: Ratan Naval Tata, 86, the former Tata Group chairman died at Mumbai Hospital at 11.30 pm on Wednesday. The iconic industrialist, who transformed a staid Tata Group into India's largest and most influential conglomerate with a string of eye-catching deals, breathed his last at Breach Candy Hospita. A Padma Vibhushan recipient, Tata, had been in intensive care at the hospital since Monday. He was chairman of the salt to software group for more than two decades.