Agency, New Delhi
Published by: Dev Kashyap
Updated Sun, 20 Feb 2022 12:17 AM IST
Summary
Ravish Tiwari was battling cancer for the last two years. He died on Saturday morning. Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Tiwari’s wife and expressed condolences. The PM described Tiwari as a person of deep understanding.
Senior journalist and Indian Express National Bureau chief Ravish Tiwari died on Saturday morning after battling cancer for two years. President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have condoled his death.
Tiwari (40) is survived by wife Pooja, brother and parents. According to his family friends, Tiwari was admitted to a hospital in Gurugram on Friday. He died there on Saturday morning. Ravish Tiwari’s early education was from Navodaya Vidyalaya. After doing engineering from IIT Bombay, he went to Oxford University in 2005-06. Ravish Tiwari was among six people to receive the Rhodes Scholarship that year. After this Ravish left all the lucrative career options and chose journalism.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Tiwari’s wife and expressed condolences. The PM described Tiwari as a person of deep understanding. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman condoled meeting her family in Gurugram. Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Bhupendra Yadav, Anurag Thakur, former Union Minister and Congress leader Jairam Ramesh and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal among others expressed their condolences on his death.
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Senior journalist and Indian Express National Bureau chief Ravish Tiwari died on Saturday morning after battling cancer for two years. President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have condoled his death.
Tiwari (40) is survived by wife Pooja, brother and parents. According to his family friends, Tiwari was admitted to a hospital in Gurugram on Friday. He died there on Saturday morning. Ravish Tiwari’s early education was from Navodaya Vidyalaya. After doing engineering from IIT Bombay, he went to Oxford University in 2005-06. Ravish Tiwari was among six people to receive the Rhodes Scholarship that year. After this Ravish left all the lucrative career options and chose journalism.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Tiwari’s wife and expressed condolences. The PM described Tiwari as a person of deep understanding. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman condoled meeting her family in Gurugram. Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Bhupendra Yadav, Anurag Thakur, former Union Minister and Congress leader Jairam Ramesh and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal among others expressed their condolences on his death.