List of 164 Journalists who lost their lives due to COVID-19. (Updated until May 5, 2021)

Andhra Pradesh 1 Mr Srinivasa Rao Prajashakti Daily 2 Mr Surya Prakash Vikas Parvada 3 Mr M Parthasarathy CVR News Channel 4 Mr Narayanam Seshacharyulu 5 Mr. Chandrashekar Naidu NTV 6 Mr. P Tataiah -NA- 7 Mr Bhanu Prakash Rath Doordarshan 8 Mr Sumit Onca 9 Mr Golap Saikia All Radio 10 Mr Jadu Chutia Moranhat Press club president 11 Mr Dhaneshwar Rabha Rural Reporter 12 Mr Ashim Dutta -NA- 13 Mr Aiyushman Dutta Freelance Bihar 14 Mr Krishna Mohan Sharma Times of India 15 Mr Ram Prakash Gupta Danik Jagran 16 Mr Arun Kumar Verma Prasar Bharti Chandigarh 17 Mr Davinder Pal Singh PTC News Chhattisgarh 18 Mr Pradeep Arya Journalist and Cartoonist 19 Mr Ganesh Tiwari Senior Journalist Delhi 20 Mr Kapil Datta Times 21 Mr Yogesh Kumar Doordarshan 22 Mr Radhakrishna Muralidhar The Wire 23 Mr Ashish Yechury News Laundry 24 Mr Chanchal Pal Chauhan Times of India 25 Mr Manglesh Dabral Freelance 26 Mr Rajiv Katara Kadambini Magazine 27 Mr Vikas Sharma Republic Bharat 28 Mr Chandan Jaiswal Navodaya Times 29 Mr Kakoli Bhattacharya NA 30 Mr Jamal Ahmad PTI (Retd.) 31 Mr Ajay Kumar Choudhary The Pioneer 32 Mr Vijay Saluja Veteran Phorographer 33 Ms Nilakshi Bhattacharya Times of India 34 Mr Kalyan Barooha The Assam Tribune 35 Mr Anirban Bora Economic Times 36 Ms Kanupriya Former Anchor, Doordarshan

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37 Mr Zeyaul Haque Senior Journalist 38 Mr Pradeep Marshal Senior Journalist 39 Mr Sanjeev Kumar Gupta 40 Mr Vikas Trivedi Aajtak 41 Mr Arun Pandey Sahara News Gujarat 42 Mr Shailesh Raval Freelance 43 Mr Yogesh Sharma Chaupal Chronicle Haryana 44 Mr Rakesh Taneja NA Himachal Pradesh 45 Mr Ravinder Kumar Jammu and Kashmir 46 Mr. Muhammad Shafi Naqsbandi Jehadi Akbar Karnataka 47 Mr Pavan Hettur 48 Mr Somashekhar Yadavatti Samayukta Karnataka 49 Mr Gowripura Chandru Vijay Karnataka Kerala 50 Mr D Vijayamohan Madhya Pradesh 51 Mr Kamal Dixit Freelance 52 Mr Manoj Binwal Prajatantra 53 Mr Harish Choubey 54 Mr Akash Saxena Freelance 55 Mr Rajesh Mishra Agniban 56 Mr Mahendra Gagan Senior Journalist 57 Mr Shivdan Singh Sikarwar Rashtriya Mail 58 Mr Prabhu Joshi Freelancer 59 Mr Manoj Singh Rajput Khabarjal 60 Mr Baboolal Goverdhan Joshi Hockey Statistician / Reporter 61 Mr Dilip Jain Maharashtra 62 Ms Fatima R. Zakaria Freelance 63 Mr Pandurang Raikar TV9 64 Mr Sabaji Mohan Palkar ANI 65 Mr Kailassinh Pardeshi Saamana 66 Mr Jairam Sawant Dainik Sagar 67 Mr Haresh Munwani Veteran sports journalist 68 Mr Javed Jivani Former Arab News staffer 69 Mr Ashok Churi Palghar Times 70 Mr Roshan Dias TV9 71 Mr Rahul Dolare NA 72 Mr Vivek Bendre 73 Mr Sachin Shine NA 74 Mr Sukhnandan Gavai NA 75 Mr Jairam Sawant NA 76 Mr Sadanand Shinde Navakal 77 Mr Santosh Pawar Senior Journalist 78 Mr Shyam Sharma Mayapuri 79 Mr K M Srivastava Senior Film Journalist 80 Mr Mohan Ayyer Senior Film Journalist 81 Ms Shashi Baliga Senior Journalist Page 2 of 4

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82 Dr Sumit Ghoshal Business India 83 Mr Ruchir Mishra Times of India Odisha 84 Mr Jatish Khamari 85 Mr Amjad Badshah Digital Platform 86 Mr Govind Behera News 6 87 Mr Manoj Sahoo Nitidin 88 Mr Karunakar Sahu Anupam Bharat 89 Mr Prabir Pradhan News18 Odia news channel 90 Mr K. CH. Ratnam Eenadu 91 Mr Priyadarshi Patnaik 92 Mr Prabir Kumar Pradhan News18 (Odia) 93 Mr Naresh Behera Odisha File 94 Mr Gobind Behera Odisha Express 95 Mr Manas Ranjan Jaipuria Zee News Odisha 96 Mr Simanchal Panda An Odia Weekly 97 Mr Pritiman Mohapatra 98 Mr Debendra Samantaray Sambad 99 Mr Adwaita Prasad Biswal Shramika Malika 100 Mr Manoj Beborta News18 Puducherry 101 Mr K Dharmaraj Polimer TV 102 Mr Bharat Polimer TV Punjab 103 Mr Ashwani Kapoor Punjab 104 Mr Naresh Bajaj Sach Kahoon 105 Mr S K Vyas Punjabnewsexpress.com Rajasthan 106 Mr Anil Varshney Senior Journalist 107 Mr Sanjay Bohra Senior Journalist Tamil Nadu 108 Mr E Velmurugan Cameraman/Raj TV 109 Mr V.Shrikanth PTI 110 Mr Ramanathan Reporter Private News Channel 111 Mr Florent C Pereira Journalist-actor 112 Mr K V Anand Photo-Journalist turned Director Telangana 113 Mr Chintha Nagaraju Eenadu News of Indian Journalists 114 Mr K Amaranath Union 115 Mr P Ramesh Freelance 116 Mr Bura Ramesh Freelance 117 Mr Jayaprakash Freelance 118 Mr. Srinivas Andhra Jyoti 119 Mr. Sainath 99tv 120 Mr Madiraju Giri ABN 121 Mr Ramzan Ali Eenadu 122 Mr Syed Shabaz TTV 123 Mr Sridhar Dharmasanam Maa Hyderabad 124 Mr Sammi Reddy 125 Mr Kondra Srinivas Goud Hindi Milap

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126 Mr. Ramachandra Rao Sakshi 127 Ms. Kalpana Bathukamma TV 128 Mr D Manoj TV5 news 129 B Ramakrishna Andhra Jyothi 130 Ahmed Mohiuddin Senior Photo Journalist 131 Gajula Vijay NTV 132 Mr. D Ashok 133 Mr R Nagaraju Vaartha Tripura 134 Mr Jitendra Debbarma Chini Khorang 135 Mr Tanmoy Chakraborty Local Digital News Channel Uttar Pradesh 136 Ms Tavishi Srivastva The Pioneer 137 Mr Neelanshu Shukla India Today 138 Mr Vinay Srivastava Freelance 139 Mr Pankaj Kulshreshtha -NA- 140 Mr Pankaj Shukla Rajsatta Express 141 Mr Ami Adhar Nidar Dainik Jagran 142 Mr Himanshu Joshi UNI 143 Mr Ankit Shukla Dainik Jagran 144 Mr Pramod Shrivastava NA 145 Mr Durga Prasad Shukla 146 Mr Sachchidananda Gupta “Sacche” Jadid Amal 147 Mr Brijendra Patel Hindustan 148 Mr Shivanandan Sahu Digital 149 Mr Prashant Saxena Digital Journalist 150 Mr Rohitash Gupta Freelance 151 Mr Ankit Shukla Dainik Jagran 152 Mr Raju Mishra Niwan Times 153 Mr Anil Srivastava Dainik Jagran 154 Mr Saket Suman Janta TV 155 Mr Pawan Mishra -NA- 156 Mr Kushal Khare Dainik Jagran 157 Ms Nootan Saxena Freelance 158 Ms Nikita Tomar Sahara News 159 Mr. Pramod Shrivastava Senior Journalist 160 Mr Chandan Pratap Singh NA 161 Mr Hemant Kaushal CNN News 18 Uttarakhand 162 Mr Satya Prakash Asmin Senior Journalist West Bengal 163 Mr Ronny Roy 164 Mr Kishore Bhimani Cricket journalist

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