News co-ordinator of ‘The Pioneer’ Lucknow edition, Bishwadeep Ghosh, died of cardiac arrest at a private hospital here on Friday.
Ghosh, 57, is survived by his ailing mother, wife, son and a daughter.
Ghosh started his career in ‘The Pioneer’ and later joined the ‘Times of India’ and ‘Hindustan Times’. In 2015 he re-joined ‘The Pioneer’. In between he had a small stint as editor of a Hindi daily.
Ghosh had come to the office even on Thursday and left for home at around 8 pm. Family members say that around 10 pm Ghosh felt dizzy and suffered a heart attack.
He was taken to Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (Civil) Hospital and from there he was referred to Medanta, where he suffered another heart attack. He died at around 11:30 am on Friday.
Governor Anandiben Patel and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed grief at the death of Bishwadeep Ghosh. The untimely death is an irreparable loss to the journalistic community, they said in their messages.
Uttar Pradesh State Accreditation Committee president Hemant Tiwari in his condolence message said that “in the death of Ghosh we have lost a dear friend.”
Crime reporting was his forte and had exposed many criminal syndicates with his writings, he said.
Speaker Satish Mahana, Bharatiya Janata Party state president Swatantra Dev Singh and several cabinet ministers and leaders from different parties, including Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party, Congress and Rashtriya Lok Dal condoled the death of the senior journalist.