Kigeli V, exiled king of Rwanda who lived on food stamps in US suburbs, dies in obscurity The last king of Rwanda, Kigeli V, who ruled the east African nation for less than a year before being forced into exile, finally settling in the United States, died early Sunday (Oct 16) according to his official […]
Indian socialite and philanthropist Parmeshwar Godrej, the wife of Godrej Group Chairman Adi Godrej, passed away at Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital on Monday night, official sources said. She was 70. According to reports, Paremeshwar was undergoing treatment for a lung disease she was diagnosed with five years ago. Besides Adi, Parmeshwar, a former air hostess […]
Gene Wilder is no more. His performances combined sentimentality, comedy and suppressed rage, often veering between idiocy and apoplexy. Gene Wilder died holding hands with his family while listening to Somewhere Over the Rainbow… after Alzheimer’s battle which he kept secret from fans so he wouldn’t upset them. Gene Wilder died aged 83 at […]
The Catholic Church in India lost one of its ‘truly remarkable shepherds’ this week with the death of 81-year-old Archbishop Emeritus Raphael Cheenath of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, who died August 14. As the senior metropolitan archbishop in the region, gave leadership to the Church in Odisha when the anti-Christian wave swept the eastern Indian state. His funeral […]
A subdued Pakistan went into national mourning to bid farewell to a man who owned just two sets of clothes. Mr Abdul Sattar Edhi, the founder of Pakistan’s largest welfare organisation, died on Friday last week in Karachi aged 88. Mr Edhi, a sort of Pakistani ‘Mother Teresa’, was revered for setting up maternity wards, […]
