Veteran Indian journalist Kuldeep Nayar has died at the age of 95.
He passed away early on Thursday while being treated at a hospital in Delhi, Indian media reported quoting his family.
Nayar was admitted to the hospital five days ago where he was being treated for pneumonia, he was pronounced dead at 12:30am, son Sudhir Nayar told NDTV.
A veteran journalist, diplomat, parliamentarian and an author, Nayar wore many hats in his decades of public life.
A former member of India’s upper house Rajya Sabha, Nayar also served as the Indian envoy to the UK.
He was born in 1924 in Sialkot, Punjab, and moved to India after Partition.
In his long career, he served as a press information officer to former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shashtri as well as veteran Congress leader and former Union Home Minister Govind Ballabh Pant.
As a journalist, he worked with a range of news agencies and media organisations in India and was also the correspondent of The Times, London, for more than two decades.
He wrote over a dozen books, and is best known for his works like: 'Between the Lines', 'Scoop! - Inside stories from Partition to the present', 'Distant Neighbours: A tale of the Subcontinent', among others.