Owner of India's largest coffee chain found dead

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A Cafe Coffee Day outlet in Mumbai: V.G. Siddhartha, the chain's founder, has been found dead after he went missing on July 29. © Reuters

ROSEMARY MARANDI, Nikkei staff writer

MUMBAI -- The body of V.G. Siddhartha, the founder and owner of leading Indian coffee chain Cafe Coffee Day, has been recovered from a river in the southern city of Mangalore on Wednesday, almost 36 hours after he went missing.

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