Departed
Samar Guha, 85, freedom fighter. An associate of Subhas Chandra Bose, Guha was an academic, a former MP and, at the time of death, a JD(S) member.
Knighthood
For Partha Sarathi Dasgupta, Frank Ramsay professor of economics at Cambridge. A friend of Amartya Sen, Dasgupta is an "ecological economist".
Departed
Naseem Bano, 86. Actress Saira Bano’s mother and playback singer Shamshad Begum’s daughter, she is remembered for her role in Sohrab Modi’s Mughal-era spectacular Pukar and other ’30s hits.
Mohinder Singh, triple jump gold medalist at the 1958 Tokyo Asiad.
Allowed
Mohammed Afroze, against whom a POTA case for Al Qaeda ‘links’ were dropped, to seek Rs 10 crore in damages, by the Bombay HC.
Auctioned
Napolean Bonaparte’s linen shirt found in his carriage after Waterloo, by Sotheby’s, for $59,790.
