2013: ENTERTAINMENT ROUNDUP
2013 has been an eventfull year for the entertainment industry whether it be for our own Bollywood or all the…
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2013 — THE DEAR DEPARTED
Renowned film actor Farooq Sheikh passed away on December 28 following a massive heart attack in Dubai. The 64-year-old actor…
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SIR ANTHONY CARO
Widely regarded as the greatest British sculptor of his generation and worked as an assistant to Henry Moore in the…
Read MoreSHAKUNTALA DEVI
Known for her mathematical prowess and the ability to compute complex equations mentally. Died on April 21.
Read MoreSEAMUS HEANEY
One of the world's best-known poets and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature. Died on August 30.
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Hugo Chavez (March 5)
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died after a two-year battle with cancer, ending 14 years of tumultuous rule that made the…
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Margaret Thatcher (April 8)
Britain's first woman Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, known as the Iron Lady, passed away in April this year following a…
Read MoreJIAH KHAN (JUNE 3)
The 25-year-old actress, best remembered as the 'Nishabd' girl, was found hanging at her flat in suburban Mumbai this year.…
Read MoreCORY MONTEITH (JULY 13)
'Glee' star Cory Monteith died of intravenous heroin use combined with the ingestion of alcohol in his hotel room in…
Read MorePAUL WALKER (NOVEMBER 30)
The star of the 'Fast & Furious' movie series died in a tragic car crash this November. The horrifying car…
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NELSON MANDELA (DEC 5)
Anti-Apartheid leader and former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela died at his Johannesburg home after a prolonged lung infection.…
Read MoreDAVID COLEMAN (DEC 21)
British sports broadcaster David Coleman, who covered 11 Summer Olympics for the BBC and six football World Cups, died at…
Read MoreMIKHAIL KALASHNIKOV (DECEMBER 23)
Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of famed Russian AK-47 assault rifle, passed away in his home city of Izhevsk, an industrial…
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Over 240 people were killed
Over 240 people were killed after a deadly fire broke out in the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria in Brazil…
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Over 1,100 people were killed
Over 1,100 people were killed after a commercial building collapsed in savar subdistrict of Bangladesh on April 24.
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Three persons
Three persons, including a boy, were killed after two pressure-cooker bombs went off during the historic Boston marathon on April…
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Typhoon Haiyan,
Typhoon Haiyan, an exceptionally powerful tropical cyclone, devastated the Philippines in early November. Over 6,000 people were killed in the…
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Seventy-two people
Seventy-two people were killed after the famous Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi in Kenya was attacked by unidentified gunmen on…
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Eighty-five-year-old
Eighty-five-year-old Pope Benedict XVI resigned on February 28 on ground of health, thus becoming the first Pope to resign since…
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Seventy-nine people
Seventy-nine people were killed while 140 were injured after a train overturned and got derailed due to over speeding. The…
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Egyptian President
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, who came to power in June 2012 after the fall of a long dictatorial regime, was…
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Iran signed
Iran signed a crucial nuclear deal with the USA and five other world powers on November 24, marking it as…
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On September 16,
On September 16, a gunman shot 12 people and injured three others in a mass shooting at the Naval Sea…
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On February 16,
On February 16, a meteorite exploded over Chelyabinsk in Russia and rained fireballs over a vast area that damaged property…
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Pakistan’s teenage
Pakistan's teenage activist Malala Yousufzai stole the headlines throughout the year. On July 12, she spoke at the United Nations…
Read MoreHasina invited to form govt in Bangladesh
DHAKA (TIP): Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina was on Thursday invited by the president to form government after her party's…
Read MoreAfghanistan accident kills 2 Nato troops, 1 civilian
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (TIP): The US-led international coalition in Afghanistan says two of its service members and one civilian employee have…
Read MoreHindu temple vandalized in Bangladesh
DHAKA (TIP): A Hindu temple was vandalized and set afire in central Bangladesh on Wednesday, as post poll attacks on…
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Musharraf’s heart like that of ‘18-yearold’: Prosecutor
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The condition of former Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf's heart was today compared to that of an "18-year-old" by…
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