According to two major reports released by the Registrar General of India (RGI) after five years, India recorded over 1 crore deaths in 2021, the second year of the COVID-19 lockdown—an increase of approximately 21 lakh deaths compared to 2020.
Prominent historian and former chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR), Muttayil Govinda Menon Sankaranarayanan, better known as MGS Narayanan, died at the age of 92 at his residence in Kozhikode on Saturday morning.
Nearly five years after actor Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead at his Bandra residence, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a closure report in the case, concluding that it was a "simple case of suicide."
P. Jayachandran, who has sung more than 16,000 songs in various languages, predominantly in Malayalam, since 1967 and received dozens of awards, breathed his last on Thursday. He was 80. He had been undergoing treatment for cancer.
Ustad Zakir Hussain, the globally revered tabla virtuoso died on Sunday at the age of 73. Battling heart-related ailments, Hussain breathed his last at a hospital in San Francisco, as confirmed by his manager, Nirmala Bachani.