Ratan Tata dies aged 86 - in pictures

Ratan Tata, credited with transforming the Tata Group into a global conglomerate, has died aged 86. AFP
Mr Tata, right, at the UK-India CEO Forum chaired by then-British prime minister David Cameron at Downing Street in 2011. AFP
Mr Tata in the backseat of a US Navy Super Hornet plane at the Aero India 2007 air show in Bengaluru. AFP
Mr Tata and Gujarat's chief minister Narendra Modi, now India's Prime Minister, at a Tata Nano factory in Gujarat in 2010. Reuters
Mr Tata and his successor as Tata chairman, Cyrus Mistry, with Mr Modi in Gandhinagar near Ahmedabad in 2014. AFP
Mr Tata and Mr Mistry, who later resigned from the group and took legal action against his former employer. AFP
Then-US vice president Joe Biden shows a picture of an Indian Air Force Boeing C-17 Globemaster III transport plane to Mr Tata in 2013. AFP
Mr Tata receives an honorary doctorate from the HSNC University in Mumbai in 2022. AFP
Mr Tata speaks to fellow industrialist Jamshed Godrej in Kolkata in 1995. AP