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Senior Journalist Kuldeep Nayar dies at 95

Odisha News Insight Aug 23, 2018 0

Senior journalist, author and human rights activist Kuldip Nayar died at a hospital here. He was 95, his family said on Thursday. Nayar breathed his last at the Escorts Hospital at 12.30 a.m. The cremation will take place at 1 p.m. on…

Entertainment

Arundhati Roy, 23 Others return Awards over ‘Intolerance’

Odisha News Insight Nov 5, 2015 0

New Delhi, Nov 5: Author Arundhati Roy and 23 other national award winning writers and filmmakers, including Saeed Mirza and Kundan Shah, on Thursday said they are returning their awards as a "symbolic gesture" to draw the country's…

World

German Nobel Laureate Gunter Grass dies at 87

Odisha News Insight Apr 13, 2015 0

Renowned German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature Gunter Grass passed away on Monday in the city of Lubeck. Grass, 87, died of a lung infection, Germany's…