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Popular journalist of NDTV news channel, Kamal Khan, passed away after suffering a massive heart attack at his Butler Colony residence in Lucknow of Uttar Pradesh. He was 61.

We are all devastated by the loss of Kamal Khan, an NDTV veteran and one of the country’s best journalists. pic.twitter.com/NZSS2bQOR5

— NDTV (@ndtv) January 14, 2022

Khan was working as Executive Editor with NDTV. He was a recipient of Ramnath Goenka Award, and Ganesh Shanker Vidyarthi Award from the President of India.

Colleagues from across the media industry expressed feelings of shock and grief on learning of his demise.

Sharing this with profound grief , shock and numbness . @kamalkhan_NDTV sir ,our long standing Lucknow bureau chief ,rock solid journalist ,someone we all looked up to for his hard hitting yet poetic report ,passed away this morning . Will share more details as and when available,” stated NDTV’s Alok Pandey.

Sharing this with profound grief , shock and numbness .@kamalkhan_NDTV sir ,our long standing Lucknow bureau chief ,rock solid journalist ,someone we all looked up to for his hard hitting yet poetic report ,passed away this morning . Will share more details as and when available pic.twitter.com/fBsG9qGjBi

— Alok Pandey (@alok_pandey) January 14, 2022

“No one spoke Hindi like Kamal bhai. Devastating,” said India Today TV Consulting Editor Rajdeep Sardesai. Here is Khan’s last piece to camera (PTC)

The genius of my friend Kamal Khan: he reported like he spoke.. like a poet with complete mastery over the language. We reported in prose, Kamal in poetry.. RIP dost. pic.twitter.com/RHa3oYU1pp

— Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) January 14, 2022