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Noted journalist Dileep Padgaonkar passes away

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Noted journalist Dileep Padgaonkar, who was a member of the three-member interlocutor’s group for Jammu and Kashmir, passed away today after a brief illness here.

72-year-old Padgaonkar, a former editor of  The Times of India, was unwell for past several weeks and died at a hospital in Pune, family sources said.

Padgaonkar began his career in journalism at an early age and joined the Times of India as its Paris correspondent after receiving a doctorate in humanities in 1968.

He served the paper in various capacities before he was appointed its editor in 1988, a post he held for six years.

In between, from 1978 to 1986, he also worked with UNESCO in Bangkok and Paris.

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Padgaonkar was appointed as one of the members of the three-member Interlocutors Group on Jammu and Kashmir, set up by the government after continuous unrest in the Valley in 2008.

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