VHP vice president dies

October 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Visiting Vietnam Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan will meet the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha L K Advani here today. Later, she will address captains of Indian industry at Federation House and will also meet UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi.

September 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Vietnam's Vice-President Madam Nguyen Thi Doan will undertake a five-day visit of India from Wednesday evening. Madam Thi Doan will arrive in the Indian capital at 7.45 p.m.

September 30th, 2009 Former Oklahoma Gov. Henry Bellmon diesOKLAHOMA CITY — Henry Louis Bellmon, who in 1963 became Oklahoma's first GOP governor since statehood, has died.

September 26th, 2009 NY congresswoman's husband dies on Tibet tripNEW YORK — An aide to U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney says the New York congresswoman's husband has died on a mountain climbing expedition in Tibet.

August 26th, 2009 Mass. Sen. Ted Kennedy diesHYANNIS PORT, Mass. — Massachusetts Sen.

August 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Vice President Hamid Ansari has greeted the people of the country on the auspicious occasion of Navroj, which marks the beginning of the Parsi New Year. In his message, Ansari said that this festival is celebrated with traditional fervour and gaiety and fosters the spirit of harmony and brotherhood that marks our composite culture.

August 4th, 2009 Dansk tableware founder dies in NYNEW YORK — The founder and president of Dansk International Designs has died at his home outside New York City. Theodore D. Nierenberg was 86.

August 4th, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - One of Zimbabwe's vice-presidents, Joseph Msika, has died at the age of 85 after a battle with illness, the South African public radio reported Tuesday. Msika died Tuesday in a hospital in Zimbabwe, the report said.

July 21st, 2009 TEHRAN - Iran's parliament plans to force President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to sack his vice president, a parliamentary deputy told the ISNA news agency Tuesday. "The elimination of Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei from key positions such as first vice (acting) president is a strategic decision by the establishment, and (also) the supreme leader (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei) has conveyed this to the president," Mohammad-Hassan Abutorabi-Fard told ISNA.

July 13th, 2009 Kyrgyz journalist dies after alleged beatingBISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — A journalist in Kyrgyzstan has died after what relatives and colleagues say was a beating by police. The death of government critic Almaz Tashiyev reinforced concerns about the risks faced by independent journalists in the Central Asian nation.

July 7th, 2009 Philadelphia newspaperman Robert Taylor dies at 96BRYN MAWR, Pa. — Robert Taylor Jr., former publisher of the Philadelphia Bulletin and a champion of the free press, has died.

July 6th, 2009 Report: Former Defense Secretary McNamara diesWASHINGTON — A published report says former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has died.

July 6th, 2009 Former Defense Secretary McNamara diesWASHINGTON — Former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara died Monday, according to his wife.

July 3rd, 2009 Ex-Nixon aide Herbert Klein dies at 91 in Calif.SAN DIEGO — Herbert G. Klein, Richard Nixon's ex-White House director of communications and a former editor for Copley Newspapers, has died.

May 1st, 2009 NBC Universal programming exec Nora O'Brien diesNEW YORK — NBC Universal says Nora O'Brien, its executive in charge of drama programming, has died. Spokesman Curt King says O'Brien died Wednesday after collapsing in Sausalito, Calif., on the set of a TV series in development for NBC.