Missile Man And Former President APJ Abdul Kalam Passes Away

Former President APJ Abdul Kalam, the missile man who became popular as 'People's President' died on Monday evening after he suffered a massive cardiac arrest and collapsed while conveying a lecture at IIM Shillong.

Hours before he collapsed and died while delivering a lecture, former president APJ Abdul Kalam had voiced concern over the terror attack in Punjab's Gurdaspur, and about the unremitting disruptions paralysing Parliament, which he felt was "not right".

Kalam's advisor Srijan Pal Singh, who was with him throughout Monday till the end, in a touching post on Facebook, said he joined Kalam at noon on Monday for the flight to Guwahati. 

RIP Kalam Sir!

Legendary Music Director M S Viswanathan Passes Away

Southern music composer MS Viswanathan, who has over 750 films to his credit, died at a private hospital in Chennai on Tuesday. He was 87.

MSV, as he's lovingly called by the members of Tamil filmdom, had been undergoing treatment at Fortis Malar hospital for old-age related ailments and breathing problem.

Though he had showed signs of recovery after initial treatment and was almost ready to be taken back home, his condition worsened last week.

He breathed his last at 4.15 am on Tuesday.

He is a recipient of Kalamamani and several other music awards. MSV is survived by four sons and three daughters. His last rites will be performed on Wednesday.

Python Dies After Eating Huge Porcupine in South Africa

A huge snake’s big meal in South Africa has turned out to be its last.

After the death of a 12-foot-long African Rock Python, park rangers opened its stomach. Inside they found a 30-pound porcupine.

Its needle-sharp quills seem to have punctured the snake’s digestive tract and might have contributed to its death.

The puffy snake was first spotted by a mountain biker in the Lake Eland Game Reserve, about 100 miles south of Durban, two weeks ago. Visitors showed up at the park to detect the snake and to speculate what it had eaten. On its Facebook page, the Game Reserve had its own guesses: a small warthog or impala calf.

When the snake died this week, inquiring park rangers performed a necropsy, or autopsy, on the animal. Though the exact cause of death is unknown, spectators and the porcupine might be to blame. “With all the human interaction, this could have caused stress and the python would then regurgitate the meal up with all the quills causing a problem,” game reserve manager Jennifer Fuller said.

Pythons, which are some of the largest snakes in the world, kill their prey by constriction. Some species are known to eat animals as large as antelope or deer. Their prey is swallowed whole and may take days or weeks to digest completely.