Share this
Twitter
Myspace
Mister Wong
Digg
Del.icio.us
Jumptags
StumbleUpon
Slashdot
Furl
Yahoo
Technorati
Newsvine
Blinkbits
Ma.Gnolia
Smarking
Googlize this
Blinklist
Facebook
Wikio
Export PDF
Print
E-mail
Senior journalist and news anchor Pravin Giri passed away on Sunday morning. He was 62.
Giri was one of most recognizable faces of Nepali television in the early 90s by virtue of being the prime time news anchor of Nepal Television (NTV). He used to also read news in another state-owned broadcaster Radio Nepal.
Giri, who was suffering from cancer for long, died while receiving of treatment at Om Hospital in Chabahil this morning.
He had also worked as senior news editor in private television channel Aveneus TV and Himalayan Television and taught economics at Nepal Commerce Campus in the capital.
He is survived by wife and four children. Family sources said that Giri's final rites will be performed later today. nepalnews.com
 |  |
| Veteran news anchor passes away |
| Sunday, 29 July 2012 12:11 Read this : 688 times | |||||
|
Related Article
Latest News Headlines
- Jilted teen commits suicide
- Protests against gangrape continue in Indian capital
- Govt collects revenue of Rs 97.33 billion in five months
- President should understand his responsibility: Sushil
- Bastola flown to New Delhi's super-specialty hospital
- APF squad deployed in Chitwan to fend off rouge elephant
- Apex court stays Jha's appointment as NTA chief
- Two die of asphyxiation in Lalitpur
- 'Tainted Pak oil regulator may have fled to Nepal'
- Prez Yadav urges Khanal to facilitate inter-party talks
- NC cadre found dead in Rukum
- Devkota prize to five litterateurs
- Dahal Bangkok-bound, unity govt talks likely to be hit
- Business body demands permission to invest abroad
- UCPN (Maoist) demands action against perpetrators of violence against women
- Leather Goods & Footwear Expo concludes
- Pakistan car bomb explosion leaves 19 dead
- Clinton hospitalised
- Obama vows to push new gun-control legislation in 2013
- Two workers crushed to death in hydel project