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India’s Suzlon Energy founder Tulsi Tanti dies

MUMBAI, Oct 2 – Tulsi Tanti, the founder and chairman of Indian wind turbine maker Suzlon Energy Ltd (SUZL.NS), died on Saturday aged 64, the company said in a statement. Tanti, who was also the chairman of the Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers Association, suffered a cardiac arrest and passed […]

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, ‘India’s Warren Buffett’, dies at 62

MUMBAI, Aug 14 – India’s best-known stock investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, dubbed the country’s Warren Buffett, died on Sunday, prompting an outpouring of tributes for a self-made billionaire whose fortunes rose with the country’s economy. Jhunjhunwala died at the age of 62, a week after the launch of his […]

UAE’s long-ailing leader Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed dies at 73

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United Arab Emirates’ long-ailing ruler and president, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, died Friday, the government announced in a brief statement. He was 73. Sheikh Khalifa oversaw much of the country’s blistering economic growth and his name was immortalized on the […]

Moroccan boy trapped in well dies before rescue

RABAT, Feb 5 – A small boy trapped in a well in northern Moroccan for five days died before rescuers were able to reach him late on Saturday and retrieve his body, two government officials said. Footage posted on social media showed the scene after his body was […]

Lone survivor of Indian helicopter crash that killed defence chief dies

NEW DELHI, Dec 15 – The only survivor of last week’s helicopter crash that killed Indian defence chief General Bipin Rawat and 12 aboard succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday, the air force said. Group Captain Varun Singh was among the 14 people travelling in the Indian Air […]

South Africa’s last apartheid president F. W. de Klerk dies

JOHANNESBURG — F.W. de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa’s last apartheid president oversaw the end of the country’s white minority rule, has died at the age of 85. De Klerk died after a battle against cancer at his home […]

Legal luminary Soli Sorabjee passes away

New Delhi, Apr 30: Distinguished jurist and former Attorney General Soli Sorabjee, who appeared in several historic cases like Kesavananda Bharti and S R Bommai, passed away due to COVID-19 at a hospital here on Friday. The 91-year-old is survived by wife, a daughter and two sons. A recipient […]

Neil Sheehan, Pentagon Papers reporter, Vietnam author, dies

WASHINGTON — Neil Sheehan, a reporter and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who broke the story of the Pentagon Papers for The New York Times and who chronicled the deception at the heart of the Vietnam War in his epic book about the conflict, died Thursday. He was 84. Sheehan […]

Nuclear scientist Sekhar Basu dies of COVID-19

Kolkata, Sep 24:  Veteran atomic scientist and former chairman of Atomic Energy Commission Dr Sekhar Basu succumbed to COVID-19 early on Thursday at a private hospital here, a health department official said. He breathed his last just three days after turning 68. “Dr Basu was suffering from COVID-19 […]

‘Black Panther’ film star Chadwick Boseman dead at 43, after cancer battle

LOS ANGELES – “Black Panther” film star Chadwick Boseman, an actor whose work celebrated African-American pioneers and culture, has died at age 43 after a four-year battle with colon cancer, according to an announcement posted on Friday to his social media accounts. Boseman, a native of South Carolina […]

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