Cyrus Mistry

2022 - 9 - 5

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Cyrus Mistry's last rites to be held today at 11 am | Mint (Livemint)

The last rites of Cyrus Mistry, former chairman of Tata Sons who was killed in a car crash, will be performed in Mumbai today i.e. on 6 September.

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Cyrus Mistry crash: Speed, driver fatigue possible factors; accident ... (The Indian Express)

Sources said initial reports from the site in Maharashtra's Palghar district seem to suggest that factors behind the accident include “driver fatigue” and ...

An independent survey released in January 2019 had recorded about 26,896 people having died in India due to the non-use of seat belts during the year 2017. Not wearing seatbelts results in the passengers being thrown frontwards when the car comes to a sudden halt resulting in injuries and fatalities. The car is also equipped with a “pre-safe” feature, whereby the front seat belts can be electrically pretensioned in hazardous situations. Whether the passengers in the rear were wearing seat-belts isn’t known. Speaking to [The Indian Express](https://indianexpress.com), one of the experts engaged in the exercise said that the stretch in question did not appear to have a system to enforce speed restriction, which it should have had. “Currently, it (the site) is not a designated black spot.

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Cyrus Mistry's last rites updates: Funeral underway at Worli ... (Business Today)

Former Chairman of Tata Sons, Cyrus Pallonji Mistry, will be cremated at 11am today. The business tycoon died in a road accident on Sunday near Mumbai.

10:20 am: The company said that Mistry was known for his transparency and integrity in his business dealings. I resolve to always wear my seat belt even when in the rear seat of the car. 10:55 am: Jehangir Pandole, who lost his life along with Cyrus Mistry was the former director at the London office of KPMG’s GSG from 2014-19. 10:31 am: Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said that the Ahmedabad-Mumbai highway, where the fatal car crash took place, is very dangerous. Her husband Darius Pandole was also in the car. Mistry and Pandole who were at the rear seat did not have their seat belts on, while Darius and Anahita who were in the front seats, had their seat belts on.

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Cyrus Mistry's car was at 130-140 kmph, above 80 kmph maximum ... (ET Now)

Mumbai: A preliminary police investigation in the accident that killed former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry and his friend Jehangir Pandole on the ...

“The impact was so huge that the radiator of the vehicle was not only completely smashed, but it got pushed at least two to three feet inside,” an official said. To determine the exact speed of the car at the time of the accident, manufacturer [Mercedes Benz](/topic/mercedes-benz)will be consulted. [Tata Sons](/topic/tata-sons)chairman [Cyrus Mistry](/topic/cyrus-mistry)and his friend Jehangir Pandole on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway at Charoti in Palghar district on Sunday states over-speeding and an error of judgment as the reasons.

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Cyrus Mistry death: Autopsy reveals multiple fractures, injury to vital ... (India Today)

The deaths of Cyrus Mistry and his friend Jehangir Pandole were caused by "severe head trauma and multiple external and internal injuries to vital organs", ...

Experts will also carry out a detailed study of the car and site, and injury analysis. When the car goes from 100 to zero, the body suffers a major jolt,” explained an expert. According to doctors from JJ hospital, these kinds of injuries are suffered when there is a major jolt to the body, like when the car goes from 100 to zero.

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Business Tycoon Cyrus Mistry, Former Chairman Of Tata Sons, Dies ... (Forbes)

Less than three months after the death of billionaire Pallonji Mistry in June at the age of 93, his younger son Cyrus Mistry, 54, former chairman of Tata ...

[Anand Mahindra](https://www.forbes.com/profile/anand-mahindra/?sh=138e287d74d0) said in a [tweet](https://twitter.com/anandmahindra/status/1566390024933093376) that he had “got to know Cyrus well during his all-too brief tenure as the head of the House of Tata. Until his death, patriarch Pallonji Mistry, who had a net worth of $15 billion, held an 18.4% stake in the sprawling conglomerate, and Cyrus and his older brother Shapoor are the likely inheritors of that prized holding. But in March 2021, the Supreme Court ruled that the dismissal was fair and set aside a National Company Law Appellate Tribunal order of 2019 to reinstate Cyrus Mistry as executive chairman. I was convinced that he was destined for greatness.” Metals and mining tycoon [Anil Agarwal](https://www.forbes.com/profile/anil-agarwal/) tweeted that “corporate India lost a promising son” while RPG Group chairman [Harsh Goenka](https://www.forbes.com/profile/harsh-goenka/?sh=11fb14198ffd) tweeted that “he was a friend, a gentleman, a man of substance. His passing away is a big loss to the world of commerce and industry.” Mistry and another person died on the spot while the other two suffered serious injuries after the car crashed into a divider in Palghar district in the western state of Maharashtra.

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Cyrus Mistry, Heir to One of India's Oldest Fortunes, Dies at 54 (Bloomberg)

The news is the latest blow for the Mistry family, whose patriarch Pallonji Mistry -- Cyrus's father -- died in June at the age of 93. Their Shapoorji Pallonji ...

The car Mistry was in hit a divider on a bridge in Palghar at about 2:30 p.m. Sunday, local police confirmed. Cyrus Mistry, scion of one of India’s most illustrious business families and who also formerly headed the nation’s biggest business group, died in a road accident near Mumbai.

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Cyrus Mistry, billionaire ex-chairman of Tata Sons, dies in India car ... (The Guardian)

Politicians and business leaders react with shock to 54-year-old's death on bridge in Maharashtra state.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), in which Tata Sons owns a majority stake, said it was mourning its former chairman’s untimely death. “He was a warm, friendly and congenial person who built a strong relationship with the TCS family during his time as the chairman of the company,” it said in a statement. He challenged the board’s decision, but India’s top court upheld his dismissal. If life had other plans for him, so be it, but life itself should not have been snatched away from him.” The car in which Mistry was travelling had rammed into a divider and he died at the scene, a senior Mumbai police official said. [Tata](https://www.theguardian.com/business/tata) Sons, the holding company of the $300bn salt-to-software Tata conglomerate, for five years until he was removed by the board in October 2016.

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Tata Group ex-chairman Cyrus Mistry dies in road accident (The Star Online)

NEW DELHI: Indian tycoon Cyrus Mistry, who served as the chairman of India's corporate giant Tata Sons, between 2012 and 2016, died in a road accident on ...

Indian industry has lost one of its shining stars whose contributions to India's economic progress will always be remembered," Indian Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said. "Deeply anguished and shocked by the sudden passing away of Cyrus Mistry. Mistry was the youngest of two sons of late billionaire Pallonji Mistry, whose family-owned construction giant Shapoorji Pallonji Group is one of India's leading corporate houses.

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Former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry dies in road accident ... (The Edge Markets MY)

Cyrus Mistry, the 54-year-old former chairman of Indian conglomerate Tata Sons, died in a road accident near financial capital Mumbai on Sunday, ...

Mistry was the sixth chairman of Tata Group, a conglomerate started over 150 years ago, and the second not named Tata. Mistry's grandfather first bought shares in Tata Sons in the 1930s. Mistry was ousted as chairman of Tata Sons, the holding company of the US$300 billion (RM1.35 trillion) salt-to-software Tata conglomerate, in a boardroom coup in 2016, sparking a long-drawn-out legal tussle on which India's top court eventually ruled in Tata Group's favour.

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Former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry dies in car crash (Aljazeera.com)

Mistry, 54, who died on Sunday, was sacked from Tata Sons, the holding company of the $300b conglomerate, in 2016.

Its landmark projects include the Reserve Bank of India and the Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai and the blue-and-gold Al Alam palace for the Sultan of Oman. Mistry’s grandfather first bought shares in Tata Sons in the 1930s. Mistry was the sixth chairman of the Tata group, a conglomerate started more than 150 years ago, and the second not named Tata.

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Former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry dies in car accident (CNN)

Cyrus Mistry, the Indian scion of one of the country's most prominent empires, died in a road accident on a highway near Mumbai on Sunday, according to ...

"One of the finest gentlemen I have known, he was one of the best business minds of his generation. He was called away too soon," he My deepest condolences and prayers for his family in these difficult times." [head of ](https://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/24/business/india-tata-mistry-profile/index.html) [replaced](https://money.cnn.com/2016/10/24/investing/tata-group-cyrus-mistry-ouster/index.html) [announced as](https://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/24/business/india-tata-mistry-profile/index.html)

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Cyrus Mistry, Who Once Led India's Biggest Company, Dies at 54 (The New York Times)

An Indian-born Irish businessman who once led India's biggest conglomerate but was unceremoniously removed from his job died in a car accident in the ...

Mr. Mistry and Mr. The reasons for Mr. [said in a statement](https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/tata-sons-chairman-chandrasekaran-pays-tribute-to-mistry-had-passion-for-life-101662296251796.html) that he was mourning Mr. “He had a passion for life, and it is really tragic that he passed away at such a young age,” Mr. Cyrus Mistry’s death in a car accident less than three months later adds to a grisly toll on Indian roads. His family’s business, Shapoorji Pallonji Group, built luxury hotels and factories across Asia and went on to found large financial companies. Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Mr. He was removed as chairman by the board of directors in 2016 and replaced by the previous chairman, Ratan Tata. “His passing away is a big loss to the world of commerce and industry.” The businessman, Cyrus Mistry, was traveling with three others when their Mercedes-Benz hit the railing of a bridge on a busy highway about 60 miles north of Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra. He was 54.

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Death of Indian billionaire Cyrus Mistry sparks shock, sympathy (Nikkei Asia)

BENGALURU -- The death in a road accident of Cyrus Mistry, the 54-year-old former chairman of Indian salt-to-software conglomerate Tata Sons, has draw.

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World's Deadliest Roads in Focus After Billionaire's Fatal Crash (Bloomberg)

Mistry died in a car crash en route from Ahmedabad to Mumbai · India has one fatal crash every four minutes, World Bank says.

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