भास्कर अपडेट्स: ज्ञानपीठ पुरस्कार विजेता रहे मलयालम लेखक एमटी वासुदेव नायर का निधन​​​​​​​, कोझिकोड में अंतिम संस्कार आज

Great Malayalam litterateur and Jnanpith awardee MT Vasudev Nair passed away. He was 91 years old. Nair was undergoing treatment for the last one month. On the morning of 16 December, he was admitted to the hospital due to difficulty in breathing. His mortal remains will be taken from the hospital to his Kottaram Road home. The general public will be able to have darshan till 4 pm. The last rites will be performed at Mavoor Road crematorium at 5 pm.

In a career spanning seven decades, Nair wrote 9 novels, 19 collections of short stories, directed 6 films, about 54 screenplays and many essays and memoirs.

Today’s other big news… Crane collapses while building jetty at Gujarat’s Okha Port, 3 workers killed

Three laborers died on Wednesday when a crane collapsed at the jetty construction site at Okha Port in Gujarat’s Devbhoomi Dwarka district. These include an engineer, a supervisor and a labourer. District Collector GT Pandya said that this jetty is being built by Gujarat Maritime Board and orders have been given to investigate the accident.