Member of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Bhuma Nagi Reddy died following a cardiac arrest on Sunday, his relative said. He was 53 and is survived by two daughters, one of whom Akhila Priya is also an MLA, and a son.
Category: Obituaries
Live wire electrocutes two 11-year-old boys
THE Misamis Oriental Rural Electric and Service Cooperative is in hot water after two 11-year-old boys died after being electrocuted by a live wire while they were playing in the rain around 4 p.m. Thursday, March 9, at Hillside, Pagatpat village, Cagayan de Oro City. Melchor Gaabon, a bystander, discovered the two bodies around 4:30 p.m. Thursday, but waited for rescuers to arrive due to the exposed wire.
Family’s appeal to trace memorial bench which was stolen from riverside
A memorial bench dedicated to a St Neots man who died from cancer has been stolen from its riverside location. The wooden bench, with black cast iron ‘2007’ lettering on the sides, has a plaque with an inscription that reads: ‘In memory of Bill Wavell Grant Garner, 7.4.41-20.02.07, one of his favourite places on the River Great Ouse’.
UP Assembly Elections 2017: As western UP votes, BJP pins hope on urban Jats, RLD on villages
Prime Minister Narendra Modi invoked Charan Singh in an election rally in Bijnor on Friday in a bid to woo Jat voters of western Uttar Pradesh. Ironically, one of the grudges many members of this community hold is that Modi didn’t remember the former PM on his birth anniversary, December 23, last year.
Headstone not arrived from March stonemason – despite being paid for almost a year ago
Kent Memorials has not supplied a headstone for John Ellis despite it being paid for in full in February 2016 A March stonemason took more than 2,000 for a headstone which he has still not delivered – nearly a year later. Kent Memorials has not supplied a headstone for John Ellis despite it being paid for in full in February 2016 John Ellis said he paid Gary Manning A 2,065 in February 2016 for a double headstone for his wife and also for him when he dies.
Wayne Barrett, legendary journalist and Trump chronicler, dies at 71
Wayne Barrett, a New York City muckraker who burnished his credentials with unsparing reporting on Donald Trump, died Thursday. He was 71. Throughout a career that spanned four decades, Barrett established himself as a tireless investigative journalist with a pugnacious spirit that led to frequent clashes with both his subjects and editors.
Lord Snowdon, ex-husband of Princess Margaret and famed photographer, dies at 86
Lord Snowdon, the society photographer and filmmaker who married Britain’s Princess Margaret and continued to mix in royal circles even after their divorce, has died. He was 86. “The Earl of Snowdon died peacefully at home on 13th January 2017,” said Camera Press, the photo agency with which he worked.
WOLTERING, Olga M.
Olga M. Woltering, 84, of Marietta passed away on Friday, January 6, 2017. She is survived by her loving husband of 64 years, Ralph Woltering; her son Mike Woltering and wife, Margie, of Waleska; son, Gary Woltering and wife, Jodie, of Virginia; daughter, Debbie Holcombe and husband, Bruce, of Ballground; son Tim Woltering and wife, Sandy, of … (more)
Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-Jewish sociologist and philosopher, dies at 91
Bauman, who wrote on subjects ranging from the fluidity of identity in the modern world to consumerism, died Monday at his home in Leeds, England. He was 91. Bauman believed that the genocide of the Holocaust and totalitarian systems were unnatural but the logical consequence of modernity.
Tributes flood in for two men killed in Yaxley hit-and-run
Emotional tributes have been left on social media after two men were killed in a hit and run incident near Yaxley last week. Thomas Fletcher, 19, of Meadow Walk, and Thomas Northam, 22, of Lilac Walk, died on January 3 when they were hit by a grey BMW X5 on the B1091 at Farcet.
Hundreds pack mosque for funeral of man shot by police on motorway slip road
The mother of Mohammed Yassar Yaqub was visibly distraught as family members were joined by scores of other people for prayers at a Huddersfield mosque. Safia Bano had to be supported by relatives as the coffin with her son’s body was carried out of the Masjid Bilal in Huddersfield before a burial at a nearby cemetery.
The scene near Junction 24 of the M62 in Huddersfield on Monday after a man was shot
The father of man shot dead by police on a motorway slip road has said he feels his son was “killed unlawfully”. Mohammed Yassar Yaqub, 28, died after police opened fire on the car he was travelling in during a “pre-planned” operation near the M62.
Appeal after death of Halifax pensioner
CORONER’S officers in Bradford are appealing for relatives of a 73-year-old man found dead at his home in Halifax to come forward.
Allan Williams, who set up Beatles’ early gigs, dies at 86
Graham Stanley, manager of the Jacaranda Club that Williams used to operate, said Saturday that Williams died Friday night.
New Diana letters revealed
The late Princess Diana on the Maid of Mist in Niagara Falls in 1991 with her sons Prince Harry, then 7, and Prince William, then 9. A slew of lost letters from Princess Diana to a palace confidante provides an intimate look at the childhoods of William and Harry. Already at age eight, it emerges that Prince Harry was developing the cheeky rebellious streak he’s become known — and loved — for.