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Veteran Marathi cricket commentator Bal Pandit passes away
Veteran cricket Marathi commentator Bal Pandit passed away in Pune, Maharashtra. He was 89. He is considered as pioneer of cricket commentary in Marathi who had made the game more popular in Maharashtrian households. About Bal Pandit Bal Pandit was ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2015
Classical dancer Kalamandalam Sathyabhama passes away
Kalamandalam Sathyabhama, doyen of classical dance form Mohiniyattam passed away in Palakkad district of Kerala. She was 77. She was regarded as a matriarch of Mohiniyattam and was well-known for her experimental reforms in this classical dance form which helped ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2015
Renowned Water policy expert Ramaswamy Iyer passes away
Renowned water policy expert Ramaswamy R. Iyer passed away in New Delhi following a severe bout of viral fever. He was 86. He was instrumental in drafting India’s first National Water Policy in 1987. Ramaswamy R. Iyer was born in ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2015
Eminent Music composer Adesh Shrivastava passes away
Eminent Bollywood Music composer Aadesh Shrivastava passed away in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He was 49 and died due to cancer. Over the course of his career, he had scored music for over 100 Hindi films as composer, playback singer and music ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2015
Senior Kannada writer Dr.M. M. Kalburgi passes away
Senior Kannada writer Dr. Malleshappa Madivalappa Kalburgi passed away in Dharwad, Karnataka. He was 77. Dr. Kalburgi died after he was shot dead by unidentified persons in his residence in Dharwad. He was scholar of Vachana sahitya (Vachana literature), Kannada epigraphist ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2015
Former Australian Cricketer Arthur Morris passes away
Former Australian Cricketer Arthur Morris passed away. He was aged 93. He was an opener and is regarded as one of Australia’s greatest left-handed batsmen. Morris is best known as member of Don Bradman’s 1948 ‘Invincibles’ team which made an ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2015
Uttar Pradesh Minister Chitranjan Swarup passes away
Uttar Pradesh Minister of State (MoS) for Parliamentary Affairs Chitranjan Swarup passed away in Delhi. He was 70 and died after a prolonged illness. He was a sitting MLA of Uttar Pradesh state assembly from Muzaffarnagar constituency, belonging to ruling ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2015
Renowned Malayalam actor Paravoor Bharathan passes away
Renowned Malayalam actor Paravoor Bharathan passed away in Kochi, Kerala. He was 86 and was suffering from age-related ailments since 2009. He was known as a versatile actor and had played different roles including negative roles, comedy roles and character ..