Indian author Mulk Raj Anand dies
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One of India's best known novelists and short-story writers, Mulk Raj Anand,  dies at the age of 99.
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U.S. playwright Arthur Miller has died after battling cancer, pneumonia and a heart condition, The New York Times reported on its Web site on Friday.
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Sidney Sheldon, who won awards in three careers, Broadway theater, movies and television, and who at age 50 turned to writing best-selling novels about stalwart women who triumph in a hostile world of ruthless men, has died. He was 89.
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Dev Anand, Yash Chopra, Javed Akhtar, Poonam Dhillon, Chunkey Pandey pay tribute to Gulshan Rai.
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Author Susan Sontag, widely regarded as one of America's leading intellectuals, dies aged 71.
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Former Indian prime minister PV Narasimha Rao died on Thursday at age of 83 after a bout of serious illness over the past fortnight.
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Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has died of an unspecified illness, a spokesman for the late champion said on Friday. He was 64.
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Nuclear scientist Raja Ramanna passed away in a Mumbai hospital on Friday morning following an intestinal problem. Ramanna, 79, was admitted to Bombay Hospital on Thursday after he complained of giddiness and sweating.
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Amrish Puri, who played the villain in a number of Bollywood films, dies after suffering a brain haemorrhage.
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Arshad Warsi made mutton biryani for reader Rajendra Mahajan.
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A terminally-ill Indian chess champion who has been the focus of a euthanasia debate, dies in hospital.
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BOMBAY: Raja Ramanna, the scientist who pioneered India&#39;s drive to become a nuclear power, died yesterday in Bombay at age 79.
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NEW DELHI: Former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao has passed away in New Delhi Thursday following a cardiac arrest. He was 83. Rao was prime minister from 1991 to 1996 and Manmohan Singh, now prime minister, was his finance minister.
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Shail Chaturvedi, eminent Hindi poet, humorist, lyricist and Bollywood character actor, passed away here early Monday morning.
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Popular Marathi film superstar and Hindi film comedian Laxmikant Berde passed away at 2.45 am on the 16th of December following kidney failure.
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Former Indian Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, who initiated free-market reforms but ended his political career facing criminal charges, died of heart failure on Thursday, the government said.
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Producer Shri Gulshan Rai passed away this morning in Mumbai.