Veteran actor Om Puri passed away
Veteran actor Om Puri has passed away, he was found dead at his Mumbai house on Friday morning. He was 66. The recipient of two National awards and two Filmfare Awards including a Lifetime Achievement Award, Om Puri had an illustrious film career , spanning over four decades.The actor also received an honorary OBE in 2004 for his contribution to British cinema.
The Padma Shri awardee, studied at the Film and Television Institute of India and at the National School of Drama, where Naseeruddin Shah was his classmate. Born on October 18, 1950, hailing from Ambala in Haryana, Om Puri made his film debut in 1976 with the Marathi film 'Ghashiram Kotwal'.
Eminent British economist Tony Atkinson died.
He was a British economist.
He was a Senior Research Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics.
Sir Atkinson student of James Meade, Atkinson virtually single-handedly established the modern British field of inequality and poverty studies.
