Rakesh Bihari Jha (Aug 1969-Jan 2018)
Rakesh Bihari Jha, Special Business Correspondent with The Pioneer, left for heavenly abode, on Tuesday evening, in New Delhi. Rakesh, a native of Bihar’s Mithilanchal, was associated with the daily for about 14 years.
Rakesh, 49, lost his battle against kidney failure, breathing his last at lNJP hospital, where he was rushed from AIIMS after doctors termed his condition untreatable. His mortal remains will be consigned to the flames on the Ganga riverbank at Garhmukteshwar on January 10. Rakesh is survived by his wife and two small children.
The Pioneer family mourns his death as colleagues remember him as a soft-spoken convivial person.