Hollywood actor and singer Doris Day dies at 97

Day was famed for her ‘wholesome, girl-next-door appeal’ in several box office hits.

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· May 14, 2019 · 11:06 am

ITC chairman YC Deveshwar dies at 72 in Delhi

Deveshwar, an alumnus of IIT Delhi and Harvard Business School, had joined ITC in 1968.

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· May 12, 2019 · 10:59 am

Acting coach Roshan Taneja dies in Mumbai

An early adopter of method acting in India, he trained several Bollywood actors including Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah and Jaya Bachchan.

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· May 11, 2019 · 01:12 pm

John Singleton, Oscar-nominated director of ‘Boyz N the Hood’, dies aged 51

He was the first black filmmaker to be nominated for best director at the Academy Awards.

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· Apr 30, 2019 · 06:22 pm

Kerala Congress (M) leader KM Mani dies at 86

He was the sitting MLA of Pala Assembly constituency, which he had represented for 52 years.

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· Apr 09, 2019 · 05:31 pm

AIADMK legislator R Kanagaraj dies, 22 seats vacant in Tamil Nadu Assembly now

Party functionaries said Kanagaraj collapsed while reading the newspaper and died at his residence in Silur.

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· Mar 21, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Goa: Manohar Parrikar to be accorded a state funeral, last rites at Miramar beach

The chief minister’s body was kept in state at Kala Academy after being taken to the BJP office in Panaji.

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· Mar 18, 2019 · 01:45 pm

Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar dies at 63

The BJP leader and former defence minister was suffering from advanced pancreatic cancer.

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· Mar 17, 2019 · 08:07 pm

Veteran journalist Darryl D’Monte dies at 75 in Mumbai

A pioneering environmental journalist who was involved in several civic initiatives.

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· Mar 17, 2019 · 10:18 am

West Bengal: Matua community matriarch Binapani Devi dies at 100

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who described the death as ‘a personal loss’, said Devi will be given a state funeral with a gun salute.

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· Mar 06, 2019 · 11:13 am

Keith Flint, lead singer of The Prodigy, found dead at his home near London

Liam Howlett, the dance-electronic band’s co-founder, claimed in an Instagram post that Flint committed suicide.

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· Mar 04, 2019 · 11:01 pm

Hindi author and literary critic Namvar Singh dies at 92

Rajnath Singh, Arvind Kejriwal and Sitaram Yechury were among the politicians who paid tributes to the Sahitya Akademi award winning author.

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· Feb 20, 2019 · 11:31 am