S.P. Hinduja, an Empire's Billionaire Patriarch, Dies at 87.

(Bloomberg) -- Srichand Hinduja, co-chairman and patriarch of a sprawling global business empire that produced one of the world's largest family fortunes, has died. The conglomerate acquired truck-maker Ashok Leyland Ltd. and Gulf Oil International during the 1980s, and Hinduja personally founded private banks based in Switzerland and India the following decade. [Extracted from the article]