Ratan Tata, an Indian industry legend and business icon dies aged 86

Ratan Tata, one of India’s most influential business leaders, was cremated after a state funeral in the country’s financial capital on Thursday. The veteran industrialist, former chairman of a $100 billion conglomerate Tata Group, died at a Mumbai hospital on Wednesday night at the age of 86.

India’s Home Minister Amit Shah, officials of the Tata Group and the local government, and Tata’s relatives were present at the funeral, where the Mumbai police honored him with a ceremonial gun salute. He was later cremated in an electric crematorium.

Earlier Thursday, his body was taken to Mumbai’s National Centre for the Performing Arts, where thousands of people including industrialists, state officials and some of India’s top celebrities lined up to pay their final respects to a man seen by many as an industry legend and icon.