MUMBAI: Just as the fortunes have started favouring Zee Group, founder-promoter Subhash Chandra lost his mother today.

Tara Devi passed away at around 5.30 pm."She was ailing for some time now," says Zee spokesperson Ashish Kaul.

"Her body will be taken to Hissar in Haryana on Wednesday morning and the cremation will take place at 2.30 in the afternoon," he adds.