In India, veteran journalist Kuldip Nayar, age 95, passes away in Delhi…

Kuldip Nayyar
In India, veteran journalist, author, human right activist, Kuldip Nayar, age 95, reportedly has passed away on 23rd August 2018 in Delhi, said media news report.

According to media news report, he was a passionate advocate for peace and press freedom and he was working till the end, his last column appeared in a daily newspaper reportedly yesterday morning, hours after he breathed his last in a Delhi Hospital, and his last rites were performed at Lodhi crematorium  in Delhi, media news report said.

As an ex-Indian high commissioner in the United Kingdom, Mr Kuldip Nayar was a popular high commissioner among Indian community in the UK, said a longstanding Indian journalist Mr Vallabh Kaviraj in London.

-AENNS-24/08/2018