Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee died today morning in Kolkata days after he was admitted to a private hospital with a kidney ailment. He was 89 years old. Mr Chatterjee, who was admitted in Bellevue Clinic in Kolkata on August 7, was put on ventilator support after he suffered a heart attack.

"He died at 8.15 a.m.," according to Bellevue Clinic official