Category: Obituaries

Chetan Chauhan, former Indian cricketer passed away

Chetan Chauhan
  • Former Indian cricketer and Uttar Pradesh minister Chetan Chauhan has passed away due to multiple organ failure at the age of 73.

Veteran Congress leader and spokesperson Rajiv Tyagi passes away

Rajiv Tyagi
  • Rajiv Tyagi, Congress Leader and Spokesperson passed away after suffering from a cardiac arrest at the age of 52.

Famous Malayalam Poet Chunakkara Ramankutty passes away

Chunakkara Ramankutty
  • The famous Malayalam Poet cum lyricist Chunakkara Ramankutty passed away. He wrote more 215 songs for 76 movies.

Sports Journalist GK Menon Passes away

GK Menon
  • Veteran sports journalist Gopal Krishna Menon has passed away at the age of 93.

Urdu Poet Rahat Indori passes away

Rahat Indori
  • Urdu poet Rahat Indori passed away. He was also a bollywood lyricist and known for the lyrics of songs like “M Bole to” from Munnabhai MBBS (2003), and “Neend Churai Mei” from Ishq (1997).

PK Muthusamy Tamil film songwriter passes away

P K Muthusamy
  • P K Muthusamy a veteran Tamil film songwriter passed away. He was known for his Tamil film lyrics like ‘Mannukku Maram Baaramaa ?’ – which means ‘are the trees a burden on the earth?’.

Nandi Yellaiah former MP passes away

Nandi Yellaiah
  • Former Congress leader and eight-time parliamentarian from Telangana, Nandi Yellaiah passed away.

Shirley Ann Grau, a Pulitzer Prize-winner passes away

Shirley Ann Grau
  • Shirley Ann Grau, a Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer from America, whose stories and novels were based primarily in the Deep South, has passed away at an age of 91.

Veteran actor Sameer Sharma passes away

Sameer Sharma
  • Veteran actor Sameer Sharma passes away at an age of 44 as he committed suicide on 5 August 2020, by hanging from the kitchen ceiling of his home.

Former West Bengal transport minister, Shyamal Chakraborty passes away

Shyamal Chakraborty
  • Former West Bengal transport minister, Shyamal Chakraborty passed away due to Covid-19 at an age of 76. 
  • He served as the transport minister of West Bengal for three-times from 1982 to 1996 and also as a two-time Rajya Sabha member.